Review
Filling in the blank spaces of The Swapper
One of 2013’s best games was secretly about music.
Tag: Sound Shapes
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Beck’s new album is a book of sheet music and the best local multiplayer game ever
Near the end of February, a collective of local musicians will gather together at the Somerville Theatre near Boston, MA, to perform Beck’s new album, Song Reader. They won’t be covering his songs so much as performing them into existence. You can’t listen to Song Reader on your iPod or stereo. The only form it takes is in a beautiful hardcover book published by Mcsweeney’s, complete with original art, essays by Jody Rosen and Mr. Hansen himself, and the songs, rendered as sheet music. In order to hear the album, you have to play it yourself. In an industry beleagured…
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Rock Band will stop updating their songlist in April. Where do music games go from here?
Last week saw an announcement posted to Rockband.com’s community forum by developer Aaron Trites, revealing that weekly updates of new tracks will finally end on April 2nd. For fans of Rock Band, the music game that introduced plastic drum kits to millions of homes across the globe, this is a bittersweet end to a five-year run of note highways and power chords. To those who dabbled and moved on, you might not have even realized new songs were still trickling out. Regardless, this once dominant genre unto itself is officially unplugging from that great amp server in the sky. As…