So you can check out my Rocker profile here. That page lists all the avatars on my system, a few score-related items (should be more!), and plenty of personal musical factoids. My new multi-Joe names are evident there: Joe on guitar, Joe X on drums ('cause the X looks like crossed sticks), and Joe! for singing (the ! sort of resembles a mic).

Syncing up my Rock Band account with my PSN account was super-easy. It's listed as two steps on the sign-up page: 1. Know your PSN name. 2. Find your secret website code in Rock Band. Then you put those two into a form and you're done. (Although the code font's 9 looks like a g.) The 360 pairing reads like stereo instructions, including a bit where you have to make sure you are logged OUT of Xbox Live before you continue. That's just about par, isn't it?

You also get instant websites for your bands: witness my two, Unrepentant Athiests and The Do Mores. Note those URLs; I'm pleased to see that both are totally unique band names in the Rock Band universe. The RB website updates almost instantly while you're playing. After noticing that some of my bandmates had not capitalized their names, I went in and changed that on the PS3 (shit, I am so OCD) and the websites reflected that small alteration right away. And when you're playing, your scores will change after every successful song.

At the moment, band logos are not appearing on the band pages. I would hope that changes soon, like when they add the ability to order tour t-shirts. There seems to be a space reserved for it on the page layout.

Rock Band's logo editor is actually really damn cool, with just enough Photoshoppy tools (layers, most notably) to let you craft something personal. Since the logos aren't live, I snapped some pictures and posted them here. The Unrepentant Athiests' logo is top (band motto: "We know. We don't care.") and the Do Mores' is right here. The UA design puts a flaming brain on a blood-red upside-down cross (symbolism ought to be obvious there), while the Do Mores just expresses our regular distaste for the office's Windows-based non-linear editor Avid system. At one point, the Avid company's logo was "Do More," and thanks to the hellish nonsense that our Avids generate, our natural response to that was "When you used to do less." So now you get our name and slogan.

I am now up to six DLC songs. In addition to getting "Fortunate Son" and "My Sharona" a few weeks ago, last night I bought "Bang A Gong," "Buddy Holly," The Clash's "I Fought the Law" (of course, I prefer the Bobby Fuller original), and "Brass in Pocket" (yeah, I didn't know what the hell "Brass in Pocket" was either, until I heard it.) Again I have to say that the PlayStation Store is just a miserable navigation experience. Sony needs to clean that up, because it sucks to find anything older than two weeks. It's like somebody's first stab at turning a boring DOS directory structure into something graphical; you're severely limited in how you can browse from location to location because the file logic is too in-line. And the "Prev" button makes me want to kill things.

A happy thought for anyone still grimacing at the $2 price tag on the songs... not only are you getting support for four instruments at multiple difficulty levels, but you also get some very subtle music video editing moments for the background display. What I mean by that is that Rock Band allows for some very specific effects and edits for each song, so that the accompanying music video - which is more or less generated live as you play - actually feels appropriate to the song. For example, there's a rather famous section in "I Fought the Law" where the song mentions a six-gun and all instrumentation stops except for six drumbeats. Every time you play that song in Rock Band, you'll get six quick cuts of your animated band timed to those gunshots. It's a very nice touch. And once you become familiar with the songs, you'll notice more and more special enhancements like that. So, being that you get that even on the non-built-in song tracks, I'd call that a pleasant bonus for your two bucks.