Games
Kings of Leon and Rancid coming to Rock Band DLC
By Eli Green July 17, 2009 - 14:40
Harmonix
and MTV Games announced today that next week's Rock Band
downloadable content update will introduce indie rock group Kings of
Leon and punk rock legends Rancid to the music/rhythm game's
ever-growing music library. A new three song Rise Against track pack
and a single song from Lush will also be made available for the Xbox
360 and Playstation 3 versions. Additionally, the Wii Rock
Band Music Store will get new
tracks from No Doubt, Judas Priest, The Dead Weather and other bands,
while the PSP version, Rock Band Unplugged,
will be getting tracks from The Grateful Dead and Thin Lizzy.
Xbox
360 and Playstation 3
The
Rock Band Music Store
will be adding three song track packs from Kings of Leon, Rancid and
Rise Against, on July 21st
for Xbox 360 and July 23rd
for Playstation 3. The Kings of Leon track pack will include
Crawl and Sex on
Fire, from their 2008 album,
Only by the Night, and
Molly's Chambers, from
their 2003 debut album, Youth and Young Manhood.
The Rancid track pack will include Ruby Soho and
Time Bomb, from their
1994 album, ...And Out Come The Wolves,
and a new track from their latest studio album, Let the
Dominoes Fall, called Last
One to Die. The new Rise Against
track pack will include Re-Education (Through Labor)
and Savior, from their
latest studio album, Appeal to Reason,
and Prayer of the Refugee,
from their 2006 album, The Sufferer and the Witness.
Finally, Lush's Sweetness & Light
will also be added.
All
of the tracks will be available for download individually, for
$1.99/160 Microsoft Points each, while the three track packs will be
available for $5.49/440 Microsoft Points. All of the tracks are
original master recordings.
Wii
The
Wii Rock Band Music
Store will be getting a bunch of new tracks on the 21st,
bringing the total number of tracks available for download for the
Wii version to over 400. The tracks, all available individually are:
Big
Dipper - All Going Out Together
–
100 Wii Points
The
Dead Weather - Hang You
From the Heavens–
200 Wii Points
The
Dead Weather - No Hassle
Night–
200 Wii Points
The
Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother –
200 Wii Points
Jethro
Tull - Hymn 43 –
200 Wii Points
Naked
Brothers - Body I Occupy–
100 Wii Points
Naked
Brothers - I Don’t Want
To Go To School–
100 Wii Points
No
Doubt – Bathwater –
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - Don’t Speak –
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - Excuse Me Mr. –
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - Ex-Girlfriend–
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - Hella Good–
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - Hey Baby–
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - It’s My Life–
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - Just a Girl–
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - Running–
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - Simple Kind of Life –
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - Spiderwebs–
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - Sunday Morning –
200 Wii Points
No
Doubt - Underneath It All –
200 Wii Points
All
of these tracks are also original master recordings and can be
download to your Wii's system memory or an SD
memory card for additional storage. Tracks stored on an SD card
can be streamed directly off the SD card for seamless play.
Rock
Band Unplugged
The Grateful Dead's Casey
Jones and Thin Lizzy's The Boys Are Back In Town (Live)
will be available for download to PSP on July 23rd, at a
cost of $1.99 each.