Drink up and Rock Gives Rock Band Gamers the Chance to Win a Real MTV Moonman

By Chip Chick

May 24th, 2009

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Till Rock Band Beatles makes its way into our home we need something else to do this summer, and both Rock Band, MTV and Pepsi are delivering it. “Drink up and Rock” a special promotion that will give away thousands of Rock Band DLC music and games. Gamers will be able to win prizes and the best band will actually win themselves a 2009 MTV Moonman.Ā  “Entrants can choose a song from the official competition list – available at www.RockBand.com/Pepsi and start making their Rock Band music video right now. Music video submissions can be uploaded to www.PepsiRockBand.com where bands and fans will be able to enter, view, rate and vote on their favorite Rock Band music videos.Ā  To jump start the promotion, MTV Games is giving hardcore fans, those that upload a music video on the first day of the promotion (June 2 before 6pm EDT), the opportunity to win a trip to Los Angles the very next day to be the house band at the Rock Band booth at E3. Fans must register separately on June 2 to be entered for the chance to win this prize at www.RockBand.com/Pepsi. ” This special promotion starts June 2nd through the MTV Music Awards. You can also go to PepsiRockBand.com and enter the code under the specially marked bottles of soda and you will automatically be entered to win. Both MTV and Pepsi will be giving away hourly Special Edition bundles and DLC content each...

Awowo Live Drum Pro Electronic Drum Set with Built in MP3 Player Doesn’t Require the X-Box

By Chip Chick

May 15th, 2009

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Tired of Rock Band or Guitar Hero’s drum kit… but you’re ready for a more realistic experience but you still want to jam along to great tunes. The AWOWO LDP110 Electronic Drum Set features an integrated MP3 player, eight trigger pads, 2 drum pedals, output cables and even a set of sticks to give you all you need right out of the box. The package also includes an AC adapter, and DVD demo disk. It’s also lightweight and compact and doesn’t have any colored drum heads… are you sure you can handle this?? For music rhythm game enthusiasts, this is like graduating to high school from middle school. The Awowo Live Drum Pro Electronic Drum Set retails for $144 at Newegg.

Play Rock Band out of Your Ottoman

By Ali

April 3rd, 2009

ottoman3 300x225 Play Rock Band out of Your Ottoman It’s about time someone made something to store your Rock Band gear in. The AK Rock Box Gaming and Storage by AK Designs is an Ottoman, so it looks like a piece of furniture and it also stores not only your guitar but drum kit as well. It offers enough space to store 2 guitars, a foot pedal, and microphone. The cool factor is that there is a built-in AK Drum lift that raises and lowers both Rock Band and Rock Band 2 drum kits. So in the end you would be playing your drums out of an Ottoman….maybe not cool enough for hard core gamers but for teenagers and younger - your parents will be happy that your plastic instruments are put away in your toy box. It’s available at Amazon for $199.

Customize Your Rock Band Drum Kit With Skins and Colorful Drumsticks

Looking to give your Rock Band Drum kit a bit of a facelift? Well skins for your guitar are so last year! Now you can add funky skins or drum heads that scream you are the Mick Fleetwood of your generation. The drum heads ooze designs that would make either Guns ‘N’ Roses or The Grateful Dead proud. There are also zebra pink drumsticks …

HexoLight 3000 Sound Activated LED Lighting System Provides a Light Show for Your Guitar Hero Gig

The HexoLight 3000 Sound Activated LED Lighting System is the perfect compliment for any hardcore Guitar Hero enthusiast because who doesn’t love a good lightshow when playing plastic instruments? This lighting system takes the game to new levels with its pulsating colors that pulsate to the beat of the music from the game. It comes with 3 pods of color: red, yellow, and blue lights …

Mini Fender Guitar USB Lamp is Perfect for Those Who Love Tacky Lamps

Looking for a little extra light for your desk? Then maybe you would be interested in the Mini Fender Guitar USB Lamp. And for all those hardcore Guitar Hero and Rock Band fans, this will certainly brighten up your day. The lamp plugs into your computer via USB and that is all that is required for it to work. Basically this is a novelty USB …

CES 2009: Sandisk’s New Releases Include Rock Band 2 Gaming Cards & Ultra Back–Up USB

Rock Band 2 SD Card- Download and store over 75 songs on this SD card for Rock Band 2. With 2 GB of space, this Wii compatible card is a great way to store music game content so you can master all those great solos in the history of Rock.Ā  Watch our Mr. Van Halen.

