May 21, 2008 – 1:20 am
Next Tuesday, May 26, you’ll be able to download the second full album release for Rock Band. The much anticipated Who’s Next album by The Who still hasn’t surfaced, but instead we’ll be getting The Cars’ self titled album. The track list follows:
- All Mixed Up
- Bye Bye Love
- Don’t Cha Stop
- Good Times Roll
- I’m In Touch With Your World
- Just What I Needed
- Moving In Stereo
- My Best Friend’s Girl
- You’re All I’ve Got Tonight
The individual songs will be downloadable for 160 MS Points ($2), and you can get the entire album for 1200 MS Points ($15).
May 16, 2008 – 11:45 pm
Next week’s downloadable songs for Rock Band will be retreads of what the European customers already have received. Next Tuesday, May 20, all nine of the Euro-exclusive songs will be made available for purchase domestically. And, at the same time, all the American-only songs will be released to the European version of Rock Band. The track list releasing to non-Euro accounts follows:
- “Beetlebum” by Blur
- “Hier Kommt Alex” by Die Toten Hosen
- “Countdown To Insanity” by H-BlockX
- “Perfekte Welle” by Juli
- “Manu Chao” by Les Wampas
- “Hysteria” by Muse
- “Rock N Roll Star” by Oasis
- “New Wave” by Pleymo
- “Monsoon” by Tokio Hotel
All the tracks will have a pricetag of 160 MS Points ($2) each, and all except the Blur song are master tracks.
May 9, 2008 – 7:53 pm
Harmonix announced today that the downloadable tracks for Rock Band next week will be:
- “Hanging on the Telephone” by Blondie
- “Train in Vain” by The Clash
- “Kool Thing” by Sonic Youth
All three songs are master tracks by the original artists, and they will cost 160 MS Points ($2) each. They will be available on Tuesday for the XBox 360 and on Thursday for the Playstation 3. There is no track pack this week, so you’ll have to download them all individually.
May 6, 2008 – 9:56 am
Now available for download for Rock Band is the Scene Pack, containing the following tracks:
- It Hurts by Angels & Airwaves - 160 MS Points ($2)
- Date With The Night by Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 160 MS Points ($2)
- This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race by Fallout Boy - 160 MS Points ($2)
These three songs are also available to download together as a pack for 440 MS Points ($5.50)
May 5, 2008 – 11:50 pm
Major Nelson at XBox Live has announced that MTV Games, Harmonix, and McDonalds have teamed up for a new Rock Band promotion. Starting tomorrow and running through June 1, two songs a week will drop to 80 points a piece for that week only. Here’s the list of songs and when the price drop will be in effect:
- 5/6/08-5/12/08 :
Crushcrushcrush - Paramore
Rock ‘n Roll Band - Boston
- 5/13/08-5/19/08 :
Shockwave - Black Tide
Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead
- 5/20/08-5/26/08:
We Care A Lot - Faith No More
All the Small Things - Blink 182
- 5/27/08-6/2/08:
Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Dirty Little Secret - All-American Rejects
Source: Major Nelson
May 3, 2008 – 11:39 am
In a first for Rock Band, free downloadable content is being offered as a preorder incentive from a retail store. This week Best Buy announced that they will provide a code for two free Rock Band downloadable songs by Disturbed to anyone who preorders the band’s new CD, Indestructible. The promotion starts tomorrow, and the songs will be downloadable on June 3. The downloadable songs will be “Inside the Fire” and “Indestructible.”
Given that previous exclusively released Rock Band songs have been released later through the usual channels as for-pay downloads, I think it’s safe to assume that these two tracks will be available through the regular Rock Band Store for download at the usual prices at some later date.
After the release of Motley Crue’s new single via Rock Band and now this promotion, it’s been a good month or two for Rock Band innovation and integration with the music industry.
Source: Disturbed
Get it here: Best Buy
May 2, 2008 – 3:46 pm
Harmonix has announced next week’s downloadable content for Rock Band, and once again we’ll be getting three singles. Here’s what’ll be available the week of May 6:
- “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” by Fallout Boy - 160 MS Points ($2)
- “Date With the Night” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 160 MS Points ($2)
- “It Hurts” by Angels & Airwaves - 160 MS Points ($2)
These three also will be downloadable together as the “Scene Pack” for 440 MS Points ($5.50). All three songs are master tracks, and you can find them on XBox Live on Tuesday.
April 29, 2008 – 3:39 pm
As the rest of the video gaming world is furiously racking up felonies in Liberty City, Rock Band has rolled out three new tracks today. The new songs are available for download individually for 160 MS points ($2) each. Here’s what’s up for grabs:
- “Zero” - Smashing Pumpkins
- “Red Tandy” - The Mother Hips
- “Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear” - The Mother Hips
The only way you can get these is by downloading them individually; there’s no track-pack this week.
Source: Major Nelson
April 22, 2008 – 8:44 am
The Judas Priest full album release, Screaming For Vengeance, that I reported last week is now available for download on the XBox 360 version of Rock Band. It will be up on the Playstation Network later in the week. The download options with XBox pricing are:
- The Hellion / Electric Eye - 160 MS Points ($2)
- Riding on the Wind - 160 MS Points ($2)
- Bloodstone - 160 MS Points ($2)
- (Take These) Chains - 160 MS Points ($2)
- Screaming for Vengeance - 160 MS Points ($2)
- You’ve Got Another Thing Coming - 160 MS Points ($2)
- Fever - 160 MS Points ($2)
- Devil’s Child - 160 MS Points ($2)
- Pain and Pleasure - 160 MS Points ($2)
The full album is downloadable as a pack of all 9 songs for 1200 MS Points ($15).
You can see and listen to the released songs on the previous post I made about this one.
April 18, 2008 – 11:02 am
The downloadable content for Rock Band next week will be a big one, as Harmonix has pulled the veil away from their first full downloadable album: Screaming for Vengeance by Judas Priest. The album will be available in its entirety for 1200 MS Points ($15), or you can grab each individual song for 160 MS Points ($2) a piece. The album and singles all will be available for download via XBox Live on Tuesday, April 22.
In addition to announcing the Judas Priest album, Harmonix also announced that The Cars’ self-titled album and Doolittle by The Pixies are in the pipeline and will be coming soon.
Here’s the full tracklist with a YouTube sampler for each of the Judas Priest songs, after the jump.
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