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A List Of What Goes On Behind The Scenes In No Particular Order

You’ve passed thru the door of “Abbey Road Studios”, were wowed by The Beatles Rock Band and the mad skills of our demo stage team. Read full post »

Filed under: Rock Band on the Road / Tags: e3 / 0 comments

A Touch Of A Touch Of Evil: New Live Judas Priest DLC

by Brett Milano / July 14

Three tracks from Judas Priest's new live album A Touch of Evil come to the Rock Band music store. Read full post »

Filed under: DLC News / Tags: judas-priest, pack, metal, 2000s / 7 comments

Alice Cooper Slashes Up Rock Band

by Brett Milano / May 19

We can’t promise better scores on the Alice Cooper pack if you wear lots of dark makeup and put a live boa constrictor around your neck. But it definitely wouldn’t hurt. Read full post »

Filed under: DLC News / Tags: alice-cooper, rock, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s / 26 comments

Are We Famous Yet?: How To Know When You've Made It Big

by The Hellion / June 29

A month or so ago, my band VAGIANT was playing at a basement show. Read full post »

Filed under: 52 Weeks to Rock / Tags: hmxhellion, be-a-rockstar, joan-jett / 7 comments

Atlanta, Kitchen Appliances & Limbs: A Conversation With Peaches

by Fish McGill / July 8

We sat down with Peaches to discuss inspirations for the doohickeys with interchangeable limbs and attitudes. Read full post »

Filed under: Sketchbook / Tags: peaches, tattoos, rock-band-art / 2 comments

Avatar Contest Winner

by The Duke of Gravity / May 13

All of us advanced beings at the far end of the time-space continuum were much impressed by your futuristic entries in our Star Trek contest. Read full post »

Filed under: Announcements / Tags: contests / 23 comments

Be My Stevie And I'll Be Your Lindsey: To Date Or Not To Date Your Bandmates

by Allen Holt / June 15

At some point it's bound to happen: your band's at rehearsal (assuming you bother to rehearse) or maybe playing a gig. You take a sidelong glance at your guitarist as her fingers slide smoothly up and down the neck of her beaten-up old Strat, or at the drummer's glistening shirtless torso as he works up a serious sweat keeping the beat that your bassist can't seem to find. Read full post »

Filed under: 52 Weeks to Rock / Tags: hmxallen, dealing-with-bandmates / 7 comments

Been There, Made That: Rock Band Venues

by Christine Jandreau / April 22

We’ve covered the last venue in Rock Band 2 – the gorgeous Shanghai Arena – but before players reach the final stage they have to play a lot of smaller spots. Read full post »

Filed under: Sketchbook / Tags: matt-moore, rock-band-art, venues, steven-kimura, peter-macdonald / 16 comments

Big Dipper DLC: A Muse To Legends

by Brett Milano / July 14

Three DLC tracks from Boston's own Big Dipper join the Rock Band music store. Read full post »

Filed under: DLC News / Tags: big-dipper, pack, indie-rock, 2000s / 3 comments

Blink-182 DLC

by Brett Milano / July 28

Modern rock history was made on May 14th of this year, when Blink-182 played its first show in four years. Read full post »

Filed under: DLC News / 4 comments

Bonnaroo Six Pack Of DLC

by Brett Milano / June 2

Next weekend, we expect than many of you will be trucking off to Manchester, TN for Bonnaroo, the annual live-music splurge and weekend in the sun. Here's a six-pack of DLC from artists appearing at the show. Read full post »

Filed under: DLC News / Tags: pack, phish, ben-harper, relentless7, tv-on-the-radio, shooter-jennings, coheed-and-cambria / 4 comments

CD Or Not CD: They’re Clunky, Expensive And Obsolete. But Yes, You Still Need To Deal With Them

by Brett Milano / May 11

As we’ve all heard a million times by now, the CD is dead. If you want to sell music, all you’ve got to do is let your fans pay the price of their choice for a download. Read full post »

