Inner City - Live at Hard Rock Cafe, Boston (2007)

Guitar hero Marc Flury and one of his Boston bro's form Inner City, a drifty, dreamy rock music making spectacle. Click on their name above to enjoy their performance on the occasion of the release of the multiplayer video game Rock Band. Flury programs for Harmonix, the outfit that made Rock Band and its predecessor Guitar Hero 2. In both you get to pretend you're a rock star. In the former, you've got drums and bass and vocals added to the guitar playing experience. It's better.

But it's no Inner City. The most magical part of the band's Hard Rock Cafe performance, other than asking the restaurant to turn down the house music, comes about 10- 1/2 minutes into the affair. Flurtron plugs in the video game's plastic guitar to play crazy mind-bending noises through his onstage and software set up. It's art imitating video games imitating art. 10,000 points.