Rock Band Network live on Xbox 360, 105 songs available

by Alexander Sliwinski on Mar 4th 2010 12:45PM

The Rock Band Network has gone live on Xbox 360 with a catalog of 105 songs. With over 4,000 registered authors and peer reviewers participating in the program, we're guessing a lot more tracks are in the pipe; and Harmonix and MTV Games have teased that tracks from from Flight of the Conchords, The Smashing Pumpkins, Twin Atlantic, All That Remains, Clutch, Prong, The Gaslight Anthem and hundreds of other artists are on the way. Song prices currently range from 80

to 160

($1 and $2)*.

A nice new feature of the Rock Band Music Store offshoot is that players will be able to download RBN samples to demo tracks before they buy. Songs will debut exclusively on Xbox 360 for 30 days, after which "a selection of standout tracks" will become available on PS3 and Wii.

*Artists who submit songs receive a 30-percent royalty of the RBN retail price (excluding tax) for every track purchased.

Update: List of RBN launch tracks after the break.

Rock Band Network

Songs Now Available in the Rock Band Network Music Store

3 Inches of Blood - Battles and Brotherhood
Alias Unknown - Top Back
Amberian Dawn - He Sleeps in a Grove
Amberian Dawn - River of Tuoni
Andrew Buch - Trippolette
Audio Fiction - Race The Hourglass
Bif Naked - Sick
Blackmarket - Tongue Twister Typo
Bojibian - Still There
C&O - We Are the Best
Chaunce DeLeon and The Fountain of Choof - Tadpole Search and Rescue
Children of Nova - The Complexity of Light
Color Theory - If Not Now When
Dear and the Headlights - Talk About
Despised Icon - Day of Mourning
DnA's Evolution - The Heist
Error 404 feat. CJ Watson - If Trucks Drank Beer
Fake Shark-Real Zombie! - Angel Lust
Fake Shark-Real Zombie! - Horses in Heaven
Fake Shark-Real Zombie! - Running for the Razors
Fake Shark-Real Zombie! - Sestri Levante
Five Finger Death Punch - Burn it Down
Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies (Live)
Flogging Molly - Requiem for a Dying Song
Foreword - Watch It All Go Down
Free Spirit - Far Away from Heaven
Full-Source - End Quote
Full-Source - It's Not You, It's Everyone
Full-Source - Red Sky At Morn
Furly - Icarus' Song
Gandhi - Arigato
Giant Target - In Memories
Giant Target - Signs
Glass Hammer - Hyperbole
Glass Hammer - Sleep On
Heaven Ablaze - Parhelia
In This Moment - Mechanical Love
James William Roy - Paper Valentines
Jonathan Coulton - Creepy Doll
Jonathan Coulton - Ikea
Jonathan Coulton - The Future Soon
KMFDM - A Drug Against War
KMFDM - Juke Joint Jezebel
Kristin Hersh - Fortune
Kristin Hersh - Mississippi Kite
Lacuna Coil - Survive
Lead the Dead - Rip'er
Longwave - No Direction
Marillion - Whatever Is Wrong With You
Matter in the Medium - Persistence of Vision
MC Frontalot - Goth Girls
Nick Gallant - Inside Out
Nick Gallant - Turn Yourself Around
Of Last Resort - Fade Away
of Montreal - Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
Pink Flag - Nancy Drew
Ron Wasserman - Fight Back
Rose of Jericho - Buried Cold
Scratching The Itch - Lemon Juice
Scratching The Itch - The Buddy Disease
Scratching The Itch - You're My Everything
Senses Fail - Lady in a Blue Dress
Skeletonwitch - Crushed Beyond Dust
Skindred - Stand for Something
Speck - Grumpytown
Speck - VP of Booty Reports
Stars of Boulevard - Limousine
Stephanie Hatfield and Hot Mess - Can I Stay
Steve and Lindley Band - Backyard Buildyard
Steve Vai - For the Love of God (Live)
Steve Vai - Get the Hell Out of Here
Steve Vai - The Attitude Song
Stroke 9 - Kick Some Ass '09
Stroke 9 - Little Black Backpack '09
Suicide Silence - Disengage
Surprise Me Mr. Davis - Sissyfuss
The Cold Goodnight - Give
The Dirty Love Band - Moonboy
The Everybody - You Got That
The Fisticuffs - Liverpool Judies
The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis
The Humans - It's Good
The Kimberly Trip - California
The Main Drag - Cease and Desist
The Main Drag - Don't Let Me Down (Slowly)
The Main Drag - Dove Nets
The Main Drag - Homosuperior
The Main Drag - How We'd Look On Paper
The Main Drag - Love During Wartime
The Main Drag - Megatron
The Main Drag - Talk Them Down
The Main Drag - Teeth, Face, Outerspace
The Main Drag - Tricky Girl
The Main Drag - What's Your Favorite Dinosaur?
The Shins - Australia
The Slip - Children of December
The Slip - Even Rats
Ultra Saturday - Not My Fault
Ultra Saturday - Superhero!
WaveGroup Feat. Becca Neun - Liquid Smog (StompBox Remix)
Wounded Soul - Rx
You Shriek - Lilith in Libra
You Shriek - No Heroes
Zack Wilson - Another California Song
Zack Wilson - Ox

