Judas Priest Album DLC week of 4/22
We're proud to unleash our first full album upon the masses- Judas Priest's 1982 classic Screaming For Vengeance! All tracks will be available separately for $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points), or as a whole album for $14.99 (1200 Microsoft Points). Full press release here.
All the following tracks are by Judas Priest and are masters-
“The Hellion/Electric Eye”
“Riding on the Wind”
“Bloodstone”
“(Take These) Chains”
“Pain and Pleasure”
“Screaming for Vengeance”
“You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’”
“Fever”
“Devil’s Child”
This is awesome. Any other sweet albums coming?
We're also happy to announce two more albums that are in the pipeline and coming in the near future- The Cars album The Cars and the Pixies Doolittle.
What about Who's Next?
Stay tuned! We'll have updates on upcoming DLC soon, including The Who, as information becomes available.
To discuss this week's DLC please go here
For song credits please visit here.
And as always for awesome background history on our tracks written by our own in-house rock anthropologist, Brett Milano, please visit Rockband.com/Life.
Motley Crue NEw sing dlc april 15th!!!!!
On April 15th for Xbox 360 and April 17th for Playstation 3 , we will be releasing Mötley Crüe's new single “Saints of Los Angeles". This will make the Crüe the first ever band to release a single through our game. More info below.
“Saints of Los Angeles” by Mötley Crüe (master)
It will cost $0.99 (80 Microsoft Points) for a limited time.
For song credits please go here.
For more info about our DLC please visit rockband.com/life.
To discuss this DLC please visit visit here.
DLC for week of april 15th
This week's DLC for $1.99 per song (160 Microsoft Points) or these songs can also be bought in a 3-song Classic Rock pack for $5.49 (440 Microsoft points). PS3 Store should be back up on Thursday so these tracks should come out then as well along with the last two weeks of DLC that they've missed.
"Call Me" by Blondie (master)
"Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd (master)
"Message in Bottle" by the Police (master)
You can discuss the coming week's dlc here.
As always history on the DLC can be found at Rockband.com/Life
And DLC Credits can be found here
Dlc for week of april 8th
"Rock Rebellion" by Bang Camaro (master)
"Shake" by Count Zero (master)
"Super Sprode" by Freezepop (master)
Due to work Sony is doing on their store they won't be adding new material for a couple weeks so this won't release on PlayStation Store this week. When they go back up with new material in a few weeks, though, it will be there lovingly waiting for you. They will appear on Tuesday, April 8th, on Xbox 360.
Talk about this week's DLC here.
DLC credits available here.
Check Rockband.com/life for stories about each week's DLC.
DLC for week of 4/1/08 free!
This week we have a special present for you in celebration of April Fool's Day. For $0 (0 Microsoft Points) you can download-
"Still Alive" by GlaD0s and Jonathan Coulton (master)
Due to work Sony is doing on their store they won't be adding new material for a couple weeks so this won't release on PlayStation Store this week. When they go back up with new material in a few weeks, though, it will be there lovingly waiting for you. For free. I'll post something up here when it is available on that platform.
It will be available on Xbox360 on April 1st.
Also special thanks to Valve and to Jonathan Coulton for helping to make this happen. You rule.
Talk about this week's DLC here.
DLC credits available here.
Check Rockband.com/life for stories about each week's DLC.
DLC for week of 3/25 Boston pack!!!!
Mega-Ultra-Super Boston SIX (6) pack!! Those who know me know that I'm especially psyched for this announcement. Enjoy!
“More Than a Feeling” (Master)
“Peace of Mind” (Master)
“Smokin’” (Master)
“Rock & Roll Band” (Master)
“Something About You” (Master)
“Hitch a Ride” (Master)
Each song can be purchased individually for $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) or all 6 can be purchased as a pack for $9.99 (800 Microsoft Points). They will be available next week through the Xbox Live! Marketplace, and through Sony's PlayStation Store.
...but when we got up on stage and got ready to play, everybody listened."
On Tuesday: you can check here for DLC credits, and here for the DLC blog!
New update coming to rock band
This was posted in the rock band forums by HMXspraynwipe:
In this latest software update, you’ll find:
- (New!) Music Store: Rock Band now has a new feature that lets you preview and purchase songs from within the game! Accessible from the main menu, the Music Store lets you view, purchase and sort all available music based on various categories, view album art, listen to song previews, and check out extended information about the song like difficulty for each instrument.
