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Shelby Earl Becomes the Rock Star of ‘Rock Band’ at E3

The local singer-songwriter shreds on a plastic guitar in Rock Band 4's debut trailer.

Seth Sommerfeld
Author: Seth Sommerfeld
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Real instruments are for losers.

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As the video game world descended on Los Angeles for E3, the industry’s annual media showcase/hype machine, there’s plenty of Seattle presence: Microsoft, Nintendo, Valve, and a slew of smaller publishers. One face we weren’t expecting to see at E3: local singer-songwriter Shelby Earl. But the Seattle Met favorite surprisingly popped up as the star of Rock Band 4‘s debut trailer during the Microsoft press conference. Earl rocks out on the rhythmic video game’s plastic guitar and lets herself get lost in the fantasy of playing actual shows with an actual guitar (it’s like she’s done that before or something). Rock Band 4 comes out for the XBox One and Playstation 4 on October 4.




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Seth Sommerfeld
Seth Sommerfeld
Assistant Editor (Arts) Seth Sommerfeld runs the arts department at Seattle Met, crafting the magazine's On the Town section, editing the Culture Fiend blog, and contributing to reader service features such as “The Ultimate Seahawks Guide” and the front-of-the-book department, Mudroom. Seth has written about music and culture for Rolling Stone, Spin, Pacific Northwest Inlander, Charleston Post and Courier, Syracuse Post-Standard, and Billings Gazette. He also extensively covered the NBA Draft for years for Fox Sports and NBADraft.net, and was published as part of Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology. Originally from Billings, Montana, Seth first lived in Washington while earning an undergraduate degree in journalism and broadcasting at Gonzaga University. He followed up those studies at Syracuse University, where he earned a master’s degree in arts journalism.