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This is not the first picture that unfortunately comes to mind when hearing this song play in my head. While I dare not describe the original said image, music industry website The Royalty Network, who has spilled the beans before on rumors, has recently reported that 80s new wave act Dead or Alive and Rock Band will meat, spinning out the band’s hit “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” as DLC hopefully in the future.

From The Royalty Network:

Video game ‘Rockband’ requested use of…

“You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)” (Lever/Percy/Burns/Coy) by Dead or Alive. We Sub-publish this song on behalf of Westbury Music (PRS).

While Rock Band is mentioned by name, it is entirely possible that Harmonix is the one actually licensing the song, possibly for use in Dance Central as DLC or a future title.

If you recall, Harmonix had licensed a “remake” of the song, “Right Round” by Flo Rida, which borrows liberally from the original, but has not yet been used in the game or as DLC at this point.

(The Royalty Network via @toymachinesh)

In RockBand.com’s 2011 “Year in Review” post, they had a section towards the bottom talking about what is in store for the franchise next year. They list the three artists announced in the livestream from this month, except where Huey Lewis & the News should be, a different artist is present, and one that has not yet been featured in the game: Men at Work.

We’ve taken a screenshot as evidence and included it above, but as of publishing, the listing is still included on RockBand.com for your own perusal. We tried to corroborate this by checking for an artist listing on RockBand.com, but there wasn’t one, so there’s a very strong chance that the person who wrote this may have Men at Work on the mind and had an accidental slip-up. Only time will tell if this is true or not.

[RockBand.com via @DogmaticDLCQP, @Jimmy_Lobo]

Let’s sum up where we are at right now, shall we? We originally heard about a 2112 DLC rumor way back at the beginning of December when Alexandre from France grabbed a pic of a placeholder for a 2112 DLC pack in the music store in Rock Band 3 (sent in by Guillaume). Since that time, a LOT more evidence has come out:

• Barely an hour after the initial screen grab was posted, it was corroborated with another pic someone took.
• With the 12/13 Rush DLC official announcement, this statement was also included: These three tracks are just the tip of the iceberg for Rush fans; we’ll have even more exciting Rush/Rock Band news before the year’s out, so stay tuned!
• On the December 19th Harmonix Holiday Livestream, they dropped several teasers as well, including a “slip of the tongue” on wishing everyone a “Happy 2112,” as well as a not-so-subtle “It’s coming!”
• A “reminder” of all the above info from @HMXHenry this morning.
• Finally, @HMXHenry’s response about when 2112 will be announced: If I told you that now then I’d have nothing to announce next Wednesday.

I’m not able to corroborate this rumor, so take this with a huge grain of salt, but Guillaume recently sent us the above picture, taken earlier today from the French Xbox 360 Rock Band store.

There are a number of things that don’t make sense in the above picture (DLC doesn’t come out on Fridays, no individual track titles listed, album artwork missing) so unfortunately my gut tells me this probably isn’t happening, but if it is… I think a lot of people are going to be happy.

UPDATE 1: RockBand.com user “joerockbandplay” saw the same thing, and captured the image below:

UPDATE 2: With the DLC announcement for 12/13 which brought three Rush tracks, this statement was also on the official announcement:

These three tracks are just the tip of the iceberg for Rush fans; we’ll have even more exciting Rush/Rock Band news before the year’s out, so stay tuned! 

[Image sent in from Guillaume]

Several weeks ago, Rock Band achieved 2 million “likes” on Facebook, and as they promised, they released the names of four artists that would be featured as upcoming DLC. Of those artists teased (Breaking Benjamin, Coldplay, Stevie Wonder, and Dream Theater), only one has not had DLC released yet. If we look back, the trend of the release of these teased artists seemed to be on an “every other week basis,” which if continued would mean that Dream Theater should be announced this week, for release next week. And we now have new information that may corroborate this thinking.

Earlier today, Trivium announced on their Facebook page that the title track from their latest album In Waves will be available as part of the “Roadrunner Records Pack 02,” and that we can “download it now.” As this week’s DLC has already been announced and didn’t include this new Roadrunner pack, we’re assuming that this announcement was premature, and probably meant for next week. As Dream Theater is also a Roadrunner Records artist, and they only have a single song coming to Rock Band, they are most likely part of this pack, as well.

No telling what else may be coming as part of this pack, or how many songs may be included with this pack. If you see some of the artists associated with Roadrunner, you will see that there are some that we are very familiar with, and others that have yet to make their debut. The first “Roadrunner Records Pack” included six five songs (Aesthetics of Hate, Clouds Over California, Constant Motion, My Curse, Sleepwalker, and Runnin’ Wild), so hopefully this rumored pack will have at least five (or more) songs, as well.

UPDATE: Trivium has recently updated their Facebook page to included that the pack will indeed be releasing on November 29th, as we predicted.

No official confirmation from Harmonix/Rock Band on the date, however Rock Band did make the following comment on the Trivium post:

[via @DogmaticDLCQP]

In the same thread as the one over at RockBand.com uncovered several live versions of Pearl Jam songs, many more songs were uncovered from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fall Out Boy. The songs that had placeholders include:

• Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Look Around
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Monarchy of Roses
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Other Side
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Parallel Universe
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue
• Fall Out Boy – Dance, Dance
• Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We’re Goin Down
• Fall Out Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
• Incubus – Adolescents
• Incubus – Pardon Me
• Incubus – Wish You Were Here
• EMF – Unbelievable

UPDATE: The URL’s linked to above all 404 out now that the cat is out of the bag. To those who didn’t check out the links in time, this is one example of what the pages looked like (Thanks Andrew!):