Motley Crue To Release Single On Rock Band Game

In a nod to the ascendancy of video games, rock 'n' roll bad boys Motley Crue will become the first group to release a new single through Rock Band, the developer of the wildly popular game said on Monday.

"Saints of Los Angeles," the first single from the group's upcoming album, will be available for download for 99 cents on Tuesday via Microsoft Corp's Xbox Live Marketplace and on Thursday via Sony Corp's PlayStation store, said Viacom Inc's MTV Games.

In "Rock Band," gamers play along to songs with controllers shaped like a guitar, drum set, or microphone. The game is sold for about $170 for consoles such as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It competes with the similarly popular "Guitar Hero" series, made by Activision Inc.

Their success has underscored the potential of video games as a new source of revenue for a music industry grappling with falling CD sales.

"Rock Band" went on sale last November and now has more than 80 tracks available for download in addition to the 58 tracks in the original game. MTV Games said players have bought more than 6 million downloadable songs for Rock Band. Tunes range from classics by the likes of the Who and the Rolling Stones to more-contemporary fare from the Killers and Fall Out Boy.

Details of Motley Crue's album are expected to be announced during a news conference in Hollywood on Tuesday.

The hard-living metal band, which rose to prominence during the glam-metal era in the late-1980s, is famed for such tunes as "Dr. Feelgood" and "Shout at the Devil."

Thanks for the info to Yahoo! News.

Comments

[atc228]

It was only a matter of time before this started happening, and frankly, I think it is a great idea. I think it was Joe Perry who mentioned in an interview not too long ago that since people start learning about great music that they otherwise wouldn't be exposed to, you might as well release singles and albums through them. (It could have been Slash who said it though....but that is irrelevant.)

With so many kids being exposed to new music through video games, it is the perfect medium for getting to new fans.

[ralph wiggum]

aren't metallica doing this as well?

[raasbo]

ralph wiggum wrote:

aren't metallica doing this as well?

Hope they do it for GH instead...I don't have RB.

[underplad_sux]

man the crue is finally back.....

[guitarplayer-k6]

underplad_sux wrote:

man the crue is finally back.....

Hell yeah man I second that! I seen them like two years ago or something when they did the Carnival of Sins tour and I was just in awe the whole time and now Im going to see them in August in Saskatoon and I think its going to be better. LONG LIVE CRUE!!

[nothingman34]

yeah it's cool that they are putting out a new single but who the **** would do it on a video game? Rock band and guitar hero are for dumbass couch potatoes who havent picked up a real guitar.

[U20117]

How desperate are they? I guess the radio stations refused to play thier new trash.

[j-e-f-f-e-r-s]

Aren't GH and Rock Band meant to be about rocking out to, y'know, classic rock songs. Songs that have been around a little while, and had some time to earn their fame? Releasing a single via RB, to me, seems to defeat the entire point of the game.

[Bristlehead]

washed up

[KingCheesehead]

It's a fun song to play if I do say so myself.

[ace321]

dudes i got something 80's for you if you like it check out Leatherwolf street ready album they are great band to leatherwolf-hideaway great lyrics to and nice 80's style solo's.crue the best