Music
This week for our Rock Band DLC we get an giant infusion of music from Europe, or more precisely, songs previously only available in the European version of Rock Band. I can't sing a lot of these but the instrumental parts sound fun.
Beetlebum as made famous by Blur (cover)
Hier Kommt Alex by Die Toten Hosen (master)
Countdown to Insanity by H-BlockX (master)
Perfekte Welle by Juli (master)
Manu Chao by Les Wampas (master)
Hysteria by Muse (master)
Rock N Roll Star by Oasis (master)
New Wave by Pleymo (master)
Monsoon by Tokio Hotel (master)
As usual, all tracks will be $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) each. They will be available Tuesday on the Xbox 360 and Thursday on the PS3. As an added bonus, the total sum of American Rock Band DLC will become available in Europe on the 20th.
DLC week of May 20th [RockBand.com]
That's right, she's back, bringing some friends with her! This week we get more Blondie, Clash, and Sonic Youth for our weekly Rock Band fix.
"Hanging on the Telephone" by Blondie (master)
"Train in Vain" by The Clash (master)
"Kool Thing" by Sonic Youth (master)
As usual, all three songs are master tracks, and will be available for $1.99/160 points on Tuesday for Xbox and Thursday for PS3.
DLC Week of May 13th [Rockband.com]
The advertising execs over at Activision have really been working hard lately, now not only do we have the embedded widget, Guitar Hero (more specifically, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith Edition), is being cross promoted on Slurpees.
In an online contest at www.slurpee.com, visitors can enter codes found on specially marked 22-ounce Guitar Hero-branded Slurpee cups for a chance to win a copy of the new Guitar Hero: Aerosmith videogame, Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system from Microsoft, or Microsoft Points to purchase content from Xbox LIVE® Marketplace. One copy of the new Guitar Hero: Aerosmith game will be awarded every hour throughout the month of May, for a total of 744 games. In addition, 10 lucky winners each will receive a prize package that includes an Xbox 360 console along with a copy of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. Finally, more than 711,000 Microsoft Points will be awarded.
I love the idea of winning stuff for buying my favorite semi-frozen flavor water, but apparently the codes are on the bottom of the cups. So what's to stop people just writing down the codes and not buying? Not to mention, you can apparently play once per day, free, by using the code 'SLURPEE ' at Slurpee.com Still, It'd be fun to win some more Microsoft Points. Which flavor will you get?
Slurpee® Rocks the Store with Guitar Hero [Business Wire]
[via: Joystiq]
PS2 and Wii rockers, never fear - MTV and Harmonix have announced Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1, a retail-distributed compilation of 20 additional tracks for the PS2 and Wii, including NIN, Stone Temple Pilots, and Boston.
Priced at a not-too-shabby $29.99 (cheaper than buying the songs a-la carte for 160 MP or $1.99), Track Pack Volume 1 will drop on July 15, just a few scant days after the June 22 release of Rock Band for Wii - Wii owners intending to pick up Rock Band might wait until July 15 and maybe even scout around for a bundle somewhere.
The track list:
- 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
- All American Rejects - Move Along
- Blink 182 - All the Small Things
- Boston - More Than a Feeling
- David Bowie - Moonage Daydream
- Faith No More - We Care A Lot
- Grateful Dead - Truckin'
- The Hives - Die, All Right!
- KISS - Calling Dr. Love
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme' Three Steps
- Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs
- Oasis - Live Forever
- Paramore - Crushcrushcrush
- The Police - Synchronicity II
- Queens of the Stone Age - Little Sister
- Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy
- Smashing Pumpkins - Siva
- Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
- Weezer - Buddy Holly
- Wolfmother - Joker & the Thief
MTV, Harmonix Announce Rock Band Track Pack For PS2, Wii [Gamasutra]
This week's downloadable Rock Band content is the Scene Pack, featuring three trendy modern bands. We continue the streak of master tracks as well, which is fantastic.
"This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race" by Fallout Boy (master)
"Date With The Night" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs (master)
"It Hurts" by Angels & Airwaves (master)
Each song is of course the standard $1.99/160 Points, or available as the Scene Pack for $5.49/440 points. You'll be able to download these songs Tuesday for Xbox and Thursday for Playstation 3.
