Rock Band Weekly: Beastie Boys, Heart, James Brown, Rufus

by Alexander Sliwinski on Jul 29th 2011 1:00PM

Next week's Rock Band DLC is all over the place, featuring a diverse variety of artists covering a wide spectrum of musical tastes. It's like Harmonix's DLC offering hit the shuffle button. If you're super bad, head on past the break for details.

Xbox 360 / Wii / PS3
Available: August 2

Individual songs

"Make Some Noise" - Beastie Boys (160 MSP / 200 WP / $1.99)
"No Sleep till Brooklyn" - Beastie Boys (160 MSP / 200 WP / $1.99)
"Barracuda" - Heart (160 MSP / 200 WP / $1.99)*
"Super Bad, Pts. 1 & 2" - James Brown (160 MSP / 200 WP / $1.99)*
"Tell Me Something Good" - Rufus (ft. Chaka Khan) (160 MSP / 200 WP / $1.99)

*Pro Guitar/Bass expansion available (80 MSP / 100 WP / $0.99)

Source: RockBand.com

Tags: beastie-boys, chaka-khan, Harmonix, heart, james-brown, microsoft, nintendo, playstation, ps3, Rock-Band-3, Rock-Band-Weekly, rufus, wii, xbox

Reader Comments (22)

It's been awhile since I downloaded *everything* offered on the weekly ROCKBAND update... I'm definitely doing it this time around! Hell, "Make Some Noise" is my current ringtone, haha.

Beastie Boys! Hell yeah. This made by day. We need more!

@MrSmiley1

*my

Anyone know of an easy way to find keyboard songs?

@tkashur

http://www.rockband.com/songs/finder#-/-/-/keys/-/-/-/-/-/

I had to Make Some Noise when I realized this post was going to Tell Me Something Good. I sunk to the comment box, like a Barracuda, and uh... told two parts too many of a Super Bad joke...

*suicide get*

This is a pretty good week of tunes.

These bands are great and all...but where's the Led Zeppelin?

@ACap1494

Still hating music games probably.

And here's the RBN tracks coming to the PS3 on Tuesday, 8/2/2011 (SCEA) and Wednesday, 8/3/2011 (SCEE):

A Day to Remember - "Better Off This Way" ($1.99) - Rock
Amberian Dawn - "Dreamchaser" ($1.99) - Metal
Drugstore Fanatics - "Hangman" ($0.99) - Alternative
Magnus 'SoulEye' Pålsson - "Pressure Cooker" ($0.99) - Pop/Dance/Electronic
Rose of Jericho - "Buried Cold (RB3 version)" ($0.99) - Pop-Rock

Here's the Rock Band Network content for the 360 this week:

Alternative

Dan Markland - "If I Was King" (80 MSP)

Classical

Thomas Walker - "Bagatelle No. 25 - Für Elise (Beethoven)" (80 MSP)
Thomas Walker - "Piano Sonata No. 14 - Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven)" (80 MSP)

Hip-Hop

Audio Ammunition - "Honeys Takin' Money" (80 MSP)
...

@TubaDude49 Pop-Rock

Stagehands - "Now or Never" (80 MSP)

Rock

Before Nine - "I" (160 MSP)
Free Spirit - "Heroes Don't Cry" (160 MSP)
Quartered - "Walks Like A Ghost" (80 MSP)

@TubaDude49 Other

!I! - "!I" (80 MSP)

Pop/Dance/Electronic

The Limousines - "Very Busy People" (160 MSP)

@TubaDude49 Musica Diablo - "Betrayed (2x Bass Pedal)" (80 MSP)
Serianna - "Inheritors (2x Bass Pedal)" (160 MSP)
Shakespeare in Hell - "Poor Yorick (2x Bass Pedal)" (80 MSP)
Winter Crescent - "Battle of Egos Part I" (80 MSP)
Winter Crescent - "Battle of Egos Part I (2x Bass Pedal)" (80 MSP)