The same legendary rock magazine who featured the fucking Jonas Brothers on their latest cover have a nice article about the battle between Rock Band and Guitar Hero to nail down the big prize bands for their respective games. While most of the article is filled with stuff you probably already know there are a few interesting business-y bits like the following:

• Guitar Hero: Aerosmith outsold their last album in the first week by over 400,000 copies.
• Led Zeppelin have no plans to be licensed because of concerns about turning over their masters to outsiders
• Hendrix might not be exclusive to Guitar Hero for long, Janie Hendrix is working on a similar deal with Rock Band
• “Bands and labels each earn about 50 cents per [dlc] track, more than they get from iTunes and other standard download sites.”
• “[VH1] Rock Honors [The Who] was originally floated as an idea to help sell Rock Band,” Who guitarist Pete Townshend wrote in an e-mail to Rolling Stone.

Read the full story here.

If the following rumored list is true, they’ve nailed down Pink Floyd.

Oh, and Chuck Berry.

That puts me in a bad predicament because I have to admit, the latter two thirds of the list make it REALLY attractive. If only I felt like I could trust that it would be fun to play. We haven’t said a lot about Guitar Hero: World Tour but I’ll be the first to admit that it’s sounding pretty decent.

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