Arriving in the Rock Band library this week are seven tracks from Rolling Stone magazine’s best guitarist ever Jimi Hedrix and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Below are playthrough videos of the DLC from the always awesome thenewnoelisoncruz and SplyncRB. Definitely check out and subscribe to his YouTube channel!

Links to purchase DLC songs online at Xbox.com are included below for each track. All tracks are 160 MSP ($1.99). The Experience Jimi Hendrix Pack 01 is available for 880 MSP ($10.99). Pro Guitar/Bass charts are noted below where applicable, and can be purchased for an additional $.99. Playthrough charts for Pro Guitar/Bass will be posted tomorrow.

Directly below is a playlist of all the DLC videos, followed by individual videos of each DLC track after the jump.

Playlist of all new DLC:

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The Harmonix Holiday Livestream ended just moments ago, and with it brought three artists coming in early 2012 as DLC. Artists Bush and Hall & Oates will be making their Rock Band debut, and will be joined by Huey Lewis & the News. There was no mention of specific songs coming, but Harmonix did get a jump start on speculation by saying that these artists will only be featured in three-packs.

Harmonix did tease in a very subtle way the Rush 2112 rumor, but John Drake’s hushed “It’s coming soon” comment when it was “accidentally” mentioned seemed to keep it alive. Up for interpretation is whether it was tongue-in-cheek, or serious in nature. Considering Harmonix’s Rush DLC announcement from earlier this month mentioned more Rush news before the end of the year (which is next week), we should hopefully see resolution on this by the end of the week.

And for those who listened to the Rock Band podcast on Friday, Rock Band 3 will be featured as a Xbox 360 Games on Demand title starting tomorrow. If for some reason you still don’t have this game, I don’t recommend taking advantage of this offer, as any theoretical export of Rock Band 3 wouldn’t be possible due to the lack of a hard copy manual with the Games on Demand version.

This past Halloween, Harmonix had the first of what may appear to be several future livestream events, with the latest event occurring today. The livestream event will feature several Harmonix employees interacting in real-time with fans, all while answering fan-submitted questions. This time around, in addition to what occurred in the previous livestream, Harmonix is teasing employee interviews, DLC reveals, as well as Xbox 360 and PS3 DLC giveaways, all while accepting donations benefiting Child’s Play!

There may even be more, as HMXHenry stated in the thread to expect “Other crazy announcements! There’s some exceptionally rad stuff going on in the RB world beyond the DLC and we’ll be talking about those things on the livestream for sure.” This probably is in relation to the new Facebook app, but (GET YOUR HOPES UP EVERYBODY) it could also be construed as a new title announcement!

Running from 5PM to 8PM (Eastern) on their Twitch.TV channel, you will be able to check out all of the above goings-on. In the run up to the livestream during the day today, you can submit questions in their announcement thread.

[Details at RockBand.com]

Harmonix officially announced this morning in the latest podcast that a new Facebook app is now available for players and fans to search for available music on the Rock Band platform, and possibly more importantly, to request music that is not yet available! The app offers a more robust approach to requesting music than the traditional manner. Additional request functionality allows users to request specific artists, and allocate points to emphasize the significance of each request. The tool will also allow users to see what artists have been heavily requested in the given week, and which artists have been most requested since the creation of the app.

This app will not replace the web tool, but will compliment it, and with the ability to see what music other people have requested, I would much rather push people towards using this app in the future. I helped Harmonix beta test this app from a fan perspective a few weeks ago, and I look forward to seeing some of the feedback from myself and everyone else become incorporated into the app in the future.

[Facebook app]

Only two more weeks of DLC this year?! Where does the time go? Harmonix hasn’t specifically shot down the Rush 2112 rumor, so my gut tells me that it probably is happening at some point. Question is, will that be this week? Lets find out!

• The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Long Hot Summer Night
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Gypsy Eyes
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience – All Along the Watchtower *
• Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (Live)
• Jimi Hendrix – Dolly Dagger
• Jimi Hendrix – Freedom *
• Jimi Hendrix – Angel

Pro-Guitar/Bass upgrades for legacy charts:

• The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing

* Denotes Pro-Guitar/Bass chart availability for $.99.

[Official announcement]

Unless otherwise noted, all songs are $1.99.

• Alien Ant Farm – Courage
• Between the Buried and Me – Selkies: The Endless Obsession
• Dance for the Dying – Echo *
• Free Spirit – Cry of an Eagle
• Powerman 5000 – Show Me What You’ve Got

* Denotes $.99 track.

PS3 ROCK BAND NETWORK 12/20 PLAYLIST

[Official announcement]