Fans of the popular English rock band Queen will be happy to hear that Harmonix is gearing up to add 10 of their songs to the Music Store for use with Rock Band.

The 10 songs that are coming, sometime towards the end of October, are listed below:

Another One Bites The Dust

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

One Vision

Fat Bottomed Girls

I Want It All

I Want to Break Free

Killer Queen

Somebody to Love

Tie Your Mother Down

Under Pressure

If you’re a fan of classic rock, this pack is sure to please you.

via Destructoid

Today we have learned of what will be coming with next week’s Rock Band Music Store update including tracks from both Alice in Chains and Breaking Benjamin. Below is the full list of tracks that will be available for Rock Band 2 on September 29th for the Wii and 360 and October 1st for the PS3:

·        Alice in Chains – “A Looking in View”
·        Alice in Chains – “Check My Brain”
·        Alice in Chains – “No Excuses”
·        Alice in Chains – “Rooster”
·        Alice in Chains – “Would?”
·        Breaking Benjamin – “I Will Not Bow”
·        Breaking Benjamin – “So Cold”
·        Breaking Benjamin – “The Diary of Jane”
·        Just Kait – “U Suck” *
·        Kula Shaker – “Hey Dude”
·        Kula Shaker – “Knight on the Town”

As for a price, well you’re looking at purchasing the whole thing as the Alice in Chains Pack 01 for $9.49/680 Microsoft points for the PS3 and 360 respectively or as single tracks for $1.99/160 Microsoft Points/200 Wii Points for the PS3/360/Wii respectively.

via destructoid

• Blink-182 “Down”
• Blink-182 “Feeling This”
• Blink-182 “The Rock Show”
• Damone “Out Here All Night”
• KISS “100,000 Years (Live)”
• KISS “Deuce (Live)”
• KISS “Parasite (Live)”
• Weezer “My Name is Jonas”
• Weezer “Pork and Beans”
• Weezer “Undone – The Sweater Song”

Make the jump for the Wii and PSP tracks.

The Wii will also be seeing some new DLC content, from bands such as Mötley Crüe, Rise Against, and my favorite band of all time, Children of Bodom.

• Kings of Leon “Crawl”
• Kings of Leon “Molly’s Chambers”
• Kings of Leon “Sex on Fire”
• Rancid “Last One to Die”
• Rancid “Ruby Soho”
• Rancid “Time Bomb”
• Rise Against “Prayer of the Refugee”
• Rise Against “Re-Education (Through Labor)”
• Rise Against “Savior”
• Lush “Sweetness & Light”
• Children of Bodom “Are You Dead Yet”
• Finley “Tutto è Possibile
• Mötley Crüe “Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)”
• Mötley Crüe “Dr. Feelgood”
• Mötley Crüe “Kickstart My Heart”
• Mötley Crüe “Rattlesnake Shake”
• Mötley Crüe “Same Ol’ Situation (S.O.S)”
• Mötley Crüe “She Goes Down”
• Mötley Crüe “Slice Of Your Pie”
• Mötley Crüe “Sticky Sweet”
• Mötley Crüe “Time For Change”
• Mötley Crüe “Without You”
• Platero y Tú “Hay Poco Rock & Roll”
• Squeeze “Tempted”
• Tokio Hotel “Ready, Set, Go!”

And who can forget about Rock Band: Unplugged, the PlayStation Portable port:

• James Gang “Funk #49”
• Alien Ant Farm “Smooth Criminal”

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This year’s San Diego Comic-Con has launched, and with it comes loads of trailers. Today we bring you a LEGO Rock Band teaser, complete with ridiculous puns like “Build Your Band”. No gameplay footage was available, so I still won’t be able to know if the frets are going to be LEGO blocks.

The details for the game are quite odd, giving players the ability to “destroy giant robots with killer riffs”. If you’re looking for a true Rock Band title, this probably won’t be your cup of tea; most of the tracks are geared for a younger audience.

LEGO Rock Band is scheduled for a November 30th release for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Nintendo DS.

A second trailer for the upcoming The Beatles: Rock Band has hit the web. The trailer doesn’t give much except for music, which is the main reason anyone would want to buy the game. A good few tracks are demonstrated, along with members of the band in Rock Band art style.

I am impressed with how they recreated some of the music videos. But I think I would rather have the actual video playing in the background instead of some 3D models.

The Beatles: Rock Band is scheduled for an international release on September 9th for the PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii systems.

The Rock Band Network will allow users to upload and price their own tracks which can then be downloaded by anyone with the game. Users are said to be able to price the tracks between 50 cents and $3 while getting 30% of the track sales.

This is great news for up and coming artists looking to reach a wider audience. But the question remains, will the Rock Band Network catch on like similar services or will it be met with lackluster interest? Only time will tell.

