Today Activision unleashes their newest music themed game, DJ Hero and we have the photos to show you what is inside the box.

Just in time for Halloween, next week Rob Zombie will infest the rock band store with a three song track pack featuring his brand of industrial, groove shock metal. In addition to Zombie's pack, Aussie rockers Wolfmother will get a five song track pack and female vocalist get a little love with three singles from artists Liz Phair and Morningwood.



Rob Zombie Track Pack 01

• Burn
• Dragula
• Superbeast

Wolfmother Track Pack 01

• New Moon Rising
• Pilgrim
• Sundial
• White Unicorn
• Woman

Single Tracks

• Rock Me - Liz Phair
• Best of Me - Morningwood
• Sugarbaby - Morningwood

The track pack will be available on Tuesday for the XBOX 360 and the Nintendo Wii, while PS3 users will have to wait until Thursday.

Earlier this month we told you about the upcoming Queen track pack of DLC for Rock Band/Rock Band 2 that was scheduled for release at the end of October. Well the end of October is rapidly approaching and the Queen track pack will be released next week.

Queen Track Pack

• Another One Bites The Dust
• Crazy Little Thing Called Love
• One Vision
• Fat Bottomed Girls
• I Want It All
• I Want to Break Free
• Killer Queen
• Somebody to Love
• Tie Your Mother Down
• Under Pressure (featuring David Bowie)

The track pack will be available on Tuesday for the XBOX 360 and the Nintendo Wii, while PS3 users will have to wait until Thursday.

A demo for Band Hero is now live on the XBOX Live Marketplace. Featuring the songs "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven, "Picture to Burn" by Taylor Swift and "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves the demo offers gamers an early look into Activision's upcoming pop-centric, family friendly music title. The demo offers up Party Play, which is exactly the same as it is in Guitar Hero 5, as well as the all-new Sing-Along mode, which essentially morphs the game into a session of Karaoke.

The demo is currently only available to XBOX Live Gold members but should expand to silver members in the next week or so.

It seems the success of The Beatles: Rock Band has brought on the interest of a number of other high profile music acts including U2 and Queen. Queen guitarist Brian May has stated that his guys are interested in doing something of the sorts and that it may be happening in the near future.

We recently announced that Queen would be contributing a 10 pack of songs to the Rock Band Store and they have contributed songs to the Guitar Hero franchise in the past so the band collaborating with either Activision or Harmonix on a focused Queen game is certainly not out of the question. The real question though is there enough demand for a Queen or U2 focused game to make it a viable project?

To celebrate the release of Double Fine's metal themed adventure, Brutal Legend, Harmonix has announced they will be bringing Rock Band fans a Brutal Legend Soundtrack pack featuring Motorhead, Tenacious D and Testament. But the rock doesn't stop there as Harmonix will also be releasing tracks from Black Tide, Blink 182, guitar legend Joe Satriani, Kansas and L7.

Brutal Legend Track Pack

• (We Are) The Road Crew '08 - Motörhead
• The Metal - Tenacious D
• More Than Meets the Eye - Testament

Single Tracks

• Show Me the Way - Black Tide
• What's My Age Again? - Blink 182
• Satch Boogie - Joe Satriani
• Surfing with the Alien - Joe Satriani
• Icarus (Borne on the Wings of Steel) - Kansas (Live from Two for the Show)
• Point of Know Return - Kansas (Live from Two for the Show)
• Andres - L7

Yesterday we posted a rumor that Rock Band would be coming for iPhone. Well it turns out that rumor was true and Rock Band iPhone/iPod Touch is a reality that will hit Apple's iTunes Music Store by the end of October.

Along with some preliminary details on the game, developer Harmonix also released the initial track list for the game, consisting of 20 tracks.

· 30 Seconds To Mars - "Attack"
· AFI - "Girls Not Grey"
· All American Rejects - "Move Along"
· Beastie Boys - "Sabotage"
· Blink-182 - "All The Small Things"
· Blondie - "Hanging on the Telephone"
· Foo Fighters - "Learn To Fly"
· Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
· George Thorogood & the Destroyers - "Bad to The Bone"
· Jethro Tull - "Hymn 43"
· Joan Jett - "Hymn 43"
· Lynard Skynard - "Simple Man"
· Motorhead - "Ace of Spades '08"
· Pixies - "Debaser"
· Presidents of The United States of America - "Ladybug"
· Rise Against - "Give It All"
· Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye"
· Smashing Pumpkins - "Cherub Rock"
· Steve Miller Band - "Take The Money and Run"
· The Go Go's - "We Got The Beat"

More tracks will be available for the game via an in game music store once the game launches.

After seeing the mainstream buzz, critical success, and lifelike virtual recreation of The Beatles in The Beatles: Rock Band it seems the superstar rock band U2 wants in on a piece of the action. In an interview with USA Today bassist Adam Clayton expresses his thoughts that the band may be interested in bringing their music and likenesses to the virtual stage.



Based on Clayton's qoute though it seems that U2 would probably want something along the lines of The Beatles: Rock Band. The band is arguably the biggest act running so Harmonix (or Activision) working with them is only an eventuality held up by the band itself. However in an industry already oversaturated with rhythym games and the genre on a noticeable decline year over year, will an audience be there to support a U2 branded game?

According to The OFFICIAL Harmonix Rock Band Community Zine #22, Pearl Jam will be releasing their entire new album, "Backspacer", to the Rock Band store this coming Tuesday (22 September 2009). "Backspacer" will consist of 11 tracks including Pearl Jam's newest hit single, "The Fixer". "Backspacer" marks the second full album by Peral Jam offered as downloadable content in the Rock Band store. The community zine does not mention systems but based on previous releases, expect "Backspacer" to appear on the XBOX 360 and PS3 first with it following shortly thereafter on the Wii.

