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Apple Corps, Ltd., MTV Games and Harmonix announced the launch of Abbey Road (1969) as the first Beatles album to be available for purchase and playable as downloadable content in The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store.

With “Come Together,” “Something,” “Octopus’s Garden,” “I Want You (She’s So Heavy),” “Here Comes The Sun” and “The End” already included on The Beatles: Rock Band game disc, players will now be able to play songs from and complete the entire Abbey Road album.

Available for Xbox 360 (Oct. 20) and PlayStation 3 System (Oct. 22)[1]:

Individual Abbey Road singles: “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” “Oh! Darling,” and “Because”

Price: $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per each individual track

The “Complete The Album Pack” features:

· Abbey Road singles: “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” “Oh! Darling,” and “Because”

· The entire Abbey Road B-side 16 minute medley that includes: “You Never Give Me Your Money,” “Sun King,” “Mean Mr. Mustard,” “Polythene Pam,” “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window,” “Golden Slumbers,” “Carry That Weight” and “The End”

· Additionally, the following songs from Abbey Road can also be played as 1-to-3-song sets, based on how they were recorded / composed:

o “You Never Give Me Your Money”

o “Sun King”/ “Mean Mr. Mustard”

o “Polythene Pam”/ “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window”

o “Golden Slumbers”/ “Carry That Weight”/ “The End”*

o “Her Majesty”

Price: $16.99 USD, £10.46 UK, €11.37 EU (1360 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for “Complete The Album Pack”

Available for Wii (Oct. 20):

Individual Abbey Road singles: “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, ” “Oh! Darling,” “Because,” and “You Never Give Me Your Money,” *“Her Majesty

Price: $2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per each individual track

*$1.00 USD (100 Wii Points) for “Her Majesty”

Multi-track sets:

· “Sun King”/ “Mean Mr. Mustard”

· “Polythene Pam”/ “She Came in Through the Bathroom Window”

· “Golden Slumbers”/ “Carry That Weight”/ “The End”*

Price: $3.50 USD (350 Wii Points) per 2-Pack /

* No additional cost for 3rd song “The End” as it is already included on game disc

Additional Beatles albums that have been announced as upcoming downloadable content include Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) in November and Rubber Soul (1965) in December. The Beatles: Rock Band downloadable content will be available for purchase on the Xbox®LIVE Marketplace for Xbox 360, PlayStation®Network and via the in-game The Beatles: Rock Band Music Store for Wii™ using Wii points purchased through the Wii Shop Channel.

The Beatles: Rock Band offers players an unprecedented, experiential progression through the music and artistry of The Beatles and is available for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Wii™ console from Nintendo. The game is compatible with all The Beatles: Rock Band and Rock Band™ instrument controllers, as well as most Guitar Hero® and other authorized third-party music video game peripherals and microphones.

The Beatles: Rock Band marks the first time that Apple Corps, along with EMI Music, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Harrisongs Ltd and Startling Music Ltd has presented The Beatles music in an interactive video game format. The Beatles: Rock Band is published by MTV Games and developed by Harmonix, the world’s premier music video game company and creators of the best-selling Rock Band. Electronic Arts Inc. serves as distribution partner for the game. In addition, Giles Martin, coproducer of The Beatles’ innovative LOVE album project, provided his expertise and served as Music Producer for this groundbreaking Beatles project.

The Beatles: Rock Band is rated “T” for Teen with the descriptors “Mild Lyrics” and “Tobacco Reference” by the ESRB.

The unique rapper who turned his MySpace page into a successful recording contract will play Halo 3 with Xbox LIVE Gold Members June 24. If you’re an Xbox LIVE Gold Member (if not, upgrade now!), and you want a chance to play with Asher Roth, send a friend request to the following Gamertag and be online half an hour before (5:30 P.M. ET) the Game with Fame session starts on Monday, June 22, 6:00 P.M. ET. If you get a chance to play with Asher Roth, we want to hear about it! Send us an e-mail (xlmail@microsoft.com) with the subject: “GWF – Asher Roth.” Be sure to include your Gamertag and home town.

