April 1, 2010
Harmonix
Announces Artist-of-the-Month Program with T-Mobile
Harmonix and MTV Games Partner
with T-Mobile to Highlight Emerging Artists Through Rock Band Network’s
“T-Mobile Artist-of-the-Month” Program
Harmonix Music Systems and MTV Games
along with T-Mobile, the official mobile partner of the Rock Band Network, today
announced a new contest for emerging artists to submit their music for the
chance to become one of the featured bands in Rock Band Network’s “T-Mobile
Artist-of-the-Month.”
Artists should go to
www.rockband.com/t-mobile
beginning today through April 11, 2010 to upload their song (MP3 format), band
photo and bio for consideration. Artists will be put in front of MTV Games music
executives for the chance to get their song professionally authored into Rock
Band gameplay, sold in the Rock Band Network Store, and be named one of Rock
Band Network’s “T-Mobile Artists-of-the-Month.” The selected artist will be
featured for one month in promotions throughout the store and on the official
game website.
The Rock Band Network gives Rock
Band fans and music lovers a new avenue to discover music and provides musicians
and labels the opportunity to produce and promote tracks for the Rock Band
platform. This ground-breaking initiative gives musicians, publishers and record
labels the ability to author their original recordings into gameplay files to
promote and sell their music as playable Rock Band tracks through the RBN Store.
Artists who submit songs for the
Rock Band Network Music Store are able to choose from multiple pricing tiers for
individual tracks and receive a royalty of 30 percent of the retail selling
price (excluding tax) for every track purchased through the RBN Store. There are
currently more than 100 songs available for purchase in the RBN Store from
artists including The Shins, The Hold Steady, The Main Drag, Bang Camaro, of
Montreal, Jonathan Coulton, Skeleton Witch, 3 Inches of Blood, Lacuna Coil,
Stroke 9, and Steve Vai. There are more than 300 artists in the RBN pipeline,
with additional tracks already on the way from Flight of the Conchords, The
Smashing Pumpkins, Twin Atlantic, All That Remains, Clutch, Prong, The Gaslight
Anthem and many more coming soon.
With more than 1,100 tracks
available to date in the original Rock Band platform, the Rock Band Network
Music Store will immediately boost the number of available songs, further
securing MTV Games and Harmonix’s position as the leading provider of
downloadable content for music-based video games.
For more information and
official “Artist-of-the-Month” contest rules, please visit
www.rockband.com/t-mobile
Artists interested in submitting
their songs to Rock Band Network, please go to
www.creators.rockband.com for
more instructions on how to get involved.
