[rock band] MTV2 Pack 1 + Maximo Park

MTV Games owns Harmonix. If memory serves, this is the first real cross-pollination we've seen out in the open: MTV2 had a contest whose three winners got their songs in Rock Band this week.

Now that Activision is trying to scare people into waiting for Guitar Hero 4 rather than buying Rock Band*, there's a whole political element to what songs are released as Rock Band downloads when. So it's sort of inconvenient for old debts to come due at any particular time, and maybe they would rather not have had to give a whole precious week of the release schedule to unknown bands. But in the abstract, it's a good idea.

( And even in practice, sort of. )