Tags: Harmonix, Microsoft, mtv-games, rock-band, rock-band-2, rock-band-network, rock-band-store, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (93)

Don't know what's taken me so long, but I guess now is as good a time as any to make the switch to RB from GH. I'll still be around for the [good] new GH titles, though.

i play both.

3 INCHES OF BLOOD!!!! this will be fun.

Don't know why I was downvoted, I didn't say one was better than the other, just that I will be playing one more than the other for a while...

They just announce the Flogging Molly tracks for GH and theypop up on Rock Band two weeks prior...for half the price...delicious! Between 3 Inches of Blood, Steve Vai, Flogging Molly, and Jonathan Coulton they already have my undivided attention.

[What I said here was uncalled for. I shouldn't do such things.]

I dunno, the best in who's opinion? I would prefer to sort thru the mess myself and make my own decisions. I guess we will see in 30 days.

please STFU

there was a beta so that totally makes sense >.>

LOL. Fanboys really will say anything.

Is this just like the music store but you can demo songs? Or is there more to it?

Yep. Songs on the Rock Band Network weren't made by Harmonix, but by the artists themselves, and most (all?) proceeds go to them.

That's fantastic!

The artists get 30%, actually. The rest goes to MS/Harmonix for setting up the system and doing all the hosting.

That's more than they'd make from iTunes, actually, after the label takes a cut, and *much* more than they'd make from a CD, which has retailers, distributors, and the labels taking out their respective cuts.

xaiax said:
"The artists get 30%, actually. The rest goes to MS/Harmonix for setting up the system and doing all the hosting.
That's more than they'd make from iTunes, actually, after the label takes a cut, and *much* more than they'd make from a CD, which has retailers, distributors, and the labels taking out their respective cuts."

Not true. I'm an artist with releases on many online retailers (iTunes, Rhapsody, Mp3.com, etc) and we get a pretty good percentage of the songs sold on iTunes AND on CD. You're ASSUMING there's a label/distributor involved in that, but that's not always the case - and also, if you're on a label and it affects your iTunes profits then it will DEFINITELY affect your Rock Band Network profits, so either way, this statement is wrong. Haha, not trying to be a jerk, but it's incorrect.

Mmmmmmm Lacuna Coil

Exclusivity sucks.

Maybe you should make the Wii's online infrastructure easier to program for then.

From the rockband forums:

Q: Why can't PS3 and Wii owners use it?

