| Third-Party Guitar Hero Controller Sucks Like a Hurricane
Our ugly yet do-able distant relations over at Kotaku have a hands-on with the Shredder, a third-party Guitar Hero controller. While they originally championed the device, a disheartened reader told them that it was actually a hunk of garbage. They do not need to be pushed down as hard as the original, making hammer-ons and pull offs feel more natural. My biggest gripes about this controller are the tilt sensor and the select button. The tilt sensor is now a shake sensor. You have the shake the controller to enable star power. Big deal? Probably not, but maybe you could just get the real controller and save yourself a shaking bad time. – John Biggs Third Party Guitar Hero Controller Does NOT Shred [Kotaku] .
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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