Neverending Rock Band DLC Thread

[Pheran]

Originally Posted by bearxor

Yeah, such sad news. I'm hoping that DLC is in more of a "holding pattern" for a X720 version of Rock Band vs. stopping completely.

Really wanted at least one Hootie song.

Sorry, the closest you can get to Hootie is Alright by Darius Rucker.

[bearxor]

Yeah. It's just not the same... *crying* IT'S JUST NOT THE SAME!

[Pheran]

Another Blitz week, so not much to see here except the pro upgrade for Give It Away. There's only one more Blitz week left after this one.

DLC Week of 3/1 - 3 Blitz Singles: Red Hot Chili Peppers (w/ Pro!), AAR, & Blink-182!

Hey gang,

On March 5th, tracks previously available as part of Rock Band Blitz will be made available for download as singles in the Rock Band Music Store! These tracks include All-American Rejects’ “Kids in the Street,” Blink-182’s “Always,” and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Give It Away.” An optional Pro Guitar and Pro Bass upgrade will be available for “Give It Away”!

Players can still pick up the controller-based arcade rhythm action of Rock Band Blitz on PlayStation®Network for $14.99 and Xbox LIVE Arcade for 1200 Microsoft Points™. Rock Band Blitz comes with the above songs, along with 23 more hit tracks, all fully compatible with a full band and instruments in Rock Band 3!

Available on Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation®3 system (March 5th, 2013):

• All-American Rejects – “Kids in the Street” O

• Blink-182 – “Always” O

• Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Give It Away” O X

(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system March 6th)

Price:

$1.99 USD, £1.19 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points ™, 200 Wii Points™) per song

$0.99 USD (80 Microsoft Points™, 100 Wii Points™), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade

Tracks marked with “O” feature support for keyboards; tracks marked with “X” will offer Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.

** Dates and Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

[bearxor]

Now that Harmonix has announced the end of DLC for Dance Central 3, I'm almost convinced that the DLC has stopped in anticipation of next gen console offerings and that the purchases aren't going to be transferable between the consoles. I bet we get Rock Band 4 and Dance Central 4 @ E3 with a fall launch.

[Pheran]

Originally Posted by bearxor

Now that Harmonix has announced the end of DLC for Dance Central 3, I'm almost convinced that the DLC has stopped in anticipation of next gen console offerings and that the purchases aren't going to be transferable between the consoles. I bet we get Rock Band 4 and Dance Central 4 @ E3 with a fall launch.

I wouldn't be surprised by Dance Central 4 for the new Kinect version, but RB4 is doubtful considering that HMX has said that no new RB titles are currently in development.

[chalmers]

Probably because nobody cares about that game style anymore.

[Pheran]

Two eighties hits up next week. Not bad but I would have preferred Africa as the Toto track.

EDIT: Sadly, Harmonix said that Toto was nearly a 3-pack but there was a problem with the licensing. Africa, Hold the Line and Rosanna together would have been awesome.

DLC Week of 3/8 - Oingo Boingo's "Weird Science" and Toto's "Rosanna"!

Hey gang,

On March 12th, American new wave band Oingo Boingo’s “Weird Science,” from the band’s fourth studio album, 1985’s Dead Man’s Party, will hit the Rock Band Music Store! Led by composer/vocalist Danny Elfman, Oingo Boingo wrote the track for the cult classic 1985 sci-fi comedy film of the same name.

Toto’s Grammy Award-winning single “Rosanna,” from the 1982 album Toto IV, will also be available! Both “Rosanna” and “Weird Science” will feature support for keyboards; an option Pro Guitar and Pro Bass upgrade will be available for “Weird Science” for an additional $0.99!

Available on Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation®3 system (March 12th, 2013):

• Oingo Boingo – “Weird Science” O X

• Toto – “Rosanna” O

(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system March 13th)

Price:

$1.99 USD, £1.19 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points ™, 200 Wii Points™) per song

$0.99 USD (80 Microsoft Points™, 100 Wii Points™), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade

Tracks marked with “O” feature support for keyboards; tracks marked with “X” will offer Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.

** Dates and Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

[Pheran]

This is the final week of Blitz repeats, thank goodness. There's a new pro upgrade for Jungle Boogie. After this, 2 weeks of new content, but one of those is only 1 song.

DLC Week of 3/19 - Last Blitz Singles: Kool & The Gang, Shinedown, & Tears For Fears!

Hey gang,

On March 19th, tracks previously available as part of Rock Band Blitz will be made available for download as singles in the Rock Band Music Store! These tracks include Kool & The Gang’s “Jungle Boogie,” Shinedown’s “Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay),” and Tears For Fears’ “Shout.” An optional Pro Guitar and Pro Bass upgrade will be available for “Jungle Boogie”!

Players can still pick up the controller-based arcade rhythm action of Rock Band Blitz on PlayStation®Network for $14.99 and Xbox LIVE Arcade for 1200 Microsoft Points™. Rock Band Blitz comes with the above songs, along with 22 more hit tracks, all fully compatible with a full band and instruments in Rock Band 3!