You can check out the service in more detail, here.

via Kotaku

Warped Tour Pack
A Day to Remember – "The Downfall of Us All"
Bad Religion – "21st Century Digital Boy"
Chiodos – "I didn’t Say I Was Powerful, I said I was a Wizard"
Escape the Fate – "The Flood"
Underoath – "Reinventing Your Exit"

Maroon 5 Pack
Maroon 5 – "Little of Your Time"
Maroon 5 – "Makes Me Wonder"
Maroon 5 – "Wake Up Call"

All the songs are original master recordings and will cost the usual $1.99 (160 MS points) apiece. The packs can be had for $8.49 (680 points) and $5.49 (440 points) for Warped Tour and Maroon 5, respectively.

Expect these to hit Xbox Live on Tuesday and PlayStation Network two days later.

If you’ve been looking to get your mobile Rock Band on today is your lucky day – Harmonix and MTV games have recently released a press releasing stating Rock Band Unplugged has hit North American shelves everywhere.

Priced at $39.99, Rock Band Unplugged will allow players the chance to rock through 41 different songs (with 9 of those available on the PSN) using the PSP.

Unfortunately (or maybe I should so fortunately?) there is no instrument peripheral that serves as a controller for the game; you’re going to be using the PSP’s built in controls for this one.

If soda drinking isn’t your cup of tea, you can always enter the video contest and make your own Rock Band music video for a chance at an MTV Video Music Award Moonman. More details about the sweepstakes can be found on the official website.

via GameSpot

Does your PSP still work? Do you know where it is? OK good because Harmonix has recently announced the entire song list set to appear in their upcoming PSP title Rock Band Unplugged. 50 songs spanning from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s are all included in the list which is viewable after the break.

Harmonix also went ahead and announced that there will be an additional 10 songs made available for download right when the game ships.

Rock Bang unplugged will hit store shelves on June 9th for $39.99. Will this be enough to make gamers blow the dust off the PSP and forgive it for its poor library of games? Probably not, but this game will most likely keep you occupied on the bus, or train, or anywhere else.

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2000s

* AFI – “Miss Murder” *
* All-American Rejects – “Move Along”
* Audioslave – “Gasoline” *
* Black Tide -”Show Me the Way” *
* Freezepop – “Less Talk More Rokk” *
* Jimmy Eat World – “The Middle” The
* Killers – “Mr. Brightside”
* Lacuna Coil – “Our Truth”
* Lamb of God – “Laid to Rest”
* Modest Mouse – “Float On”
* Queens of the Stone Age – “3’s and 7’s”
* System of a Down – “Chop Suey!”
* Tenacious D – “Rock Your Socks” *

1990s

* 3 Doors Down – “Kryptonite” *
* Alice in Chains – “Would?” *
* Blink 182 – “What’s My Age Again” *
* Foo Fighters – “Everlong”
* Judas Priest – “Painkiller”
* Lit – “My Own Worst Enemy”
* Lush – “De-Luxe”
* Mighty Mighty Bosstones – “Where’d You Go?”
* Nine Inch Nails – “The Perfect Drug”
* Nirvana – “Drain You”
* The Offspring – “Come Out and Play (Keep ‘em Separated)”
* Pearl Jam – “Alive”
* Smashing Pumpkins – “Today”
* Social Distortion – “I Was Wrong”
* Soundgarden – “Spoonman”
* Weezer – “Buddy Holly”

1980s

* Billy Idol – “White Wedding Part 1″
* Bon Jovi – “Livin’ on a Prayer”
* Dead Kennedys – “Holiday in Cambodia”
* Motörhead – “Ace of Spades”
* The Police – “Message in a Bottle”
* Siouxsie & the Banshees – “The Killing Jar”

1970s

* Boston – “More Than a Feeling”
* Jackson 5 – “ABC” *
* Jethro Tull – “Aqualung”
* Kansas – “Carry on Wayward Son”
* Rush – “The Trees”

1960s

* The Who – “Pinball Wizard”

DLC available upon launch

* 30 Seconds to Mars – “The Kill”
* Belly – “Feed the Tree”
* Disturbed – “Inside the Fire”
* Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Gimme Three Steps”
* Muse – “Hysteria”
* Mute Math – “Typical”
* No Doubt – “Just a Girl”
* Oasis – “Wonderwall”
* Paramore – “Crushcrushcrush”
* Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Under the Bridge”

There are three songs from Franz Ferdinand, two from The Allman Brothers Band and a classic from Alien Ant Farm, among others.

• Franz Ferdinand – "Take Me Out"
• Franz Ferdinand – "Do You Want To"
• Franz Ferdinand – "Lucid Dreams"
• Alien Ant Farm – "Smooth Criminal"
• The Allman Brothers Band – "Blue Sky"
• The Allman Brothers Band – "Midnight Rider"
• The Distillers – "Drain the Blood"
• Luscious Jackson – "Naked Eye"
• Prong – "Idealistic Types"
• Prong – "The Banishment"

As expected, Xbox 360 owners can expect it on Tuesday, while PS3 owners will have to wait till Thursday. Individual songs cost 160 Microsoft points ($2); the Ferdinand songs will be available in a three-pack bundle offering a 50 cent savings in the grand scheme of things.

