Oh man, it’s August?! Back-to-school sales are starting and the summer is winding down. To me, the beginning of August is depressing, because it means that summer is ending soon. And this is odd, as I haven’t been in school since 2001, so there’s no reason this should affect me. Oh well… hopefully next week’s DLC will console me.

• Blondie – “Rapture”
• dc Talk – “Jesus Freak”
• The Decemberists – “The Perfect Crime # 2”
• Eagles of Death Metal – “I Only Want You”*
• Eels – “Saturday Morning”*
• Family Force 5 – “Love Addict”
• KMFDM – “Sturm & Drang”
• La Roux – “Bulletproof”*

* Denotes Family Friend track compatible with LEGO Rock Band

[Official announcement]

OK, remember the rules! US only, and the first person to answer in the comments below with the correct song title INCLUDING if its a COVER or LIVE version wins their choice of remaining items from here! Here we go…

Hey look at that… the audio is still there! Good luck!

OK, remember the rules! US only, and the first person to answer in the comments below with the correct song title INCLUDING if its a COVER or LIVE version wins their choice of remaining items from here!

UPDATE: For the rest of the “Swag Week” questions, if you’ve won already, you cannot win again. This just helps to “spread the wealth” as much as possible.

Here we go…

And yes, the audio is removed and the quality of the video INTENTIONALLY dropped on this. Good luck!

OK, remember the rules! US only, and the first person to answer in the comments below with the correct song title INCLUDING if its a COVER or LIVE version wins their choice of remaining items from here! Here we go…

The audio is still here… think you can get it? Good luck!

This week’s Throwback Thursday DLC track is one from Harmonix’s most well known bands, Bang Camaro. To date, they have released five total songs on the Rock Band Network, including holding the highest selling track, “Push Push (Lady Lightning),” for quite some time.

The thing is, many people out there may have accidentally missed the fact that they had an official DLC track released in the past. Their track “Rock Rebellion” is on their self-titled album, and was released as DLC way back in April of 2008 as part of the Harmonix pack (which also included the bands Count Zero and Freezepop). The guitar and bass both have the highest difficulty rating available, however it may not be as hard as you expect when looking at the video below.

Check out the full band gameplay video below, courtesy of @HeyRiles!

The song can be purchased in the Rock Band 2 music store, or online at Xbox.com, for only 80 MSP ($.99).

Bang Camaro – Rock Rebellion

Guitar: 6
Vocals: 1
Drums: 3
Bass: 6
Band: 3

Well this was a nice rumor to wake up to this morning. Word from the RockBand.com forums is that the newest copy of the Official Xbox Magazine (September issue with Dead Space 2 on the cover, page 90) is reporting in their rumors section that Rock Band will be seeing Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” album arriving as DLC in the not-to-distant future. It is my understanding that OXM has not been 100% correct on their Rock Band DLC rumors in the past, so lets factor that in to this rumor, as well.

We already have one track off the album, “Battery,” showing up in Rock Band 2. Since then , we’ve seen the release of Guitar Hero’s most critically successful artist-centric game starring Metallica. Before E3, I may have been less inclined to believe this, but Dan Teasdale mentioned to me that bands that have had their own title are not exclusive to the Guitar Hero franchise. Not confirmation, but plausibility, and when it comes to more Metallica in Rock Band, I’ll take it!

While this may be the furthest thing from confirmation, my iPod did play “Master of Puppets” first on shuffle this morning. That’s gotta be worth something, right?

Here’s the full track listing from that album:

1. Battery
2. Master of Puppets
3. The Thing That Should Not Be
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5. Disposable Heroes
6. Leper Messiah
7. Orion [Instrumental]
8. Damage, Inc.

[Thanks for the heads up, @tekturbo]