Tapulous

If you’re a Tap Tap party-person, you are truly living in a golden age. Right this second, you can plug a 1/8th-inch line into your iPhone/Touch, launch Tap Tap Revenge, and literally throw down the sickest dance party while you rock your way to the top of the standings. Can the floorboards survive your Taptastic house-party mega-mix? Let’s see…You can warm it up with some Lady Gaga to get the crowd, roll that into some Jason Derulo, and follow up with that Mike Posner joint. Then kick it back in high with Ke$ha and Flo Rida, and keep it going with Taio Cruz and a little T.I. YIKES, I wanna go to this party!

And now, ladies and gentlemen, we are slipping you the secret weapon. There will come a point when the party reaches its crescendo and achieves full throw-down status, when the crowd will stand with baited breath, waiting to see if you blow the off the mother, or turn into DJ Trainwreck. And that’s the exact moment you drop “EVACUATE THE DANCEFLOOR” by CASCADA. The place will go nuts, guaranteed.

The titular track from Cascada’s third studio album, “Evacuate the Dancefloor” is nothing short of a global phenomenon. It has topped charts all around the world, and helped this German eurodance group sell over 14 million copies of their three records. Formed in 2004 by singer Natalie Horler along with DJ’s Manian and Yanou, Cascada is not resting on their success. They have just released the blazing hot “Pyromania,” another block-rocking jam that is part of the brand-new CASCADA PREMIUM TRACK-PACK, along with “Evacuate the Dancefloor.”

So if you’re ready to get this party started right, and get it started quickly, then you know what to do: Get yourself some Cascada, and get it on!

The Cascada Contest

This week, one Grand Prize winner gets an IPOD TOUCH AND 3 CASCADA ALBUMS! Five runner up winners get their own signed copy of Evacuate the Dancefloor on CD!

How to win: Download and play Cascada’s “Evacuate the Dancefloor” in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Each score you submit above 100,000 points gets you one entry into the contest. You can play on any difficulty you want — as long as your final score is OVER 100,000 points. At the end of the contest, we’ll throw all the entries into a hat and draw the winner.

The contest runs from Friday, July 23rd at 12:01 AM until Sunday, July 25th at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. You must play “Evacuate the Dancefloor” in Tap Tap Revenge 3, during the contest period for entry. To make sure scores submit, play on a solid internet connection. For more details click here. Apple is not a sponsor of this contest.

Wow, it’s a remarkable day for Tapulous. Today, we announced that we are joining Disney. We will be a key part of Disney Interactive Media Group, spearheading their drive to be the leader in mobile entertainment.

As part of Disney Interactive Media Group, we’ll develop more games, more quickly and with the resources of the world’s leading entertainment company. We will continue to develop apps that live at the intersection of music and gaming, but we’ll also push into new and exciting areas of mobile social entertainment. We’re literally bursting with ideas for new apps!

The last two years we’ve been on an amazing ride. We started Tapulous because we love the iPhone. We believed it would change everything, and we wanted to build fun, beautiful apps that tapped into its incredible entertainment power. And we did…

Tap Tap Revenge has been a success beyond our wildest dreams. It’s still the most popular game series on the App Store, with over 35 million downloads and a billion songs played! But it’s about more than numbers…almost everyday I meet players who are crazy for the game, just like me!

There’s a lot of people to thank:

-Our fans, who passionately play our games and spread the word.

-My talented and tenacious team. Led by Andrew Lacy, Tim O’Brien and Jessica Kahn, they have consistently created beautiful, innovative games with two parts creativity and one part force of will.

-Our investors, who have always believed in and trusted us.

And, last but not least, the artists who create the music that makes life richer-and gives us all something to tap to!!

To my new co-workers at Disney, I look forward to meeting you, collaborating with you and building something that’s special together. We are surrounded by amazing technology that we’ll use to surprise and delight consumers.

Tap on!!!
Bart Decrem

More info: http://bit.ly/ciTqVe

Who? New Politics

What? Yeah Yeah Yeah, from their upcoming debut album on RCA Records.

