Slayer is the featured act on Rock Band this week, delivering a three pack of downloadable tracks for your plastic instrument playing enjoyment.

After last week’s dream covers list, I thought I’d return to some actual real covers performed by various geeky artists. Some have been featured before, others are new, but they’re all good covers. And there seem to be an awful lot of JoCo and Frontalot tracks this time (and one that sort of combines them both!). Hope nobody minds!

A second pack of songs from Evanescence arrives on Rock Band this week, featuring keyboard integration on all three tracks.

What would be some interesting, but sometimes unexpected, covers for different geeky artists to perform? For my April Fools’ edition, I will attempt to answer the question: wouldn’t it be awesome if this artist performed this song?

Shinedown is the featured act on Rock Band this week, with a three pack of songs arriving as downloadable content today.

It’s a retro week for Rock Band with classic tracks from Men at Work and Santana arriving as this week’s downloadable content.

Three Days Grace is this week’s featured act on Rock Band, with a three pack of songs hitting the downloadable roster today.

If I’d known about Mikey Mason’s Impotent Nerd Rage a few months ago, I’m sure it would have made my top 15 for 2011. It’s a really great and funny nerd rock album.

This week brings three more singles to Rock Band, each from a different band. You can get these tracks from Everclear, Good Charlotte, and Mastodon for $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) each today, across gaming platforms.

“The Power of Love” was one of Rock Band 3′s most keyboardtastic on-disc tracks, so it only makes sense that Huey Lewis & The News would be back for some DLC songs. That time has come, and a new 3-pack of tunes from the band is this week’s downloadable content, now available across consoles.