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New songs announced for Band Hero

Bowie! Benatar! Gaye! Evanescence.

Activision has written down some of the songs set to appear in Band Hero later this year.

As it's a pop spin-off, the likes of Hilary Duff, The Kooks and Robbie Williams are expected. However, Activision is also recruiting David Bowie and Roy Orbison to ensnare an older generation.

Band Hero is due out this autumn on DS, PS3, PS2, Wii and Xbox 360. Each of those will get new and slightly-improved instruments - as announced yesterday - although there's no concrete date nor price to go by just yet.

The songs so far (courtesy of Kotaku):

Band Hero console (new):

  • The Airborne Toxic Event - "Gasoline"
  • Big Country - "In a Big Country"
  • The Bravery - "Believe"
  • Cold War Kids - "Hang Me Up To Dry"
  • Counting Crows - "Angels of the Silences"
  • Dashboard Confessional - "Hands Down"
  • David Bowie - "Let's Dance"
  • Devo - "Whip It"
  • Evanescence - "Bring Me To Life"
  • Fall Out Boy - "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
  • The Go-Go's - "Our Lips Are Sealed"
  • Hilary Duff - "So Yesterday"
  • Jesse McCartney - "Beautiful Soul"
  • The Kooks - "Naive"
  • Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
  • Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "Impression That I Get"
  • OK Go - "A Million Ways"
  • Pat Benatar - "Love Is A Battlefield"
  • Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue - "Kids"
  • Styx - "Mr. Roboto"
  • Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue"

Band Hero console (old)

  • The All-American Rejects - "Dirty Little Secret"
  • Alphabeat - "Fascination"
  • Aly and AJ - "Like Whoa"
  • Carl Douglas - "Kung Fu Fighting"
  • Cheap Trick - "I Want You To Want Me" (Live)
  • Don McLean - "American Pie"
  • Duran Duran - "Rio"
  • Jackson 5 - "ABC"
  • Janet Jackson - "Black Cat"
  • Katrina and The Waves - "Walking On Sunshine"
  • Lily Allen - "Take What You Take"
  • Maroon 5 - "She Will Be Loved"
  • No Doubt - "Just A Girl"
  • Roy Orbison - "Oh Pretty Woman"
  • Snow Patrol - "Take Back the City"
  • Taylor Swift - "Love Story"
  • Taylor Swift - "Picture to Burn"
  • Taylor Swift - "You Belong With Me"
  • Tonic - "If You Could Only See"
  • Village People - "YMCA"

Band Hero DS (new):

  • The All-American Rejects - "Believe"
  • Boys Like Girls - "The Great Escape"
  • Foo Fighters - "Monkey Wrench"
  • Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth"
  • The Pretenders - "Boots of Chinese Plastic"
  • The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - "You Better Pray"
  • Sublime - "All You Need"
  • Sum 41 - "In Too Deep"
  • The Vines - "Get Free"

Band Hero DS (old):

  • Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
  • Blink-182 - "First Date"
  • Evanescence - "Call Me When You're Sober"
  • Fall Out Boy - "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"
  • Kaiser Chiefs - "I Predict A Riot"
  • The Killers - "Spaceman"
  • KT Tunstall - "Suddenly I See"
  • No Doubt - "Excuse Me Mr."
  • P!nk - "So What"
  • Queen - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
  • Queens Of The Stone Age - "No One Knows"
  • Spin Doctors - "Two Princes"