Tap Tap Thursday Presents: Rogue Wave
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Who? ROGUE WAVE
What Song? Good Morning (The Future) from their brand-new album “Permalight.”
How’s your winter going? Are you frozen and buried under 10 feet of snow or waterlogged from an El Nino deluge? Certainly, the foul elements are good for your Tapping regimen. Long stretches of uninterrupted hibernation, just you and your avatar shut indoors, racking up countless hours and massive coins. But a lack of sunshine will turn your skin to paper, and there is a danger the touchscreen will no longer register your taps.
Fret not! The thaw is upon us, and soon we’ll be basking in the glorious sunshine of spring, leading directly to summer 2010: The Summer of Tapping. To help usher in this eagerly anticipated transition, we’ve selected the deliriously upbeat GOOD MORNING (THE FUTURE), the first single from the brand-spanking new album from ROGUE WAVE!
Northern California indie-rockers Rogue Wave are emerging from their own cold season, having in the past two years weathered the liver transplant of drummer Pat Spurgeon and near paralysis of singer Zach Rogue, debilitating medical challenges that would have broken up lesser bands. Instead of surrendering, they rose from their infirmaries, and have returned with an album that is their most upbeat, joyous, and danceable yet, a bold rebellion against the dark times through which they’ve come. GOOD MORNING (THE FUTURE) masterfully captures the current global mood: a realistic view of the world as it is, but also a harmoniously optimistic anthem to what it can become. And just in time, because we all need some sun!
Play ROGUE WAVE for free right now! Click HERE for TTR3 and HERE for TTR2. You must be on your iDevice and have one of our tappity-apps installed. Once “Good Morning (The Future)” has infiltrated your being, tap over to roguewavemusic.com, and find out where you can see the band out on tour this spring.
The Rogue Wave Contest
After seeing the online video of a rogue wave taking out the crowd at this year’s Mavericks Surf Contest, we thought we had this week’s contest: send in a video of yourself playing TTR while surfing at Mavericks, site of the mainlands biggest waves. One small problem: great whites are HUGE iPhone fanatics, and will evidently bite off your hands to get one. I’m actually writing this with my toes.
So instead, here’s this week’s legally-approved, dry-land challenge, THE ROGUE WAVE CONTEST!
The LOOT: One grand prize winner gets a brand new iPod touch preloaded with Rogue Wave tracks and music videos! Five runner-up winners get Permalight on CD AUTOGRAPHED by the band!
How to win: It’s a battle contest! Send & play battles on Rogue Wave’s “Good Morning (The Future)” in Tap Tap Revenge 3. You can send battles to your friends in Tap Tap Revenge, post them to the public battles board, or even send them to any email address. Each battle you send gets you one contest point. Each battle you play from someone else also gets you one contest point. Rack up as many points as you can — the player with the most contest points at the end of the contest is the grand prize winner. The next five players with the most points are the runner-up winners.
The contest begins on Friday, March 5th at 12:01AM and runs until Sunday, March 7th at 11:59PM Pacific Time. All battles must be played on Rogue Wave’s “Good Morning (The Future)” in Tap Tap Revenge 3, while online, for entry into the contest.
The Band: 

Lunchtime is a very serious affair here at Tapulous. Having employees from all over the world, with a variety of culinary tastes, we found it necessary to “persuade” (definitely not “kidnap”) one of the Bay Area’s surplus rock-star chefs to come set up shop in the Tap Tap Kitchen. He has taught us that between our courses of Torta Espanola and Waterzooi, it is very important to “cleanse our palettes.”





















