Rock Band 2 News & Interviews

More Nirvana Comes to Rock Band
11/25/2009
Plus Night Ranger Makes Rock Band Debut

Rock Band Adds Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers 6-pack
11/20/2009
Kelly Clarkson Makes Rock Band Debut in “Girls Who Rock” DLC Featured in LEGO Rock Band

Them Crooked Vultures are Premiering on Rock Band Next Week with “New Fang
11/13/2009
The song will be added to the Rock Band Music Store and LEGO Rock Band Music Store

Rock Band Adds AFI Five-Pack and The Bangles
11/13/2009
Also, tracks from Dead Kennedys and Sleater-Kinney for Rock Band Unplugged!

The White Stripes make their Rock Band Debut
11/06/2009
Also, tracks from No Doubt and Dropkick Murphys for Rock Band Unplugged!

Rock Band Adds to its Catalog of Top Artists with More Nirvana and Foo Fighters
10/30/2009
Also, tracks from Bullet for My Valentine and System of a Down for Rock Band Unplugged!

Rock Band Breaks Out the Zombies and Wolves in Time for Halloween
10/23/2009
Also, tracks from Sonic Youth and Steely Dan for Rock Band Unplugged!

Rock Band Unleashes The Queen 10-Pack
10/16/2009
Also, tracks from Blink-182 and The Offspring for Rock Band Unplugged!

Brutal Legend 3-Pack Comes to Rock Band
10/09/2009
Also, tracks from Pearl Jam and Foreigner for Rock Band Unplugged!

The Raconteurs Make Rock Band Debut, Plus Tracks from Alanis Morissette, Electric Six and Flobots
10/02/2009
Also, tracks from Green Day and Rush for Rock Band Unplugged!

Rock Band DLC Brings Breaking Benjamin and Alice In Chains
09/25/2009
Tracks from Foo Fighters will also be available for download next week for Rock Band Unplugged on PSP®.

Entirety of Pearl Jam’s Backspacer will be Playable in Rock Band Surrounding Album Release
09/17/2009
Target stores nationwide to offer DLC download code with album purchase

Rock Band Introduces New Tracks From Anvil, The Guess Who, Tenacious D, and Dinosaur Jr.
09/11/2009
Plus tracks from Evanescence and Spinal Tap for Rock Band Unplugged!

New Packs Available for Rock Band
09/04/2009

Talking Heads Offer 5 Tracks for Rock Band
08/28/2009
Plus tracks from Tom Petty, Billy Idol and Fleetwood Mac for Wii and Franz Ferdinand and Guns N’ Roses for Rock Band Unplugged!

Tom Petty Makes Rock Band Debut; Fleetwood Mac, Billy Idol and Jet Return with New Tracks
08/21/2009
Plus tracks from Foo Fighters and Grateful Dead for Wii and White Zombie and The Zombies for Rock Band Unplugged!

Rock Band DLC Alert: Foo Fighters Return
08/14/2009
Foo Fighters Return To Rock Band With New Three-Song Pack

Rock Band DLC Alert: Gorillaz Debut!
08/07/2009
Tracks from KISS and Lenny Kravitz added to the Rock Band Music Store for Wii and songs from Iron Maiden for Rock Band Unplugged!

Soundtrack to Cult Favorite This is Spinal Tap Comes to Rock Band
07/31/2009
Plus tracks from Black Sabbath and Foo Fighters for Wii and songs from Jane’s Addiction and Styx for Rock Band Unplugged!

Blink-182, Weezer, KISS Kick off Summer Tours with Rock Band Three Packs
07/24/2009
Plus tracks from Kings of Leon, Rancid, Rise Against, Mötley Crue and more for Wii and songs from James Gang and Alien Ant Farm for Rock Band Unplugged!

MTV Games and Harmonix Empower Artists and Labels to Get Their Music in the Game with the Rock Band Network
07/17/2009
The Rock Band Network Gives Artists and Record Labels Tools to Author, Promote and Sell Music for Download via the Rock Band Platform

Kings of Leon and Rancid Make Rock Band Debuts
07/17/2009
Plus tracks from No Doubt, Judas Priest, The Dead Weather and more for Wii and songs from The Grateful Dead and Thin Lizzy for Rock Band Unplugged!

