Guitar Hero Zombies?

Jordan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:22:46 +0000

If you’re a fan of the Nazi Zombies game mode for Call of Duty: World at War, you might know who Kevin Sherwood and Elena Siegman are. No? Well, they are the awesome people who produced the zombie songs used in the trailers and hidden inside all the DLC zombie maps. Kevin (who goes by the Twitter username @newdnewbs) has launched a joint campaign with WeTheGamerz to try and get the three zombie songs so far into the next Guitar Hero game. Now that would be cool

I’ve heard there’s a website on the way soon in support of the idea – I recommend you keep your eyes on http://www.zombiesongs.com/ and also @ZombieHeros for updates.

Jordan

Cool Artists You May Never Have Heard Of

Jordan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:46:07 +0000

So, I’m a big fan of music, and quite a big fan of some stuff which isn’t entirely mainstream (or that popular nowadays). I’d like to list a few artists I reckon you should check out which you may or may not have heard of, but who I think are quite good for particular reasons (:

Foals

I love Foals a lot, their music is just really inspirational and unique that I love listening to it. It’s described as “math rock” by Wikipedia and the guitar in it is great. Take a listen on Spotify.

Modest Mouse

These guys have been round for a long while but still seem to be on the indie scene. I think some of their songs are really good but I have to agree with someone’s comment last week that their songs can be a tad bit depressing (: Anyhow, I think they’re worth the listen, and they’ve released a ton of albums over the years so there’s tons to listen to! Spotify them.

Maxeen

Yeah, these guys broke up a few years ago, but their debut (and only) album, Hello Echo, has some really cool alt-rock songs on it. If you’re into alt-rock, I recommend you give it a listen! Here’s the link.

Ben Folds Five

I have to say that I think Ben Folds is an amazing piano player and singer, and some of his songs he performed with his group are good, namely One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces and I like Jackson Cannery a lot also. Give them a listen too.

Paramore

Hmm I’m on the fence with these. I quite like Misery Business but some of the other songs seem a little Avril Lavigne-ish and a bit too American (: Nevertheless, they’re worth a listen for a song or two!

ELO

I know this one just throws the post title completely out the window… but I really do like their music even if they were rather popular in their hayday. Evil Woman is probably my favourite, the beginning piano part is fantastic. Check it out.

Any other good artists do you think are worth a listen to? I’m quite interested in finding out some more artists, especially those who are quite ‘unknown’ but have an awful lot of potential. Drop a comment

EDIT: As zerojay pointed out on Twitter, I can’t exactly call much of this music mainstream. But it’s still cool music anyhow and I don’t know a ton of people who know these artists.

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