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We're not sure how we feel about this. So we put it to you. Lady Gaga will have a song pack for Rock Band, coming next week. Included are her hits "Bad Romance", "Just Dance", "Monster", and "Poker Face". Individual songs are available for $2 each, or you can get the whole pack for $6.99.

Under Great White Northern Lights, the Emmett Malloy-directed documentary film that captures The White Stripes’ cross-country Canadian tour, will make its US premiere at the 2010 South By South West Music Conference. The premiere will take place on March 12 at 10:00 p.m. at Austin’s Paramount Theater. The screening will allow fans a peek into the touring lives of one of the world’s most enigmatic bands before its official DVD/Blu-ray release on March 16. In conjunction...

ASIA, one of rock’s important super-groups of the 80s, featuring members from Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, King Crimson and The Buggles, will release Omega, its highly anticipated new album of original material. The record is due in the spring of 2010 on Frontiers Records. Geoffrey Downes, Steve Howe, Carl Palmer and John Wetton, the four original ASIA members, reunited in 2006, 23 years after all four had last played together. The much publicized reunion...

activisionlogoA new three-song track pack just became available for Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero, featuring singles by various popular metal bands. The Metal Track Pack features "Still Rise" by Shadows Fall, "Twilight of the Thunder God" by Amon Amarth and "Laser Cannon Deth Sentence" by Dethklok.

dropkickmurphys_picThe Dropkick Murphys, known for their complex distillation of classic punk rock, Celtic folk and American rock 'n roll, have captured the intensity and camaraderie of their annual Boston hometown St. Patrick's Day shows on Live on Lansdowne, Boston MA -- a CD and DVD set for release March 16, 2010 via the group's own Born & Bred Records (ILG). Live on Lansdowne features 20 fan favorites, and was recorded at seven Boston shows in March 2009. It will...

Brandon, Zach, Adam and best friend Keenan, known as The Architects, have barely slowed down from the Vans Warped Tour that ran this past summer.  They've already scheduled another one!  The Hard Way is the group's 4th album, drawn from songsmiths like Johny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Tom Petty, with inspiration from bands like The Clash, AC/DC and The Who. The Green 17 Tour will have the boys touring with Flogging Molly and Frank Turner beginning February 9,...

100_6900bThe Texas-based singer Jason Castro is touring the country beginning January 20, running through February, in support of his debut CD, scheduled to be released on Atlantic Records at the end of March. He is working with Grammy award-winning producer John Fields (Lifehouse, Switchfoot, Soul Asylum), and such acclaimed songwriters as Kara DioGuardi (Kelly Clarkson, Jewel, Santana), Martin Terefe (Jason Mraz, KT Tunstall), Sacha Skarbek (James Blunt, Jason Mraz), Guy Chambers (Robbie Williams) and Jason Reeves...

threedaysgrace_thumbThree Days Grace will begin a co-headline tour with Breaking Benjamin in Peoria, IL on January 15 at the Peoria Civic Center.The band's most recent release, Life Starts Now, debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 charts, making it the highest debut ever for the band. They've sold over four million albums worldwide -- which is nothing to sneeze at. The Toronto-based rock band is comprised of Adam Gontier (vocals, guitar), Neil Sanderson (drums,...

aliceinchainsAlice in Chains just released a trailer for their upcoming video, Your Decision. The clip features William DuVall, Mike Inez, Jerry Cantrell, and Sean Kinney dressed in suit and tie. The band teamed up once again with Director Stephen Schuster, who also did the video for the song "A Looking In View". The video premieres on iTunes December 1. "Your Decision" is the new single off of the hugely successful album, Black Gives Way To Blue,...

weezerIconic rock band Weezer is back with a new album, Raditude, in stores now. To celebrate this new release, Weezer is going to be performing a very special show at one very lucky college campus. Exactly which campus this show will take place at, however, is still yet to be determined. The T-Mobile Motorola CLIQ Challenge is a competition to see which college has what it takes to get Weezer to their campus. And it all...