Unreleased Original Radio Espantoso Songs from Vice City Now Available on iTunes

Posted: April 23, 2013 10:31AM | Author: R* A

On top of the classic Love Fist EP we remastered and released not too long ago, we've just dug even deeper in the vaults to release a trio of original sought-after tracks from Vice City's Radio Espantoso airwaves.

"The Bull's Wrong" by Alpha Banditos

"Yo Te Mire" by Tres Apenas Como Eso

"La Vida Es Una Lenteja" by Unaesta

These latin jam bands were a sureshot to get the fiesta going back in 1980s VC and now fans of their funky sounds (special shout to LegionYT1994) can grab the digitally remastered tracks for the low price of $0.69 each over at iTunes. They're also available for streaming on Spotify and have been added to our official playlists.
 

Previously:
Official Grand Theft Auto Radio Playlists on Spotify and iTunes
Love Fist's Original 1986 EP Is Now Available on iTunes
Head Radio & Lips FM Station Albums from Liberty City Stories Now Available on iTunes
Grand Theft Auto III: Head Radio & Lips FM Station Albums Now Available on iTunes

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Official Grand Theft Auto Radio Playlists on Spotify and iTunes

Posted: April 11, 2013 1:13PM | Author: R* Q

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Love Fist's Original 1986 EP Is Now Available on iTunes

Posted: January 11, 2013 10:42AM | Author: R* L

Who's ready to Fist Till Morning??

By popular demand from legions of diehard Love Fist fans (looking at you, lol232 and LegionYT1994 and others), we're happy to announce that the original four-track 1986 Love Fist EP has been digitally remastered and is now available  on iTunes for the "nice price" of $0.69 per song - or get the full EP for $1.99 (look for it on Amazon in the coming days as well). This includes the smash hits "Dangerous Bastard" and "Fist Fury" that made a big splash back in those heady and hazy days in 1980's Vice City - as well as two sought-after rarities, “Down Down Down” and “Fist Till Morning." Enjoy these gems from Scottish headbanging legends, Jezz, Willy, Dick and Percy. Sorry, legendary albums The Number of the Breast and Clear the Custard are still out of print.

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Video: A Behind the Scenes Look at HEALTH's Original Max Payne 3 Soundtrack & Score

Posted: January 10, 2013 11:52AM | Author: R* L

Lots of new insight into HEALTH's making of the Max Payne 3 original soundtrack and score can be found in this short film just released by The Creators Project, as seen below. Via interviews with the band as well as with Rockstar, you'll get the backstory on how the game's original music came together and the technical approach to its unique dynamic scoring...

Previously:
Watch HEALTH's Official Music Video for "TEARS"
Max Payne 3: The Official Soundtrack - Now Available on iTunes

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10 of Our Favorite Music Videos from the Vice City Soundtrack

Posted: December 27, 2012 9:51AM | Author: R* L

In our continuing nostalgic ruminations in this 10th Anniversary year since the release of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, today we take a look back at the game’s soundtrack and think back to those halcyon early years of MTV when it actually was all about music + television. In between the channel’s signature moon man interstitials and ‘veejay’ visits to your living room from Martha Quinn and J.J. Jackson, came the original wave of music video programming that transfixed and inspired a generation of kids - including many of us here at Rockstar. Frequently surreal, heavily driven by contemporary fashion photography and design of the period, and now laden with pop music history – enjoy this rundown of just ten (in no particular order) of our favorite 1980s music videos of songs that appeared in the Vice City soundtrack….

"Video Killed the Radio Star" The Buggles (Flash FM)

A bizarre little clip in its own right, now etched in history for being the first video ever played on MTV when they launched in August 1981, is "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. Apparently actually the second filmed version of the video - the original being a slightly simpler yet still pretty strange performance clip heavy on post-disco-futurism - this one was tailor made to suit its destiny. Filled with campy sci-fi imagery, follow the wonderment of a young girl seeing her old-fashioned radio explode as Trevor Horn (later of Yes and Art of Noise fame) and The Buggles play otherworldly explorer-scientists heralding in the new music video era...

"Rock Box" Run DMC (Wildstyle Pirate Radio)

A landmark rap video (the first to be aired on MTV) that typified the early 80s Russell Simmons & Rick Rubin era vibe and pioneered a rock-rap style that would explode a few years later with “Walk this Way”. The bizarre factor is also ramped way up on this one thanks to a rambling, esoteric introduction by legendary then-70-year old (and still kicking) improvisational comic “Professor” Irwin Corey. Ensuing years in the 80s would see similar head-scratching cameo appearances in rap videos by random comics like Larry “Bud” Melman, Gilbert Gottfried and Richard Belzer...

"Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes (Flash FM)

The nearly 7-minute long video for this 1983 avant-garde pop-rock-electronic masterpiece starts out simply enough with the band rehearsing on a soundstage. A minute-and-change-in... things get weird. With an offsetting close up of Jon Anderson's face, it cuts to the lead singer standing in a field where he then turns into a bird that flies away. The rest of the band members follow suit, transforming in different locations into a snake, lizard and cat, respectively. Jon-Anderson-as-bird then flies over rush hour London, where we see an average Joe trying to get through the day's challenges (like facing evil government agents and more antagonists from the animal kingdom). Was the band inspired by a psychotropically-fueled viewing of Manimal? We'll never know - but this quite disturbing and surreal video still puzzles and delights as well as it did nearly 30 years ago.

