Rock Band DLC 9/8
Here’s the weekly update on what you’ll be able to download for Rock Band next week:
Tracks available on Xbox 360 (Sept. 8th) and PLAYSTATION 3 system (Sept. 10th):
- Freezepop – “Get Ready 2 Rokk” *
- Freezepop – “Less Talk More Rokk” *
- Freezepop – “Science Genius Girl” *
- Jonathan Coulton – “Re: Your Brains” *
- MC Frontalot – “Origin of Species” *
- Paul & Storm – “Opening Band” *
- 3 Doors Down – “Kryptonite”
- AFI – “Miss Murder”
- Audioslave – “Gasoline”
- Jackson 5 – “ABC”
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Rock Band Bar Nights
I’ve heard rumblings about this for a while now, but it looks like it’s official: Harmonix is bringing Rock Band to pubs and bars. They’re calling it—wait for it—Rock Band Bar Nights. Maybe it’s not the most compelling branding, but it does have a sort of Soviet industrial efficiency to it. And come on, this is from a developer who called their rock band simulation game “Rock Band” (possibly because “Music Game” wasn’t able to be trademarked?).
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No, no, no… I kid the Rock Band. I’m only miffed because I’d been thinking about buying a PA and a projector and trying to do something similar myself. I think it’s an amazing idea and long overdue. There are going to be over a thousand songs available for the game by the end of the year, so there’s no shortage of content. Gamers who have honed their skills in their living room can come on out and show off their mad rocking skills to an audience that will actually appreciate them. And it should help the DJ (RBJ?) run through the list of sign-ups four times faster than a traditional karaoke joint.
It also has the capacity to be four times as brutal to the listener if a band of drunks fumbles their way through the song… unless No Fail mode is turned off. Then, instead of listening to some dude slur his way through “Baby Got Back,” the entire band fails out thirty seconds into the song, to howls of delight from the crowd. Of course, this infringes on my jointly held patent for Gong Show Karaoke (© Leaf Standard and Bryan Stratton), but I’m willing to let that slide, because I’m lazy and would rather let someone else do all of the hard work.
Rock Band DLC 9/1
More Rock Band DLC awesomeness on tap for next Tuesday:
- Avenged Sevenfold – “Bat Country”
- The Jam – “A Town Called Malice”
- The Jam – “Going Underground”
- Oasis – “Supersonic” (Live)
- Rage Against the Machine – “Guerilla Radio”
- Talking Heads – “And She Was”
- Talking Heads – “Crosseyed & Painless”
- Talking Heads – “Girlfriend is Better”
- Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”
- Talking Heads – “Take Me to the River”
image © Bryan Stratton
Rock Band DLC 8/25
Next Tuesday’s list of downloadable content for Rock Band is a good one:
Tracks available on Xbox 360 (Aug. 25) and PLAYSTATION 3 system (Aug. 27):
• Billy Idol – “Mony Mony”
• Billy Idol – “Rebel Yell”
• Fleetwood Mac – “Don’t Stop”
• Fleetwood Mac – “World Turning”
• Jet – “She’s a Genius”
• Tom Petty – “I Won’t Back Down”
• Tom Petty – “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
image © Bryan Stratton
Your Daily Dose of Fab
A few Beatles bits of note, in anticipation of 09.09.09:
- The Beatles: Rock Band “Ticket to Ride” video, set in Shea Stadium, is up on thebeatlesrockband.com.
- While you’re there, check out gameplay trailer #3, featuring “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Drive My Car,” “Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds,” “Dear Prudence,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” “Helter Skelter” (which promises to tear my voice up worse than “Ace of Spades” ever did), “Come Together” and “Don’t Let Me Down.”
- And I thought I’d seen this confirmed elsewhere a while ago, but Gizmodo reports that there will be stereo and mono versions of the complete Beatles catalog boxed sets. If you don’t know why getting the Beatles stuff in mono is a big deal, they also have a great article that explains exactly why.
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