Why? Why, you ask? Well, because there’s always room for a brain-scattering, amp-stressing, neighbors-banging-on-the-wall rock track in Tap Tap Revenge. “Yeah Yeah Yeah,” the breakout song from South-By-Southwest buzz band NEW POLITICS, came crashing into our music department, jumped up on the desk, and demanded to be this week’s free download. And when a song has that kind of immediate energy and urgency, you either get behind it or run for your life.

OK, I Love It. Who Are These Guys? New Politics is David Boys, Soren H, and Paul Amaliel, three guys from Copenhagen who unintentionally formed the band to enter a radio station’s songwriting competition. Having been writing music together for 3 years for various solo projects with little forward movement, the group was on the verge of hanging it up when they casually made the decision to submit a song to the Danish National Radio P3’s “Career Cannon” contest.

Theirs was picked as a top winner, and once this fearsome trio brought their reckless, cathartic, and engaging live show to the stage, all heck broke loose (or since they are Danish, we should say all herring broke loose). The response to their passionate performance was immediate, and the band began booking festivals and shows all over Europe. After signing with RCA Records, they set their sights on achieving American success, and made the decision to relocate to the epicenter of hip, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where they are putting the finishing touches on their debut album.

AWESOME! What do I do now? First, head over to www.newpoliticsrock.com, where you check out their videos and tour dates, and pick up a copy of the song from iTunes or Amazon. Then, you rock out with reckless abandon as you tap to “Yeah Yeah Yeah” in the crazy-cool NEW POLITICS CONTEST!

The New Politics Contest

This week, one Grand Prize winner gets the an awesome Fender guitar signed by the band!!! Five runner up winners get a copy of their self-titled debut album on CD!

How to win: Download and play New Politics’ “Yeah Yeah Yeah” in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Each score you submit above 100,000 points gets you one entry into the contest. You can play on any difficulty you want — as long as your final score is OVER 100,000 points. At the end of the contest, we’ll throw all the entries into a hat and draw the winner.

The contest runs from Friday, June 18th at 12:01 AM until Sunday, June 20th at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. You must play “Yeah Yeah Yeah” in Tap Tap Revenge 3, during the contest period for entry. To make sure scores submit, play on a solid internet connection. For more details click here. Apple is not a sponsor of this contest.

ARE YOU READY? It’s been nearly 2 years since the audio-wizards in N*E*R*D dropped their last alt/rock/funk bomb on the world, and now we’re all jonesing to get blown up again! It’s time to get right with “Hot-n-Fun,” a hypno-hop head-bobber featuring the dulcet guest vocals of the always fresh NELLY FURTADO. You know whenever Pharrell and Chad take a break from their other job as the wildly successful, genre-defining production duo The Neptunes for some serious N*E*R*D action, the scene is about to get an electric blast of dope beats and deep hooks.

Download N*E*R*D today for free!

The N*E*R*D Contest

We are hearing reports of rogue doctors offering to surgically attach your iPhone / iPod touch to your hand, in order to completely eliminate any chance of slipping during key Tap Tap sessions. While we can’t necessarily endorse this, it certainly won’t hurt your chances of being the top tapper in the spectacular N*E*R*D CONTEST!

This week, one Grand Prize winner gets the ENTIRE N.E.R.D. CATALOG on CD, including the upcoming album Nothing when it is released! Five runner up winners get a copy of Nothing on CD.

How to win: Download and play N.E.R.D.’s “Hot-n-Fun (feat. Nelly Furtado)” in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Each score you submit above 100,000 points gets you one entry into the contest. You can play on any difficulty you want — as long as your final score is OVER 100,000 points. At the end of the contest, we’ll throw all the entries into a hat and draw the winner.

The contest runs from Friday, June 11th at 12:01 AM until Sunday, June 13th at 11:59PM Pacific Time. You must play “Hot-n-Fun (feat. Nelly Furtado)” in Tap Tap Revenge 3, during the contest period for entry. To make sure scores submit, play on a solid internet connection. For more details click here. Apple is not a sponsor of this contest.

