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Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody Is The Most Streamed Song From The 20th Century

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Bolstered by the runaway smash hit (roughly $168 million at the box office in five weeks) of the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox), Queen’s classic song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is now officially the most-streamed track from the 20th century, achieving more than 1.6 billion global streams. Universal Music Group (UMG) announced the news and Billboard made the report that also indicated the track has also become it the most-streamed classic rock song of all time, edging out Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Sweet Child O’Mine’ and ‘November Rain’ and a-ha’s ‘Take on Me’ in both categories. The ranking considers all registered streams on global on-demand streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, and others, as well as streams from an official song or video streams on YouTube.Continue reading →


Volbeat Announces New Live Album And Movie

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Danish heavy rock band Volbeat have announced a new live album and concert film, set for release this December 14th via Universal Music Group. The film features guest appearances by Lars Ulrich, Mille Petrozza, Barney Greenway, Danko Jones and more. Let’s Boogie! Live From Telia Parken was filmed at a sold-out show in their hometown venue, Denmark’s Telia Parken, setting the record for the biggest show by a domestic artist in Denmark ever with over 48,250 people in attendance. The album and concert film will be available in the following configurations: Blu-ray/2CD, DVD/2CD, 2CD, 3LP vinyl, and digitally through all major DSPs and features one brand new song, ‘The Everlasting’! The concert album has 26 tracks and many guest appearances from the performance. Pre-orders are live at the link below. Continue reading →


Hear A Previously Unreleased Version Of “November” Rain By Guns N Roses

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Tomorrow, June 29th marks the release of the expanded edition of Guns N Roses classic album Appetite for Destruction via Universal Music Group. In addition to several remastered editions will be an exhaustive “Locked N’ Loaded” box set version. Among the unreleased track and demo versions of songs is a new version of November Rain, which appeared on Use Your Illusion I in 1991, but is actually a song that Axl Rose wrote ore-dating Appetite. Continue reading →


Avenged Sevenfold’s Global Livestream Event Shortly, New Album Tomorrow

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As previously reported Avenged Sevenfold is hosting a global live streaming 3D and virtual reality event to launch their new album. There are indications based on information leaked today that Avenged Sevenfold may release their new album as soon as tomorrow:Continue reading →


Avenged Sevenfold To Host 3D, 360 Degree VR Performance

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On Thursday night, October 27, Avenged Sevenfold will host a global, 3D, 360-degree, live-streamed virtual reality performance in partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG), Capitol Records and Vrlive. A7X fans worldwide will be able to view the live stream. Full details below: Continue reading →


Audio: Wolfmother Streams New Single – Gypsy Caravan

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Rockers Wolfmother has released a new single for streaming from their forthcoming album Victorious (Universal Music Group). The track ‘Gypsy Caravan’ can be heard at this link or below:

Frontman Andrew Stockdale commented on the creative process for the new album:

“Back in the early days, I’d play guitar, bass, and drums and then present the ideas to the band and we’d work on the arrangement together,” he says. “I thought it would be cool to get back to demoing ideas by myself and playing everything. It’s a good way to do things because it can make the style more cohesive.”

Stockdale wrote the album himself playing guitar and bass. For the recording sessions he brought in Josh Freese (Nine Inch Nails, Bruce Springsteen, A Perfect Circle) and Joey Waronker (AIR, Beck, Rem) to split drum duties.

Stockdale continued to wax about the sound of Victorious:

We wanted to get back to that big sound. The album is a balance of garage-y energy and big production. It’s wild, energetic … perfect for a festival main stage.”

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Victorious was tracked at Henson Studios in Los Angeles with two-time Grammy-winning producer Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Ac/Dc, Chris Cornell, Bruce Springsteen).

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