Ultra Back-Up USB Flash Drive- Back up at the touch of …

Holiday Gift Guide 2008

It’s that time of the year again - gift giving time! For this year’s gift guide, we promise not to recommend anything that is obvious. Duh - an iPod Touch? Check. Playstation 3? Check. You know - all those big ticket items which we’re pretty sure, that unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that they’d make great gifts. We’ve broken …

Drum Silencers for Rock Band Equipment Makes Rocking Out Less Noisy

Are you waking up your neighbors while playing the drums in Rock Band? If you’re using the original Rock Band equipment, than things can get especially noisy. Luckily, PDP (Performance Designed Products) has come out with an inexpensive product that just might save you from getting an eviction notice. For just $19.99, you can pick up a pair of Drum Silencers which promise to effectively …

Hello Kitty Rock’n Roll Star Cell Phone Strap

Take a little bit of Hello Kitty, add a little bit Punk Rock and throw in a pinch of some Guitar Hero and Rock Band for good measure, and you have Sanrio’s Hello Kitty as a Rock’n Roll Star Cell Phone Strap. There are six different Rock’n Roll Star Cell Phone strap styles to choose from ranging in price from $5.98 to 13.98. And let’s …

Z Corp Brings your Rock Band Characters to Life with 3D Printers

I’m not one to get excited about printers unless they are super sleek and actually do something different than the scads of other printers out there. Well Z Corp is making printers that don’t do the same old thing as its counterparts but instead they actually print 3D models of images that are scanned into the machine. Z Corps printers utilizes 2 inkjet printer heads, …

Camp Rock Guitar USB Flash Drive for Those who Heart the Jonas Brothers

Between Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero World Tour both being released, October is turning out to be the month of the guitar.The Red Camp Rock Guitar USB Flash Memory Drive has nothing to do with either of those two games, but we are pretty sure it would appeal to those people as well. For those who actually saw the Camp Rock movie, they would …

EA Line-up of Games for Wii just in Time for the Holidays

If you crave - like I do, some really good Wii games, then you are in luck because thankfully EA is releasing a slew of Wii titles that will let us unlock the magic of that little white box again. Not only will they be fun but priced right as well, for economy worried consumers. Besides Wii titles EA is also releasing a first …

Peak Starpex Obsidian Wood Guitar for PS3/PS2 - Review

There is a small price to pay to feel like a true rock star in your living room, the Starpex guitar from Peak Products delivers that experience 100%. If you felt that jamming on the plastic guitar that came with the Guitar Hero or Rock Band games was fun but just didn’t quite complete the inner rock star in you, well this guitar will certainly …

Rock Band 2 Instruments Review

Several weeks ago we reviewed Rock Band 2 and were only able to experience it with the 1st generation drum kit and guitars. However as an update to that review we recently got a chance to try out the 2nd generation drum kit and guitar. Would they be more impressive and intuitive this time around? We were about to find out.
Guitar:
The Fender Stratocaster is once …

Simon Lee Recycled Guitar is Made from Seized Pirated CDs

We’d be fibbing if we said that we knew much about guitars beyond the ones that are used for Rock Band Guitar Hero, but if we were to start playing a serious musical instrument than the Simon Lee Recycled Guitar would be it. The Simon Lee Recycled Guitar is available in 6 different unique recycled materials. Our favorite one is “Pirate: Sparkling fragments of crushed …

Rock Band 2 for Xbox 360 Review

So last year around this time we had the chance of a lifetime to review Rock Band. When we completed the review all we could say was WOW! It had everything you would want and more from a rhythm game. It opened up the genre to something new and exciting and took it places that Guitar Hero hadn’t attempted yet. So now a year later …

Hit the Road with Rock Band 2’s Portable Drum Kit

Now that Rock Band 2 is out, that means its time to reunite the band. The best way to enjoy the game is to have all your bandmates in one place but what that means isĀ some may have to lug their own gear. Well if you are the band’s drummer, it would have been tougher for you to carry your drum kit around but not …

Sing Along to Your iPod with Memorex’s SingStand Microphone

As we all gear up for Guitar Hero World Tour next month and Rock Band 2 this week, we can pass the time with the Memorex SingStand microphone speaker system.Ā  Plug in your iPod into this unique microphone stand and impress those around you with your amazing vocal skills by altering your voice with echo and balance effects and other special features. Add a few …

AUDIOSURF is the Poor Man’s Guitar Hero

We seem to all be consumed with rhythm games these days whether it be Guitar Hero or Rock Band. But instead of shelling out $60 or more on these games, there is the poor man’s option. AUDIOSURF for the PC is a puzzle racer game where you can use your own music to create your own rocking game. You earn points by lining blocks up …

USB Finger Drums Help Deal With Rock Band Withdrawal

So for those who had to get rid of the that Rock Band Drum Kit because otherwise your landlord would kick you out, how about the Finger Drums from Think Geek. Just use your fingers and go crazy like Mick Fleetwood or Phil Collins. Each drum set has a snare, two toms, bass drum, kick pedal, and cymbal. All you have to do is use …

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