Posts Tagged ‘Pearl Jam’

Looks like it’s now official.  I talked about it before, but now Harmonix has confirmed it, Pearl Jam’s new full album, Backspacer, will also be released as DLC for Rock Band on the same day as the album release, Sunday, September 20th.  And if you know anything about music (and if you play Rock Band, I’m assuming you do), this is against the industry norm, which is to release new albums on Tuesdays.

The new album can be purchased at Target, and the special edition (retail $29.99) will include a code to download the full album DLC.

Early reviews praise this album as one of their best, and from what I’ve heard myself so far (“The Fixer”), it’s damn good.  Don’t buy many albums anymore, but I’m almost definitely in for one!

[Official announcement]

Not sure if this was supposed to be a secret or not, but it looks like an article in Billboard magazine spilled the beans on Pearl Jam’s next major DLC offering for Rock Band. It appears that Pearl Jam’s next album, “Backspacer,” will be released as DLC the same day as it is released on CD, September 20, 2009! Better yet, it also looks like if you purchase a special edition of the album at Target, the DLC will be free!

The article also mentions that, according to sources at MTV Games, Pearl Jam’s Ten DLC had about 850,000 downloads!   They also give a little more weight to the Pearl Jam-specific game “that could hit stores in 2010.”

Check out the full article over at Billboard.com for a short band interview and all the details!

[via @S1ckH4nds]

Not sure if it’s an early post, an incorrect post, or just something that’s supposed to come, but apparently a prematurely posted announcement on RockBand.com shows the Wii DLC for this week includes three Pearl Jam songs not previously announced as DLC for either the XBox or PS3!  It includes the song “Brother,” as well as two songs from the live album Drop in the Park: “Alive” and “State of Love and Trust.”  The press release also shows the rest of the 32 songs to be released as DLC this week for the Wii, which are included in total below:

UPDATE 1: Looks like the Pearl Jam songs were available as part of a promo for buying Best Buy’s deluxe version of Pearl Jam’s Ten when it was re-released in March. The songs are still not available to purchase as DLC for the Xbox or PS3, however based upon this, I imagine they will be released soon for the other systems.

UPDATE 2: Last update, I promise.  Sean over at Harmonix made an announcement a short time ago that the Pearl Jam DLC referenced above will now be made available to everyone this week, not just those who bought the Ten re-release and Wii players.  Huzzah!

UPDATE 3: Apparently I’m a liar. In Harmonix’s official release, not the leaked one referenced above, they are not releasing as many songs as rumored. I’ve noted the ones below no longer coming out this week for the Wii. The leaked release is still there, but it was updated to reflect the official release.

• The Cab “One of THOSE Nights”
• Dashboard Confessional “Hands Down”
• Dead Kennedys “California Uber Alles”
• Dead Kennedys “Holiday in Cambodia”
• Dead Kennedys “Police Truck”
• Deep Purple “Space Truckin’”
• Free “All Right Now”
• George Thorogood “Bad to the Bone”
• Harvey Danger “Cream & Bastards Rise”
• In This Moment “Forever”
• Lacuna Coil “Closer”
• Lacuna Coil “Swamped”
• Mission of Burma “Mica”
• Mission of Burma “That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate”
• Mission of Burma “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver”
• Nine Inch Nails “Burn”
• Nine Inch Nails “Capital G”
• Nine Inch Nails “Last”
• The Offspring “Gone Away”
• The Offspring “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)”
• Panic at the Disco “She’s a Handsome Woman”
• Pearl Jam “Brother”
• Pearl Jam “Alive (Live: Drop in the Park)”
• Pearl Jam “State of Love and Trust (Live: Drop in the Park)”
• Scars on Broadway “They Say”
• Snow Patrol “Take Back the City”
• Staind “This Is It”
• Testament “Electric Crown”
• Yomp “thenewno2″
• Weezer”Dreamin’”
• Weezer “The Greatest Man That Ever Lived”
• Weezer “Troublemaker”

[via @brianclare and @wrathy]

Backspacer cover album on Conan O'Brien

Pearl Jam’s ten was pretty epic… then there was the Live Pearl Jam Rock Band project announcement… now another Pearl Jam project in the works?  In a story posted about the boys over at NME.com, the following was written: “According to Billboard, the album, which is rumoured to be called ‘Backspacer’ will be released through numerous individual avenues including ” an online retailer, a mobile partner, a gaming company and with a network or possibly networks of indie retail stores.” Is this confirmation? No. But since there have already been two Pearl Jam/Rock Band projects, if their new album is indeed going to be released with a gaming company, it makes sense that it will show up in Rock Band.

Full details can be found here, but Harmonix is reaching out to fans to vote on filling out a track listing of LIVE Pearl Jam tracks for a newly released, as of yet untitled project. I’ve only seen them once in concert (they OPENED for Tom Petty, never thought that would happen), but they obviously rocked! What do you think; what should make the cut?