Rock Band 3 announced!

If you haven't heard already, Rock Band 3 has been officially announced for release in 2010! We'll be eagerly anticipating what the master innovators at Harmonix have in store for us.

How fitting then that this week we'll be trying to move up past the "ROCK BAND 3 kids", who are 20M points aheard of us in 12th place in the "All Songs" Leaderboards.

I now have RockBandStats.com sortings for "Rank", "Score", "Stars", "%-ile" and "Spread" bookmarked in my iPhone, so we'll be able to quickly select and play our worst songs for any of these categories.

In other news this week, Harmonix has realeased their Leaderboards API! That means that future RockBandStats.com updates will be much faster. I will be moving back to retrieving the full range of scores in the next update (top 100,000 for every song, including all RBN songs). Enjoy! :)

Here is my top 3 DLC from last week:

3. "Third Floor Story", by The Mother Hips: A very unique and groovy tune, it almost feels like a different band compared to their old RB1 song and DLC. It is particularly fun on bass.

2. "Panic Switch", by Silversun Pickups: This week was amazing for drummers, due in no small part to the two new DLC from this unique band. "Sort of" was quite a challenge on drums, especially during the guitar solo, but overall I preferred "Panic Switch". The patterns on guitar and drums are fast but they are always fun.

1. "Voices", by Disturbed: It was tough to pick a favorite from this trio of older Disturbed songs, but I picked "Voices" due to its great bass chart. If you play it on guitar, watch out for some tough chord changes at the end. "The Game" also had a really neat sounding bass section at the end. Overall, I really liked the drum charts for all of the new Disturbed DLC. There was a lot of interesting bass pedal patterns in all 3 songs.

Honorable mention. "Downfall", by Trust Company: This Nu-Metal song deserves a mention for its unique and fast drum patterns. The Harmonix drum charters have been on a roll lately (no pun intended)... I guess this made it an even split between Indie Rock and Nu-Metal DLC last week (although "The Mother Hips" is classified as Rock, they sound quite "Indie Rock"-ish).