This update of the greatest Rock Band tribute station, gets us up to date with all regular DLC through May 25, 2010. With this latest installment, we get a blistering load of metal, including Pantera’s Great Southern Trendkill album, Judas Priest’s British Steel Live Album, Deftones, P.O.D., plus more Grateful Dead, The Smithereens, and a few others.

Please tell all your music and Rock Band friends about the blog and our Rock Band Station.

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It’s rapid fire update time for our custom Slacker Radio Rock Band station. This is the second update this week, getting us into the DLC  for May.

INCLUDES ALL SONGS THRU 5/4/10.
NEW:
Serj Tankian x2
Smash Mouth – “All-Star”
The Used x3
Coheed and Cambria x3
Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Peek-a-Boo”
Supergrass – “Sun Hits the Sky”
Violent Femmes – “American Music”
Flyleaf – “Again”
Silverchair – “Tomorrow”
Busted – “Thunderbirds Are Go!”
No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom: The Deep Cuts
Orianthi – “According to You”

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It’s been three months since I updated our custom Slacker Radio Rock Band station. Does anyone other than me care? Not sure. Well anyway, I’ve added about 30 songs today catching us up to the second week of April.

INCLUDES ALL SONGS THRU 4/13/10.
NEW:
3 Doors Down – “It’s Not My Time”
Mute Math – “Control”
The Subways x2
X x4
Ace Frehley – “Outer Space”
Carrie Underwood – “All-American Girl”
OneRepublic – “Stop & Stare”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold as Love (album)
Anberlin – “Feel Good Drag”
Hawk Nelson – “Live Life Loud”
Skillet – “Monster”
Superchick – “Stand in the Rain”
Switchfoot – “Meant to Live”
Thousand Foot Krutch – “Fire It Up”

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Let’s start right up front, this comes direct from the Kodak Zi8 owned and manned by our virtual BFF, RockBandAide. This 26 minute (yes, I said 26) video gives us way more than we bargained for.

I won’t spoil it all for you, but expect to see the likely opening cinematic from Rock Band 3.  Also, get ready for a live Rock Band 3 demo of Power of Love with 7 (yes 7) simultaneous players.  Seven players on one system is quite mind blowing to me. You’ll also see the new filtering system to help you get through the nearly 2,000 songs in the Rock Band library.  Of course, you will see lot’s of Pro mode with the new Pro guitars.  There’s more.

Just grab a beverage of choice, fire up the embedded video below, and enjoy the next 26 minutes of your life…

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It’s the re-return of THIS WEEK IN ROCK BAND! Life has been busy, the blog has been suffering. Thanks to Simon for keeping up with some posts. Due to too much Rock Band news right now, I need to do a TWIRB. Green Day demo is live, Lost fans get some Drive Shaft, Pantera will ruin us all. So, here goes THIS WEEK IN ROCK BAND!

Green Day: Rock Band Demo on Xbox Live

While checking my Twitter updates this morning I stumbled on the Xbox Live Marketplace account which mentioned, Green Day: Rock Band Demo.  So, I dug into it to find as of today the is a two song demo of the game available right now to Xbox Live Gold members.  It’s about 300MB, so it’s relatively small.

I have queued up the download and will be checking it out whenever I get out of work tonight.

If you have an Xbox Live Gold account, you can queue up the demo here.

If you haven’t pre-ordered the game, Amazon is now (finally) offering release day shipping, plus $20 off your next game and $5 of Amazon MP3s.  Pretty sweet deal! It’s the best deal there is. Pre-order Green Day: Rock Band for Xbox 360, PS3, or Wii here.

Pantera is now on Rock Band

Read Simon’s post from last week about the Pantera announcement, for all the details.  From my point of view, Pantera was one of the most influential bands of my teens and twenties. I was a drummer and singer in various bands, and most all would at some point use a Pantera song to warm up during practices. I had seen the band live many times, and shed a tear the morning after Dimebag Daryl was killed.

As of today, Pantera’s final great album (IMO) is available for Rock Band. I could only be happier, if Harmonix and Pantera would release their three preceding albums too. So, if you are like me, get this album now, and I will see you on Xbox Live tonight to sweat and scream the intensity of The Great Southern Trendkill.

It’s Dharma Time

Lost fans, stop crying and get ready to rock! Charlie Pace’s band Drive Shaft showed up in the Rock Band Network yesterday with their fictional hit, You All Everybody. Yes, I picked it up last night for a measly 80 MS Points ($1).  Yes, I played as Charlie on expert bass. Yes, I took heroine. Yes, I was a real rock star for a few minutes (in my living room by myself). Yes, it was well worth it.

