Rock Band Weekly: PAX pack with Jonathan Coulton, MC Frontalot and Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

by Ross Miller { Aug 30th 2008 at 2:30AM }

Rock Band is going charitable, with a special PAX Pack for next week's DLC. All three bands are performing at this weekend's Penny Arcade Expo, and all money for the tracks go towards Child's Play charity.

PAX Pack 1 (240

/ $3)

"Skullcrusher Mountain" - Jonathan Coulton
"Livin' on the Corner of Dude and Catastrophe" - MC Frontalot
"Shhh�." - Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

All songs are master recordings and "Shhh" is a previously unreleased track. The songs will be available for download next Tuesday and Thursday for Xbox 360 and PS3, respectively.

[Note: Image a Jonathan Coulton lyrical word cloud.]

Tags: darkest-of-the-hillside-thickets, dlc, jonathon-coulton, mc-frontalot, pax, penny-arcade-expo, rock-band, rock-band-dlc, rock-band-weekly, skullcrusher-mountain

Related From Joystiq

Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero: February DLC
11 days ago
The Beatles: Rock Band raises $217,780 for charity (so far)
11 days ago
Harmonix cooperatively developing Green Day: Rock Band with Demiurge, MK12, others
13 days ago

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Efren @ Aug 30th 2008 3:12AM

Should have named it the "who gives a shit?" pack.

Moorio - XBL: peacebyanymeans @ Aug 30th 2008 3:39AM

Funny, I could say the same about your comment.

RavenPaul @ Aug 30th 2008 10:24AM

I agree too. Since there are 2 in New Orleans (I'm in La.) I'm just going to send them money directly. I don't want 3 tracks I couldn't care less about on my game. Keep us in your prayers, I think were about to get slammed.

http://www.childsplaycharity.org/

Alex @ Aug 30th 2008 3:56AM

i agree with Efren.

but you didn't hear it from me.

Kevlar @ Aug 30th 2008 4:22AM

I give a shit. Me.

I am a fan of JC and MC Frontalot (the former, more than the latter). They are both decent musicians, with the ability to write an amazing lyric. They aren't exactly "normal" but that's all part of the fun. I would have chosen different songs to do for each artist, but that's me.

I've never heard of Darkest though, and will check them out soon.

Moffka @ Aug 30th 2008 4:36AM

DO WANT. Saw JC in concert once, it was one of the best things I could have ever done.

Tegolin @ Aug 30th 2008 7:43AM

I'll buy it since all profit is going to Child's Play.

Matt Keller @ Aug 30th 2008 9:16AM

I also give a shit.
Still Alive was fun and all, but it's waaaay too overplayed, over done, and just generally over.
I'd been hoping for a JC track, and this is right up my alley.
Not much going on for me on MC Frontalot.. I've heard of Hillside Thickets, that's as far as that goes.

JohnHeist @ Aug 30th 2008 3:22PM

I'll admit my first experience with JC is Still Alive, which I enjoyed and have been too lazy to look up his other stuff.

Now I hear this stuff, and this song is actually good, and it's funny, so I'll definitely buy it.
MC Frontalot song sounds pretty cool too.

Geo @ Aug 30th 2008 4:25PM

Finafuckingly a Jonathan Coulton song (sung by JC himself). I've been anticipating this day since I heard of him in February I hope they get more soon (maybe a Thing-a-Week Pack or his small albums) I really want to sing "Re: Your Brains", "The Big Boom", "Code Monkey", "De-evolving" (plus that f-ing guitar solo) God I'm gonna end up listing all his songs. There r only a few I dnt want from him; "Resolutions", "See you All in Hell", "Rock and Roll Boy" "Joan and Jane" any song with sound clips basically. Though I wouldn't mind "W's Duty" it's too funny not to include and "25 or 64" would b cool but prob wnt b released due to copyright stuff.