Filed under: 52 Weeks to Rock / Tags: hmxmusoman, promoting-your-band, recording-your-band / 8 comments

Community Team Inside Abbey Road

by HMXHenry / April 8

The HMX Community Team has been in some pretty unbelievable spots lately Read full post »

Filed under: Rock Band on the Road / Tags: hmxhenry, hmxjohnd, hmxkat, the-beatles-rock-band / 12 comments

DPS: Community On The Road

by HMXKat / April 7

The HMX PR/Community team was more than happy to escape the frozen tundra of Cambridge and spend a few days (or at least parts of a few days) in the bright Arizona sunshine. Read full post »

Filed under: Rock Band on the Road / Tags: hmxkat, hmxjohnd, hmxalex, dps, the-beatles-rock-band / 3 comments

Damone DLC

by Brett Milano / July 28

For the second week in a row, we’re throwing three three-packs at you at once…and then throwing in something extra. Read full post »

Filed under: DLC News / 5 comments

Dealing With Band Member Turnover

by Alex Navarro (HMXaleX) / June 22

When one enters into the unholy cabal that is a “band,” there are a number of unfortunate realities one must wrestle with at some juncture or another. Read full post »

Filed under: 52 Weeks to Rock / Tags: hmxalex, dealing-with-bandmates, start-a-band / 6 comments

Demo Time ALL The Time.

by Sean Baptiste / June 12

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 »

Filed under: Rock Band on the Road / Tags: e3 / 2 comments

Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away): How To Kick Out A Bandmate Without Getting Kicked Wicked Hard In The Shins

by The Hellion / June 8

A band can be a fragile thing. Sometimes the chemistry is perfect – you all love nothing more than sitting around in the space chugging Clamweiser and writing Deep Purple rip-offs about how great you look in Capri pants. But sometimes the chemistry isn't so hot. Read full post »

Filed under: 52 Weeks to Rock / Tags: hmxhellion, dealing-with-bandmates / 21 comments

Don't Go On The Boat: The Promotional Party

by Brett Milano / April 7

So you’ve just released your first CD (or record, or download, or piece of fancy cardboard). Great! Now you’ve got to make sure people know about it. Read full post »

Filed under: 52 Weeks to Rock / Tags: hmxmusoman, promoting-your-band / 2 comments

Evanescence Three-Pack In The Rock Band Store

by Brett Milano / June 18

All Rock Band women finally have their chance to be the dark and dazzling Amy Lee — and so do the guys; we won’t tell. Read full post »

Filed under: DLC News / Tags: evanescence, artist-pack, nu-metal, 2000s / 19 comments

Featured Video Of The Week #1: Hope's P!nk Sweater

by John Drake / June 8

Check out the winning video from the E3 sweepstakes "Limelight (original)" as performed by Hope's P!nk Sweater from Denton, Texas. Read full post »

Filed under: Rock Band on the Road / Tags: e3, hmxjohnd, video, contests / 2 comments

Featured Video Of The Week #2: Heart Pumps Liquid Betrayal

by John Drake / June 23

"More Than a Feeling" as performed by Heart Pumps Liquid Betrayal Read full post »

Filed under: Announcements / Tags: pepsi / 1 comment

Featured Video Of The Week #3: Hot Chocolate Party

by John Drake / June 30

Hot Chocolate Party "More Than A Feeling" Read full post »

Filed under: Announcements / 3 comments

First Gigs, Nightmare Or Otherwise

by Jessica Smith / June 1

If you’re an aspiring rock star, you’re going to have to do it eventually. I’m not talking about waking up naked being spooned by a stranger on the couch of a hotel room under a dirty sleeping bag. I’m talking about getting up on stage for the first time ever, in front of a (hopefully?) large crowd who probably hates you already because they don’t know who you are. Read full post »

Filed under: 52 Weeks to Rock / Tags: hmxjessica, playing-live / 2 comments