Rock Band Alternative Rock Selection Gets a Boost
Harmonix and MTV Games have revealed that four new tracks will be coming to the Rock Band Music catalog shortly. The downloadable content includes alternate rock songs from The Offspring and R.E.M. and also debuts on Rock Band Richard Thompson, British guitarist and songwriter. Check out the earlier Rock Band article.
Alternate rockers R.E.M. will have a second of their songs featured on Rock Band after Orange Crush was released on the original Rock Band soundtrack. Losing My Religion from the band’s 1991 album Out of Time will be released onto the catalog. Also in the alternative rock section, The Offspring have two more tracks added to their 5 already featured in the Rock Band music library. The Offspring’s All I Want and The Kids Aren’t Alright will be released next week to the Rock Band music catalog.
Making his debut on Rock Band will be guitarist Richard Thompson, with his 1994 song The Way That It Shows from the album Mirror Blue. Thompson has received many awards including Rolling Stone’s Top 20 Guitarists of All-Time in 2003 and the BBC Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
These four tracks will be released on the Xbox Live Marketplace on March 10, 2009 and on the PlayStation Store on March 12, 2009. For Xbox 360 users, each track will cost 1.99 USD (approx. Rs. 105) or 160 Microsoft Points and all tracks are original master recordings.
