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Author: Josh Harrison

Rock Band Diaries: Chronicling Your Stories One Page at a Time

Take a look at a calendar. What's today, Tuesday? Okay, start counting backwards, a day at a time. Count back three thousand, six hundred, and twelve days. You should be looking at November 20th, 2007. That's when Rock Band came out. Time sure does fly when you're having fun. Read more

Freestyle Gives You Full Control over the Mix

We’ve shown how you can clash with your friends and how to amp up the party with DropMix. Now it's time to give you full control of the mix in DropMix's third game mode: Freestyle. Read more

DropMix Is Heading West to PAX!

If you're starting to get antsy with excitement over PAX West in a couple weeks, you've officially got one more reason to look forward to it. Harmonix will be there (along with some of our friends from Hasbro), and we'll be showing you DropMix! You can get your hands on Clash Mode, Party Mode, and maybe even an elusive third mode that we haven't announced yet. Shhhh... Read more

Rivals Season 2: Electric Boogaloo

Your Crew gave it your all. You played your hearts out, and ended Season 1 as strong as you could. You excitedly told all your loved ones how you made it to [insert your tier here] tier, and your grandma pinched your cheeks and told you how proud she was. You daydreamed of a national parade in your Crew's honor. You enjoyed that dream so much you started looking into how much it would cost to throw that parade, and maybe even contacted a company that made parade floats to get a price quote. But the time for continued gloating is almost over, because Season 2 is around the corner. Read more

Season 1 is Coming. Are You Ready?

The next update to Rock Band 4 is right around the corner! We’ve revealed Seasons and Missions over the last couple weeks, and we’re putting the finishing touches on the patch to get it ready. We thought this would be the perfect time to share more about the end of Season 0 and the start of Season 1. Read more

Your Missions, Should You Choose To Accept Them...

A few weeks ago, we shared some news about the next Rock Band 4 update in the form of Rivals Seasons, major changes to the way Rivals Mode works. If you haven’t checked that out, you can read it in a previous blog entry. Read more

An Early Look at Upcoming Changes to Rivals Mode

It’s been a little while since we’ve drawn the curtain back to give you an idea of what we’re working on behind the scenes. We’ve got a bunch of fun stuff to talk about for the next update, and we’re kicking it off by revealing some major improvements to something that many of you are enjoying every week. Read more

The Ins and Outs of Online Quickplay – Rivals’ First Major Update

Last month, we gave you an overview of what Online Quickplay was bringing to the table in Rock Band Rivals. Online band play, Green Rooms, four song setlists, rockin’ player emotes, and a new filter to show only songs that your group shares. Good stuff, right? Earlier this week, we also revealed that the update will launch with another free song for all Rivals players, which we can’t wait for everyone to start playing online together. Read more

Online Quickplay, the December Update, and YOU

Hi everyone, It’s been a hot minute since we’ve talked about online multiplayer for Rock Band 4. Read more

Hello, Is It XP You’re Looking For?

Hey gang, Rock Band Rivals has been out for about a month now, and we just wrapped up the fourth Weekly Challenge, which sent you 30 years in the past to rock out to some great 80’s tracks. Read more