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Found 6 posts tagged as "Games"
These days, legendary shock rocker Alice Cooper is more of a threat on the links than he is on stage. Still, perceptions die hard, and the Arizona-based golf enthusiast’s new haunted house attraction - set to be unveiled next month at Universal Studios Hollywood and based on his landmark 1976 album, Alice Cooper Goes to Hell - looks 18 kinds of creepy… and that’s in the broad daylight.
In the dark with scary music and dramatic lighting, it’ll be downright terrifying and well worth the trip to Cali (as if we needed more reason to head west).
Those pesky Americans. They are poised to score mucho medals at the London Summer Olympics, and (tee hee) they cleaned up in a British poll aiming to discover the most popular song at sporting events.
Yup, Van Halen’s classic 1984 synth-goosed anthem “Jump” earned top honours among members of the UK’s Performing Rights Society, who put their collective stamp behind everyone from the Rolling Stones to the Beatles to Queen… but not in numbers great enough to beat the Yank rockers for top spot.
Sure, it’s only July but Halloween will be here before you know it. And wouldn’t your pals be all kinds of impressed if you had spooky plans for the occasion all mapped out? In that spirit, allow us to introduce “Alice Cooper Goes to Hell 3D,” a theme-park attraction (maze actually) set to be unveiled at Universal Studios’ Hollywood location this fall during its “Halloween Horror Nights” promotion.
Question: what do rockers/marketing whores KISS, former Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous host Robin Leach and a preacher dressed up like Gene Simmons as The Demon have in common? An uncontrolled hunger for publicity well-served by yesterday’s launch of the KISS-themed mini-golf course in Las Vegas, that’s what.
I guess this was only a matter of time in coming. KISS - the world’s most commercially astute rockers, who’ve gleefully slapped their logo on everything from urns to caskets, blankets to glassware, wine to arcade games - is getting its own miniature golf course in Las Vegas next March.
For all his marketing prowess – which has ushered forth band-approved urns, caskets, wine and throw-rugs, to name four – it’s amazing that KISS bassist Gene Simmons didn’t do this first.
Brit prog rock legends Pink Floyd have released a way-cool app for use with iPhone, iPad and iTouch. And just in time for the holidays! Although, the Mac user in my world tells me even these dudes are late in the game compared to hip-hop and alt-rock artists (forgive me but I am a techno-knuckle dragger).
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