Confession Time: How many of you out there have ever read someone’s diary? This week’s featured artist TINO COURY did, and he’s spilling all the sweet secrets in the FREE new Tap Tap Revenge track DIARY! The up-and-coming singer/songwriter/producer, who taught himself to play guitar from a Blink-182 songbook, poured his heart into this pop-perfect song, and came up with a catchy combination of emotional storytelling and big beats to rock your body!

“My influences come from so many different places, whether it’s the things I’ve gone through in my own relationships, a film that sparks an idea that clicks, or something that a friend has experienced that I can relate to,” Coury says of his song topics. “I don’t try to force it, though. I wait until the inspiration comes to me. I have to feel it in order to write. In the end, for me, it’s about telling a story.”

Download DIARY for free, and get in on the ground floor of Tino’s fast-rising career. Also, be sure to check out all his tour dates, videos, and news at www.TinoCoury.com.

Tap Tap Revenge: Your source for the best new music, absolutely free!

The Tino Coury Contest

Our first contest idea was for you to read your most embarrassing diary entry on YouTube, but we didn’t want to inflict any permanent emotional scars. So instead, get your fingers moving, because the top tapper is going to win the awesome grand prize: A Tino Coury Fan Pack which includes a signed 8×10 photo, signed digi pack, a Tino “Diary”, and T-shirt! Five runner up winners get a “Diary” CD and video DVD.

How to win: Download and play Tino Coury’s “Diary” in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Each score you submit above 100,000 points gets you one entry into the contest. You can play on any difficulty you want — as long as your final score is OVER 100,000 points. At the end of the contest, we’ll throw all the entries into a hat and draw the winner.

The contest begins on Friday, May 28th at 12:01 AM, and runs until Monday, May 31st at 11:59 PM Pacific Time. You must play “Diary” in Tap Tap Revenge 3, during the contest period for entry. To make sure your scores submit, play while you have a solid internet connection. For complete rules click here. Apple is not a sponsor of this contest.

We always thought they were out there. Waiting silently, biding their time, exercising their fingers for the moment they knew would one day come. And on that fateful Thursday, when we announced our partnership with Metal Blade Records, the mighty Tap Tap Metal Mob bum-rushed their touchscreens with a fury and ferocity that we had hardly anticipated. To appease these maniacal masters of the Extreme tracks, we are excited to have 2 brand-new songs from Metal Blade for this week’s free featured downloads!

For 25 years, GWAR has been Earth’s only openly extraterrestrial band, as well its sickest, most destructive, and most apocalyptic. Behold their brain-splattering new track “Let Us Slay” from the new album Lust In Space. It rocks SO hard, we may have put our entire species in jeopardy by unleashing it in Tap Tap Revenge. When it comes to all-out mutant metal, remember: GWAR did it first, and GWAR does it best. www.gwar.net

As I Lay Dying have allowed us to give out their brand-new song “Beyond Our Suffering” from the eagerly-anticipated album The Powerless Rise, out on May 11th. Do you think you can handle tapping to it? From the psychotic, snake-charming guitar line to the drum beats that hit you like a heart attack, the full frontal scream of AILD proves that modern metal is only getting better. By delivering their music with a power and urgency that has put them at the top of the metalcore scene, As I Lay Dying has become one of today’s most buzzed-about bands. www.asilaydying.com

Head to iTunes for these new releases from GWAR and AS I LAY DYING on Metal Blade Records, your source for all of today’s best metal. Tap over to www.metalblade.com to see their amazing roster of talent.

Plus check out the Metal Blade premium-bundle in the Tap Tap Store today, stuffed with a wild sample of 6 extreme tracks. Fire extinguisher for your fingers sold separately!

GWAR & As I Lay Dying Contest:

THE LOOT: The Grand Prize winner receives the full discography for both Gwar and As I Lay Dying. Five Runner Ups will receive the latest CD from GWAR, Lust in Space, and As I Lay Dying’s The Powerless Rise.

To participate, download and play “Let Us Slay” by GWAR and “Beyond Our Suffering” by As I Lay Dying in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Each score you submit above 250,000 points gets you one entry into the contest. You can play on any difficulty you want, just make sure your score is above 250,000 points! At the end of the contest, we’ll throw all the entries into the giant Tapulous contest hat and draw the winners.

