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Sean Baptiste
The Official Harmonix Rock Band Podcast Episode 3 - Triple Threat
Episode 3 with a special Desert Bus for Hope Interview, Social ep2, The GiggleB*s ep2, the DLC Roundtable and More! Read full post »
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The Official Harmonix Rock Band Podcast Episode 2 – Epic Enlightenment
The second episode! Always better the second time around! Interview with Paul & Storm of Paul& Storm fame. Also the first episode of Social, RBN music overview and a DLC roundtable. Read full post »
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PAX Tweetup - Like Canterbury Tales, But With Chocolate Bacon Martinis
Sean hosts the first Harmonix Rock Band tweetup, meeting Rock Band fans for an adventure ending in chocolate bacon martinis. Read full post »
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The Official Harmonix Rock Band Podcast Episode 1 – Inaugural Insanity
The Official podcast for Rock Band fans coming straight from the company that made the game – Harmonix Music Systems. Read full post »
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Demo Time ALL The Time.
You know what’s awesome? Standing on stage giving a presentation to 80 jaded game journalists who are suffering stimuli fatigue from bright flashing lights, loud noises, FPS motion sickness, and greasy PR people and seeing them walk out after the presentation with contented happy smiles on their faces. Read full post »
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HMX Community On The Road: E3 Booth Walk Through
Join the community team exclusive walk through of 10,000 square foot, Abbey Road recreation of The Beatles: Rock Band E3 booth. Read full post »
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Rock Judge Manifesto
If you’re reading this your band has already qualified (or is about to qualify) to get ripped apart by me after your performance... Read full post »
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Rock Band Community Team At Sundance 2009
A mad-cap re-cap of the Rock Band Lounge at Sundance 2009! Read full post »
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Child's Play Charity Dinner Results
Every year we donate something or some things to Penny Arcade's Child's Play Charity dinner in Seattle, and this week was no different. Read full post »
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No Doubt Singles DLC
No Doubt finally comes to Rock Band. Read full post »
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European Bands, Miranda Cosgrove And The Naked Brothers Band DLC
Check out the wide variety in this week's DLC tracks. Read full post »
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Foo Fighters' The Colour And The Shape Full Album DLC
The Foo Fighters' The Colour and the Shape is available as a full album download for Rock Band and Rock Band 2. Read full post »
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Presidential DLC
Enjoy some Presidents of the United States of America DLC in honor of Election Day. Read full post »
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Siouxsie And The Banshees DLC
Siouxsie and the Banshees three-pack, plus bonus tracks from Blink 182, Silversun Pickups and The Psychedelic Furs. Read full post »
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Motley Crue's Dr. Feelgood Full Album DLC
Mötley Crüe's classic album Dr. Feelgood is now available as DLC. Read full post »
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Offspring 3-Pack And More
More Offspring tracks come to Rock Band, plus Static-X, Screaming Trees, Harvey Danger and more. Read full post »
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Rush's Moving Pictures Full Album DLC And More
The day has finally come - Rush's Moving Pictures album is now available as DLC. Also available this week are six individual tracks from bands like Bad Religion and The Cult. Read full post »
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Megadeth Full Album DLC
Megadeth full album download plus tracks from Rock Band Tour bands the Cab, Dashboard Confessional, Panic at the Disco and Plain White T's. Read full post »
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Just Came Back From E3
Sean shares some of the passion Harmonix puts into their games. Read full post »
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MTV Movie Awards
Harmonix rocks with the American Gladiators, the Pussycat Dolls, and even Tila Tequila at the MTV Movie Awards. Read full post »
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Travel? Travel.
Harmonix celebrates the European launch of Rock Band. Read full post »
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Trip To St. Paul
Harmonix participates in the Grammy Foundation's Career Day. Read full post »
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Getting Back On The Horse
Getting back to writing Read full post »
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First Recorded Outside Musician
Some backstory on Florence Foster Jenkins, an "outsider" musician Read full post »
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Perfect Potato Recipe
Sean shares his perfect potato recipe with the world. Read full post »
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Valve Party At GDC And Special Preview Of An Upcoming DLC Song
New extra-special DLC song revealed! Read full post »
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Rock Band Goes Grammy!
Rock Band parties at The Grammys with Herbie Hancock, Taylor Hawkins, and others. Read full post »
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Grammy All Access
Sean gives you an all-access pass to backstage at the Grammys. Read full post »
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Prodigal Brain Dump
The Rock Band community jumped from 5,000 members to 60,000 after the launch of the game. Read full post »
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Profile: Artist, John Dee
Q&A with Harmonix Artist John Dee. Read full post »
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Profile: Audio Lead, Eric Brosius
Q&A with Harmonix Audio Lead Eric Brosius Read full post »
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Lemons Into Lemonade
In the event of a zombie takeover, we will trade you games for string cheese and beef jerky. Read full post »
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Why Things Take So Long
Sean explains why you haven't seen a gameplay video of Rock Band yet. Read full post »
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Yes, We Listen To Everything
Sean explains that we read every song request fans send us. Read full post »
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Who Does What: Tech Art
An introduction to what a technical artist does Read full post »
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Further Explanation Of The Desert Heist
Sean tells his previously mentioned desert heist story. Read full post »
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How Did I Get Here, Part I
Sean tells how he came to work at Harmonix. Read full post »
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Focusing Your Furor Into Effective Emails
Sean provides guidelines for writing an angry letter to a company. Read full post »
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Phantom Gourmet - Ghost?
Sean checks out MC Frontalot and fixes his mom's computer - all in one weekend! Read full post »
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Sleep When You're Dead
Sean has an extremely busy week. Read full post »
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Crash
Congrats! You crashed the site! Read full post »
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I Go Through On Bets (Even When I Lose)
Sean explores why you shouldn't make bets you might lose. Read full post »
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Welcome To Rock Band
Sean welcomes you to the new Rock Band website. Read full post »
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