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Harmonix EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag The Beatles: Rock Band gets a new holiday commercial 9 Every time that launch commercial for The Beatles: Rock Band makes an appearance, I'm always blown away by how fantastic it really is. I'm still not certain how the advertisement was crafted, al... Rock Band DLC: Tom Petty, Kelly freakin' Clarkson 30 I think what most pleases me about the release of the "family friendly" LEGO Rock Band, it's that it opens up the platform to all kinds of pop nonsense we might not have ordinarily seen. By "nons... What Sgt. Pepper's looks like in The Beatles: Rock Band 7 In case you own The Beatles: Rock Band and for some reason don't know what Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sounds like, Harmonix, MTV Games, and Apple Corp. would like to remind you. That'... Rock Band DLC: AFI and The Bangles (Update) 15 If you thought that The Beatles: Rock Band downloadable content that was announced earlier today was the only time I'd be writing about Rock Band DLC today, you're wrong. Thank god, because serio... Sgt. Pepper's to hit The Beatles: Rock Band next week 17 Next week, the second full album by The Beatles will be available for download for The Beatles: Rock Band, Harmonix/MTV Games/Apple Corp. announced today.  The Beatles' 1967 record, Sgt. Pep... Here, have some random Spongebob Rock Band DLC 38 Last Friday, we passed along information about this week's Rock Band Music Store update, which included The White Stripes, Kasabian, and The Damned. Well, surprise -- there's more.  Today, t... Boston-based Main Drag bringing two albums to Rock Band 4 Boston-based The Main Drag -- whose song "Jagged Gorgeous Winter" appeared in Rock Band 2 -- has announced its intentions to make nearly every song they've ever recorded playable in Ro... Rock Band 3 will teach us to play for real, apparently 33 Speaking to the Chicago Tribune, Dhani Harrison has gone on the record to say that Rock Band 3 not only exists in some form, but that it's going to rock our worlds with hefty educational value. "... The Rock Band 2 SE bundle for $99? Consider it done 20 From now until January 1, you can get down with your economically conscious self thanks to a deal from Harmonix. Valid at most retailers where you would normally buy videogames from, the Rock Ban... Ten Minute Taste: LEGO Rock Band 18 Earlier today, I gave you a taste of Band Hero, and proceeded to bare my soul to the Internet as I tried to convince everyone (and myself) that it's okay to like Maroon 5 songs. How many band ga... LEGO Rock Band launch trailer is badical 7 Yes, I know “badical” isn’t technically a word, but that’s the term Nick Chester used to describe the opening cinematic to LEGO Rock Band, and I couldn’t think of a... Could The Who: Rock Band be on the cards? 25 Most of The Who's greatest songs -- or, the band's greatest songs that work well in a rhythm videogame for four distinct players -- have already appeared as downloadable content for Rock Band. So... Rock Band still not profitable for Viacom 20 It's hard to argue that Rock Band isn't a really, really big success. Just recently it was revealed that the latest edition of the game, Beatles: Rock Band, sold pretty darn well in its first mon... I played the Queen and Beatles RB DLC, and it was great 16 In case you weren’t aware, this is, unequivocally, the greatest week in the nearly two-year history of Rock Band downloadable content. Yes, I said it, and here’s why. Available today ... Preview: LEGO Rock Band 32 When Harmonix and Traveller’s Tales announced LEGO Rock Band back in April, the Internet went a bit crazy, charging that Harmonix had finally joined Activision among the ranks of the money-... Family-friendly Rock Band DLC playable in LEGO Rock Band 10 You know what’s awesome about Harmonix? They’re truly committed to the idea of Rock Band as a music platform. (Of course, that doesn’t include The Beatles: Rock Band, but I thin... LEGO Rock Band export won't be as cheap as RB1 (Update) 19 As we reported earlier, owners of the PS3 or 360 versions of LEGO Rock Band will be able to export most all of the game’s forty-plus songs to their hard drives so the tracks can be played i... LEGO Rock Band 100% exportable, track list exposed 22 LEGO Rock Band (check out our comprehensive preview), due out this holiday season, will offer over 40 songs. In keeping with Harmonix’s music platform ethos (and confirming an earlier rumor... Why yes, Rock Band is coming to iPhone/iPod Touch 4 So of course Rock Band is coming to the iPhone (and iPod Touch), right? This October, you can tap away on Apple's little touch-screen to 20 songs, with music from Blondie, the Smashing Pumpk... LEGO Rock Band 'value' priced at $49.99 for PS3, Wii, 360 25 Although it will be the second of two Rock Band-branded games available this holiday (the first being The Beatles: Rock Band), LEGO Rock Band won't rock your wallet as much