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Rock Band DLC Announced for May 5th

Rock Band DLC Announced for May 5th
Written Friday, May 01, 2009 by Dan Webb

MTV Games and Harmonix today detailed their upcoming Rock Band downloadable content for May 5th; 10 tracks coming from 6 different bands.

A wide array of bands heading your way this week including Franz Ferdinand, Alien Ant Farm and The Allman Brothers Band, to name but a few. Tracks can be purchased for 160 points each, or you can pick the Franz Ferdinand track pack up for 440 points which includes all 3 songs. The songs coming your way on May 5th are as follows:

Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out”
Franz Ferdinand “Do You Want To”
Franz Ferdinand “Lucid Dreams”
Alien Ant Farm “Smooth Criminal”
The Allman Brothers Band “Blue Sky”
The Allman Brothers Band “Midnight Rider”
The Distillers “Drain the Blood”
Luscious Jackson “Naked Eye”
Prong “Idealistic Types”
Prong “The Banishment”



User Comments
Comment #1 by klutch
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 12:40:49 PM

omg alien ant farm yes im dowloading dat 4 sure

Comment #2 by D0ctorNick
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 12:41:20 PM

Smooth Criminal should be fun! Don't even know any of the other artists/songs :(

Comment #3 by Infomouse
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 12:41:49 PM

Franz Ferdinand is alright

Comment #4 by alex31991
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 12:43:06 PM

woot, Smooth Criminal

Comment #5 by BongloadingJedi
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 12:44:54 PM

Hooray for Distillers!

Comment #6 by thatfrigginguy
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 12:47:02 PM

oooohhh yea the allman bros!

Comment #7 by thefamousamos1987
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 12:49:28 PM

Why can't they release something worth downloading....a Korn track pack would make my day.

Comment #8 by Decoratedwhale
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 12:52:44 PM

Franz and Distilers for me :]

Comment #9 by Sniper07LHS
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 12:53:55 PM

getting smooth criminal!!!

Comment #10 by PimpingChloe
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 12:56:24 PM

#8 Prong is a major influence of Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

Comment #11 by iain943
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:02:38 PM

SMOOTH CRIMINAL! WOO!

Comment #12 by Freshmaker
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:02:59 PM

wtf!!!!, smooth criminal, Anal Crap Fart (Alien Ant Farm), did u people forget who the Original artist was, MJ would be way better for this song, as far as it goes FF has me

Comment #13 by Ryamus
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:03:58 PM

lol @ korn

Comment #14 by xx99
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:04:15 PM

...May 5th?


I'm so thrilled for Franz Ferdinand... I've been wanting them since GHII. :)

Comment #15 by xx99
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:04:53 PM

Sorry for double comment, I feel like a dork after just finding out Franz was in the first GH. Never played that one...

Comment #16 by FredOnToast
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:09:42 PM

These will work on Rock Band 1 too right? I so wanna play Smooth Criminal

Comment #17 by AlmightyZing
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:16:54 PM

@#3 - Epic Fail

Might get Smooth Criminal. Its been far too long since a song I like has showed up

Comment #18 by Webb
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:18:50 PM

Yeah, May 5th, ha ha. I was looking at the calendar all funny =P (PS ... I was looking at June 5th) ... okay, okay, you can stone me now.

Comment #19 by vFSvStinkywonv
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:20:06 PM

@15 Pretty sure those will work on RB1... I got songs on RB2 that work with RB1 such as BYOB, Limelight, and a few others and they work.

Comment #20 by AlmightyZing
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:21:17 PM

take back my #3 comment. post was removed i guess (bout time they started doing that)

Comment #21 by Comrade D Rock
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:26:09 PM

so wait, i get to buy franz ferdinand, allman brothers band, AND alien ant farm? tuesday will be a good day!

Comment #22 by IMAMEX
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:27:29 PM

Totally picking up the FF pack & Smooth Criminal.

Comment #23 by KingSigy
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:28:43 PM

Oh Lord, Alien Ant Farm...well, at least it's only one. Good stuff with the Allman Bros, though.

Comment #24 by guitarlord
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:29:00 PM

nice, franz ferdinand and alien ant farm, still wanting chinese democracy before i get this though haha

Comment #25 by MG6490
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:44:31 PM

awesome. Im gonna use my 500 free points to get Some of these lol.

Comment #26 by Immortaltekniqq
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:53:41 PM

SMOOTH CRIMINAL :O

Comment #27 by DCManiac
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:58:27 PM

'meh. ill pass. rather spend my points on the fallout dlc than this 'music'.

Comment #28 by i m redshark
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 01:59:35 PM

some of the better DLC i have seen from harmonix, but i still won't be downloading this.......

Comment #29 by swickdawg2000@aol.com
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 02:14:43 PM

lol #7 korn sucks

Comment #30 by Stoic Person Eater
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 02:21:33 PM

SMOOTH CRIMINAL? This has made Rock Band worth hanging onto.

Comment #31 by Zaku77
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 02:23:49 PM

LOL at Korn. LET'S BASH ON RANDOM DOWN TUNED POWER CHORDS AND SCREAM ABOUT TEEN ANGST = Korn.

They need more solo guitarists I want to see some Friedman or Rusty Cooley on here!

Comment #32 by BootlegWarrior6
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 02:30:20 PM

allman brothers kick ass. should have picked better songs from them though...

