The Official Harmonix Podcast

Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone! We've got a very long and festive podcast for you this week.

Watch that first step, it's a dooozy! We've got a fun one for you this week, gang. Lots of exclusive content.

It was great meeting so many of you at PAX East! We got a ton of in-person feedback from you lot and were happy to put your suggestions into practice. You'll notice the podcast is a bit longer this week and the DLC roundtable is completely unedited!

Fresh off our latest trip to Austin, Texas for the SXSW Festival, the Community Team comes in hot with some tremendous podcast content for you. We fill you in on all the cool stuff we saw and did in Austin in our first segment, then check out my interview with Wayne Kramer about his charity Jail Guitar Doors.

We’ve been super busy this week! Can you handle all of the big news? RBN! Gaga! RB3! And wait, there’s more - it’s a podcast! First up, we’ve got a super secret interview with HMXKfan. He’s out at GDC this week talking to people about how to break into the industry. If you can’t make it to GDC, no worries, you can get his tips here on our podcast!

This week's episode is full of awesomeness! HMXHenry has a fun chat with HMX alum Bret Rouse about being a non-musician at Harmonix. Then we get to part 2 of my riveting interview with Dan Teasdale, this time answering user-submitted questions from the Rock Band forums. Finally, the secret of Awesomeness Detection is OUT! And finally, we wrap things up by giving you the lowdown on next week's Rock Band DLC.

Warning, the first three rows will be in the splatter area – we're making a mess! Well, an auditory mess – our extended DLC roundtable this week features singing! Before you let your eardrums be assaulted though we've got some great segments for you. Meet the newest member of the Community Team, Kyle, also known as HMXDropslash. Mr. Pope also has the first in an incredible two part interview with Dan Teasdale, Senior Designer here at Harmonix. Dan answers questions that members of the Rock Band community have been dying to know – so grab your tarps and tune in.

If you somehow missed all the cool stuff that happened last week, then you MUST listen to this podcast. It's work hard, play hard, all the time here at Harmonix. Kat interviews the residents of HMXWebtowne about the blood sweat and tears that went into the launch of RBN (now officially in public Beta!). Pope, Thrasher, Henry, and Alex recount their adventures at NAMM (that's the National Association of Music Merchants) and throw up some jazz hands. TheBestSteph is back with more "Stuff We Think is Cool." (Spoilers, gigglegent HMXKfan is involved!). Finally we've got a DLC roundtable to tidy things up.

We've got a good one for you this week. Harmonix Senior Artist Matt Gilpin talks about his career and gives advice for getting into the gaming industry, The GiggleB*s give us their New Year's Resolutions, Thrasher interviews Keith Smith of Anarchy Club, we do our DLC Roundtable, and wrap it up with a snippet from HMXPope's upcoming interview with the Mighty Mighty Bosstones.

Happy New Year everyone! Enjoy our DLC Roundtable where we discuss myriad topics like this week’s fantastic new DLC tracks, how HMXPope got engaged, and our thoughts on a recent blockbuster movie!