EA didn’t actually say “suck it”, in fact they haven’t really said much. Reports are slowly coming out about the release of Rock Band for Australia however, and we feel for you, Australia.
While Rock Band 2 is getting a North American release in September, those in and around Australia will still be waiting for […]

The tracklisting for The Who pack we mentioned yesterday, that is being released for Rock Band, has been announced.
The Who Pack will include the following songs;
“Amazing Journey”
“Baba O’Riley”
“Behind Blue Eyes”
“Eminence Front”
“Going Mobile”
“Leaving Here”
“My Generation” (Live at Leeds)
“Real Good Looking Boy”
“Sea & Sand”
“Summertime Blues” (Live at Leeds)
“Who Are You”
“Young Man Blues” (Live at Leeds)
Full Press […]

Update: We’ve included an additional photo after the break below, it’s not as crisp but, it contains more of the drums. 
It looks like the upcoming issue of Game Informer also contains a picture of the new Guitar Hero IV drum kit, and someone at Demonoid was nice enough to upload a scan of the magazine […]

Alex Rigopulos, Eran Egozy, and the rest of Harmonix team were mentioned in Time Magazines annual issue of the 100 Most Influential People.
The Rock Band crew was included in Time Magazines annual issue for, one would guess, due to the enormous influence that their current project Rock Band has produced.  Not to mention some other […]

I just downloaded the Def Leppard DLC that became available yesterday and, to much surprise, the tracks “Rock of Ages” and “Photograph” are live versions of the songs, not master tracks.
Still excited to get Def Leppard for Guitar Hero, but I would have much preferred masters.
The new single “Nine Lives”, at least, is a master.
Would you have preferred […]

Kevin Maney, the reporter at Conde Nast Portfolio Magazine who did the recent Bobby Kotick interview that caused great speculation in the gaming circles, has noticed the amount of attention the Guitar Hero part of the interview generated.
The interview that was printed was only a small part of what was actually said, so Maney has […]

In an interview with ARTISTdirect, Gavin Rossdale announced that his song ‘Frontline’ from his solo album ‘WANDERlust’ would be included in “the next Guitar Hero”.
We’ve copied out the most important part of the interview below;
ARTISTdirect: [I]t’s cool that music pops up in other venues like video games. Would you ever want to score a video game […]

Sorry Def Leppard, but it appears as though Mötley Crüe has become the first band to release a new single through a video game.
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today that Mötley Crüe’s new single “Saints of Los Angeles”, from their upcoming album ‘The Dirt’, would be released through the video game Rock Band beginning April […]

From all the interviews he’s been doing over the last few days it would appear as though Harmonix’s Rob Kay is working overtime doing PR (or perhaps damage control given the Euro release of Rock Bands less than ecstatic response).
In an interview with TVG Kay confirmed that, unlike the U.S. release of Rock Band, there […]

Well it looks like Charlie Daniels, who originally wrote and performed “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” is not pleased about his song being in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock because it’s possible for the Devil to win.
Daniels, who lost the rights to the song in a legal settlement, recently published an article on his webpage […]