Contest begins on Friday, May 7th at 12:01 AM PST and runs until Sunday, May 9th at 11:59PM PST. Scores must be submitted in Tap Tap Revenge 3, while online, during the contest period, for entry.

For the official rules click here. Apple is not a sponsor of this contest.

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

UPDATE: Grand prize winner: bmwayman. Runner up winners: jamaine21, DMGilchrist, deesimz, Jettoman, opacho

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 music player 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.

Hey Tappers –

It’s been a crazy month here at the Tapulous Shop, focusing almost entirely on quality and customer service! Here’s a quick rundown of the most recent happenings:

1. Online Games: Some of you sent us some messages that this was getting a bit laggy… well we hear ya. We doused the servers with WD-40 last night, you should see things moving a bit more smoothly.
2. Online weapons: Don’t like all the weapons in the online rooms? Cruise over to online play for some smaller, more intimate games — and more “No Weapons” rooms.
3. Facebook: It’s back in Tap Tap Revenge in all its glory. Connect up with Facebook and post your top scores and personal bests on each song.
4. Remember all that tapping you did in TTR2? Well we do, and it wasn’t for nothing. We’re bumping up your level so you can access more free songs. Check out your Tap Tap 3 news feed this weekend for the news.
5. Were you one of those folks that got Tap Tap 3 for $.99? Aside from the fact that you’re some of the coolest people on the planet, you also get a bunch of extra stuff — unavailable to the rest of the world: First and foremost, you get NO third party ads (well, almost all of you…), you got the game 60 days before everyone else, and you had access to an entirely different and unrestricted collection of music.  Now, in addition, and as promised, you also get a one-of-a-kind avatar item: THE CROWN, and to top it off – 15,000 coins to spend at your leisure. But, best of all — you get a huge THANKS from everyone at Tapulous.
6. Are you a premium user and bummed that you never got one of the SWEET Supernova guitars for 400,000 coins? OK, we hear you. IF you have over 400,000 coins by Monday, you can buy this guitar for 400,000 coins. If you qualify (premium user + 400,000 coins), we’ll send you a feed message on Monday with how to buy the instrument.
7. WHERE IS THE ULTIMATE TAPDOWN?? Due to the large portion of players and finding new creative ways to hack Tap Tap, we had to postpone the greatest tournament of all time. Well it’s on the way… The dev team & the beta crew spent the last few weeks working out the final kinks to ensure a fair tournament. The update is on the way — THEN IT’S TAPDOWN TIME.

There is plenty more to do, and we haven’t forgotten. Keep us in the loop and let us know what’s on your mind.

Meanwhile, get ready for Riddim Ribbon, which is now just one week away!  Head over here for another quick video, more wallpapers… and we’ll be making a special Riddim Ribbon avatar item available in TTR3 this weekend.

See you in February!

PS: Check out the awesome, newly redesigned David Guetta premium bundle theme.

The Band: DATAROCK

The Jam: Fa-Fa-Fa from the album “Datarock Datarock”

Did you know that Tap Tap Revenge has built in GPS capabilities? No, no…not THAT kind of GPS, the global positioning system. We pack in our own type of GPS, the Guaranteed Party Starter. TTR doesn’t have to be something you do by yourself, headphones on, slumped in the corner. Here’s a quick guide to using your TTR GPS:

1. Download this week’s block-rockin’ featured track from DATAROCK
2. Crank up those teeny-tiny iPhone / iPod speakers, or better yet, plug into your boombox’s line in. (Note: all cool people carry a boombox wherever they go)
3. Go to a public place and start tapping.
4. Get your head noddin’, your booty shakin’, and your feet stompin’. If you can, occasionally moonwalk.
5. Watch the party form around you!

There it is, the magic of Tap Tap Revenge GPS. However, it doesn’t work without the crazy-fresh electro-rock of Datarock’s Fa-Fa-Fa. So it’s lucky we have it FREE this week!

