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 q...