We're fans of Rock Band, but we couldn't figure out how they were going to integrate a keyboard controller into the new Rock Band 3 rhythm game. Turns out, they used their heads and pulled off a ...

Mad Catz is the official hardware partner for Rock Band 3, and their two new realistic instruments—pro guitar with 102 buttons, and the keyboard peripheral—are the closest you get to real instruments ...

Noted rock vocalist and bass player Glenn Hughes (Trapeze, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and more recently Black Country Communion) has often been quoted as saying that, for him, much of the 1980s was ...

Rumor has it that the keyboard icon that folks saw at the end of the Green Day: Rock Band demo for Rock Band 3 is not for a keyboard but a keytar. Yeah, our mouths hit the f**king floor too, and not ...

Pianos and keyboards can be huge beasts, meaning that players are often set to one side of the stage behind the front line of guitarists, bass players and vocalists. Not always though. Edgar Winter ...

We can’t think of where you’d buy a new, cheap, MIDI keytar that’s just a keyboard and a handle with some pitch and mod wheels or ribbon controllers. This is a format that died in the 90s or ...

What is it? Depends on your point of view. On one hand, it's the biggest totem of 1980s cringe there is this side of the piano-key necktie. On the other, it's a misguided, if heroic, attempt to make ...