Comment #33 by DefEdge
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 02:36:58 PM

I liked the entire Anthology album AAF put out. Too bad my sis borrowed the disk and wrecked it. And yes, I know MJ wrote the original Smooth Criminal, I like both songs.

This may actually be one of the first RB songs I'll get, but I am probably going to be too much of a cheapskate to get it.

Comment #34 by RobertM24
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 02:44:16 PM

wanted Smooth criminal by AAF since I got into GH2 when it came out on PS2 :)

Comment #35 by ShadyKav
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 02:46:42 PM

I am so getting "Take Me Out."

That's all I can get for now anyways; I need me more MSP. I want "Smooth Criminal".

Comment #36 by Arcanon
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 02:49:19 PM

Smooth Criminal, Franz Ferdinand, and maybe Allman Brothers for me. I'd get it all, but I can't spend my entire month's budget on the first week of DLC.

I like this week.

Comment #37 by bcbell2009
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 02:55:37 PM

ok these songs are fine for now but i want Our Lady Peace, Blink-182, Staind, Nickelback, Audioslave, 1980's Guns n Roses

Comment #38 by peterk
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 03:01:19 PM

Definitely buying the Franz Ferdinand pack and at least 1 of the Allman Brothers tracks, Prong is also a consideration. Expensive week, considering Broken Steel comes out too.

Comment #39 by prowlerdante
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 03:06:14 PM

Totally getting Prong, Allman brothers, AAF, and Distillers. A good week.

Comment #40 by xXMI5xSNIPERXx
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 03:06:50 PM

Finally more allman brothers!

Comment #41 by nrask7
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 03:24:28 PM

nothing special.

Comment #42 by Longhorns
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 03:34:05 PM

Smooth Criminal!

Comment #43 by Tobi
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 03:38:44 PM

"The Banishment" sounds like it'll be a pretty good full band track to play. It's the only one I checked out out of all these ("Take Me Out" and "Smooth Criminal" were the only two songs I'd heard of). I'll probably get those three, depending on if the other ones rock just as hard.

And to anyone wanting a Korn track pack: I'm totally behind that idea.

Comment #44 by ssssssssssssss1
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 03:57:32 PM

smooth criminal FTW

Comment #45 by Krisko Disko
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 04:01:53 PM

Smooth Criminal should be lots of fun. Nice to know they'll be releasing cover songs, I wonder what other windows that opens for them...

Comment #46 by eXtreme 1138
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 04:04:34 PM

Take Me Out is a beast of song.

Comment #47 by YUNDERSTAND
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 04:06:10 PM

The Allman brothers are awesome!!

Comment #48 by buck wyyld
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 04:08:16 PM

I love Prong, but why not something truly awesome, like "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" or "Unconditional"? THese tracks are much weaker.

Yeah, Korn fucking blows kiddies.

Some good tracks here, though:)

Comment #49 by JustAFriend
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 04:09:04 PM

alien ant farm!! awesome-o, franz ferdinand too, also alsome


Comment #50 by RoBTheBEAst 58
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 04:26:54 PM

they need to start adding metal and heavy metal songs

Comment #51 by nickb2819
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 04:41:10 PM

allman brothers!

Comment #52 by AngrySalad
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 04:42:32 PM

Boy, no love for Naked Eye? I'll be picking that up. As well as Midnight Rider and Take Me Out. And, perhaps some Smoove Criminal.

Comment #53 by Zaku77
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 04:50:45 PM

I want to see some black metal track packs. Super fast blast beats and tremolo picking, it would impossible to play, but oh so fun to watch people attempt.

Comment #54 by Roland Van Owen
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 06:23:47 PM

Freshmaker, of course people know MJ did "Smooth Criminal" first but how would it be better in RB? You need a 4 piece rock arrangement that is fun to play. The Alien Ant Farm version is that and then some. MJ would be a great candidate for Lips but not for RB.

Comment #55 by Colossus033
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 06:27:08 PM

finally a good week!!!

Comment #56 by Adrenaline240
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 06:52:39 PM

I love how the amount of songs for one week or rock band is the same as like 1.5 months of guitar hero.

viva la rock band!

Comment #57 by Adrenaline240
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 06:53:48 PM

*of

Comment #58 by nothingface0
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 07:11:17 PM

Cool, got some Prong. Only complaint, why not pick 2 of their best songs?

Comment #59 by Freshmaker
Friday, May 01, 2009 @ 09:45:20 PM

funny how people like crappy music like Alien Ant Farm, they are a rip off band, that version of Smooth Criminal sucked testies, only few I see here that have good taste which have also despised Alien Ant Fart

Comment #60 by TheVoidRose
Saturday, May 02, 2009 @ 12:30:46 AM

OMG I was talking to someone in the car a few days ago when "Take me out" came on the radio, I told them 'That would be fun on rock band'. Now look! I am going to jynx every song I hear on the radio now!

btw I am getting AAF and Take Me Out next week ;p

Comment #61 by shadowfeeder
Saturday, May 02, 2009 @ 12:17:04 PM

Nice, will probably pick most of these up.

Comment #62 by lilasianman
Saturday, May 02, 2009 @ 12:28:31 PM

I will probably get take me out, other than that there's nothing there for me.

Comment #63 by MrHyms
Sunday, May 03, 2009 @ 05:24:35 AM

Take Me Out is classic.

AAA's Smooth Criminal should be compulsory for anybody who has this game.

Just how much better is RB music store content than GHWT??

Comment #64 by Goatlegged
Monday, May 04, 2009 @ 01:18:16 PM

its not


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