Not so rock Rock Band concert tours the U.S.

Posted Jul 30th 2008 3:30PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News

EA, MTV Games, Harmonix and the whole ball of musical wax just announced a new Rock Band Live Tour that's set to travel across the United States, making 29 stops and kicking off October 5th in San Diego. Funny thing about the Rock Band concert, it isn't all that rock inspired. Bands including Panic At The Disco and Dashboard Confessional will headline the tour with special guests Plain White T's and The Cab. Yeah ... about that. Interesting though is mention that local bands will have a chance to play on the main stage between acts, battling it out for Rock Band band supremacy. Complete list of tour dates, locations and venues after the jump.

Tags: ea, harmonix, mtv-games, rock-band, rock-band-2, rock-band-tour

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

7-30-2008 @ 3:38PM

xblackplaguex said...

Also, according to the story, all those bands will have downloadable content in the future(except for Panic at the Disco! which will have a song featured in Rock Band 2)

7-30-2008 @ 3:49PM

WhoDey320 said...

are you implying panic! at the disco isn't rock? any way you have a typo - missing exclamation point after panic (should read "Panic! at the Disco")

7-30-2008 @ 3:58PM

Lewis (RROD: July 16) said...

they dont have the "!" anymore, they dropped it, Where have you been these past few months?

7-30-2008 @ 4:01PM

Cal said...

Actually with the release of their new album and their new sound the band dropped the "!" from their name

7-30-2008 @ 5:50PM

Carlos said...

It's called Pop.

7-30-2008 @ 3:57PM

Lewis (RROD: July 16) said...

Panic is ok, but not rock. I like to hear Panic on occasion. The rest seem to be one hit wonders :/

7-30-2008 @ 4:25PM

Xoviet chiK said...

Yes. After 11 years and six brilliant studio albums, Deathcab for Cutie is destined to go down in the history books as a one hit wonder.

Really wish some of these bands would show up IN Rock Band. Don't Wait from Dashboard Confessional would be a great vocal song, and just about anything Deathcab would be fun to play for all involved parties.

7-30-2008 @ 9:04PM

Lewis (RROD: July 16) said...

Now see, I read The Cab so I assume it was a band actually called The Cab, not Death Cabe For Cutie.

Them I like :)

But they only have about 2 mainstreem hits. that dont matter though.

7-30-2008 @ 4:01PM

Tyr1n said...

actually the band changed the name... seriously... no exclamation whodey.

7-30-2008 @ 4:09PM

Tony said...

Panic is agreed upon as a forum of rock by basically any random critic out there. Stuffing in some extra components from other genres doesn't completely exclude them.

7-31-2008 @ 10:55AM

Frank said...

Still doesn't excuse the fact that they're an overproduced sack of crap.

7-30-2008 @ 4:41PM

KM said...

I think watching them attempt to play Rock Band would be a lot more entertaining, than listening to any of them.

7-30-2008 @ 4:42PM

Haohmaru said...

Let the debate end - Panic sucks equally with or without the exclamation mark.

7-30-2008 @ 7:07PM

Tom said...

Glad you said it man!

Honestly, don't really care about any of thoise bands. Not my personal taste in music. I guess some people have to like them though...

7-30-2008 @ 5:05PM

Heh {XBL: P4nic 4tt4ck} said...

San Deigo? Local bands? Oshi- I need to get a drummer, quick! Gonna totally see if I can rock the stage with my band. :D

7-30-2008 @ 5:13PM

LiqwidZero said...

Sounds like a load of gay to me.

7-30-2008 @ 5:29PM

RyanBlack said...

Wow...those are some pretty shitacular bands.

7-30-2008 @ 5:31PM

Brave said...

aw what the gay

7-30-2008 @ 6:21PM

Ian Murray said...

Vegeta, what does the scouter say about these bands level of suck?

7-30-2008 @ 9:06PM

Lewis (RROD: July 16) said...

Fail.

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