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Rock Band Gets A Bit More Foo For The Holidays

12:40PM Michael McWhertor | If you were a little underwhelmed by yesterday’s “Rockin’ the Holidays 2008″ track pack for Rock Band announcement, you probably read the announcement. Don’t worry, the Foo Fighters are here to bring DLC cheer. More »

Next Week On Rock Band: Foo

6:40AM Michael McWhertor | Next week sees the release of the rest of the Foo Fighters’ sophomore album The Colour and the Shape for Rock Band owners. Those with Rock Band 2 in-hand are already playing radio hit “Everlong” from the 1997 album, but the remaining twelve tracks — including drummer’s choice “My Hero” — will hit the Xbox 360 starting next Tuesday, the PlayStation 3 the following Thursday. The full list of songs follows. More »

Foo Fighters Performing At Spike’s VGAs

7:20AM Mike Fahey | If you were planning on attending the Spike TV Video Game Awards in Las Vegas this Friday and are Foo or Foo-related, then you’d better come armed. The channel has announced that multi-platinum recording artists Foo Fighters will be performing live at the event as a sort of promotional Rock Band tie-in sort of deal. With that in mind, I’d expect they’d be performing “Learn To Fly” from the game, perhaps one of my favourite songs from the band. I might have to make my way over to the house of someone with one of them new-fangled cable-TV boxes to check it out when the show airs on Sunday night – if not for the Foo Fighters, then for the MTV Games’ Rock Band platform set up on the red carpet, which will encourage celebrities to embarrass themselves publicly. This brings me joy. More »