Green Day sure had a lot on their plate this past year: promoting 21st Century Breakdown, embarking on a world tour, developing a Broadway musical based on their songs, raking in the Grammy noms and sweeping the Rolling Stone readers’ best-of-the-decade poll. Now the punk-pop punks are following in The Beatles’ footsteps by announcing their own Rock Band game—the band broke the news at Spike TV’s Video Game Awards this past weekend. Check out Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt’s dead-on likenesses in the above preview clip of Green Day: Rock Band. Finally, you won’t have to compete against thousands of other Green Day fans for the chance to shout “Longview” into a mic. More »
Beaches are definitely the It Locale for music videos this week, but at least Iyaz, who hails from the British Virgin Islands, has an excuse to frolic on the coast in the middle of winter. His “Replay” has slowly climbed the charts, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 (while now resting at #5 on iTunes), and he’s just released his bright, cheery sand-strewn vid for the hit song, in which he flips through photos all Minority Report-style while coincidentally (or not?) sounding almost exactly like fellow tenor and label patron, Sean Kingston. (See Sean? Generating hits doesn’t require lame marketing gimmicks.) More »