If you are craving some more Lost in your life, or just want to add another cheap song to your Rock Band library, here’s the link to queue up You All Everybody.

With that, what’s NWIRB?  NEXT WEEK IN ROCK BAND!

• More Green Day: Rock Band announcements as we lead up to June 8.
• We wait in anticipation of the June 15 announcement of Rock Band 3 at E3.

Amazon has started a pre-order deal for Green Day: Rock Band.  Pre-order either the Standard Edition or Plus Edition of the game, and get a $10 credit to a future video game purchase.  Ten bucks is ten bucks.  If you order the Standard Edition, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 users will be able to export all the Green Day: Rock Band songs to your hard drive for play within Rock Band 1, 2, and 3.  The export will cost you $10.  This Amazon deal (in a sense) will cover the cost of your export.

On another note, as of right now, Amazon has the Standard Edition currently on sale at $57.99 [$48.99 for Wii] ($2 off retail price).

So, get to this link now and save a total of $12 when pre-ordering Green Day: Rock Band.

Green Day Rock Band

At precisely midnight (last night) the Rock Band Facebook page dropped the 2nd trailer for Green Day Rock Band.

Here’s the initial post I found from the Rock Band forums:

Rock Band Facebook Exclusive! The WORLD PREMIERE of the new trailer from Green Day: Rock Band will debut on the Rock Band Facebook page tonight at midnight!

It features 21st Century Breakdown, Holiday, and She.  We also get images of Green Day in their earlier years.

And now, here’s the trailer…

Our friends over at RockBandAide (via Entertainment Weekly), shared with us on Friday the entire Green Day Rock Band set list. For me, this is great news.  I will cut to the chase and let you know, all of Dookie and American Idiot are on the disc, plus all the remaining tracks from 21st Century Breakdown.  Why is this exciting to me?  I own (and love) only 4 Green Day CD’s.  The 3 previously mentioned, plus Insomniac.  For me, this Green Day set list really could not have gotten any better.  Also, there are a few scattered tracks from the other albums, though nothing form Kerplunk.  To be honest, anything pre-Dookie never did much for me anyway.

Chris Foster, Green Day Project Lead, on the game (from Entertainment Weekly):

The key to putting it together ended up being [2004's] American Idiot.  They’re doing a musical based on the album, which is a story that goes from start to finish. We didn’t want to pick and choose songs from that. So we made the call for the first time in one of our games to have the full album on disc. Then we were like, well, [2009's] 21st Century Breakdown is also meant to be heard that way… So that gave us a second album. And then Alex Rigopulos, our CEO, heard about that, and he was like, ‘Why the hell aren’t you putting Dookie on there?’ To which we were like, ‘Uh, yes sir!’ It was a no-brainer.

Also, EW notes that the game uses three distinct virtual venues to represent different eras of Green Day’s career. American Idiot is set at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England, where the band’s live DVD Bullet in a Bible was recorded. 21st Century Breakdown gets the Fox Theater in the band’s home territory of Oakland, California, where they played a memorable gig last spring. At the band’s suggestion, Harmonix created a fictional hole in the wall called The Warehouse for Dookie, as a composite of the “house parties and squats” where they regularly jammed before making it big. OK, enough teasing… Check out the full track list for Green Day: Rock Band below.

The Warehouse

• Dookie (1994)
  • “Burnout”
  • “Having a Blast”
  • “Chump”
  • “Longview”
  • “Welcome to Paradise”
  • “Pulling Teeth”
  • “Basket Case”
  • “She”
  • “Sassafrass Roots”
  • “When I Come Around”
  • “Coming Clean”
  • “Emenius Sleepus”
  • “In the End”
  • “F.O.D.”

