I’m in the process of putting together a new music-themed feature article for Nuketown. My intention is to do something similar to the Mac RPG feature, with links to Web sites focusing on music in role-playing games, links to RPG musicians, commentary from gamers. I also plan on writing some original articles about using music … Read more
The Two Towers provides gamers with a second invigorating soundtrack to augment their campaign’s audiospace, albeit one that isn’t quite as successful as its predecessor, The Fellowship of the Ring. As a movie soundtrack, The Two Towers is very enjoyable, providing an epic, cinematic score to a movie that sweeps across the vast lands of … Read more
I’ve made the transition from geek to nerd. Or, as my wife likes to say, “loser”. Why? Well, you see, on Saturday my concert tickets arrived for Huey Lewis and the News. They’re going to be playing at MusikFest in Bethlehem, Pa. on August 15, 2004. I’ve been a Huey fan for decades, going back … Read more
Mortality Radio is a net-based radio station dedicated to the pen-and-paper role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and the d20 universe it spawned. Hosted by Mortality.net, and run by two of its moderators (Adlon and Smaug), the radio show is broadcast via the net every two weeks or so. Its broadcasts are accompanied by online chats … Read more
For decades, Dungeons & Dragons players have cobbled together custom soundtracks for their games from diverse sources, including various movie soundtracks (Conan the Barbarian, Lord of the Rings), game music tracks (Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights) and even specialized albums (Midnight Syndicate, Toxic Bag Productions). But now they have an official soundtrack, one sanctioned by the … Read more
This post was supposed to be about geek radio shows I’ve been listening to on my iPod during my commutes. And then one of the shows went off the air. The name of the show is “The SixSiders” and it aired on KION 1460 AM in California. It was also broadcast over the Web via … Read more
At Dawn at Rivendell is filled with the music and poetry of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, as performed by the Tolkien Ensemble. This is the Denmark-based Tolkien Ensemble’s third outing, and this time around they are aided in their endeavourer by Christopher Lee, who played the villainous Sauramon in the Fellowship of … Read more
All through my high school career and a good chunk of my college one, I spent a fair amount of time questing for the soundtrack to the movie 2010. I finally got it in my sophomore year (1992), when my girlfriend at the time found it for me in a CD store up in State … Read more
Radio is dead. Well, maybe not quite dead, but definitely dying. I first noticed the decline a year or so after Clear Channel bought two of the Lehigh Valley’s radio stations: 95.1 WZZO (a rock station) and 104.1 WAEB (a pop/Top 40 station) in the late-1990s. The radio play lists seemed to become more repetitive … Read more
A review of Apple’s original iPod digital music player.