He doesn’t come from the mean streets of the tough city, his roots are in suburbia. But he has impressed rap legends like 50 Cent and Ludacris with his brash and fun style. “[Rap] is for everybody. I couldn’t rap about the drugs that I had or the guns that I sold, but I could rap about how much fun I was having hanging out with my friends. That’s the stuff that felt right to me,” he says. A friend sent a few of his tracks on his MySpace page to former So So Def marketing director Scooter Braun, and he was soon signed to a label. His debut album, Asleep in the Bread Aisle, contains the hit single “I Love College,” and has led to him putting on a series of live sold-out shows where the fun really begins. “My vision is to put on the dopest live show possible,” says Roth. “Let’s make it like Woodstock.”

If you want a sampling of the sound of Asher Roth, we have two music videos available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace:

“Be By Myself” – http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/0cf42d0c-f954-4f47-9537-1d3919f7c590

“I Love College” – http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/55eccb64-c673-437f-8ebe-e50920a16dbc

Asher Roth Game With Fame on Xbox LIVE

Date: June 24th

Location: New York City

Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM (EST)

Game: Halo 3 with Mythic Map Pack add-on

GAMERTAG: AsherRoth GwF (**Note: space between AsherRoth and GwF)

URL: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/calendar/gamewithfame/2009/0622-asherroth.htm

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Innovative progressive metal band Dream Theater, in celebration of the pending release of their new album Black Clouds & Silver Linings, will play Call of Duty®: World at War with Xbox LIVE® Gold Members June 20. If you’re an Xbox LIVE Gold Member (if not, upgrade now!), and you want a chance to play with Dream Theater, send a friend request to the following Gamertags and be online half an hour before (7:30 A.M. ET) the Game with Fame session starts on Saturday, June 20, 8:00 A.M. ET. Note the special time because Dream Theater will actually be playing from Bilbao, Spain, while they’re on tour. If you get a chance to play with Dream Theater, we want to hear about it! Send us an e-mail (xlmail@microsoft.com) with the subject: “GWF – Dream Theater.” Be sure to include your Gamertag and home town.
The band’s tenth album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, will be released June 23 in both a standard edition, and a special 3-CD collection including a CD of instrumentals and one of cover songs. They’ve been recording since 1989, and have developed a huge and intense international fan following. Drummer Mike Portnoy says of the new release, “I think that this album is taking all the things that our fans love about us and putting them all in one place. A lot of the music is dark and heavy, but at the same time it has a lot of soft and melodic edges that are equally important to our sound.” The band consists of James LaBrie (vocals), John Myung (bass), John Petrucci (guitar), Portnoy, and Jordan Rudess (keyboards).

If you want a sampling of the sound of Dream Theater, we have five music videos available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace:
“A Rite of Passage” http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/7524da7e-88dc-4f62-81a2-d5fdd97867bd/

“In The Name Of God” http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/9b877940-1d0b-4f15-b76e-d9db30611a58/

“Lie” http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/a852e649-a289-4a16-b5c4-828259f6046d/

“Pull Me Under” http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/7f3863dd-d7ce-494a-adf3-baa04363909e/

“Take the Time” http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/5507aa90-8cd4-40cd-bab9-af76b8ac1ed4/

Dream Theater Game With Fame on Xbox LIVE
Date: June 20th
Time: 8:00 – 10:00 AM (EST)
Game: Call of Duty: World At War
GAMERTAGS: DreamThtr GwF1 (*Note: space between DreamThtr and GwF1) and DreamThtr GwF2 (*Note: space between DreamThtr and GwF2)
URL: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/calendar/gamewithfame/2009/0620-dreamtheatre.htm

Check out the promo video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfM_EIA67hw
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Pop punk band New Found Glory have just released their sixth studio album, Not Without a Fight, and they’re celebrating by playing WWE Legends of WrestleMania with Xbox LIVE Gold members April 7. If you’re an Xbox LIVE Gold member (if not, upgrade now!), and you want a chance to play with New Found Glory, send a friend request to the following Gamertags and be online half an hour before (4:30 P.M. ET) the Game with Fame session starts on Tuesday, April 7, 5:00 P.M. ET. If you get a chance to play with New Found Glory, we want to hear about it! Send us an e-mail xlmail@microsoft.com with the subject: “GWF – New Found Glory.” Be sure to include your Gamertag and home town.

