They’re doing a northeast loop tour that began in Northampton, Mass, is headed down to North Carolina now, and will end in Boston October 13 at a show at Northeastern University.

While the rest of the economy may be in the tank, Adobe’s earnings beat expectations.
Tuesday, Adobe said it earned 50 cents per share in its fiscal third quarter, which ended August 29. That beat Wall Street’s expectations of 46 cents per share and its own estimates of 39 to 41 cents per share.
Revenue climbed 4 [...]

Activision announced Tuesday it was releasing a distinctive three-track download for Guitar Hero III that will include “Tina” by the Flyleafs, “Carcinogen Crush” from AFI and a remix of Marilyn Manson’s fast-paced “Putting Holes In Happiness” by Nick Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
This Interscope Records track pack will be available for download from the [...]

Arista Records announced recently that Blake Lewis will debut a new single, “How Many Words” in front of the American Idol audience March 6. The beat-boxing sixth season “Idol” finalist will then open up on radio stations nationwide March 11.
“How Many Words,” a fan favorite off of Lewis’ debut album Audio Day Dream, was co-written [...]

Activision announced Thursday that several hit songs from No Doubt’s diamong-selling Tragic Kingdom album will be released as a downloadable track pack for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
The set includes the songs “Don’t Speak,” “Excuse Me Mr.” and “Sunday Morning.” The track pack is currently offered on Xbox Live Marketplace and was made available [...]

Apple announced Tuesday that the iPod shuffle will now cost $49 with a new 2GB model going for $69.
This is a big development for “the world’s most wearable music player” which weighs just half an ounce.
“At just $49, the iPod shuffle is the most affordable iPod ever,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide [...]

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Patriots have informed wide receiver Donte Stallworth that they will not be picking up his $6 million option bonus due on February 25th, or his $2 million roster bonus due on the 29th.

BLAST has learned there was a complete outage of the popular Blackberry email-retrieving smart phone service Monday.
An AT&T spokesman told Fox News in Boston that the outage affects all phones and all carriers across the country.
Research in Motion said in a message to large corporate customers that a “critical severity outage” meant they would be [...]

Four classic board games come to the Nintendo DS in the form of Clue, Mouse Trap, Perfection and Aggravation from DSI Games.
This is a great multiplayer collection because it supports up to six players wirelessly and only costs about $10!
From Amazon:
Clue: Welcome to Tudor Mansion. Your host, Mr. John Boddy, has met an untimely end [...]

Guitar Hero III’s new Classic Rock Track Pack includes hits from rock bands Boston, Foreigner and Journey, and it’s available now for download.
Songs include master recordings of Boston’s “Piece of Mind,” Foreigner’s “Juke Box Hero” and Journey’s “Any Way You Want It.”
For more information or to download, visit Xbox Live Arcade or the PlayStation Store [...]

Comedy Central has released a compilation DVD of what they consider the best of the cult-hit Crank Yankers.
The DVD contains over 50 crank calls including questions about poop and the word “Badonkadonk.” It includes calls from Special Ed, Hadassah, Spoonie Luv, Niles Standish, Gladys and Bobby Fletcher.
The compilation did piss off one Amazon.com user, [...]

Heavenly Sword is one of the best-looking and best-sounding PlayStation 3 games, but it’s still not IT.

Blast’s Posterboy Sports Blog has the R-rated trailer of Will Ferrell’s new sports comedy movie “Semi-Pro.”
The movie also stars Woody Harrelson and André Benjamin and comes out on leap day, February 29.
Check it out!

Look at me I’m an elf!
Seems like an untrue statement for a woman who’s 5′10″ until you visit elfyourself.com and start the elfmorphosis.
By uploading up to four photos, you can create a whole group of elves for your dancing pleasure. It is easy to upload photos with tools there to resize and rotate and [...]

Anti-heroes bringing their mix of action and betrayal to a game created specifically for mobile devices, Eidos New Media announced Monday.
The mobile game was ported by Danish developer, Kiloo, with input from Io Interactive, the original development studio for the game.
Kane and Lynch has hit major consoles with mixed reviews lauding its original gameplay but [...]

Play five on five online with 10 human players.
Electronic Arts released the free downloadable feature called Online Team Play for NBA Live 08 that lets 10 people on 10 consoles anywhere in the world play with and against each other. The new feature is automatically available on Playstation 3 when connected online, EA said Monday. [...]

Bethesda Softworks has put out a new expansion pack for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, one of the highest rated role-playing adventure games ever released.
“The enthusiastic response we’ve received to our downloadable content has been overwhelming, and we’re excited to bring Oblivion fans a full expansion,” said Vlatko Andonov, president of Bethesda Softworks. “The world [...]

Based on the National Geographic documentary, Arctic Tale allows you to fight for survival as three different polar animals.
The film dramatically follows the paths of a mother walrus and her calf and a polar bear and her cubs. This Nintendo DS game allows you to utilize four survival attributes through 24 levels, several mini-game levels [...]

Time to turn the tables and let the mean one win. It’s your turn to steal Christmas in How The Grinch Stole Christmas for Nintendo DS.
You play the mean green one using stealth through a variety of puzzles and challenges, using scenes from the movie adaptation of the popular children’s book.
This is another chapter in [...]

Comic genius Dave Chappelle trained his satirical eye on the vagaries of pop culture and race relations in his brilliant but short-lived Comedy Central series Chapppelle’s Show The edgy funnyman brandished his unique style of street smart comedy to skewer everything from car commercials to the KKK, blending sketches, parodies, standup, and musical guest performances [...]

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