For my Anarchy Club peeps

After a lengthy detour, I finally managed to wrangle new music into the Rock Band Network. Please enjoy.

FÜR IMMER VERLOREN in RBN

New song: “Skulls”

Anarchy Club has just released our new track, “Skulls”. It’s a sad, sad song. About love. Kind of.

Grab “Skulls” here

The Devil’s fiddle

Recorded violin today for the first time. After Russell rained sorrowful tones and tears all over the new Anarchy Club song, I had him noodle on a bunch of other tracks. Now that I know he can do Shakti, things are going to get interesting.

Getting the smell of the music in his nostrils.

New Music from Anarchy Club

Here’s the latest, fresh out of the oven this morning:

Rock Band / Guitar Hero

With the official shuttering of Guitar Hero by Activision last week, and the fire sale of Harmonix to private investors the week before, the rhythm game genre seems to have run smack into a wall. (Sarcasm alert) Who would have thought repeatedly dumping increasingly inferior product onto the market at a blinding pace would quickly exhaust the world’s appetite for rhythm games? I’m looking at you, Guitar Hero… uh… 6?!?! What hilarious greed, Activision.

So now Guitar Hero and its vastly superior cousin, Rock Band, have gone the way of the pet rock. (Full disclosure: I totally had one when I was a kid.)

But I can’t complain. I will always be grateful for GH/RB, as the games brought Anarchy Club into the homes of millions of players. When we’re all grandparents, we’ll fondly reminisce about the old-time rhythm game fad… as our grandchildren insert their holographic game controllers into the slots in their foreheads…

New music by M-Cue

My pal M-Cue has a new album out that may interest those of you who like Anarchy Club. He’s responsible for my favorite remixes on our “A Single Drop of Red” CD.

Time-Boxing

Catacomb Studios, Orlando, FL

Digging up some photos. Here’s one for Anarchy Club people: taken during the sessions for The Art Of War, this is the control room of Catacomb Studios, in Mr. Kirkpatrick’s fly-ass house. In the foreground is Mike, who manages Catacomb and is a nasty guitarist. Behind him is Ernesto Longoria, who played drums on three of the tracks on The Art Of War and utterly blew doors. He got a quick glimpse of the songs shortly before the sessions. Then, on the day he met us, he sat down behind the kit and played each song perfectly all the way through — on the first time. Terrifying.

Then there’s me, and to the right of me is Chris, whom I never knew was actually the founder, not just a member, of N’Sync. A delightfully roguish gentleman, he introduced me to the film “Dirty Sanchez”, which I can never forgive. To his right is Sam, Catacomb engineer.

Mike, Ernesto, Adam, Chris, Sam during sessions for The Art of War