Now that the Beatles have joined the Rock Band revolution, any remaining holdouts (fearing being called a “sellout”) have decided to join the party. Most notably, U2 now want some of that yummy video game cash. Bassist Adam Clayton claims the band were initially put off by the idea, as they “didn’t want to be caricatured,” but now, after “what The Beatles have done,” U2 “love the idea that that’s where people are getting music, and [they]’d love to be in that world.” Well, that world just got a little bigger and a lot more mobile.
EW reports that EA, MTV Games, and Harmonix are launching an iPhone app version of Rock Band next week that “will involve tapping four spots on the iPhone screen in time with guitar, bass, drum, and vocal parts.” Great.
So which bands have signed along the dotted line for virtual mobile jamming? Here’s a partial track list (via EW):
30 Seconds to Mars – “Attack”
AFI – “Girl’s Not Grey”
All-American Rejects – “Move Along”
Beastie Boys – “Sabotage”
Blink-182 – “All the Small Things”
Blondie – “Hanging on the Telephone”
Foo Fighters – “Learn to Fly”
Foo Fighters – “Everlong”
George Thorogood & the Destroyers – “Bad to the Bone”
Jethro Tull – “Hymn 43″
Joan Jett – “Bad Reputation”
Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Simple Man”
Motörhead – “Ace of Spades ‘08″
Pixies – “Debaser”
Presidents of the United States of America – “Ladybug”
Rise Against – “Give It All”
Silversun Pickups – “Lazy Eye”
Smashing Pumpkins, – “Cherub Rock”
Steve Miller Band – “Take the Money and Run”
The Go-Go’s – “We Got the Beat”