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SAN FRANCISCO - MTV said on Friday it will start selling full albums that can be downloaded and played in its “Rock Band” video game, with the first title coming next week from classic metal act Judas Priest.

Judas Priest’s “Screaming for Vengeance,” which contains the band’s hit “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin”‘ and nine other tracks, will cost $15, with individual songs from the album going for $2 each, MTV said.

In “Rock Band,” launched last November, players strum guitar controllers, pound a fake drum kit, or sing into a microphone in time with songs playing on a television screen.

MTV, a unit of entertainment firm Viacom Inc., has released new tunes every week for “Rock Band,” usually in the form of three-song packs focused on an artist or genre, with players buying more than 8 million songs so far.

“Our intention is to cover every base, both in terms of era and every sub-genre of rock,” Alex Rigopulos, founder of the Harmonix studio that makes the game, said in an interview. Read the rest of this entry »

Thirty-nine years ago this April, a new American holiday was born. A child of the 1960s, Earth Day began, perhaps not surprisingly, as a teach-in. A very large teach-in: On April 22, 1970, more than 20 million Americans gathered in parks, streets and classrooms across the country to learn about and bring attention to the damage being inflicted upon the planet.

True to its name, Earth Day has since gone global. From Bonn to Buenos Aires, cities around the world have watched their own Earth Day traditions grow. Today, both the list of cities and the size of the celebrations is expanding, to the point that there are almost as many ways to celebrate the holiday as there are cities on a world map. Read the rest of this entry »