Today must be a busy day at the Harmonix and MTV Games public relations office. First a new trailer (shown above) and now more confirmations as to what tunes you’ll be able to jam out on. We now know over half of the songs that will be featured on the forty-five song set list.

Here’s the list of twenty-five songs confirmed so far:

• “Back in the U.S.S.R.”
• “Can’t Buy Me Love”
• “Day Tripper”
• “Eight Days a Week”
• “Get Back”
• “Here Comes the Sun”
• “I Am the Walrus”
• “I Feel Fine”
• “I Saw Her Standing There”
• “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
• “Octopus’s Garden”
• “Paperback Writer”
• “Revolution”
• “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
• “Taxman”
• “Twist and Shout”
• “Within You Without You”
• “Yellow Submarine”
• “With A Little Help From My Friends”
• “Birthday”
• “I Got a Feeling”
• “Dig a Pony”
• “Do You Want To Know A Secret”
• “I Wanna Be Your Man”
• “And Your Bird Can Sing”

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In an effort to make more content available to consumers MTV and Harmonix announced plans to launch the Rock Band Network later this year. A service that could be a game changer for the popular music rhythm series.

The service itself is pretty straight forward. Artists or labels can submit their music in a couple of different ways. They can either “hire trained developers or school their existing employees to do the work in-house” or send their submissions to “a community of Harmonix-trained freelance game developers.”

The service is intended to help independant artists expose their music to a larger fan base that other wise would have been out of reach. But the service will have positive implications far passed that.

Currently Harmonix can only push out 10 new songs a day to be made available as DLC at the Rock Band store. If you take that bottleneck out of the equation the amount of content that will be available for download would be exponentially greater. Great for fans as well as artists. A win win for everyone.

Songs submitted will be priced by the artist themselves within a range of $0.50 to $3.00 per song. The artists would then get a 30% cut in any sales made of those tracks. Also artists will finally have total control over the note charts for their songs. Something that wasn’t possible in the past.

I wonder if Activision and Guitar Hero have anything up their sleeves to compete with this service? Can their business model selling expansion discs like Guitar Hero: Van Halen hold up when consumers will have a more convenient and cheaper alternative with their competitor. We’ll have to wait and see.

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These two “premium” guitar peripherals are targeted for the hardcore fan and will also be compatible with previous Rock Band and Guitar Hero instruments. So if you want to have a fancy guitar to play fake music with, this is for you!

Is there anyone else out there that thinks this is all a little on the expensive side?

The Beatles: Rock Band will be releasing on September 9th for the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Playstation 3.

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