Guns N’Roses
Guns N’ Roses Revisit Use Your Illusion on New Boxed Set
Guns N’ Roses are giving their simultaneous 1991 albums Use Your Illusion I & II the deluxe boxed set treatment in a variety of incarnations on Nov. 11, all of which feature the original releases remastered from high-resolution 96kHz 24-bit transfers from the stereo 1/2-inch analog master tapes. The Super Deluxe Seven-CD + Blu-ray and Twelve-LP + Blu-ray editions include 63 previously unreleased tracks drawn from Use Your Illusion-era concerts on May 16, 1991, at the Ritz Theatre in New York and Jan. 25, 1992, at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. The Blu-ray features a film of the New York show plus a newly cut live music video for “You Could Be Mine.” Also included with the Super Deluxe boxes are 100-page hardcover books, replica fan club newsletters from the time period, 10 ...
Sleigh Bells’ Alexis Krauss Covers Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Rocket Queen’
Sleigh Bells’ debut album, Treats, recently turned 10 years old. And because of the current state of the world, Sleigh Bells lead singer Alexis Krauss commemorated the milestone by covering Guns N’ Roses. Yes, you read correctly. In the latest episode of Two Minutes To Late Night, an ongoing web series hosted by the Brooklyn venue Saint Vitus, Krauss joined comedian and host Jordan Olds, who plays Gwarsenio Hall, along with Poison The Well’s Ryan Primack, Cloak’s Bill C. Robinson, and High On Fire’s Chris Maggio to do their own version of GNR’s “Rocket Queen,” off their debut album, Appetite for Destruction. Along with the video, the show shared this message about the cover: “Sweet content o’ mine! We got some of our favorite musicians to cover the best Guns ‘N’ Roses song about space trav...