Epitaph label owner Brett Gurewitz calls New Found Glory “the greatest pop-punk band in history,” which is quite a claim, but fans of the band from their first 1999 album Nothing Gold Can Stay to their brand-new release, realize Gurewitz just might be right. Their sixth studio album, Not Without a Fight, released on March 10 of this year, and has already hit the top ten in the Billboard charts. With the new album, the band seems to have found a new purpose, a new intent in their strong and powerful music. Guitarist Chad Gilbert says, “New Found Glory is back to where we want it to be: we tour, we play music and it’s from the heart.” And he continues, “Nobody in New Found Glory loves anything as much as this band. You fight with your mom. You don’t hang out with her all the time. But you love her! You’re never going to hate her. We’re family. It might sound cliche, but that’s what it is.” That’s almost certainly the reason the band has maintained their current lineup for over ten years. New Found Glory consists of Jordan Pundik (vocals), Chad Gilbert (guitar), Steven Klein (guitar), Ian Grushka (bass), and Cyrus Bolooki (drums).

Game With Fame featuring New Found Glory
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Time: 5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET/2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. PT
Game: WWE Legends of WrestleMania
Gamertags: NewFoundGWF
Link: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/calendar/gamewithfame/2009/0407-newfoundglory.htm

Post-hardcore band Thursday, celebrating the release of their latest album Common Existence, will play Call of Duty: World at War with Xbox LIVEGold members March 21. If you’re an Xbox LIVE Gold member (if not, upgrade now!), and you want a chance to play with Thursday, send a friend request to the following Gamertag and be online half an hour before (2:30 P.M. ET) the Game with Fame session starts on Saturday, March 21, 3:00 P.M. ET. If you get a chance to play with Thursday, we want to hear about it! Send us an e-mail to xlmail@microsoft.com with the subject: “GWF – Thursday.” Be sure to include your Gamertag and home town.

Since SPIN Magazine called them “the next big thing” in 2004, the band has released their classic A City By The Light Divided, the CD/DVD package Kill The House Lights, a split EP with Japanese band Envy, and now, perhaps their most emotionally-felt album, Common Existence. “Writing this album was an enormous amount of work because we wanted to do something that was a progression and was also closer to the heart of what Thursday’s sound is about,” singer Geoff Rickly explains. “Despite all the hard work, it’s the most fun I’ve had making a record.” Their intense lyrics, incendiary vocals, and amazingly unique sound has won them fans all over the world. The band consists of Rickly, guitarists Tom Keeley and Steve Pedulla, bassist Tim Payne, drummer Tucker Rule, and keyboardist Andrew Everding.

Check out an exclusive Game With Fame video: with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wln1vetIf6U&feature=channel_page

Watch the band’s videos on Xbox LIVE® Marketplace! We have five different songs from three of their albums:

“Resuscitation of a Dead Man” (featuring Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath) from Common Existence: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/1d615f1b-352c-4906-a3a0-5e4e1ad5b6a1

“Counting 5-4-3-2-1″ from A City By The Light Divided: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/36204927-e819-4b55-b4ef-db18d265e510

“For the Workforce, Drowning” from War All The Time: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/5ad85988-98be-4e22-936d-69f6c8942a51

“Signals Over the Air” from War All The Time: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/be3ec794-187c-4fbf-98a0-b2ca230020ad

“War All The Time” from War All The Time: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/9b088786-0949-4a42-93b4-83e57449ee0f