A: XNA. Microsoft had the infrastructure in place for community members to upload content to the service independently, which is exactly what the RBN needs to work. Harmonix has said that they're working on getting around this limitation and bringing the full network to each system- and there are rumors that Sony is building something similar- but we don't know when just yet.

I'm a ps3/pc guy myself but it makes sense for them to have the xbox360 community do the thinning since they are the largest representation of their rock band players.

So do me a favor, pick good songs so I have something to play that I actually like.

*looks at trending music this generation*

christ, we're doomed to miley cyrus and taylor swift tracks aren't we?

FML

miley cyrus and taylor swift is Band Hero, no worries.

Anyone got the song list?
I'm too lazy to turn on my 360 and pop-in RB2.

...and apparently too lazy to load the article (or reach up and hit F5)

RTFP it's after the jump

I found the list before they updated.

Out of the list above.. I only heard of Three Inches of Blood, Five Finger Death Punch, Lacuna Coil & Jonathan Coulton.. not really a reason to play RB2 again yet..

KMFDM! :) :) :) :)

I'm having a problem accessing the store. Is anyone else having the same thing?

I can't get it either.. it's probably NA only..

UGH. Its not available in the EU yet. Freakin' stupid.

Those are my two favorite songs by The Slip. Soooooo good. If my drums weren't in storage, I'd go pick up another copy of Rock Band.

Yay for Flogging Molly & more Jonathan Coulton!

More JoCo is always a good thing!

Agreed!

Those were the only two I found exciting. But good future for RB users ahoy!

Ahh Steve Vai.. Too bad I've sworn off RB DLC until RB3.. I've already bought about 100 songs.. :/

The DLC will transfer over to RB3, so go for it.

Only 100?
Im at around 350 last time I checked.
Yay for disposable income!

Wait -- you're saying 100 songs is bad?

So...it's NOT normal to take out a mortgage on Rock Band DLC? Boy, is my face red.

Ugh, hopefully their "standout tracks" isn't too strict of a thing. I'm going to be pretty upset if only a small handful of the tracks actually get ported. Hopefully this makes a ton of money and in a couple months they just start porting everything over.

Finally we get some more Jonathan Coulton!

HOLY CRAP FLOGGING MOLLY!!!

Requiem for a Dying Song too, very good choice. As well as a live song. They are easily one of the best live bands around today.

Can someone tell me where are the good songs.... Why RB and GH are just adding old stuff that only interesting old people. Seriously, I'm in the branch of gamers that loves RB in particular, but i'm tired to check new songs going out each month that aren't interesting me and my friends neither. I know I know, You'll tell me those games are about rock songs. But I'm the kind of guy listenning to everything but those.. Anyway, I'm happy to see it continusly evolving.

Not a single one of these songs, to my knowledge, is from before 2000. Wherever you're seeing this "old stuff that [is] only interesting [to] old people", it's not here. As for finding good songs, well, that's what this entire platform is about. FINDING new artists that aren't necessarily household names. If you're unwilling to put the effort to find the new good stuff, you don't have the right to complain about it not existing.

Actually, quite a few of these songs are from pre-2000. Steve Vai, Flogging Molly, Marillion and KMFDM to name a few.

of Montreal and Andrew Bird?

:D!!

That's Andrew Buch.

Once again, it sucks royally to be a PS3 Rock Band owner. I'd switch if I hadn't already bought so many damn songs.

As long as I can get JoCo's "Ikea" I won't become homicidal.

Just be glad your Rock Band investment wasn't made on the Wii.

Sweet, Ron Wasserman (probably best known as the composer for the soundtrack toteh original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers) has a track on here. Say what you will about the show, but the music was pretty kick ass.

Oh. I'm not nearly as excited now that I realize that it's not the band of the boss from Parks and Recreation.

FLOGGING MOLLY?!?!

BUYBUYBUYBUYBUYBUYBUYBUYBUY

Well shoot. I can't read.

Now I'm less excited.

YAY STILL OF MONTREAL THOUGH.

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