This week in Pop Culture

This week starts off with Fireworks bang and from there you can keep the party going all week with brand new movie and cd releases! Every week here at GamingAngels, I list the new releases this week. Let me know if there is a certain genre you want to see highlighted! New Movies: Brooklyn’s Finest The Girl with the Dragon tattoo A Single Man New Music: Big Boi Juvenille : Beast Mode Kelis: Flesh Tone Enrique Inglesias: Euphoria Bret Michaels : Custom Built I’ll probably check out Bret Michaels new album. Have to respect a guy that was in the hospital, gets out and is immediately back to work doing what he loves to do. New in theater this week: Grease Sing a Long Predators Despicable Me [Rec] 2 The Kids are All Right The Girl Who Played with Fire Winnebago Man Red Alert: The War Within

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Pop Culture Tuesday – New CDs and DVDs

A new feature on GamingAngels is the listing of new dvds and cds that are out each week. It’s a small article, but sometimes it’s hard to keep track of what’s about to come out. So here are this week’s releases: New in DVDs: Hot Tub Time Machine Eureka The Crazies Percy Jackson & the Olympians New Music out this week: The Dream : Love King 3OH!3: Streets of Gold Papa Roach : To be loved Dwele: W.ants W.orld W.omen

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Interview: EA Trax Band, “DATAROCK”

Here’s the last of our interviews with recent the new EA Trax bands. This time, we got some questions answered by DATAROCK. Check it out! GamingAngels (GA): Do you find that being featured in video games has increased your star power in any way? Datarock (DR): Absolutely. We now have supernatural powers. GA: Do you dream of doing the full soundtrack for any specific game? If so, what would that game be? DR: A knitting game, a quilting game, a shopping game, a make up artist game, a hairdresser game, a princess game, a brides game, a weight loss game, a dating game, a finding the perfect partner game, a don’t get angry – get even game, a you are beautiful no matter what they say game, a it’s not you – it’s me game, or the classic crying game. GA: If you had the option to create a game

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“CoD: Modern Warfare 2″ OST now available

Touting seventeen tracks, the official soundtrack for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is finally on the market and can be downloaded on iTunes [Warning: opens iTunes] for $.99 a song or $9.99 for the whole album. Written by Lorne Balf and produced by Oscar award-winning composer Hans Zimmer, who also scored the main theme, the music in CoD:MW2 creates a solid base from which the record-breaking game engulfs players into intense and emotional scenarios.

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“SOCOM4″ OST to be produced by BSG composer Bear McCreary

His music has already changed the lives of thousands, and now SOCOM4 players will hear exactly why. At just 24 years old, Bear McCreary was brought on to score Battlestar Galactica’s first season and continued to do so throughout the series’ four season run. Now he’s gearing up to produce and record a soundtrack that will accompany players as they stop a militant intent on destroying a key waterway in the single player mode. “Ever since I was a kid, I’ve dreamt of a video game score that would feel as if it were being composed specifically for each player, adapting and shifting perfectly to capture the mood of the individual gamer.  Thanks to the powerful technology available today, and the talented artists and programmers at Sony and Zipper, I was able to write a score that fulfills this promise.” McCreary wrote on his official blog. ”My approach to SOCOM 4 began

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New DVD and CDs out this week

Entertainment isn’t just about video games. Here on GamingAngels we cover pop culture too so every week we highlight the latest releases on DVD and for Cds. Plus now you’ll have time to watch stuff now that Lost is over. Here are new DVDs out this week: Dear John The Road True Blood Season 2 Here are the new CD releases: Leela Jones My Soul Cam’ron Cam’ron & The U.N. Presents Heat in Here Hank Williams III Rebel Within Stone Temple Pilots Stone Temple Pilots

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Interview: EA Trax Band, “Pint Shot Riot”

Thanks to EA Trax, we’ve been able to interview three of their bands, all of whom are responsible for some of the music you hear in your favorite Electronic Arts titles. This is the second of those interviews, with the band Pint Shot Riot. Read on to find out where their name comes from, how working with EA has increased their star power (but not necessarily in a Guitar Hero-like way, since that’s another company) and what kind of video game they’d make if they had the chance. We asked the questions, and band member Baby Dave was kind enough to answer them, even if a couple of them ended up not really applying…read the rest below. GamingAngels (GA): What was the thought behind the name Pint Shot Riot? Pint Shot Riot (PSR): It comes from this time our singer was texting his mate and he noticed that, with predictive

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New music and dvds out this week!

Happy new release Tuesday! This article is new to GamingAngels and is not about where to get dvds or cds for cheap but to highlight what is new in entertainment this week. New DVD releases this week: Valentine’s Day Invictus The Spy Next Door Extraordinary Measures The Messenger The Jeff Dunam show New CDs out this week: Janelle Monae: The ArchAndroid The Black Keys LCD Soundsystem Nas & Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley Reflection Eternal: Talib Kweli & Hi Tek Band of Horses Glee Showstoppers edition

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New DVD and CDs this week

We always go over the game releases every week, but we neglect that we host a pop culture blog here at GamingAngels and you angels deserve to know what’s coming out in DVDs and CDs this week! So welcome our newest weekly article on GamingAngels. I hope this first one offers some interesting releases! New CDs this week: Celine Dion – Taking Chances World Tour Jackson Browne & David Lindley: Love is Strange We Are the Fallen: Tear the World Down Keane: Night Train As I lay dying: Powerless Rise The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards Meat Loaf : Hang Cool Teddy Bear New DVDs this week: Edge of Darkness Legion Daybreakers Daria Toy Story Toy Story 2

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Interview: EA Trax Band, “Hadouken”

Editor’s Note: Here at GA we were able to interview three of the bands signed with the EA Trax label. Below, is our first interview, with the band “Hadouken”. And we want to give a great big thank you to EA and Hadouken for making this interview possible. Oh, and make sure to keep an eye out for the other two interviews coming soon! GamingAngels (GA): Do you find that being featured in video games has increased your star power in any way? Hadouken: We’re definitely starting to hear about more and more fans having discovered us through hearing our tracks on video games which is awesome, any way we can reach out to new fans is great news for us. GA: Do you dream of doing the full soundtrack for any specific game? If so, what would that game be? Hadouken: I don’t think there’s any specific game we’ve

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