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Rock Band Weekly: Stevie Wonder
As revealed in early October, Stevie Wonder arrives next week with a five-pack of Rock Band DLC. The bundle includes the legendary track "Superstition," along with four more songs off albums Songs in the Key of Life and Innervisions.
Rock Band celebrates Facebook milestone with Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, Breaking Benjamin, and Dream Theater
In honor of the Rock Band Facebook page topping 2 million "Likes," Harmonix decided to let news loose a bit early about some varied, excellent artists arriving on Rock Band 3's DLC service in the "coming weeks and months." We're actually inclined to skip right over two of the groups -- Breaking Benjamin and Dream Theater -- as they've both already had DLC tracks added to RB3 in the past. Here are the two brand new biggies: Stevie Wonder and Coldplay. We simply cannot say "Hooray!" loudly enough. No mention is made of which songs specifically will be launched, but Coldplay, Breaking Benjamin, and Stevie Wonder all have full track packs on the way, while Dream Theater's keeping it more low key with a single. Perhaps if you go "like" the Facebook page we can get Stevie Wonder right now? Maybe just one track, even? [Thanks, libregkd]
Stevie Wonder praises iOS for accessibility
Last weekend, musician Stevie Wonder played a nightclub in Los Angeles. At one point during the set, the blind songsmith discussed the work he does with the United Nations, trying to make both the United States and other countries more accessible to persons with disabilities. While he said there was a lot of work left to do, he had nothing but praise for one company's accessibility efforts. "I want you all to give a hand to someone that you know whose health is very bad at this time. But for someone who, and his company, took the challenge in making his technology accessible to everyone, in the spirit of carrying and moving the world forward: Steve Jobs. Because there's nothing on the iPhone or the iPad that you can do that I can't do. As a matter of fact, I can be talking to you, you can be looking at me, and I can be doing whatever I need to do, and you won't even know what I'm doing. Yeah!" Apple has built an extensive suite of accessibility tools into its iOS devices to assist users with disabilities. A video of Wonder's speech is embedded below, and his remarks about Apple start at about 4:38. [via The Next Web]
Live At Last Blu-ray finally brings Stevie Wonder home with lossless audio
The first ever live concert DVD from Stevie Wonder will be worth the wait, as his O2 Arena performance from last fall comes home in high quality. Featuring some of his biggest hits, a performance by his daughter can covers of Beatles and Rolling Stones songs, it's all captured on a 50GB Blu-ray disc in 1080i, with a lossless DTS-HD MA soundtrack. It makes sense that such a release should have the highest quality audio, fans can check it out March 10.