Game With Fame Featuring Thursday
Date: March 21st
Location: Houston
Time: 2PM – 4PM (CST)
Game: Call Of Duty: World At War
GAMERTAG: Thursday GWF (**space between Thursday and GWF)
URL: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/calendar/gamewithfame/2009/0321-thursday.htm

Four scorching hot metalcore and progressive metal bands currently on tour throughout the United States will take time off before their tour date in Tulsa, Oklahoma to play Halo 3 with Xbox LIVE members February 8. The bands are currently on tour throughout the U.S. If you’re an Xbox LIVE Gold member (if not, upgrade now!), and you want a chance to play with members of the bands As I Lay Dying, Protest the Hero, The Human Abstract, and MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE, send a friend request to the following Gamertags and be online half an hour before (4:30 P.M. ET) the Game with Fame session starts on Sunday, February 8, 5:00 P.M. ET. If you get a chance to play with any of the members of these bands, we want to hear about it! Send an e-mail to xlmail@microsoft.com with the subject: “GWF – Metal Bands.” Be sure to include your Gamertag and home town.

About the bands…

As I Lay Dying
Metal Blade Records’ biggest-selling act, winner of MTV2’s Metal Gods award in 2006, and nominated for a Grammy in 2008 for Best Metal Performance for the single “Nothing Left,” the band As I Lay Dying has acquired a devoted fan base for their on-stage performances and six albums including their latest, An Ocean Between Us. The band consists of Tim Lambesis (vocals), Jordan Mancino (drums), Nick Hipa (guitar), Phil Sgrosso (guitar), and Josh Gilbert (bass).

Protest The Hero
Protest The Hero, or PTH, say they don’t consider themselves prog, metal, or techno, but we should consider them a fascinating, riff-centric band that has pleased fans with their two full-length albums, Kezia and the white-hot Fortress. The latter album has an especially deep concept, of which lyricist Arif Mirabdolbaghi notes, “It has to do with Goddess Worship, and how there has been this degendering of the Lord and Savior, and the suppressed feminine. The concept is about the re-emerging of goddess worship and the erosion of faith in scientific process.” The band consists of Rody Walker (vocals), Mirabdolbaghi (bass/vocals), Tim Millar (guitar/vocals), Luke Hoskin (guitar/piano), and Moe Carlson (drums).

The Human Abstract
The sophomore release from the band, Midheaven, should portend good things for the band after it has gone through a few changes since their debut release, Nocturne. The term Midheaven refers to one of the four angles on a natal chart, and is believed by astrologers to outline an individual’s goals, achievements, and standing in the world. Check out the progressive metal sound of Nathan Ells (vocals), Andrew Tapley (guitar), Dean Herrera (guitar), Brett Powell (drums), and Sean Leonard (pianist).

MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE
Hailing from northern Alabama, MYCHILDREN MYBRIDE (or MCMB) got the attention of their label, Solid State Records, by a non-stop touring effort, plenty of hard work, and a brutally hardcore metal sound that shakes fans to the core. Their debut album is entitled Unbreakable, and the band consists of Matthew Hastings (vocals), Robert Bloomfield (guitar), Brian Hood (drums), and Joe Lengson (bass).

Xbox Live Game With Fame with…As I Lay Dying, Protest The Hero, The Human Abstract, MyChildren MyBride

WHEN: February 8th
WHERE: Tulsa
WHEN: 4-6PM (CST)
GAME: Halo 3
GAMERTAGS:
As I Lay Dying Gamertag: AILDying GWF (**space between AILDying and GWF)
Protest The Hero Gamertag: PtheHero GWF (**space between PtheHero and GWF)
The Human Abstract Gamertag: THAbstract GWF (**space between THAbstract and GWF)
My Children My Bride Gamertag: MyC MyB GWF (**spaces between MyC and MyB and GWF)

URL: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/calendar/gamewithfame/2009/0208-fourmetalbands.htm