Posts Tagged ‘Pearl Jam’

If you haven’t heard, but in the last 24 hours, there have been two rumors pop up on foreign retail sites about a new Rock Band title focusing around Pearl Jam coming out in September. While this had been announced as a thing quite a long time ago, I thought a refresher might be in order, along with a bank of songs that may be featured in the game.

While Harmonix never made an official announcement about the title, they did promote the project about a year ago. In fact, Pearl Jam’s official site solicited fans to vote for live tracks that they would like to be featured in the game.

The bank of 43 songs from which Pearl Jam allowed fans to choose from are included after the break, along with a nice long playlist of all the tracks for you to listen to today. Read the rest of this entry »

OK, I think I may be eating my words here….

Destructoid received word from MTV Games yesterday about the rumored Pearl Jam: Rock Band game. This is what they said:

“We haven’t announced any products beyond Green Day: Rock Band and Rock Band 3. We have a great relationship with Pearl Jam and hope to have more of their awesome music in the game in the future.”

Well, now comes this little bit of information. RockBand.com superstar @HeyRiles just sent me this (via RedDragon1991)… Apparently the rumor yesterday about a Pearl Jam: Rock Band game coming out this year is looking more and more accurate.

Swiss retail website wog.ch (I’m not familiar with it, either) posted a description titled “Rock Band: Pearl Jam Live,” with a release date of September 16th, 2010. It’s one thing to have a rumor from one source, but to have it corroborated by another source in such a short time frame makes me believe that this is probably happening now! Assuming the release date is a fairly accurate, I’m assuming there may be some discussion of it at E3.

UPDATE: The website also lists in the description 1-6 players, meaning it probably has harmonies similar to the newer titles, as well as lists it as “(Game Only).” Could we possibly be seeing some sort of bundle with this game, unlike Green Day and LEGO?

[Big thanks to @HeyRiles!]

I know there have been rumors of a Pearl Jam project for some time, but I don’t think this is for real, as cool as it would be. The box art is decent, but it smacks of a quick photoshop job. It combines common graphical elements from Pearl Jam and Rock Band (their website background), and unlike previous band-centric games, does not feature the band’s actual likeness on the cover.

Shoddy box art aside, I would find it hard to believe that a Swedish gaming store would have the box art for a game that has yet to be officially announced by Harmonix.

If you want to check out the site where it came from, have a gander at WebHallen.com, or the image captured below.

[via @Toymachinesh]

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]