Judas Priest, The Dead Weather, Big Dipper Offer Three Packs for Rock Band
07/10/2009
Plus tracks from The Pixies, Foreigner, The Killers and more for Wii and songs from Radiohead and Killswitch Engage for Rock Band Unplugged!

Rock Band Wii DLC Alert Green Day
07/06/2009
Exclusive Green Day Tracks And Mayhem Festival Artists Come To Wii Rock Band

Exclusive Green Day Three Pack And Mayhem Festival Eight Pack Come To Rock Band 
07/02/2009
New Green Day Tracks off “21st Century Breakdown” Now Eligible for “Best Performance in a Pepsi Rock Band Video” at MTV Video Music Awards

Pearl Jam, Mission of Burma, The Offspring and More Come to Wii Rock Band
06/29/2009
Harmonix and MTV Games today announced 16 tracks from artists including Mission of Burma, Pearl Jam, The Offspring and more coming this week to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content for the Wii system

Weezer, Nine Inch Nails and Dead Kennedys Come to Wii Rock Band
06/22/2009
Harmonix and MTV Games today announced 16 tracks from Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, Dead Kennedys and more coming this week to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content for the Wii system

Bonnaroo Performers, Country Stars and More Come to Wii Rock Band
06/15/2009
Harmonix and MTV Games today announced 25 tracks from artists including Soundgarden, Motley Crue, Rush and from artists performing at this year’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival coming this week to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content for the Wii

Green Day Bringing Their Music Exclusively to Rock Band
06/11/2009
First Green Day DLC Three Pack To Include 21 Guns, Know Your Enemy, East Jesus Nowhere From 21st Century Breakdown on July 7th

Rock Band Wii DLC Alert- Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Disturbed and more
06/08/2009
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Disturbed and others also come to Wii Rock Band

Flight 666 Touches Down June 9 On Rock Band 
06/05/2009
Iron Maiden master recordings made available as downloadable content for Rock Band for the first time!

Rock Band Wii DLC Alert- Foreigner and More
06/01/2009
Shock Rocker Alice Cooper Makes Wii Rock Band Music Store Debut; Roy Orbison, CCR, Foreigner Tracks Also Released

Rock Band Announces Iron Maiden Track Pack
05/29/2009
Iron Maiden master recordings made available as downloadable content for Rock Band Music Store for the first time

Rock Band Wii DLC Alert- Ministry and More
05/26/2009
MTV Games today announced 25 tracks coming this week to the Rock Band® Music Store catalog of downloadable content for the Wii

Ministry to Make its Rock Band Debut with Three Pack of Industrial Metal Rock
05/22/2009
The Zombies, The Cranberries Also Make First Rock Band Appearance

Rock Band Wii DLC Alert- Grateful Dead and More
05/18/2009
Harmonix and MTV Games today announced an onslaught of rock coming this week to the Rock Band Music Store catalogue

New Rock Band Wii DLC from Duran Duran and More
05/11/2009
25 songs spanning more than 25 years of rock history blast on to the Wii Rock Band Music Store

Rock Band DLC Alert Brings Steely Dan and More
05/08/2009
Social Distortion Rocks A Three Pack On To The Rock Band Music Store

Rock Band Wii DLC Alert- REO Speedwagon
05/04/2009
Styx and REO Speedwagon headline this week’s Wii Rock Band Music Store update; plus new tracks from System of a Down, The Clash, Devo and More

A Quartet of Rock Megastars Headed for the Wii Rock Band Music Store
04/27/2009
Entire Nothing’s Shocking album from Jane’s Addiction plus hits from Megadeth, The Police and Oasis

Jane’s Addiction Storms on to Rock Band with Nothing’s Shocking
04/24/2009
Next week’s Rock Band Music Store lineup will feature ten tracks from Nothing’s Shocking with “Mountain Song” from Nothing’s Shocking already featured on the Rock Band 2 soundtrack

Rock Band 2 Wii Music Store Update
04/20/2009
A little bit Country and a little bit Rock n’ Roll added to the Wii Rock Band Band Music Store

Rock Band DLC Alert- Guns N' Roses
04/10/2009
Guns N’ Roses Album Chinese Democracy Shreds Its Way On To Rock Band

Rock Band Wii DLC Alert- Journey and More
04/06/2009
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today 11 new tracks coming this week to the Rock Band® Music Store

Rock Band DLC Brings Black Tide, The Shins and More
04/03/2009
Bullet For My Valentine and alternative rockers The Shins will make their debut next week in the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content.