- Revised Fan Caps: To allow Easy, Medium, and Hard players to progress further in the Band World Tour, we’ve increased the number of fans that you can earn before hitting the cap. Easy players can now travel across the Atlantic, Medium players have a wider range of venues they can play at, and Hard players on the Xbox 360 are now able to unlock the “One Million Fans” achievement.
- More diverse songs in Band World Tour: If you’ve ever cursed about having to play “Say it Ain’t So” or a Metallica track multiple times in the same hour, then you’ll be glad to know that we’ve tracked down and fixed the issues that triggered these very repetitive moments in Band World Tour.
- Improved phoneme recognition: We’ve improved the detection and scoring for phoneme recognition. If you had trouble on songs like “Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld” or “Blitzkrieg Bop”, you should have an easier time beating these songs now.
- Microphone Latency on PlayStation 3 improved: Our awesome team of audio programmers has found some optimizations that reduce microphone latency on the PlayStation 3 in certain situations.
- Xbox 360 Band Logos are now visible through Xbox LIVE: An issue with parental controls stopped band logos from being visible over Xbox LIVE. With this update, you can now view all of the awesome band logos that people around the world have created!
- Faster loading of downloadable content: Not only is the loading speed faster, but this information is now cached so that this loading time is a “once only” wait rather than something that happens every time you turn on the game.
Updating any game is something that takes a lot of effort to do – not only do engineers, artists, production and designers all have to be involved at some point, but each change has to go through a rigorous Quality Assurance pass to make sure that it doesn’t introduce any new issues (like corrupting old save data, for example). After we’re happy with the software update, we then pass it on to Microsoft and Sony, who each have their own rigorous testing and certification processes. The entire process can take months for a simple day’s worth of fixing!
Because of this, we’re very aware that there are features that the community has requested that aren’t addressed in this software update. I want to make it very clear that we’re listening to all of your requests, and actively want to get these features onto the Rock Band platform in the future – but when we do add them, we also want them to be 100% perfect, and not rushed just to make it into any specific software update.
Lastly, and most importantly, thanks for being an awesome community! There are changes in this software update that wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the well-reasoned and polite attitude that most of the members on rockband.com have, and I’m really proud not only of the work that we’ve put into Rock Band, but also of the work that HMXSean, HMXJohnlok, Apples, and the rest of the rockband.com team have put in to maintain this great place for Rock Band fans to hang out in.
Have fun!
-DanT
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Thrash pack Dlc week of 3/18
Next week for DLC we have the much awaited Earache Thrash Pack. All tracks are $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) or $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points) for the pack.
"Blinded By Fear" by At the Gates (master)
"Thrasher" by Evile (master)
"D.O.A." by The Haunted (master)
Credits available via the "DLC Credits" link at the bottom of the page.
On Tuesday check out rockband.com/life for stories and background on the tracks.
Dlc for the week of 3/11
All songs are $.99 (80 Microsoft Points).
"Shockwave" by Black Tide (Master)
"Crushcrushcrush" by Paramore (Master)
"Beethoven's C***" by Serj Tankian (Master)
Enjoy!
DLC credits will be made available here upon release.
Check back Tuesday at rockband.com/life for the DLC blog, too!
grateful dead dlc
The DLC for the week of March 4th is:
“China Cat Sunflower” (Master)
“Casey Jones” (Master)
“Sugar Magnolia” (Master)
“Truckin" (Master)
“Franklin’s Tower” (Master)
“I Need A Miracle” (Master)
All songs can be bought individually for $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) or the whole pack can be purchased for $9.99 (800 Microsoft Points).
Rock Band DLC Patches
A few songs we have released for DLC have been patched. The patches are live already on the 360, and go live on PS3 on the 28th. Online play/leaderboards/ranking are not affected by this. To get the updated DLC songs you can re-download them (directions at bottom of post). You won't be punished for not downloading them again, however, as the fixes have no effect on gameplay.
The following songs have incorrect genre tags which cause them to be lost when sort by genre in-game:
Title/Launch Date
“Can’t Stand Losing You” 20-Nov
“Roxanne” 20-Nov
“Synchronicity II” 20-Nov
“Police Pack 01” 020-Nov
“Brass in Pocket” 18-Dec
Also there was a bug where the vocals wouldn’t turn off when the user put them the whole way down but this has been fixed now! -
“Limelight” 1-Jan
How to re-download-
Xbox 360 Navigate to the System Blade ( purple ), select memory, all devices, games, Rock Band, search for any of the listed songs (right trigger is a page down ), select the song with the A button, and then select Delete.Now either re-download from marketplace, or from the download history.
PS3 The songs won't appear in the store if you've already downloaded them, so you will need to re-download them from your download list.