Music Thread #1 for 8/10/09: The Runthrough

The Runthrough....Let's go.


Yes, Guitar Hero 5 is coming out

he first couple of weeks of September are going to be a banner time for music video games. On September 9 (09/09/09), the much-anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band will hit store shelves, just eight days after Guitar Hero 5 gets its chance to rock living rooms everywhere.

With the Beatles game, it's easy to imagine long lines and huge sales figures. After all, this will be the first time that any of the recent slew of music-oriented video games will feature any Beatles songs, let alone dozens of them.

But with Guitar Hero 5 (see video below)--has so much time gone by already that there could even be five Guitar Hero releases?--one has to work just a little bit harder to envision the big bucks that its publisher, Activision Blizzard, surely is hoping to bring in.

LL Cool J's tribute song to Michael Jackson released today.

Now he didn't even need to boast for MJ at the end of the track. That was unnecessary, no question. Still, he did ok otherwise on this.

Speaking of which, here comes the MJ film. I promise that's all the MJ news for today.

In case you missed it, Wrigley has officially cut ties with Chris Brown.


Pearl Jam has some new songs.

And that Idol/Abdul story will reach a new level, and I bet it will be with her asking if she can get as much as Seacrest. Just my thought.

Until the second music thread later on, that's it for the music stuff. Peace.