MTV Games have announced a new feature for Rock Band. Rock Band Network is a service that will allow bands and record labels to upload their own tracks to Rock Band. Now this is awesome. Take that Guitar Hero music maker!

The service is currently in closed beta and the service will be released on 360 at first, but the service is expected to be released on PS3 and Wii in the future. Apparently, we could see the service as early as August, which certainly sounds cool.

It sounds simple enough too. Songs submitted will then be handed to “a community of Harmonix-trained freelance game developers” who will then handle the implementation of music into the game. Alternatively those using the service could hire their own developers to do all the work in house. I think this would be a lesser used option though. This also mans bands will be able to control note chartng, something that hasn’t been seen before.

This will also help Harmonix as it will allow them to add new music to the Rock Band music store a lot faster. Something that helps both the player and the developer. A good thing indeed.

Well I love this idea. I’d love to see some of the UK’s unsigned talent in Rock Band as well as a few bigger guys. I think IGN’s Deamon Hatfield and Robert Ashley of ‘A Life Well Wasted’ fame will be intrigued by this.

Check out the trailer (courtesy of Joystiq) after the jump.

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