RockBand.com also has an interview with guitarist, Mike McCready, that gives a little sneak peak at what fans can expect out of the new album.

The crazy outspoken CEO of Activision, Bobby Kotick, is at it again. This time while presenting at a technology conference in San Francisco, Kotick decided to let slip some of his big plans for the behemoth music franchise, Guitar Hero. Basically he expects, Guitar Hero and other Activision properties, to bypass the console space entirely, effectively un-tethering them from the likes of Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony.

It seems to me like Activision's success in recent years has gone directly to the head of Mr. Kotick and he is now saying his company is big enough to go it alone. Of course if games like Tony Hawk's Ride, DJ Hero and Call of Duty's Headlamp Edition sell as well as Kotick thinks they will this holiday season, it will be hard to question his crazy business plans.

Ok, so it's not getting Huey Lewis' "Power of Love" and Marty McFly isn't actually going to be a playable in the game but honestly this is the next best possible news for the Guitar Hero franchise other than those two things happening. 1UP is reporting that Guitar Hero 5 will get backward compatibility for select tracks from Guitar Hero: World Tour and Guitar Hero: Smash Hits as well as the majority of World Tour DLC. The compatibility will be for Guitar Hero 5 on the PS3, Wii and XBOX 360.

It seems the option will handle much like the way Harmonix dealt with backward compatibility for Rock Band to Rock Band 2, as there will be a small fee attached. Of course having recently heard Activision CEO Bobby Kotick's remarks on how he would like to raise prices higher, who knows how small the small fee will actually be but at the very least it is a move in the right direction.

Gorillaz, the virtual band fronted by Blur's Damon Albarn's animated persona "2D", makes its way to the ever growing Rock Band store this coming week with a three pack of songs. Included in the Gorillaz pack will be the songs "Clint Eastwood", "Feel Good Inc." and "Re-Hash". The inclusion of the Gorillaz is another step in developer Harmonix's promise to bring more than just rock music to the platform as the band's music is genre bending under any examination. Of course if you still need your rock fix, have no fear as some additional classic rock tracks will be accompanying the Gorillaz to the Rock Band store front including the likes of Janis Joplin and Jefferson Airplane.

The tracks will be available for purchase on the XBOX 360 Marketplace and Playstation Network on August 11th and 13th respectively. A release date for these songs on Wii is yet to be revealed, although they will probably follow a week or two afterward.

This week Guitar Hero brings us Ben Harper and the Relentless 7 with a three pack of songs to the PS3, Wii and XBOX 360.

Ben Harper and Relentless 7 pack

Shimmer & Shine
Number With No Name
Fly One Time

As per usual the track packs are available in both pack form or as single downloadable tracks.

Head on over to the Guitar Hero thread in the forums to discuss this week's DLC.

This week Rock Band drops some Evanescence and Spinal Tap for XBOX 360 and PS3 users while Wii owners have the opportunity to snag 24 new tracks.

Evanescence Track Pack

Bring Me to Life
Call Me When You're Sober
Weight of the World

Spinal Tap Track Pack

Back from the Dead
Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
Saucy Jack
Warmer Than Hell

As always the track packs are available in both pack form or as single downloadable tracks.

Wii Single Tracks

Avenged Sevenfold "Critical Acclaim"
Ben Harper and Relentless7 "Shimmer & Shine"
Brad Paisley "Mud on the Tires"
Brooks & Dunn "Hillbillie Deluxe"
Coheed and Cambria "A Favor House Atlantic"
Coheed and Cambria "The Running Free"
Crooked X "Rock & Roll Dream" +
Dierks Bentley "Free & Easy (Down the Road I Go)"
Dixie Chicks "Sin Wagon"
The Material "Moving to Seattle" +
Maximo Park "Girls Who Play Guitars"
Miranda Lambert "Gunpowder & Lead"
Motley Crue "Down at the Whisky"
The Myriad "A Clean Shot" +
Phish "Wilson (live)"
Rush "Closer to the Heart"
Shinedown "Devour"
Shinedown "Junkies for Fame"
Shooter Jennings "Steady at the Wheel"
Soundgarden "Jesus Christ Pose"
Soundgarden "Pretty Noose"
TV on the Radio "Wolf Like Me"
Them Terribles "Bullets & Guns" +
Trapt "Who's Going Home With You Tonight?"

Head on over to the Rock Band thread in the forums to discuss this week's DLC.

Activision brings out the big guns this week releasing a Queen track pack and a redone version of the James Bond Theme for Guitar Hero: World Tour as well as releasing its second band centric game Guitar Hero: Metallica. On the other side of the fence Harmonix has decided that all you have to do to counteract that is to "Don't Stop Believin'" in SpongeBob SquarePants. The Queen track pack and the James Bond theme are available now for $5.49 (440 Microsoft Points) or $1.99 (160 MSP) for individual tracks (including the Bond theme). All the Rock Band tracks are available now on XBOX Live and the PSN this coming Thursday (2nd of April) and will be available for $1.99 (160 MSP) a piece or $.99 (80MSP) for the Sponge Bond tracks. Wii owners will be getting Pearl Jam's "Ten" this week at $2.00 (200 Nintendo Points) per track.

Guitar Hero: World Tour

Queen Track Pack

Fat Bottomed Girls
C-Lebrity - Queen and Paul Rogers
We Are The Champions

Individual Tracks

The James Bond Theme - Richard Fortus


Rock Band / Rock Band 2

Individual Tracks

Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Geraldine - Glasvegas
C'mon C'mon - Von Bondies

Sponge Bob Track Pack

I Can't Keep My Eyes Off of You
The Best Day Ever
Where's Gary?

Head on over to the Guitar Hero: World Tour thread or the Rock Band thread in the forums to discuss this week's DLC.