Imagine narrowing down your favorite band to just one song. We couldn’t do it! But some very fastidious Japanese fans of Queen did – and their choices are forming a new compilation due this month. For Greatest Hits In Japan, Queen and Universal Music opened a vote in the country where just one track from the iconic British rock group could be selected for a compilation timed to the upcoming Japanese tour by Queen + Adam Lambert. Nearly 20,000 votes were collated, and the top 12 tracks made the cut. This makes…
Release Round-Up: Week of October 11
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Steve Miller Band, Welcome to the Vault (Sailor/Capitol/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Welcome To The Vault is the first-ever Steve Miller Band rarities collection. The 3CD/DVD box set features 52 songs that span Miller’s career, including 38 previously unreleased recordings and 5 never-before-heard songs. With demos, rehearsal takes, newly unearthed compositions, classic concert recordings, and more, Miller has dived into the vaults with a celebratory collection that’s bound to please any fan. The DVD is also a treasure trove of rarities, featuring…
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Made In Heaven: Freddie Mercury’s Solo Works Celebrated on “Never Boring” Box Set
The title of Hollywood Records/Mercury Records’ upcoming box set dedicated to Freddie Mercury’s solo works certainly has an apt title: Never Boring. The late Queen frontman used his solo recordings to explore the realms of pop, rock, and even opera as a singer and songwriter. Due on October 11 from Hollywood in the U.S. and Mercury in the rest of the world, the 3CD/BD/DVD Never Boring has been compiled and produced by longtime Queen collaborators and Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack co-producers Justin Shirley-Smith, Kris Fredriksson, and Joshua J. Macrae. “I had a lot…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 2
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up highlighted by the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music! The Isley Brothers, Groove with You…Live! (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We’re incredibly excited and proud to bring this sizzling, swooning and immersive double-album document of The Isley Brothers at the peak of their powers to CD for the very first time! Groove with You…Live! features powerful renditions of classic hits like “Take Me to the Next Phase,” “Summer Breeze” and “Livin’ in the Life,” recorded live-in-the-studio at…
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Born to Love You: Freddie Mercury’s Solo Singles Collected on New Set
A new Freddie Mercury anthology will be released this fall, chronicling the late Queen singer’s solo tracks on two CDs and 13 vinyl singles. Messenger of the Gods: The Singles features 25 tracks recorded by Mercury and released between 1973 and 1993–several of which were never released in America, or released widely on CD. Among the set’s rarer treasures is Mercury’s first “solo” single, credited to Larry Lurex in 1973. The single, featuring covers of Phil Spector’s “I Can Hear Music” (recorded by The Ronettes and a U.S. Top 40 hit for…
