Pearl Jam’s Backspacer coming to Rock Band

Harmonix and MTV Games will deliver Pearl Jam’s new album, Backspacer, to the Rock Band Music Store for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii right around the same time that the album is released at retail stores album hits store shelves Sept. 20, and will be added to the Rock Band Music Store for Xbox 360 on Sept. 20, for Wii on Sept. 22, and for PlayStation 3 on Sept 24.

Ten became available for download in the Rock Band Music Store day-and-date with the reissue of the album March 24, 2009, and has sold more than 850,000 song downloads to date. Pearl Jam is touring in promotion of the new album from August through October in the United States and Europe. Track list below:

Available on Xbox 360 (Sept. 20), Wii (Sept. 22) & PlayStation 3 (Sept. 24):

- “Gonna See My Friend”
- “Got Some”
- “The Fixer”
- “Johnny Guitar”
- “Just Breathe”
- “Amongst the Waves”
- “Unthought Known”
- “Supersonic”
- “Speed of Sound”
- “Force of Nature”
- “The End”

(All tracks are original master recordings)

These tracks will be available for purchase as “Backspacer (Album)” and as individual tracks on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 system and as individual tracks on Wii.

Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track
$17.99, £9.19 UK, €21.95 EU (1440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Backspacer (Album)”
$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track

This week’s Wii Rock Band tracks

Harmonix will release 16 tracks from Mission of Burma, Pearl Jam, The Offspring this week to the Wii Rock Band Music Store. Three songs each from Pearl Jam and Mission of Burma will be added this week, along with songs from The Offspring, Harvey Danger, Panic at the Disco,  and George Thorogood. Track list below:

Deep Purple - “Space Truckin’”
George Thorogood - “Bad to the Bone”
Harvey Danger - “Cream and Bastards Rise”
In This Moment - “Forever”
Lacuna Coil - “Closer”
Lacuna Coil - “Swamped”
Mission of Burma - “Mica”
Mission of Burma - “That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate”
Mission of Burma - “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver”
The Offspring - “Gone Away”
The Offspring - “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)”
Panic at the Disco - “She’s a Handsome Woman”
Pearl Jam - “Brother”
Pearl Jam - “Alive (Live: Drop in the Park)”
Pearl Jam - “State of Love and Trust (Live: Drop in the Park)”
Snow Patrol - “Take Back the City”

All tracks are original master recordings and cost $2.00 (200 Wii Points) per track.

This week in Rock Band: Pearl Jam and more

Harmonix and MTV Games today announced that three tracks from Pearl Jam will be added to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content next week for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Harmonix also announced that 16 tracks from Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, Dead Kennedys and more coming this week to the Rock Band Music Store Wii catalog.

Pearl Jam songs “Brother,” as well as live recordings of “Alive” and “State of Love and Trust,” from this year’s reissue of the band’s classic debut album, Ten, will be available this week in the Rock Band Music Store. The tracks will be available for purchase as part of the “Ten Bonus Pack” or as individual tracks for Xbox 360 and PS3.

Meanwhile, Wii Rock Band and Rock Band 2 owners will get some new tracks for various artists beginning June 23. All of the new tracks come from the back catalog of Rock Band music already released to owners of Xbox 360 and PS3.

Tracks:
The Cab - “One of THOSE Nights”
Dashboard Confessional - “Hands Down”
Dead Kennedys - “California Uber Alles”
Dead Kennedys - “Holiday in Cambodia”
Dead Kennedys - “Police Truck”
Free - “All Right Now”
Nine Inch Nails - “Burn”
Nine Inch Nails - “Capital G”
Nine Inch Nails - “Last”
Scars on Broadway - “They Say”
Staind - “This Is It”
Testament - “Electric Crown”
thenewno2 - “Yomp”+
Weezer - “Dreamin”
Weezer - “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived”
Weezer - “Troublemaker”

Pearl Jam’s Ten for Rock Band Next Week

Harmonix and MTV Games will bring the ultra popular Pearl Jam debut album, “Ten,” to Rock Band and Rock Band 2 early next week. The album will be released in its entirety for download in the Rock Band Music Store day-in-date with its re-release in stores nationwide, March 24, 2009.

The tracks, which are all original master recordings, include such hits as Even Flow, Jeremy, Black, Oceans, Porch, Garden, Deep, Release, Why Go, Once, and the hidden track Master/Slave.

Gamers can buy tracks individually for $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) each, or $17.99 (1440 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for the entire album. Look for Ten on March 24th on Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network.

Harmonix Gives Rock Band Fans a ‘Pearl’

Harmonix, together with MTV Games, announced today that it plans on giving Rock Band fans the gift of “Pearls” next year, confirming that Ten, the 1991 debut album from Pearl Jam, will be offered for download in the Rock Band Music Store day-and-date with the re-issue of the album in stores on March 24th, 2009. Pearl Jam originally released Ten on August 27, 1991, going on to sell more than 12 million copies and reaching #2 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Paul DeGooyer, Senior Vice President of Electronic Games and Music for MTV Networks Music / Logo Group, added, “Just hearing the first few notes of ‘Jeremy’ or ‘Alive’ brings back all the raw emotion of this incredible, hugely important album. We are honored to be working with Pearl Jam to deliver Ten as it is re-issued.”

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More Rock Band 2 Details

Some more details about Rock Band 2 have been revealed today including new modes, tracks and support for third party peripherals. You may have already heard about some of this from Microsoft press briefing (details here and here), but here is a recap for those that missed it.

Rock Band 2 will feature new local and online game modes that made the first game such a hit. World Tour mode goes online, and simplifies things by combining Solo Tour and Band World Tour modes with new collection of opportunity gigs, challenges, cities, venues and hirable staff. Tour Challenges offer mini-campaigns focused on the best songs by instrument, decade, genre, artist, album and more. Battle of the Bands, an online mode, will let players to go head to head against other bands Other modes include Quickplay (which is just what it sounds like), a Drum Trainer mode and - of course - a Character Creator mode.

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