Rock Bands: What are they?
A rock band is a group of musicians specializing in rock music. This music is a form of popular music with a major vocal melody accompanied by guitar, drums, and bass. Some other types of rock music uses keyboard instruments such as organ, piano, mellotron, and synthesizers. Rock music is characterized by having a strong back beat, which usually revolves around the guitar. The guitars used could be either solid electric, hollow electric, or acoustic. Usually a rock band is made up of a lead singer, guitarist, bass guitarist and drummer which form a quartet.

Eat that Green Day - Indie Band Creates Their Own Avatars
Brooklyn indie rockers, Audio Fiction’s new music video for Race the Hourglass is created entirely of Rock Band avatars of themselves, right down to the AF logo on the bass drum.

Guitar Hero Skin Is Very Easy
RedOctane made their mark on the world selling beefed-up dance pads for Bemani's popular Dance Dance Revolution series. When they teamed up with Harmonix to release Guitar Hero in 2002, they were entering a then-dominated market of beat matching games produced by Bemani, this time employing a modified guitar controller, bringing a new game dynamic to Bemani's less-popular Guitar Freaks franchise. It was not long before Guitar Hero became the runaway hit of the year, and the RedOctane/Harmonix alliance (now part of Activision and MTV, respectively) dominated the rhythm games genre.

Rock Band Network Training Added to GameSoundCon San Francisco's November Conference Agenda
GameSoundCon 2009 adds Rock Band Network Training Sessions to its San Francisco conference agenda. Two days of new GameSoundCon sessions will show musicians, publishers and record labels how to author their original recordings into gameplay files and sell their music as playable Rock Band tracks through the newly created Rock Band Music Store. GameSoundCon San Francisco will be held on November 13 and 14 at Pyramind in downtown San Francisco.

Rock Band - Playing the Game
Rock Band is a music video game which allows the players (up to four) to simulate the playing of a rock band with the help of controllers modeled after musical instruments The best part is that to hone the skills of rock band through a video game gives an exciting feel

Audio Fiction Has Got Game – Rock Band Game
New York City indie rockers Audio Fiction become one of the first independant bands to join Harmonix and MTV Games' just released Rock Band Network Music Store for the Xbox 360(r) Rock Band that allows bands and labels to author their own songs.

Pop Rock Band Push Play Heads To Los Angeles
Push Play Attends Miley Cyrus' Hannah Montana Premiere And Shoots For Famous Celebrity Photographer Sheryl Nields