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A lost Queen song featuring Freddie Mercury on vocals has been found

October 14, 2022October 16, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Box Set, Freddie Mercury, Lost Song, Queen, Reissue, The Miracle

Sometime in 1988 when Queen was recording The Miracle album, the group laid down a track called “Face It Alone.”

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Ongoing History Daily: Yet another version of The Hip’s Fully Completely

September 13, 2022September 13, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Box Set, Fully Completely, Tragically Hip, Vinyl

The most popular album in the Tragically Hip catalogue is Fully Completely from 1992. It’s sold well over a million

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Music News 

Hip fans, get ready to add to your vinyl libraries 

August 14, 2022August 14, 2022 Amber Healy 0 Comments Anniversary, Box Set, Canadian Walk of Fame, Chanie Wenjack, deluxe edition, Fully Completely, Gord Downie, Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund, Heksenketel, Lieve Prins, Radio Show, Reissue, So Hard Done By, The Hip, Tragically Hip

The next few years will be big ones for Tragically Hip fans, as the band announced this week not one,

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All those John Hughes movie soundtrack songs have been compiled into an upcoming box set

August 4, 2022August 5, 2022 Alan Cross 1 Comment Box Set, John Hughes, Mixtape, Simple Minds, Soundtracks

Some of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time came with the films of John Hughes. Pretty in Pink. The

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Rush’s Moving Pictures box set is a sight to behold

February 13, 2022February 13, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 40th Anniversary, Box Set, Moving Pictures, Rush

Forty-one years ago yesterday (February 12, 1981), Rush released their eighth and most successful album, Moving Pictures. It’s next up

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Music News 

U2 announces 30th anniversary box set for Achtung Baby

November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 Alan Cross 2 Comments 30th Anniversary, Achtung Baby, Box Set, U2, Vinyl

November 18 marks 30 years since U2 released Achtung Baby, arguably the high point in the band’s career. To commemorate

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A new music video from The Tragically Hip

November 4, 2021November 6, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 30th Annivesary, Box Set, Road Apples, Saskadelphia, Tragically Hip

With the massive new Road Apples box set coming this month, The Tragically Hip decided to get all retro and

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50 years of Judas Priest is available in a box set is coming in October

July 16, 2021July 16, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 50th Anniversary, Box Set, Judas Priest

If you’re into metal, there’s no way you don’t have any Judas Priest in your collection. The Metal Gods are

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Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda unboxes the new Linkin Park Hybrid Theory box set

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Box Set, Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park

Come October 24, it will be 20 years since Linkin Park released their debut album, Hybrid Theory, so there’s naturally

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Take a deep dive into the 40th-anniversary box set for Rush’s Permanent Waves

May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 Alan Cross 1 Comment 40th Anniversary, Box Set, Permanent Waves, Rush

Here’s the story one more time. Back in January 1980, my high school buddies came to my house across the

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I’m not the biggest ABBA fan, but I might have to get this new box set

May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments ABBA, Box Set

At one point, professing any kind of love for ABBA was considered to be highly uncool. Over the years, though,

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