as you might have... Rock Band DLC: Electric Six, Alanis, The Racontuers 20 The wait for the klezmer 8-pack continues, with next week's Rock Band Music Store selections featuring music from The Raconteurs, Alanis Morissette, Electric Six, and The Flobots. For your perusa... Rock Band DLC: Alice in Chains, Breaking Benjamin, more 27 Harmonix has sent over the list of what songs we can expect to hit the Rock Band Music Store next week. Breaking Benjamin will have a three-track pack to coincide with the release of their new al... Update to Rock Band 2 brings new features 14 If you've turned on your 360 to play some Rock Band 2 lately, you may have noticed a new update is available for download. The gang at Harmonix have cooked up some new features for the game and t... Flight of the Conchords coming to Rock Band 37 At the Emmy's this past week, the guys from the Flight of the Conchords let slip that they have a few songs coming to Rock Band. Today, Sub Pop Records, the label for Conchords, confirmed to Team... Upcoming Pearl Jam DLC for Rock Band priced 12 We already knew that Pearl Jam's upcoming album, Backspacer, is coming to rock band in its entirety. But Harmonix and MTV Games have officially announced it today, and after shouting "OLD!&q... Bill Wyman thinks Rock Band stops people playing music 62 Another day, another out-of-touch old rocker who thinks that games like Rock Band are stopping people from playing real instruments. This time around, it's the turn of former Rolling Stone Bill W... Review: The Beatles: Rock Band 127 As the ending credits rolled on The Beatles: Rock Band -- set to the sounds of actual, archived studio chatter from the Fab Four -- our Xbox 360 controller went into sleep mode. Yes, the credits ... Harmonix failed a lot before they started to win 18 There's an old adage out there that a penny saved is a penny earned. That adage has nothing to do with this story, but since we're all about to learn a life lesson from the founders of Harmonix I... Rock Band Bar Nights: The future of music gaming? 13 A few days ago, Harmonix and MTV Games announced its "Rock Band Bar Night" initiative, the goal to provide tools bar owners to host their own Rock Band nights around the United States. ... Rock Band Mobile? Yep, it's coming your way 14 I remember when I saw the previews for Rock Band Unplugged, I wasn't convinced a portable version of Rock Band was such a good idea. I had visions of people singing into thir PSPs in inappropriat... Rumor: LEGO Rock Band tracks exportable, DLC leak extravaganza 18 Wired's Chris Kohler has worked some magic, coercing from a high-level Harmonix source information that you're not supposed to know about the future of the Rock Band series... one day before Guit... One instrument songs for Rock Band Network? Go for it! 15 In the comments our Rock Band Network preview, Destructoid reader Xzyliac had an interesting question. "Do you know if Harmonix is requiring four tracks for every song?" ... Musicians who attack Rock Band 'miss the point' 60 Musicians angry over the existence of Guitar Hero and Rock Band often feel better about themselves by claiming that fans of the games should "learn to play a real instrument." However, ... Preview: Rock Band Network 26 Last month, Harmonix unveiled Rock Band Network, an upcoming service that will allow musicians to get their songs into Rock Band and actually make cold, hard cash by doing so. It’s a ground... Rock Band DLC: Tom Petty, Billy Idol, and more 21 Next week's Rock Band Store update finally brings Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" -- a song far better than "White Wedding" (yes, I said it) -- to the game. Additionally, Tom Petty ... Beatles: SingStar is bollocks, not happening 10 It was a weird rumor to begin with, and now MTV has come out of the woodwork to stamp out any further gossip concerning SingStar: Beatles. The bottom line is that MTV Games and Harmonix own The B... Harmonix reveal 19 more Beatles Rock Band tracks 17 Harmonix has been such a tease lately, revealing The Beatles: Rock Band tracks to us in concentrated doses. Well, wait no longer -- we now know every track that will be in the game except for one... Preview: The Beatles: Rock Band 40 The dog days of summer have arrived, which means that the September 9th release of The Beatles: Rock Band draws ever closer. Information about the game has been coming from a variety of sources; ... Yoko Ono could have broken up The Beatles Rock Band 25 Yoko Ono has long been blamed for pulling John Lennon away from The Beatles, bringing an end to the most popular musical act in generations. With The Beatles Rock Band set to reunite the four boy... Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper's albums coming to The Beatles game 20 Announced at E3, we already knew that the entirety of The Beatles' Abbey Road would be coming to The Beatles: Rock Band as downloadable content after the game's September 9 release. Today, i... Rock Band DLC: Next week Spinal Tap is gonna rock you next week 17 For those of you a bit disappointed by the Spinal Tap releases on the Rock Band Music Store a few weeks ago, this is for you. Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that a ton of Spinal Tap, inclu... HMX: 'Beatles: Rock Band is the Brian's Song of videogames' 14 While at MTV yesterday to see a near-final build of The Beatles: Rock Band, I asked Harmonix PR guru John Drake to elaborate on something I’d heard from community manager Sean Baptiste duri... Former America's Next Top model contestant eyes Rock Band Network 21 First thing this morning, I’m looking at the title of this press release and trying to figure out why I know the name – Sarah Vonderhaar. The release tells me that the “up-and-c... Preview: The Beatles: Rock Band (Vocal Trainer) 25 Vocal harmonies are something that many gamers have wanted to see in Rock Band since the franchise’s inception. So what better place is there to introduce the feature than in a game with th... Harmonix reveals 15 more The Beatles: Rock Band songs 31 We’ve known for a while that The Beatles: Rock Band will feature 45 of the legendary band’s songs on the game disc, but at E3, Harmonix -- those dirty, dirty teases -- chose to only t... User-generated content coming to Rock Band in a big way 40 Hey musicians, are you sitting down? MTV has announced a new initiative that will allow musicians to author and upload their own content to Rock Band, in a service called the Rock Band Network th... Rock Band DLC: Kings of Leon, Rancid, Rise Against, Lush 19 Looks like you won't need to wait until September to use your plastic instruments to rock out to Kings of Leon's "Sex on Fire," included in Guitar Hero 5. Harmonix and MTV have announce... Rock Band DLC update: The Dead Weather, Judas Priest 18 The Dead Weather is one of those “super groups.” Not like the Avengers, and not even like Savage Animal Damnocracy that VH1 forced upon Sebastian Bach and that one guy from Biohazard ... You're cheap: 'Still Alive' free on Rock Band Unplugged 13 The Rock Band Unplugged music store on the PlayStation Portable is updating today, bringing the total available tracks for download up to 19. While that pales into comparison to the 700-plus song... Could music games ditch consoles in the future? 17 Regardless of some analyst thinking, music games aren’t a “fad,” as there are still plenty of gamers willing to purchase new titles or new music via downloadable content for the... Rock Band DLC: Seriously, 'Hammer Smashed Face' OMG (update) 42 Okay, so since the release of the first Guitar Hero back in 2005, I've been saying, "Can we get some Cannibal Corpse up in this piece? Specifically, 'Hammer Smashed Face'?" I said it mo... Motley Crue, Dream Theater and more rock Rock Band Unplugged 8 Did you forget that your copy of Rock Band Unplugged had a Music Store? Harmonix and MTV Games didn’t! Today, it announced that four new tracks are available to download right now, for a $1... Rock Band DLC: Foreigner, more Vans Warped Tour stuff 9 Harmonix decided to pull the veil off of next week’s Rock Band downloadable content a bit early, revealing it in the latest issue of the digital Rock Band Community Zine. And here you go:Fo... More Pearl Jam tracks coming to Rock Band this week 10 That's some poofy hair Eddie Vedder is sporting up there. What's awesome is, I remember exactly when he was wearing his hair like that. That's one of the benefits of being old enough to remember ... Watch the Main Drag's first video, A Jagged Gorgeous Winter 19 Ok, before you guys start flaming me, I should get this out of the way: what you're about to read is only tangentially related to videogames. It is, however, very much related to Calvin and Hobbe... Brad Paisley's wrong, Rock Band can get you more than a date 25 During an acceptance speech at the Country Music Television awards earlier this week, Brad Paisley said some things. Some of those things were wrong, and we have proof. The Grammy Award-winning c... Full Rock Band Country Track Pack track listing revealed 22 In before “OMG, it’s called 'Rock' Band, not 'country' band LOLZ.” Say what you will, but the country music genre is one of the most popular in United States. And with that, mor... Review: Rock Band Unplugged 16 For the life of me, I’ll never understand why Harmonix’s Frequency and Amplitude weren’t commercial hits. The titles featured a solid and fun beat-matching mechanic, and were bo... OLD: Green Day track pack coming to Rock Band 36 We knew it. Really, we did. But now Harmonix and MTV Games (along with Warner Bros./Reprise) have announced that a Green Day track packs will be made available for Rock Band, starting on July 7. ... Harmonix not-so-subtly hints at Green Day in Rock Band 27 Regardless of your opinion of Green Day’s music, I think it’s safe to say that their songs (especially, say, Dookie-era stuff) would be pretty damn fun to play in Rock Band. 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