Fab Four

Hello, Goodbye! The Beatles Come to iTunes, and Now We Can All Move On

Peter Kafka in Media on November 16, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

That’s right, jaded digerati–getting the Fab Four into the world’s biggest music store won’t change everything. But it’s a good thing! And it also means we can stop guessing about when it will happen. Win win!

Kara Visits Guitar Hero HQ (for a Sneak Peek of GH5, Band Hero and DJ Hero)

Kara Swisher in News on August 31, 2009 at 1:01 am PT

Despite the challenges the music gaming industry has been facing of late–such as sales dropping, yipes, almost 50 percent in the U.S. this year–the top companies in the field are still churning out new products like it’s nobody’s business. Case in point is a spate of new products from the Guitar Hero division of Activision Blizzard, which is coming out this fall with three separate major launches, starting tomorrow with the GH5 and including the hip-hop flavored DJ Hero in late October. Here’s BoomTown’s sneak peek from GH’s HQ in Silicon Valley.

Newsflash: Beatles Still Not for Sale Online

Peter Kafka in Media on April 7, 2009 at 8:19 am PT

Hot off the presses from EMI and Apple Corps, the Beatles’ holding company: a press release that goes on for 461 words about plans for yet another repackaging of the Fab Four’s albums–on CDs. And then these two sentences: “Discussions regarding the digital distribution of the catalogue will continue. There is no further information available at this time.” Because why rush into anything?