Milton Keynes

• American Idiot (2004)
  • “American Idiot”
  • “Jesus of Suburbia”
  • “Holiday”
  • “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
  • “Are We the Waiting”
  • “St. Jimmy”
  • “Give Me Novacaine”
  • “She’s a Rebel”
  • “Extraordinary Girl”
  • “Letterbomb”
  • “Wake Me Up When September Ends”
  • “Homecoming”
  • “Whatsername”
• Warning (2000)
  • “Minority”
  • “Warning”
• Nimrod (1997)
  • “Hitchin’ a Ride”
  • “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”
  • “Nice Guys Finish Last”
• Insomniac (1995)
  • “Brain Stew”
  • “Jaded”
  • “Geek Stink Breath”

Fox Theater, Oakland

• 21st Century Breakdown(2009)
  • “Song of the Century”
  • “21st Century Breakdown”
  • “Before the Lobotomy”
  • “Last Night on Earth”
  • “Peacemaker”
  • “Murder City”
  • “¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl)”
  • “Restless Heart Syndrome”
  • “Horseshoes and Handgrenades”
  • “The Static Age”
  • “American Eulogy”
  • “See the Light”
• Downloadable Content (not included)
  • “21 Guns” (160 MSP)*
  • “Know Your Enemy” (160 MSP)*
  • “East Jesus Nowhere” (160 MSP)*
  • “Last of the American Girls” (160 MSP)**
  • “¡Viva La Gloria!” (160 MSP)**
  • “Christian’s Inferno” (160 MSP)**

* Also available as part of Green Day Track Pack 001 (440 MSP)

** Also available as part of Green Day Track Pack 002 (440 MSP)

Take a look  at some of our favorite HMXers as they give is an exclusive demonstration on how NOT to fail Brain Stew / Jaded from the upcoming Green Day: Rock Band.  This comes direct from the Harmonix Lounge at PAX East 2010.

In this 6 minute and 30 second video, you get to witness an intro by John Drake (@johntdrake), plus the vocal styling of Kyle Mercury (@dropslash) and Chris Foster of Harmonix.  Chris got to hang out with Green Day the previous day in New York. (side note: We all need to thank Chris for his contributions on the Rock Band franchise.)  You also get a peek at the MC of the event, none other than Eric Pope (@MrPope) at the end.

Drake gives us some background on the Harmonix team failing out on the song at GDC, which found it’s way on to YouTube.  Also, the background to the song is set to the “American Idiot tour”, says Drake.  Listen to the crowd chanting, it sounds as if this song for Rock Band may be a take from the Bullet In A Bible soundtrack, or a recreation.

Wow! RBN, Lady GaGa, Green Day, and a lot more.  It’s been an insane week for Rock Band music. I’ve updated the Slacker Rock Band station, and 51 new songs have been added to the station within the past 7 days. Enjoy! Please let me know in comments if you are enjoying this station.

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Here’s the entire list for the week:

1. Dear and the Headlights – Talk About
2. Despised Icon – Day of Mourning
3. Fake Shark-Real Zombie! – Angel Lust
4. Fake Shark-Real Zombie! – Horses in Heaven
5. Fake Shark-Real Zombie! – Running for the Razors
6. Fake Shark-Real Zombie! – Sestri Levante
7. Five Finger Death Punch – Burn it Down
8. Flogging Molly – Drunken Lullabies (Live)
9. Flogging Molly – Requiem for a Dying Song.
10. In This Moment – Mechanical Love
11. Jonathan Coulton – Creepy Doll
12. Jonathan Coulton – Ikea
13. Jonathan Coulton – The Future Soon
14. KMFDM – A Drug Against War
15. KMFDM – Juke Joint Jezebel
16. Lacuna Coil – Survive
17. Longwave – No Direction
18. Marillion – Whatever Is Wrong With You
19. of Montreal – Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
20. Senses Fail – Lady in a Blue Dress
21. Skeletonwitch – Crushed Beyond Dust
22. Skindred – Stand for Something
23. Steve Vai – For the Love of God
24. Steve Vai – Get the Hell Out of Here
25. Steve Vai – The Attitude Song
26. Stroke 9 – Kick Some Ass
27. Stroke 9 – Little Black Backpack
28. Suicide Silence – Disengage
29. The Hold Steady – Sequestered in Memphis
30. The Shins – Australia
31. The Slip – Children of December
32. The Slip – Even Rats
33. Bang Camaro – Push Push (Lady Lightning)
34. Cetan Clawson and the Soul Side – White Heat
35. Jonathan Coulton – Code Monkey
36. Winds of Plague – Approach the Podium
37. The Shins – So Says I
38. Flight of the Conchords – Demon Woman
39. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
40. Lady Gaga – Just Dance
41. Lady Gaga – Monster
42. Lady Gaga – Poker Face
43. Attack Attack! – Stick Stickly
44. Between the Buried and Me – Mordecai
45. Flight of the Conchords – The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)
46. Eulogies – Day to Day
47. Green Day – “Brain Stew”/”Jaded”
48. Green Day – Hitchin’ a Ride
49. Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends
50. Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
51. Green Day – American Idiot