Rock Band Weekly: The White Stripes, The Damned, Kasabian

by Alexander Sliwinski on Nov 6th 2009 11:20AM

Forget that Jack White finds it "depressing" that kids are learning about music through rhythm games -- there's gold in them thar virtual hills! Next week's Rock Band DLC adds a pack of songs from The White Stripes, with tracks off of three different albums.

We've also added this little guy to Rock Band Weekly:

. He indicates tracks that are considered "family-friendly" enough for Lego Rock Band. Such marked songs will be available in LRB's music store, as well as appearing in the regular Rock Band music store. [Thanks to our friend Dustin Burg for the Lego head!]

Check out the update after the break, along with what Rock Band Unplugged players can expect for DLC next week.

Select a platform below to view complete DLC listing:

Xbox 360 / Wii / PS3
Available: November 10 / November 12 (PS3)

The White Stripes Pack 01 (440

/ $5.50):

"Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Icky Thump" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

Individual songs:

The Damned - "Smash It Up (Part II)" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
Kasabian - "Club Foot" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

*Track packs not available for purchase on Wii; all tracks sold individually.

Tracks also available in Lego Rock Band Music Store.

PSP
Available: November 12

No Doubt – "Excuse Me Mr." ($1.99)
Dropkick Murphys – "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" ($1.99)

Tags: harmonix, jack-white, Kasabian, Microsoft, mtv-games, Nintendo, rock-band, rock-band-2, rock-band-dlc, rock-band-unplugged, rock-band-weekly, rock-band-wii, rock-band-wiikly, the-damned, the-white-stripes, wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (55)

Icky Thump!

I'm guessing certain portions of the song exclude it from LEGO Rock Band. I mean, you can't be the brick and the brick placing stud too.

Would have preferred Seven "Nation Army", or "Fell In Love With a Girl", but "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", and "Icky Thump" are good too.

"Seven Nation Army". Punctuation FAIL...

First week in a long while that I don't recognize any of the songs. Music discovery FTW.

Come on. The White Stripes and NOT Seven Nation Army?
Sometimes I find the song choices confusing. :(
This said, picking the pack up day one.

Girl, you have no faith in medicine is AWESOME tho.

ACETAMINOPHEN!
YOU SEE THE MEDICINE!
OH GIRL!

They're probably holding it for later, along with Fell In Love With A Girl.

Still, this is fine. All the songs are great and it's about time the White Stripes in Rock Band, they've probably been mine (and I would wager many other people's) most-wanted band in the game.

But I don't wanna...

I am sick of musicians talking smack on rhythm games. If it wasn't for these games, then some of these kids (or adults) might have not ever even heard some of this music. Who cares how someone discovers music? THEY ARE DISCOVERING MUSIC AND HAVING FUN WITH FRIENDS WHILE DOING IT! STFU!

Completely agree. People knock on Harry Potter for the same reason. However, if it wasn't for HP, so many children wouldn't be reading books at all.

I still maintain that Jack White was lamenting the fact that this is one of the ONLY ways kids can learn about music because of the insular, hit driven focus of radio and the non-existence of music video channels that play music videos. Even internet radio is fighting an uphill battle against the labels.

Following the links back to the original quote, I have to agree with Petebot330:
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"It's depressing to have a label come and tell you that ['Guitar Hero'] is how kids are learning about music and experiencing music," White said. He added that although he doesn't try to dictate "which format people should get their music in…if you have to be in a video game to get in front of them, that's a little sad."
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Rather than saying it's not an *acceptable* channel, he just doesn't seem to think these games are the *ideal* way to release new music (although I'm not sure I agree, and the new Rock Band studio thing should further test that theory) -- or, at least, shouldn't be the *only* way (as Petebot330 said).

I say that it's no big deal and he should still quit whining (I love him as an artist BTW). Sometime before music was so readily available, someone wouldn't hear about a particular artist or a song unless they saw a certain movie or TV show. Still, the outlet for that music or art was another piece of art. This all boils down to what people consider art, and I think the world needs to understand that video games are an art form. Sure it's technology driven, but that's the nature of evolution for us humans. I feel it's like someone saying black and white movies are better than ones in color. Just accept it and move on and allow us to progress without any guilt you self-righteous MOFOS!