Available on Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation®3 system (March 19th, 2013):

• Kool & the Gang – “Jungle Boogie” O X

• Shinedown – “Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)” O

• Tears For Fears – “Shout” O

(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system March 19th)

Price:

$1.99 USD, £1.19 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points ™, 200 Wii Points™) per song

$0.99 USD (80 Microsoft Points™, 100 Wii Points™), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade

Tracks marked with “O” feature support for keyboards; tracks marked with “X” will offer Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.

** Dates and Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

[Pheran]

OK guys, this is it. Not only do I have next week's final pack for you (Chevelle), but also the final song being released on 4/2 is confirmed as American Pie by Don McLean. If it wasn't the last song I'd be happy to say I called it.

I will still post the official last announcement next week, but this pretty much wraps it up.

DLC Week of 3/26 - 3 Pack from Chevellle!

Hey gang,

With over four million albums sold in the United States alone, American rock band Chevelle will make their debut on the Rock Band Music Store on March 26th!

Two tracks from their second record, 2002’s Wonder What’s Next, kicks off “Chevelle Pack 01.” The second single from the album, “Send the Pain Below” peaked at number one on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks. “The Red,” the lead single from Wonder What’s Next, peaked at an impressive number four on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks. Finally, the first single from the band’s sixth studio album, Hats Off to the Bull, “Face to the Floor,” will round out the three-pack.

Additionally, an optional Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansion will be available for “The Red” for $0.99.

Available on Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation®3 system (March 26th, 2013)

• Chevelle – “Send the Pain Below”

• Chevelle – “The Red” X

• Chevelle – “Face to the Floor”

(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system March 27th)

Price:

$5.49, £3.19 UK, €3.99 EU (440 Microsoft Points™, 550 Wii Points™) for the “Chevelle Pack 01”

$1.99 USD, £1.19 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points ™, 200 Wii Points™) per song

$0.99 USD (80 Microsoft Points™, 100 Wii Points™), £0.59 UK, €0.79 EU per song for eligible Pro Guitar/Pro Bass upgrade

Tracks marked with “X” will offer Pro Guitar and Pro Bass expansions for $0.99 per song.

** Dates and Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

[Pheran]

Well, this is it, the final official DLC release. It's nice that it went out on such a classic song. So long and thanks for all the fish!

DLC Week of 4/2 - End of a 281 Week DLC Streak - Don McLean's "American Pie"!

DON MCLEAN’S “AMERICAN PIE” COMES TO ROCK BAND! RELEASE MARKS THE END OF NEW WEEKLY ROCK BAND DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT AFTER 281 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS OF RELEASES!

Cambridge, Mass. – March 29th, 2013 – Harmonix today announced that Don McLean’s “American Pie” is headed to the Rock Band™ Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™.

The Rock Band catalog includes the deepest and best selection of artists, songs and albums, featuring more than 1,400 artists and more than 4,000* tracks via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at www.rockband.com/songs). Rock Band’s gigantic music library has grown over the past 5+ years through an unbelievable streak of weekly DLC releases that dwarfs that of any other video game on the market in terms of sheer pieces of content. Recently Harmonix confirmed that more than 130 million songs have been sold through the Rock Band Music Store since its launch on Nov. 20, 2007.

Tracks downloaded from the Rock Band Music Store are compatible with the award-winning full-band Rock Band 3 experience, as well as the controller-based rhythm-action title, Rock Band Blitz, available now on PlayStation®Network and Xbox LIVE® Arcade!

Though this marks the end of new weekly DLC releases, Harmonix plans to continue support for the thousands of active Rock Band fans through ongoing Rock Band Network releases, server support and back-catalog promotions. Rock and Roll never dies, and Rock Band will keep rocking for years to come.


Rock Band DLC Additions for Xbox 360, PlayStation®3 system and Wii™

On April 2nd, singer-songwriter Don McLean’s signature hit, “American Pie,” comes to the Rock Band Music Store. From McLean’s 1971 album of the same name, this legendary folk-rock track spent four weeks as a number one song on U.S. Billboard’s Hot 100!

The release of “American Pie” marks the end of a 281 consecutive week run of weekly releases of new music content, resulting in an amazing catalog of more than 4,000 playable tracks from music’s biggest artists! Harmonix is proud to release this song as our finale to a 5 year labor of love.


Available on Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation®3 system (April 2nd):

• Don McLean – “American Pie” O

(These tracks will be available in Europe on PlayStation®3 system April 3rd)

Price:

$1.99 USD, £1.19 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points ™, 200 Wii Points™) per song

Tracks marked with “O” feature support for keyboards.

** Dates and Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change. **

[Termie]

Didn't someone guess it was going to be American Pie? I'm definitely picking that up.

Thanks for putting this thread together, Pheran. It was a fun trip.

Rock Band revolutionized gaming in so many ways, bringing 50 years of music tracks from every genre together to be experienced in a new, interactive way. I'll be playing it as long as my plastic instruments hold out, which, based on the condition of my drums and guitar, will not be as long as this music has stayed great!

[KentState]

So sad.