DLC Week of May 6th [RockBand.com]
In all of the Mario Kart and GTA IV hullaballoo, a few games were bound to slip through the cracks, and one game that certainly doesn't deserve that fate is Square Enix's dual-screener The World Ends With You. Assuming you've bought it and love it (or had any time to play it at all), now you can show your support for the game by nabbing the soundtrack from the iTunes store.
At 36 tracks, it's a decent sized collection for $9.99, although you can also buy individual songs for $.99 each. All tracks are credited to the composer of the game, Takeharu Ishimoto, who's worked on a number of Square games since Legend of Mana and Vagrant Story, and most recently also composed this year's Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and the upcoming Final Fantasy Dissidia.
The World Ends With You (Original Sountrack + Bonus Track) [iTunes Store (link will open iTunes if it is installed on your computer)]
[via GoNintendo]
Because they're all singles! Get it? Huh? *taps microphone*
Fine, I'll move on.
This weeks selections are indeed singles, and will not be released as a song pack. You'll have to buy them individually. Here's the lineup.
The Mother Hips - Red Tandy
The Mother Hips - Time Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear
Smashing Pumpkins - Zero
All three songs are master tracks, and will be available for the usual $1.99/160 points on Tuesday for Xbox and Thursday for PS3.
DLC, week of April 29th - three singles [RockBand.com]
Whoda thunk it? Rock Band's first whole downloadable album will be a metal classic featuring a gay frontman: Judas Priest's Screaming for Vengeance will be available for download on April 22 for the Xbox 360 and April 24 for PS3.
Expect to see individual songs sell for $2, or snatch up the whole thing for $15.
For the very young or the uninitiated, the voice of Judas Priest, Rob Halford, outed himself in an MTV interview ten years ago, and revealed that the band had known his sexual orientation all along.
Thus, Screaming for Vengeance can be considered, with a wink or a nudge, to be a slammin' good gay metal album. Halford himself touted the virtues of cross-pollination in 2001 interview with USA Today:
I think it's just great to acknowledge that there are many gay heavy metal fans in the world, and I'm proud to know that they support and love the music as much as my other fans do. It proves that we are everywhere.
Rock on. Two more albums will quickly follow this one: The Cars' eponymous debut and The Pixies' Doolittle, in May and June respectively.
First Downloadable Rock Band Album: Judas Priest [Game | Life]
Well. This is interesting. We've already gotten DLC for Rock Band this week, but now we've got one more. Mötley Crüe's new single "Saints of Los Angeles". This marks the first time anyone has released a single through the game, (Def Lepoard is doing something similar with Guitar Hero next month). "Saints of Los Angeles" will be sold for 80 Microsoft points ($0.99) for a limited time, and is available today for Xbox 360 and Thursday for Playstation 3.
New Mötley Crüe single released through Rock Band! [RockBand.com]
We've got some really fun looking classic rock tracks for Rock Band this week. Blondie, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and The Police. All master tracks too!
You know... Skynyrd doesn't really fit here, they aren't all blond. Oh well. These tracks will be available Tuesday for the standard160 Microsoft points, and with any luck, the Playstation store for $1.99 assuming it comes back up on schedule. (along with the last few weeks DLC, as well)
DLC Week of 4/15 [RockBand.com]
You might recall some time back, Official Xbox Magazine got three exclusive tracks for Rock Band. Well they are being released this week as downloadable content!
You get the following Tracks:
Any way for more people to get Freezepop (pictured above) songs is good by me. Each song is only 80 Microsoft Points ($0.99) or you can get the whole pack for 240 points ($2.99). A reminder, the Playstation Store is getting a facelift, so no downloadable content will be available to PS3 players this week, but it will be available when they finish fixing everything.
DLC Week: April 8 [RockBand.com]
While it may not have taken the world by storm, precisely, Blue Dragon did have an admirable pedigree - not the least of which were producer Hironobu Sakaguchi and Dragon Ball Z designer Akira Toriyama. The game also boasted music by Final Fantasy songsmith Nobuo Uematsu, who gets some brownie points today as Sumthing Else Music Works presented the Blue Dragon Original Soundtrack, available from Sumthing Else digital download as well as iTunes.
I know a mess o' game soundtrack afficionados, having officially become one (I blame Super Timsy for giving me my first taste with the Locoroco soundtrack), and I'm sure some of you periwinkle dragoneers out there might enjoy this one.
And girls who like girls who like rumble packs!
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