Video Game Audio has evolved over the years, from the simple sounds of PONG to the in-depth, cinematic sounds of BioShock. Although many gamers take Game Audio for granted, it’s just as important as a video game’s graphics, gameplay and controls. In this episode of The Reboot, ...

Looking for the perfect video game to buy for Christmas? The Reboot’s got you covered. Last year, the big question was which video game console to buy, and gamers had to choose between the Nintendo Wii, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. This holiday season, it’s all ...

Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher and Don Clark, Business Week’s Rob Hof, Forbes‘ Victoria Murphy Barrett and Scobleizer’s Robert Scoble joined Ann Winblad of venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, at the annual What’s Hot and What’s Not, for 2008. Hosted by the Public Relations Society ...

Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher and Don Clark, Business Week’s Rob Hof, Forbes‘ Victoria Murphy Barrett and Scobleizer’s Robert Scoble joined Ann Winblad of venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, at the annual What’s Hot and What’s Not, for 2008. Hosted by the Public Relations Society ...

Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher and Don Clark, Business Week’s Rob Hof, Forbes‘ Victoria Murphy Barrett and Scobleizer’s Robert Scoble joined Ann Winblad of venture capital firm Hummer Winblad, at the annual What’s Hot and What’s Not, for 2008. Hosted by the Public Relations Society ...

Another in our series documenting the Show-me Blowout of 2007. The Monte Carlos from Columbia Missouri.

From Joplin Missouri, The Modern Primitives play some excellent rock’n lo-fi garage punk.

In the lobby of the Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona I got the chance to catch up with Jeffrey Snover, Architect, Management Services Division. Jeffery gives us an overview of PowerShell and then we talk about Microsoft and other’s use of PowerShell since it’s release a year ago. ...

The Pink Socks from Kansas City.

Another clip from the Show-Me Blowout, The Rich Boys from Kansas City.

The Cripplers were one of the finest, trashiest garage/punk/rock’n'roll bands to ever come out of the Midwest. Originally from Columbia, Missouri, the band relocated to St. Louis in the late 1990s. Their debut LP “One More for the Bad Guys” was released on the popular garage/retro rock label Dionysus ...

This episode, I have something really special. It’s a performance from the Show-me Blowout by the 60’s garage rocker Craig Moore. Craig Moore was one of the original members of the 1960’s band Gonn from Keokuk, [tag]Iowa. Now I don’t really expect you to have heard of Gonn because ...

I caught this band at their CD release party a couple of weeks ago. They’re actually making a comeback of sorts from about a year off from the music scene. They’ll be touring around the Midwest — check their MySpace page for tour dates.

The release of Halo 3 was the biggest video game launch in history, garnering more than $300 million in sales in the first week, alone. In this episode of The Reboot, host Rio Pesino gives his review of the game, and also talks about the ...

Victoria is a band that seems to have come out of nowhere–well for me anyway. They’re still pretty new but they really rocked Off Broadway about a week ago.

Also upcoming on LO-FI SAINT LOUIS, we have a video about the neo-burlesque scene that we’ve been working on for almost ...

Women used to be an afterthought in the video game world. Today, more women are involved in the billion-dollar industry as programmers, designers and of course, gamers. According to the Entertainment Software Association, thirty-eight percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of ...

One more from the Lot Fest in August …

Tenement Ruth describe themselves as a roots rock band with a twist of Americana. I really dig their two-part female vocal hamonies and the touch of twangy Americana in their music. Watch the video and see what you think. If you ...

The Humanoids are a hardcore punk band. They say that their influences are BBQ, pig roasts, waffle house, bad brains, dag nasty, wipers, naked raygun, and NOT Domino’s pizza sauce. This performance was recorded at the Blue Bird, St. Louis.

Also for more info on the upcoming Show-Me Blowout click ...

I recently visited Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School at the Atomic Cowboy in St. Louis. This is one of the newest chapters of Dr. Sketchy’s anti-art School that started in Brooklyn. It’s a unique event thats part figure drawing class and part party, with performances and contests. Great ...

You might remember a video of a band that I posted a few weeks ago called Thor Axe and at the time I mentioned that some of the members were in a nother band calles So Many Dynamos. Well I finally caught a performance form So Many Dynamos last weekend. ...

Press reports over the past sevearl years have caused some to question whether it’s safe for teenagers to use MySpace, the world’s leading social networking site. But about a year-and-a-half ago, the company hired a safety czar. Hemanshu Nigam, who had a similar role at Microsoft after a career as ...

Amanda and Abby are from California. They started their band four years ago. Abby plays guitar and Amanda plays mandolin. They sing in harmony and are joined by their band of boys who play violin, upright bass, lap steel and piano.

The Help is a politically charged (yet fun) punk rock band. I think the singer Jason Toon kinda looks like Cory Doctorow. Enjoy!

RockYou is one of the largest social media application developers around. Millions of people use their apps on MySpace and Facebook. Here, we meet Jia Shen, CTO and co-founder of RockYou, where we talk about RockYou’s plans. Yes, mostly we talk about the impact of Facebook on his business.

Here is the last performance I’m bringing you from the Lot Fest in STL but there will be more video from the other performances at the Metropolis St. Louis Web site in the coming weeks.

This episode we also look at some of the upcoming events for the fall. ...