Rock Band Wii DLC Alert- Pearl Jam
04/01/2009
MTV Games announced today 14 new tracks coming this week to the Rock Band® Music Store catalogue of downloadable content for Wii

Rock Band Franchise Officially Surpasses $1 Billion Dollars
03/26/2009
Over 40 Million Paid Individual Songs Sold Via Download To Date On Rock Band Platform

Rock Band Expands The Who Collection for Wii Owners
03/23/2009
New tracks from The Offspring, R.E.M. and Richard Thompson also available

Rock Band 2 Wii DLC
03/17/2009
Rock Band Gives Wii Owners Live Recordings From The Who

New Tracks Hit Rock Band 2 for Wii
03/09/2009
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of fourteen tracks, ranging across nearly all genres of rock, to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content for Wii

Rock Band DLC Brings R.E.M. & More
03/06/2009
Harmonix and MTV Games today announced the addition of four new tracks to the Rock Band Music Store

Rock Band 2 Wii DLC Adds Vaughan, No Doubt, Jimmy Eat World
03/02/2009
All ten tracks from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s debut album Texas Flood (1983) will be made available in the Wii Rock Band Music Store

Rock Band 2 Wii DLC
02/23/2009
The Cars’ Debut Album Zooms Into The Rock Band Wii Music Store

Rock Band Wii Owners Get Seven Tracks from Nirvana
02/17/2009
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of seven tracks from alternative grunge band Nirvana to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content for Wii

New Rush DLC Hits Rock Band 2 Wii
02/09/2009
Rock Band gives Wii owners a Rush with access to seven new downloadable tracks from Moving Pictures

6 New Downloadable Tracks Hit Rock Band for Wii
02/03/2009
Four tracks from classic rock band Boston included

RB2 DLC Thin Lizzy, Pat Benetar, The Pretenders
01/30/2009
MTV Games announced today the addition of seven new tracks to the Rock Band Music Store

New DLC for Rock Band 2 on Wii
01/27/2009
Rock Band gives owners 6 new downloadable tracks including songs from Smashing Pumpkins, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Cars and more

DLC Hits Rock Band for Wii
01/20/2009
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of six new tracks to the Rock Band Music Store catalog of downloadable content for Wii

Rock Band Music Store Available for Wii
01/14/2009
Rock Band Music Store is now live for the Wii home videogame console

Rock Band Rings In The New Year
12/26/2008
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of four new tracks to the Rock Band Music Store

Pearl Jam Signs With MTV Games And Harmonix To Bring Band's Debut Album, Ten, To Rock Band
12/15/2008
Full Album to be Released as Rock Band DLC Day and Date with the Re-issue of “Ten”:Four Special Edition Packages in Stores on March 24, 2009

Rock Band Celebrates 500 Song Milestone
12/06/2008
MTV Games, today announced the rock-pop pioneers of No Doubt will bring 13 tracks to the Rock Band music catalog

MTV Presents The Ultimate Music Video Game Battle
11/13/2008
MTV gets revved up for the ultimate music video game battle of the bands

MTV Games, Harmonix and Electronic Arts Announce Ship Dates for Rock Band 2
10/16/2008
EA, today announced that Rock Band 2 for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system will be available on October 19, 2008.

Rock Band Brings The Best Real World Gear to Rock Band 2
09/18/2008
Licensed Partners Instrumental to the Authentic Rock Experience

New Rock Band DLC Media Alert
09/15/2008
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of Megadeth’s album Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying?

Harmonix And MTV Games Unveil Setlist For Rock Band 2 - The Ultimate Music Game
07/14/2008
Rock Band Platform to Encompass More Than 500 Songs by End of 2008

Harmonix, MTV Games and Electronic Arts Set to Rock the World Again With Rock Band 2
07/14/2008
Rock Band 2 raises the bar in music gaming innovation with new features to rock the world