Rockstar Newswire

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...

Hit the jump to see the full calendar.

Here are some of the latest fun Rockstar related pics we've seen (and favorited) floating around the world of Instagram, including some homemade Red Dead toys; Payne, Phelps and Marston costumes as seen on the convention circuit and gearing up for Halloween; and perhaps the most unpredictable Rockstar character tattoo we've ever seen. If you happen upon something awesome and Rockstar related in photo form shared on Instagram, shoot a link our way via mouthoff, or drop it in comments - and remember to follow "rockstargames" on Instagram or browse at www.pinstagram.com/rockstargames.

Max Payne in all his glory. Spotted at #NYCC 2012 by @chrisdotb		@Brandiiketchum observed Cole Phelps on the case, live at Anime Weekend Atlanta
Avid costumer @yolomofo shows off his John Marston ensemble		@camilomm88 recreates a #RDR scene of Marston riding off into the sepia-toned sunset using #legos
He says it's still a work in progress - but his is already a pretty badass custom Undead Marston figure created by @cdtwitcher in London		Big time Red Dead fan @Laurajanefraser decided to pay homage to her favorite female #RDR character permanently on her leg. No, not Bonnie, not Luisa, not even the Scarlet Lady - but multiplayer avatar character Sarah Grace... Whoa.

Taking inspiration from the lurid world of modern day camera-phone portraiture (particularly self-portraiture) and web-cam culture - mediums that tend to dwell on the pervasive themes of sex, drugs, and ego-run-amok - young Philadelphia-based artist, Erin M. Riley strikingly translates this often sleazy and disturbing imagery into the staid form of traditional woven tapestry art.

Having caught our eye originally with this piece entitled "Grand Theft Auto" derived from a somewhat ubiquitous photo that had made the rounds around the web of a pig-tailed blonde girl toking up in a room with a San Andreas poster in the background - we delved deeper into Erin's work to appreciate her brilliant collection of tapestry art.

You can check out more of her awesome work and find out where to catch exhibits at erinmriley.com.

Respect to YouTube user laurigun1, an apparent longtime fan and dedicated collector of our titles, for putting together this pretty comprehensive trip down memory lane compiling a video tour of our signature animated Rockstar intros that have appeared at the start of our games since the late 90s.

Including intros that even we haven't looked at in a while from our rarer titles like Thrasher: Skate and Destroy and Surfing H3O - as well as those that you'll recognize as having greeted you upon loading up each Grand Theft Auto title, it's a nice little nostalgic compendium. Bear in mind that the video is over a year old, which is why you won't see ones from L.A. Noire and Max Payne 3 in there.

Enjoy, and let us know in the comments which you remember most fondly...

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In the wake of our summertime post cataloguing seasonal concert appearances by notable Rockstar soundtrack alumni, many of you had some specific special requests you asked us to track down in the future (a special shout to Richie.Rich_96, VinewoodTits and others). Our latest edition for the early fall season includes some of those along with many others you've heard in Rockstar games new and old as we encourage you to get out there and experience some great live music from just a few of our favorites. Of course, we also encourage you to do chime in in comments with any other appearances you may know of, requests for other soundtrack artists you'd like to see in future roundups, or with your own experiences from perhaps having personally attended a summer show.

Here's a selected fall lineup with shows all over the North America, Europe, and Australia including all of HEALTH's upcoming tour dates along with events from Max Payne 3's Emicida and Trouble & Bass, Red Dead Redemption's Jose Gonzales, Grand Theft Auto IV's Crookers, Max Cavalera, Iggy Pop, Jeru The Damaja, DJ Premier, Philip Glass, and David Rodigan, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars' Turntables On The Hudson, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' Parliament and the Funkadelics and Toto.

See the full fall calendar after the jump.

Here's a quick look across the landscape of dedicated fansites covering Rockstar and our game titles. These guys have been riding with us for quite a while now so big thanks to them for the longtime support - we recommend stopping by their sites to have a look at lots of additional content and analysis from the fan perspective. Here's some cool stuff out there we've seen recently...

• The team at RockstarBase are getting into the Los Santos spirit with an article entitled "Pre GTAV: LA Time Lapse", featuring a really spectacular video of the real City of Angels at NightFall. We recommend to go HD and fullscreen to see it in full splendor.

• In "The Sticker Effect", ChicagoEnigma at Rockstar Network rats himself out for his nefarious habit of Rockstar sticker-bombing. You can also check out The Sticker Project over on their forums for more details. We will neither condone nor condemn such activity...
   
• If you've played far enough into Max Payne 3's story or have toured the maps of the Local Justice Pack, you've likely paid a trip to the Imperial Palace Hotel in the game - a place that Max himself gives a less than glowing Yelp review of in the game, calling it "a 5 star bonafide s**thole". The guys over at PayneReactor did some digging to find out that there is actually a real hotel by the same name in Brazil. "Imperial Palace" is actually a pretty common hotel name out there around the world, with unaffiliated instances notable in Las Vegas, Korea, the Philipines and beyond - as for the Brazilian one, being on practically the opposite side of the country from São Paulo in Juazeiro do Norte on the north coast, this is mere coincidence and was not at all a scouted source reference for the in-game location - plus the real Brazilian hotel looks pretty spiffy by comparison.

• GTAGaming recently highlighted The Adventador Redemption, an incredible new bit of narrative machinima created by Beat with Grand Theft Auto IV PC. Telling a dark and stylized crime story of a Russian assassin - it's definitely worth a watch above.
  
  They also let their readers know about Red Dead Desert '12, a new mod for GTAIV PC that gives you a wide open desert to explore, including cliffs, big rocks, a cave mine, an airfield, oil refinery, dirt trails, new vehicles and a whole lot more.

A pair of fan created artwork pieces depicting Niko and CJ respectively from MikeMeth.

• And finally, some fan artwork from earlier in the summer depicting GTAIV's Niko Bellic (left) and GTA: San Andreas' Carl Johnson (right) popped up in a news article on iGrandTheftAuto.com. The nicely illustrated portraits were created by MikeMeth, and you can check out more various works at his deviantART page.

We always keep a close eye at what's going on in throughout our fan community, so stay tuned for more updates on articles and pieces of interest.

If you own or belong to a fansite that's running a particularly fun poll, have posted a great article, or anything else noteworthy, feel free to drop us a line at mouthoff@rockstargames.com letting us know and we'll have a look for consideration to feature in an upcoming edition of the Fansite Roundup.
 

We're giving ten of our Facebook fans a new wardrobe of Rockstar apparel direct from the Rockstar Warehouse in the Rockstar Wardrobe Giveaway.

Just some fun #GTA highlights on Instagram we've seen searching around worth sharing... If you see some particularly cool-looking or fun ones from GTA or any other game, send us a link to mouthoff@rockstargames.com. Also don't forget you can follow us or pin our official Rockstar pics from www.pinstagram.co/rockstargames.
 

Cope2 #gta #all #game #world #wild #graffiti #king #of #the #4s @huntedidentity spots graf legend Cope2’s tag in GTAIV		Tons of #GTAProblems memes out there recently. We love this one.
Rocket launcher at police helicopter on ps3. #playstation3 #gta #fun #helicopter #rocket #explosion #yeah Purty. Cool. (via @tattooist_chris)		This dude is playing GTA2 on Dreamcast, in 2012. Awesome. (via @protektyanek)