Rock Band Brings Home Grown Rock, Adds Harmonix Artists to Rock Band Library (X360)

New tracks from Bang Camaro, Freezepop and Count Zero are on the way.

Official Press Release April 4, 2008

Harmonix Music Systems and MTV Games announced today that they are bringing three of their own bands into the Rock Band library for this coming week's downloadable content. The Harmonix Pack features the arena-rock of Bang Camaro, the driving experimental rock of Count Zero, and the future-pop sounds of Freezepop. All three bands include Harmonix staffers and all three were featured as unlockable artists on the disc of Rock Band. The tracks will be available for download on April 8th for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and April 17 for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system.

Release date:

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 (Xbox Live Marketplace)
Thursday, April 17, 2008 (PlayStation Store)

Tracks:

HARMONIX PACK
Bang Camaro "Rock Rebellion"
Count Zero "Shake"
Freezepop "Sprode"

Price:

$.99 per track (80 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) or $2.99 (240 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per pack

With the addition of these 3 tracks to the Rock Band library, there are now more than 80 tracks available for download in addition to the 58 tracks in the original game. In three months since its release, gamers have purchased more than 6 million downloadable songs for Rock Band since its launch on November 20, 2007.

Downloadable content for the Xbox 360 will be available via Xbox Live Marketplace using Microsoft Points for the Xbox 360 and is downloaded directly to the Xbox 360 hard drive. Downloadable content for the PlayStation 3 system's version of Rock Band will be available on the PlayStation Store through the free PlayStation Network and is downloaded directly to PlayStation 3 system's built in hard drive.

Rock Band is rated "T" for Teen (lyrics, mild suggestive themes) by the ESRB.

For more information on Rock Band and Harmonix Music Systems please visit http://www.rockband.com/ and http://www.harmonixmusic.com/.

** Dates for Rock Band game tracks are tentative and subject to change, Differences in availability are due to scheduled maintenance to PlayStation Store.

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