• The Main Drag – Car Windows (80 MSP)
• The Nebraska Sailing Authority – Second Best Friend (80 MSP)
• The Project Hate MCMXCIX – Descend into the Eternal Pits of Posession (80 MSP)
• Mindflow – Destructive Device (80 MSP)
• Eulogies – Day to Day (80 MSP)

Big shout out to @BrittenKinley for sending this my way.  From a Green Day site down in Brazil comes this little morsel.  Could this be the cover art for the forthcoming Green Day: Rock Band game?  Or could this be a fairly decent photoshop?  I could use the help of you Rock Band sleuths out there… real or fake?

UPDATE: Hey, what do you know… I was right!  Here’s the official box art: Xbox 360, PS3, Wii

[Huge thanks to @BrittenKinley!]

Just saw a tweet cross my screen from @deliciousbees, AKA Harmonix Senior Designer Dan Teasdale, who mentioned that Philippe Dauman, President and CEO of Viacom, has officially announced this morning at the Game Developers Conference that Rock Band 3 will be coming out Holiday 2010.  No details yet on what to expect (maybe?), but I’ll update this post if there any any additional details from Mr. Dauman’s announcement.

Does that set everyone’s minds at ease a little more now?

UPDATE (I’m sure there will be more) 1: Confirmed via Rock Band’s Facebook page, Rock Band 3 will be distributed by EA.

[via @DeliciousBees]

• Flight of the Conchords – The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room) (160 MSP)
• Quartered – Africa (Link)
• Warpath – Life Unworthy of Life (80 MSP)

And if you’re keeping track at home, here were the two songs released yesterday:

• Between the Buried and Me – Mordecai (160 MSP)
• Attack Attack! – Stick Stickly (160 MSP)

Is this an example of life imitating art?  I REALLY doubt this is true, but a part of me still wishes this is coming true.  The blog AfterElton is reporting that four Lady Gaga songs, “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” “Monster,” and “Poker Face,” will be added soon to the Rock Band store as DLC.  The blog post goes on to mention that Rock Band can make you feel like Kanye West, Sting, or John Mayer… three independent artists who are NOT featured in the game (Sting is featured only with the Police), so I have a tendency to believe that this is not happening.

OK, what do you think? True, not true, or not true but secretly hoping it is true?

UPDATE: IT’S REAL!!!  Check out this post on RockBand.com with the details, including an additional song with Eric Cartman’s vocals!  Each track will be $1.99/160 MSP, and the Lady Gaga 4 pack will be $6.99/560 MSP.

Harmonix got a chance to talk to a number of people from RBN-friendly record labels, and was able to get a nice little list of artists that they expect to be appearing in the Rock Band Network very soon.  Some artists include Band of Horses, Sleater-Kinney, Sunny Day Real Estate, Kings X, Arch Enemy (my fave of those listed), and current Rock Band DLC artist, Chiodos.  But be sure to check out the full list of artists that will sooner or later find their way onto the RBN…

• Sub Pop Records
  • Band of Horses
  • Fleet Foxes
  • Iron and Wine
  • Sleater-Kinney
  • Sunny Day Real Estate
  • The Postal Service (pending resolution of technical issues)
  • Mudhoney (pending resolution of technical issues)
• Century Media Records
  • Iwrestledabearonce
  • Vampires Everywhere
  • Kings X
  • The Agonist
  • Firewind
  • Arch Enemy
  • Dark Tranquility
  • Orphaned Land
  • Symphony X
  • Ayreon
  • Nevermore
• Prosthetic Records
  • Scale the Summit – Great Plans
  • Holy Grail – Fight to Kill
  • Animals as Leaders (potentially)
• Red Bull Records
  • Twin Atlantic
  • Black Gold
  • AWOLNATION
• Equal Vision Records
  • Chiodos
  • Portugal. The Man
  • Closure in Moscow
  • Circa Survive
  • Therefore I Am (potentially)
  • This Time Next Year (potentially)

[via Rock Band Zine]