I'd all but stopped listening to Ben Folds, and then Way to Normal happened. He seems to be back on the rock train! Check it out, it's awesome.

If you like video game music, check out The Advantage (iTunes link). Also, the next person to use the term "math rock" gets a compass to the eyeball.

I beat Bionic Commando: REARmed. It's one of the best games on the console. Maybe the best. It definitely has the best soundtrack of any 360 game, and, therefore, the best song out of any 360 game: Power Plant. If that song doesn't make you want to have a boxing match in an Astrojump, you're dead inside. DEAD ( Read more... )

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I'm finally reading Watchmen. Everybody seems to think it's bomb. Is there room for one more on the bandwagon?

For as long as I can remember I've been able to perceive colors from music and numbers. I assumed it was something I was imagining, but it seems to be a real thing. I didn't realize that synaesthesia could localize itself. I always understood it as a fusion of all the senses. Now that I'm slightly synaesthesic, I should start wearing a big ( Read more... )

Junot Diaz wrote about GTA IV. He should write about more games. If you're wondering what the game is like, but don't want to play it, his article is the most even-handed you'll find.

This week's ZP is pretty funny if you're an Indiana Jones fan. He's apparently ditching his trademark musical book-ends, though. Something about copyrights. It sucks, but with the industry being how it is these days, you can't really blame him for it.

Butt rock and Van Halen guitars are overdone in video game remixes. Almost as much as orchestras. There have been some amazing orchestral video game soundtracks. Most of them have been soundtracks written for orchestras. Like Shadow of the Colossus. Somehow orchestras have become renowned as the pinnacle of what game music can be. This makes ( Read more... )

Here, have a new song.