| Konami ready to rock? ( News )
Konami has registered the trademark "Guitar Revolution" with the US Patent & Trademark Office - although it refuses to be drawn on why. Filed on June 29th, the trademark relates to game software, but also peripherals that sound a lot like the ones used by critical darling Guitar Hero, along with arcade machines and so on. Obviously "Guitar Revolution" fits in rather snugly with Konami's other musical titles - Dance Dance Revolution (known as Dancing Stage in Europe) and Karaoke Revolution. .
Amadou & Mariam: When the Blues Feels Good
He may not look like Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page, but Amadou Bagayoko is a guitar hero just the same. He put on an African blues-rock clinic Tuesday when the world-pop sensation Amadou & Mariam hit the packed Birchmere for their premiere Washington area appearance. .
Bangles busy with albums and tours
The Bangles have always had good taste in the songs they've recorded that were written by others, a fact they reconfirmed with the title track of their 2003 reunion album, "Doll Revolution."
They had most of the album already recorded -- the band paid for it by touring first -- when Elvis Costello offered them "Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution)," a song he'd written for a television pilot he developed about a -- what else? -- girl group.
Before "Tear Off Your Own Head," however, The Bangles took both Simon and Garfunkel's "Hazy Shade of Winter" and Prince's "Manic Monday" to No. 2 on Billboard's top 40 singles charts in the '80s. Their first album, 1984's "All Over the Place," featured "Going Down to Liverpool," a hard-edged pop song written by Katrina and the Waves guitarist Kimberley Rew, and 1986's "Different Light" featured their more-than-credible version of Big Star's "September Gurls."
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