Sub Pop to bring catalogue to Rock Band

Contributed by an Anonymous Source. Posted by aubin on Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 7:00 PM (EDT)

Sub Pop Records recently spoke to Rolling Stone about their plans to bring much of their catalogue to Rock Band 2.

Sub Pop A&R executive Tony Kiewel says that the label is looking at converting its entire catalog, which includes early Nirvana, the Postal Service, Sunny Day Real Estate, Pissed Jeans, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Seaweed, The Shins and countless others. Kiewel concludes by noting that he sees Rock Band 2 as " a 'release' as far as I'm concerned. This'll be another format alongside vinyl and CD."

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Nirvana

The Postal Service

Sunny Day Real Estate

Sub Pop Records (30 comments)

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shrapnel (July 23, 2009)

subpopnews.org

shrapnel (July 23, 2009)

rockbandnews.org

Wentz_Equals_Death (July 23, 2009)

gamepro.com

ffwoodycooks (July 23, 2009)

Seaweed and Mudhoney would be delicious

wonton (July 23, 2009)

So you would pay full price, but would yu get a free download to accompany your rock band tracks? I am not paying for a format that i cant listen to outside of my tv.

Cheesetits (July 23, 2009)

Are they thinking about making an iMac controller to play the Postal Service songs?

TheRedDeath (July 23, 2009)

Tom Delonge is inventing a special controller to allow Angels and Airwaves songs to be fully appreciated.

Cheesetits (July 23, 2009)

Sounds like a daunting task.

TheRedDeath (July 23, 2009)

it will also change the world.

basickly (July 24, 2009)

A circular controller?

givemeamuseumandillfillit (July 23, 2009)

It's easy to slam this move, since all these guitar games are declining in sales like crazy and are running out of time..but..

You can pay a 14 year old 5 bucks per hour to do this and he'll be able to do around a 100 songs per week. Apart from the few hundred bucks it costs to be a third party publisher -- That's 2 bucks per song in expenses.

LookingForCorpses (July 23, 2009)

To format them for Rock Band? It takes experienced programmers several days per song.

givemeamuseumandillfillit (July 23, 2009)

No, as I said,. A kid can do 20 songs in a day.
I did 5 songs in 3 hours while learning the ropes. Read the article and take a look at what you said, do you really think Sub Pop would do their ENTIRE CATALOUGE if it took days per song?

The new system is all via midi and it's very, very simplified and easy, you can even do it live with a keyboard/controller and auto quantize it to decent results.

basickly (July 24, 2009)

Yeah but, as has been proven by games like this with user submitted content (frets on fire, custom guitar hero/RB songs)... People are TERRIBLE at mapping out songs.

You have to have some musical skill to do it convincingly.

LookingForCorpses (July 24, 2009)

Aside from this article, everything I've heard, including people who worked on Guitar Hero, has been that it's a pretty complicated process and is not quick. So days might be off, but this multiple songs in a day doesn't seem realistic, esp since it seems 3rd party programmers are getting a few hundred bucks a track.

wolfshirt (July 23, 2009)

Shit, for a second I thought this said Sub City. I would rock the shit out of some Fifteen, especially that grotesquely ripping solo in "Lucky"

Johnny_J (July 23, 2009)

Those Postal Service guitar riffs and chords would be pretty tough to master.

Dante3000 (rich) (July 23, 2009)

The fucked up part is that you can only get 100% on Nirvana songs by smashing the bass into your face or by totaling the drum set at the end.
-Dante

2Kings (July 24, 2009)

bonus points for wearing a dress

jpsingh (July 23, 2009)

I've got my Gaunt records out again. They're as good as they were ten(ish) years ago. Anyone else like em.

Cuffer (July 23, 2009)

Blood, guts and pussy?? That would be so sick