Still feeling the post-midday blues? We’ve got some tasty afternoon treats in the forms of tracks, videos, and news tidbits from around the interwebs that you may have missed that are sure to get you through the afternoon. Dig in!
Learn To Play Tame Impala’s ‘Elephant’ (And Other Ace Songs) In Videogame
Tame Impala are making their digital debut into videogames, as the first Australian band to feature in the latest edition of Ubisoft’s Rocksmith videogame series. Rocksmith 2014 Edition is the sequel to the popular original which acted as a digital guitar instructor, where players plug in any real-world guitar or bass direct into their videogame console to while away on a list of popular rock songs while learning how to shred and solo in the process. To get budding guitar heroes in the mood for Rocksmith 2014 Edition‘s October release, Tame Impala’s ‘Elephant’ and Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Cherub Rock’ are being offered as an exclusive free download for the Australia and New Zealand limited edition of the game. Perth’s leading psychelicious outfit will join more than 50 new tracks featured on the videogame disc, including Oasis, R.E.M., Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Slayer, Iron Maiden, and many more. With a lineup like that, Rocksmith 2014 Edition is already rivalling the recently leaked Grand Theft Auto V soundtrack to the title of ‘greatest ever videogame soundtrack’. Still confused about Rocksmith, read our review here or watch an in-depth introduction below. (via Rocksmith)
Dave Grohl Look-A-Like Claims Victory As World’s Greatest Air Guitarist
From learning to play the axe in front of your television screen to playing to a live audience with no instrument what so ever! All hail the new world champion of the Air Guitar World Championships, which reached its final conclusion last week in Oulu, Finland where the world’s greatest air shredders battled it out in a fiercely fought competition. Taking home the bronze was UK guitarist Thom ‘W!ld Th!ng 37’ Wilding, while the top two spots was a close finish for the 2013 edition, with Doug ‘The Thunder’ Stroock’s “oozingly sexual” miming losing out to fellow countryman, “the Kansas-based Dave Grohl lookalike” Eric ‘Mean Melin’ Melin. The American’s song of choice that claimed him air guitar supremacy? Weezer’s chugging ‘Hash Pipe’, as seen in this shonky fan footage. (via Alan Cross)
Parkway Drive To Release Coffee Table Book
You’re not a real hardcore outfit until you’ve released a centrepiece-sized tome for the coffee table, or at least someone told Byron Bay outfit Parkway Drive as much. To celebrate their 10th Anniversary, the five-piece have chronicled their decade of chart-topping, globetrotting musical adventures – which includes sold tours to China, India, and South America – in the appropriately titled Ten Years of Parkway Drive. The 300-page book scours the band’s archives to bring hundreds of photos, poster art, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and much more to fans. Long-term bandmate Callum Preston, who’s produced artwork for Parkway Drive releases as well joined the band on the road has painstakingly compiled and edited the tome, which includes his own personal accounts and recollections alongside the band’s. Ten Years of Parkway Drive is out September 27th and you can take a sneak peek at its contents in the video below. (via CallumPreston.com)
Matt & Kim’s NSFW Album Artwork
Brooklyn duo Matt & Kim are a fun-loving sort, as evidenced by their cheeky video interview with Tone Deaf while in Australia for Groovin The Moo 2013 earlier this year, so it might not be such a surprise to their fans that the pair have taken the ‘au naturel’ approach to their latest release. Due for release this October, Lightning Remixes is a compilation of reworked tracks from the band’s 2012 album Lightning, and features the pair playing Adam & Eve on its front cover; complete with foliage covering the band’s more private bits but lets the rest of their fleshy visage on show. It’s not the first time the band have got their kit off for their music (see 2009 music video for ‘Lessons Learned‘), but that doesn’t mean they have no shame. Ahead of the artwork reveal (pun intended), Kim instagrammed a text she sent that reads: “To my family… I am sorry but my boobs are on the Internet today.” Adorable to the last. (via Stereogum)