"I Wanna Rock" Twisted Sister (V-Rock)

"What do you wanna do with your life!?" With a reprisal of his authoritative jerk Niedermeyer character from 1978's Animal House, actor Mark Metcalf this time is a raging hard-ass bully of a high school teacher set up ripely for comeuppance at the hands of his charges - empowered of course by the liberating rock of Dee Snyder and Twisted Sister. After humiliating a meek and overweight metalhead teen student, the rest of the video sees Metcalf as a foil getting his just desserts in a variety of cartoonish scenarios. The Animal House comes full circle at the end when Metcalf's character finally makes it to the principal's office to report the student rebellion...

"Yankee Rose" David Lee Roth (V-Rock)

The first single off of his first full-length, post-Van Halen album, "Yankee Rose" was David Lee Roth's initial visual statement as a solo artist. And what was that statement? A comic parade of politically incorrect stereotypes and a ridiculous Roth shaking his wrapped-in-striped spandex rear-end at viewers. So it's perfect.

"Sunglasses at Night" Corey Hart (Wave 103)

Upon listening to this Corey Hart classic, you might think that it's simply about a dude who prefers to wear sunglasses in the evening, perhaps for practical reasons such as being able to leer at women on the bus, or perhaps due to hypersensitivity to moonlight. But thanks to this video that was a staple on airwaves in '83, audiences were challenged with some serious social commentary. What if we all lived in a fashion police state and the only shades that we could wear were government-issued? Thankfully, the scenario was addressed in this laughably dramatic yet awesome music video.

"Steppin' Out" Joe Jackson (Flash FM)

The video for Joe Jackson's elegant and progressive piano-electro pop hit "Steppin' Out" captures the glamour and excitement of a night out in high-society 1982 New York City with this visual story of a maid at a fancy NYC hotel dreaming above her station.

"Love My Way" The Psychedelic Furs (Wave 103)

Relatively understated for the era, but still very surreal and cool and now-iconic, the video for the Psychedelic Furs "Love My Way" features the band wading in water and with heads in the clouds.

"The Message" Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (Wildstyle Pirate Radio)

Acclaimed to this day having recently been named the #1 greatest hip-hop song of all-time by Rolling Stone, "The Message" still packs a serious punch with a gritty video that is quite a departure from many of the other blithe videos in this list. With documentary-style footage shot in the streets of early 80s New York, this glimpse of real life burned-out buildings, hustlers, winos, infuriating congestion, peep shows, and 'broken glass everywhere' exposed the realities of life in the inner-cities of America to a vast international audience.

"I Ran" A Flock of Seagulls (Wave 103)

There it is. "I Ran" was one of the most ubiquitous videos of the 1980s ranking among MTV's most played ever, and made its mark as an indelible video of the decade, known for its surreal kabuki theater in a mirrored funhouse performance - and of course, for the band's haircuts. Perhaps the definitive new wave hit and the song that came to be most associated with the glamour, thrills and action of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City thanks to its appearance in the game’s official TV commercial.
 

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Check It Out: Animotion "Obsession" (DJ Joman Remix)

Posted: December 18, 2012 3:12PM | Author: R* L

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Rockstar Alumni Concert Calendar: Special Vice City Edition

Posted: November 20, 2012 2:33PM | Author: R* L

As we throwback to the 80s in a Vice City state of mind celebrating the game's 10th anniversary and forthcoming mobile release, here's a special edition of the Rockstar Soundtrack Alumni Concert Calendar compiling a list of places and dates where you can catch notable artists you've heard in our games perform live.

It's great to see so many of these legendary artists still so actively touring around the world, so whether you had your dial locked to Flash FM, Wildstyle Pirate Radio, Wave 103, V-Rock, Fever 105 or Wave 103 - there's bound to be a nostalgic favorite act out there from the Vice City radio waves to catch coming your way. Peruse the below list we've put together that covers dates into early 2013 from the East Coast to the West Coast, across Europe, Australia, South America and more. Do shout in comments if you're aware of any other soundtrack performances we missed, experience some live music from the decade of excess and revisit a time when wearing neon was un-ironic...
 

HALL AND OATES ("Out of Touch" on Flash FM)
11/30 - Mashantucket, CT @ MGM Grand Theater
12/01 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Borgata Event Center 
12/03 - York, PA @ Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center
12/05 - Newport News, VA @ Ferguson Center for the Arts
12/08 - Winnie, TX @ Nutty Jerry's
12/10 - Chattanooga, TX @ Chattanooga Memorial Auditorium
12/12 - Charleston, SC @ North Charleston Performing Arts Center
12/14 - Knoxville, TN @ Tennessee Theatre

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Watch HEALTH's Official Music Video for "TEARS"

Posted: November 07, 2012 2:08PM | Author: R* A

Released last week on Halloween, enjoy the new official music video for "TEARS", from Max Payne 3 soundtrack composers HEALTH.

"TEARS" is available as a single on iTunes and as part of the Max Payne 3 Original Soundtrack on iTunes and on CD via the Rockstar Warehouse.

Previously:
“TEARS” by HEALTH Single Now Available on iTunes
Max Payne 3 Official TV Commercial

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