MTV Games’ Harmonix Music Systems, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks, the leading developer of music-based games, announced an extraordinary partnership with Warner Bros. Records and Green Day today to bring the music of multi-platinum, Grammy Award winning Green Day, exclusively to Rock Band .  Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool are the latest artists to bring songs from their impressive catalogue of hits to MTV’s genre defining, multi-million selling Rock Band music video game platform that allows music fans and gamers to interact with and discover music like never before by choosing guitar, drums, vocals, or bass to start a band and rock the world.
 
The first selection of Green Day songs to arrive on Rock Band as downloadable content will be a three-pack of songs from their latest release, 21st Century Breakdown on July 7th including:  21 Guns, Know Your Enemy, East Jesus Nowhere.  Additional Green Day songs and projects will be announced at a later date.
 
Originally launched on November 20, 2007, Rock Band is the ground-breaking, billion dollar selling franchise[1] and music video game leader in paid song sales (over 45 million paid individual songs) and downloadable content with more than 700 tracks available to date via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at www.rockband.com/music).  Rock Band and Rock Band 2 are available for Xbox 360, PS3 system, PS2 system and Wii.             
 
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