The 10-track album will come with all songs except “Mountain Song”, which is already on the Rock Band 2 disc.

The album can be had for 1280 points ($16) or individual songs for 160 points ($2).

• "Up the Beach"
• "Ocean Size"
• "Had a Dad"
• "Ted, Just Admit It…"
• "Standing in the Shower… Thinking"
• "Summertime Rolls"
• "Idiots Rule"
• "Jane Says"
• "Thank You Boys"
• "Pig’s in Zen"

"It was a night of firsts and was the unexpected, unannounced world premiere of the images from the coming Beatle Rock Band game which played on vast screens throughout Got To Get You Into My Life," reads McCartney’s website.

Jump over to 1:30 in the video below for the first look at the game, which is due out on September 9 on PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii.

Thirteen of the album’s tracks will be released as DLC; the fourteenth song is already on the game’s disc.

The full album can be bought for 1600 Microsoft points ($20) or individual tracks for 160 points ($2).

• "Chinese Democracy"
• "Better"
• "Street of Dreams"
• "If the World"
• "There Was a Time"
• "Catcher in the Rye"
• "Scraped"
• "Riad n’ the Bedouins"
• "Sorry"
• "I.R.S."
• "Madagascar"
• "This I Love"
• "Prostitute"

Expect the songs to hit Xbox Live and Wii on April 14, followed by a PS3 release two days later.

The upcoming Rock Band variant for the PSP, Rock Band: Unplugged, will be hitting North American and European stores June 9th. MTV Networks also listed the tracks that will launch with the game that will not be available for other Rock Band titles until later via DLC. The tracks listed are:

• 3 Doors Down – “Kryptonite”
• AFI – “Miss Murder”
• Alice in Chains – “Would?”
• Audioslave – “Gasoline”
• Black Tide – “Show Me the Way”
• Blink 182 – “What’s My Age Again”
• Freezepop – “Less Talk More Rokk”
• Jackson 5 – “ABC”
• Tenacious D – “Rock Your Socks”

Additionally, the portable version will also take advantage of purchasing tracks online. SCEA also plans to release a bundle with a Rock Band branded PSP, which will include the game, a 4GB memory stick, and a voucher to download School of Rock.

The criminal in question – the attached slide – lists the game for release later this year. Apparently, the PDF was “sent for speech approval” and not the version that was actually showed during his GDC speech.

It appears that the game is scheduled for release sometime between the upcoming Beatles and the PSP Rock Band game.

Teasdale – you sure screwed up, man!

It was recently announced that the Microsoft manufactured wireless microphone that shipped with Lips will now get some love from both Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: Metallica.

This comes as news that Metallica will support the microphones out of the box and a patch due out this summer for Rock Band 2 that will add said support.

Seems like a perfect time to release a song list for Lips, huh? Microsoft did just that:

Available April 3:
Wish You Were Here – Incubus
Sugar, We’re Goin Down – Fall Out Boy
Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival

Available April 10:
Ne-Yo Song Pack – Closer, So Sick, and Hate That I Love You by Rihanna feat. Ne-Yo
Coldplay Song Pack – Speed Of Sound, The Scientist, and In My Place
Looking Out My Back Door – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Closer – Ne-Yo
So Sick – Ne-Yo

Available April 17:
Creedence Clearwater Revival Song Pack – Looking Out My Back Door, Bad Moon Rising and Who’ll Stop the Rain
Kryptonite – 3 Doors Down
All My Life – K-Ci & Jo Jo
Sing – Travis

Available April 27:
Love Today – Mika
Ocean Avenue – Yellowcard
Linger – The Cranberries

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Harmonix has recently revealed that Toby Keith won’t be the only artist making an appearence in this week’s Rock Band with three more songs were added to the mix.

Each song will run you $1.99/160 Microsoft Points when they hit the market:

Black Tide – “Warriors of Time”

Bullet For My Valentine – “Waking the Demon”

The Shins – “New Slang”       

I don’t know about you guys but this still doesn’t give me reason to dust off my Rock Band peripherals, maybe next week.

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The songs from the country rocker are as follows: "Beer for My Horses", "I Love This Bar", "She’s a Hottie", "Should’ve Been a Cowboy", "Who’s Your Daddy?" and "How Do You Like Me Now".

The classic anthems will hit Xbox 360 on April 7 and PS3 two days later. They can be bought for 160 points ($1.99) individually or as a bundle for 800 points ($10).

Harmonix also noted that Keith’s tunes are only a “sneak preview” of what’s coming next week, promising more details this Friday.

Two more songs join the list – “Geraldine” by Glasvegas and “C’mon C’mon” by Von Bondies. Finally, adding more awesomeness will be three Spongebob Squarepants songs: “I Can’t Keep My Eyes Off You”, “The Best Day Ever” and “Where’s Gary?”.

As usual, the songs are $1.99 each, with Spongebob songs going for 99 cents apiece.