Hailing from Bergen, Norway, a mountainous town known as “The City of Rain,” Datarock members Fredrik Saroea and Ket-Ill came together with a simple goal: To alter the face of contemporary music as we know it, by transforming themselves into what they call “the peak of pop evolution.” Or, as Saroea once explained their formation, “We fell in love. He became pregnant and gave birth to a small Casio watch. As our love grew, the Casio watch grew to become a Casio keyboard. And that’s how we became Datarock.”

Now you will experience Datarock. Once you’re plugged into the Datarock machine, tap over to datarockmusic.com, and check out all their videos, albums, and remixes.

The Datarock Contest

OK, so the slick disco beats of Datarock’s “Fa Fa Fa” have got you covered musically. But what if your fashion is lacking? Well, they’ve got you covered there, too. Literally. Part of this week’s grand prize is an official DATAROCK TRACK SUIT! Now you can look as awesome as these guys:

But that’s not all! They’re also throwing in a STEINBERGER GUITAR! Wow, these guys rule! 5 runners-up will also receive an autographed copy of the Datarock CD. Here’s all you have to do:

This one is easy. Download and play Datarock’s Fa-Fa-Fa in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Every score you submit ABOVE 250,000 points counts as one contest point. The player with the most contest points at the end of the contest is the grand prize winner. The next 5 players with the most points get the runner-up prizes. You can play on easy or hard — as long as you get over 250,000 points.

The contest runs from Friday, January 29th at 12:01 AM through Tuesday, February 2nd at 11:59 PM. You must submit your scores in Tap Tap Revenge 3, while online, during the contest period for entry into the contest.

UPDATE: Congrats to the winners! Grand prize winners: The_Offspring and Biblekid2! Runner up winners: Chris_Liquid, KATIEHIGGINS, Shun_ENDO, bernardjoseph, SoFresh_SoClean, and Papas_Con_Chile!

The Band: THE FEATURES

The Songs: LIONS and WOODEN HEART from the new album “Some Kind of Salvation”

America and England. Such a long, crazy history we’ve had with each other. Sure there was that one really bad dust-up in the late 1700’s, and we sent that Werewolf to London in the 1980’s, but we’ve had a very useful relationship, too. For example, we’ll often send over our unknown musicians, you’ll go wild over them, give them back to us, and say, “Hey dummies, these guys are awesome, and they’re yours!” Like Jimi Hendrix, or the White Stripes. We’re still not sure what you did to Madonna…

This week’s artists are a prime example of this phenomenon. THE FEATURES are a very American band, much beloved in their home state of Tennessee. But they’ve found greater success in the U.K., gaining fans, winning awards, and earning glowing reviews from NME and The Guardian. Now it’s the rest of the world’s turn to catch on to their Southern-souled, blues-soaked power pop. When their musical compatriots Kings Of Leon started a new label with Bug Music, The Features were the first signing, and “Lions” the first single. So the band comes well recommended.

Once you’re completely smitten with their uber-catchy, genuine rock and roll, tap over to TheFeatures.com and become a super-fan.

The Features – Some Kind Of Contest

The LOOT: This week you’ll be competing for TWO GRAND PRIZES: Two winners each get an brand new electric guitar — AUTOGRAPHED by the Tapulous crew AND a vinyl copy of Some Kind Of Salvation autographed by The Features. Six runners-up will win signed copies of the CD.

People often ask us, “What does it take to win a contest?” Our answer is always the same: Relentless tapping. For example: If you’re just quickly checking your mail on the iPhone, go ahead and knock out a dozen games. If you’re sitting in class, try a “blind tap” under the desk. If your boss is talking to you, put up your hand, say “Hold that thought,” play a quick game of Tap Tap, then say, “Continue.” We promise he’ll laugh.

If you follow those tips, you’ll be well on your way towards winning THE FEATURES – SOME KIND OF CONTEST.

Now here’s the scoop: Download “Lions” and “Wooden Heart” in Tap Tap Revenge 3. Go hang out in The Features online contest rooms, take down some opponents, and rack up some points. For every online game where you get 1st place — you get 1 contest point. The top two players that have the most contest points at the end of the contest win the grand prizes. The runners-up are the next 6 players with the most contest points.

The contest begins on Friday, January 22, and runs through Tuesday, January 26th. That’s 120 hours to secure these sweet prizes