Blur Join “LEGO Rock Band”: See the Band’s Avatars

October 15th, 2009 by Rolling Stone Leave a reply »

Many a Britpop fan in the Nineties described Blur as “adorable” — and that was before Damon Albarn and Co. were turned into LEGO versions of themselves for the upcoming music video game LEGO Rock Band. The recently reunited group’s “Song 2″ appears on the title’s in-game playlist (see the full list below), and Rolling Stone has your first look at the band’s avatars and a little video of their playable characters in action.

Blur join Iggy Pop and David Bowie, whose LEGO avatars have already been revealed. Check them out, along with more rock & roll avatars from Kurt Cobain in Guitar Hero 5 to Taylor Swift in Band Hero here:

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Footage of LEGO Blur rocking out, after the jump.

LEGO Rock Band track list:

All American Rejects, “Swing, Swing”
The Kooks, “Naïve”
The Automatic, “Monster”
KoRn, “Word Up!”
Blink-182, “Aliens Exist”
KT Tunstall, “Suddenly I See”
Blur, “Song 2”
Lostprophets, “Rooftops”
Bon Jovi, “You Give Love a Bad Name”
P!NK, “So What”
Boys like Girls, “Thunder”
The Police,
“Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic”
Bryan Adams, “Summer of 69”
The Primitives, “Crash”
The Hives, “Tick Tick Boom!”
Supergrass, “Grace”
Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”
Tom Petty, “Free Fallin”
Incubus, “Dig”
T-Rex, “Ride a White Swan”
Jackson 5, “I Want You Back”
Vampire Weekend, “A-Punk”
Jimi Hendrix, “Fire”
We the Kings, “Check Yes Juliet”
Kaiser Chiefs, “Ruby”
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Article Source: Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily

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