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David Bowie, Styx, Yellowcard & others join Band Hero

Justin McElroy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:44:00 EST

We'd like to congratulate Devo, David Bowie and Marvin Gaye for reaching one of the highest highs in the music industry. That would be appearing in a game with no fewer than three Taylor Swift songs: Band Hero. The artists' featured hits are part of the latest batch of announced tracks -- all of which you can find after the break -- for the tweenybopper spin-off.

Also, do we have any volunteers to dive into the belly of Band Hero and rescue the totally awesome "In a Big Country" Saving Private Ryan-style? It ... it doesn't deserve this.

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Full song list for Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades revealed

David Hinkle — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:53:00 EST

Filed under: News

We've finally got the details on the final song list to be included in the upcoming sequel, Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades for the DS, and while it's got a lot more modern songs than those proposed classic tracks, it's still a good mix of songs that would be fun to play, we think. Enough of us blabbering on, though. You want the goods! To get at the list of 28 songs you'll be jamming to next month, check out the list past the break.

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Harmonix: No Freezepop in RB2, maybe in the DLC

Mike Schramm — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:00:00 EST

Filed under: Culture, Microsoft Xbox 360, E3, Rhythm

Bad news for Freezepop fans (like us here at Joystiq) -- the synthpop trio, of which Kasson Crooker, Senior Producer at Rock Band creators Harmonix, is a member, does not have a song in their latest game, Rock Band 2. And that's a shame -- they've had a new song on the disc in every Harmonix game since FreQuency (including Phase, their iPod game), which makes this the first Harmonix game without a new Freezepop tune.

Shocked at this revelation, we confronted Harmonix at the Rock Band event this evening, and they confirmed that yes, there is no Freezepop song on the disc in RB2. The reason given to us was that Freezepop hasn't recorded any new music lately, and that they didn't have anything new to put out. But our source at Harmonix did say to look out for some Freezepop DLC -- they may be planning, we were told, a two or three-song downloadable pack of "sweet and cold and fruity and plastic-y" music.

There's a rub, though: there is a new Freezepop song in the recently released Guitar Hero: On Tour DS game. Guitar Hero, as you may know, was originally created by Harmonix, but since GH3 has been owned by Activision and developed by Neversoft. Are Liz Enthusiasm and her two compadres jumping ship?

Update: Commenter skie reads Liz' livejournal. Apparently the band never got paid for any of their songs in the Harmonix games since Guitar Hero, but they did get paid for the GH:OT appearance. They say they want to open themselves up to as many different fans as possible, and that means showing up in other companies' games.

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