If you read the quote, he actually seems to be saying it's depressing that the other forms of media are failing so badly at introducing good new music, that kids have to learn from Guitar Hero. I'll admit, I learned about a lot of bands from Guitar Hero, because where else are you going to hear them? Sure as hell not MTV, or VH1, or top 40 radio.

At least, that's how I interpreted his comment. He obviously doesn't actually have anything against Guitar Hero/Rock Band since his songs (from the Raconteurs) have been in both.

Even though it sounds as if he is depressed that other forms of media are failing, it doesn't make up for the fact that he finds videogames an inadequate way to discover music-- that kids "have to" use videogames to find music.

If you can't understand the impact and influence of videogames as an art form and a form of mass communication than you are no better than the people who thought music videos were the downfall of music.

OMG Kasabian , incredible!!!! more please!

Yea, they released shoot the runner a year ago...and now they've got club foot, they should really release more off of kasabians self titled, its a pretty great album.

No Seven Nation Army???

HMX

I AM DISAPPOINT.....

that's a great song, to be sure. but it would not be the most fun Rock Band song to play.

great kick drum practice, though.

Kasabian, that's what I like to see. Now some more Stone Roses, Arctic Monkeys and some Verve and some of the good old Oasis stuff, and I'm all set.

That would be a Rithm Orgasm

I want some more radiohead and R.E.M.

Please!

www.rockband.com/request

Totally agree, give me really any Arctic Monkeys full album and I'd be fine and The Stone Roses debut and Fools Gold, Also would like some more Blur and maybe some Bloc Party too would be nice.

I love your taste.

I love my taste too.

I told [-]. Does that count?

You can play music by a group called The Damned on LRB?

Maybe they changed it to "The Darned."

Well its the old school definition of damned like "be doomed to misfortune or failure"

Well its the old school definition of damned like "be doomed to misfortune or failure".

Is there a different definition of "the Damned" that I am not aware of, or am I just drawing a blank and the answer is totally obvious?

"Skullcrusher Mountain" is also playable on LRB.

Also, I am not talking about the word "damn". Just "the Damned". Because if we are treating this as a derivative of "damn", we should probably censor Bruce Dickinson, because his name contains "dick", which is not always short for "Richard".

I've also heard a song on the background of the menus with the word 'hell'.

Not that I care; it just amused me.

Then again, it is rated E10, not E.

I missed that part of the news. The Damned are pretty good, I'm actually kind of stoked on this week's release now.

Hopefully, there will be more Damned songs. Captain Sensible needs to be in this game.

LOL - Happy Talk ftw!

I don't know what a Kasabian is, but other than that, good list.

If you Youtube it, you'll instantly know who they are.

Well, perhaps you might need to have been a part of the generation that watched Hackers, but either way, I had no idea who they were until I looked it up and now it's pretty much an instant buy. Never knew that was them.

Aw, come on, only part 2 of Smash It Up? Part 1 is just an intro, and the song is so much cooler with it! Even The Offspring kept it in there when they covered it for the Batman Forever soundtrack.

Maybe it has some short version to flow into Pt.2. But if leaving it out allows me to play Pt.2, I'll accept it...

"Don't wanna be a sucker like all the rest..."

Isnt "Fell in Love with a Girl" the one with the lego video? if anything should be in Lego RB, that should be. Video and all.

See, I watch these song releases come up every week, and it is why these DJ games should focus on Hip-hop, and not try to appease the other rhythm game fans. You guys got your games and awful music, please just let us have Scratch all to ourselves? No Daft Punk, no Kings of Leon, and please no Bloc Party.

mm, I wasn't aware of that, so it makes 2 Kasabian new songs for me , yeah!

I'd rather just see the whole White Blood Cells album; De Stijl would be great too, but I doubt that will happen.

I'm also still holding out hope that eventually they'll release some of the Raconteurs stuff, like Level, Broken Boy Soldier and Many Shades of Black.

Err...nevermind I forgot they already had Many Shades of Black. =|

White Blood Cells and De Stijl would be great but I really really want Elephant.

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