By popular demand, we present the 10th Anniversary Remix of one of Grand Theft Auto III’s most signature soundtrack selections, the classic aria “O Mio Babbino Caro” – now available on iTunes (European iTunes users, click here) and Amazon.
Related: Grand Theft Auto III 10th Anniversary Edition Official Launch Trailer (featuring the “O Mio Babbino Caro” Remix)
We would like to congratulate The Small Faces on their forthcoming induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, happening this April – and formally express our gratitude for lending us “Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake” recently as the score to the first GTAV Trailer.
A truly well-deserved recognition for one of the music world’s most underappreciated and influential bands.
Congratulations to all the other inductees for 2012 as well including Grand Theft Auto soundtrack veterans Axl Rose and Guns N’ Roses.
As part of the 10 year anniversary celebration for Grand Theft Auto III and in honor of the game's forthcoming release next week on select mobile devices, we've dug back into the Liberty City radio archives and made available for the first time ever the original music heard on Head Radio and Lips 106, exclusively available on iTunes at a special low price for our fans. Complete tracklists are indexed below - you can get individual songs for only $0.69 each or either station's complete 7-track album for only $2.99.
Head Radio: Complete Album
Lips 106: Complete Album
We’d just like to take a moment to send a special shout to Chris Sands – who recently dropped us a note via mouthoff to let us know about his inspirational story and about his incredible music project, “365 Songs”.
You may have heard of Chris before as the BBC had covered his battle with a rare brain tumor, via the 2010 documentary “The Man Who Can’t Stop Hiccupping”. Chris writes to us:
“...we found out I had a brain tumour, so I had brain surgery, leaving me with a cool scar but also leaving me numb over most of my body, I couldn't walk for a while. I'm on the mend now and have got most of my feeling back. I'm still a quite numb down my left hand side and especially in my left hand which leads me to why I am writing this email. I'm a musician, not a very good one but I love to play music, after the surgery I was laid in the hospital bed and I thought I would never be able to play guitar or piano or anything again. I was in tears listening to all my music on my PSP, the only thing that kept me going was Beaterator, I could sit there and though I struggled to even hold the PSP properly for a while, I could sit and craft the songs that would pop in to my head using it. After getting out of hospital I picked up the guitar again and was just about able to record small parts using the mic and the vocal record function, then copy and paste them and write parts over them. It was just what I needed to help me recover. So now I've started a project to write a song a day for a year and most of my songs have been recorded on my PSP using your excellent program.”
Truly amazing, inspiring and humbling. And better still, the tracks he’s been recording are really, very well done.
We’re particularly fond of this catchy tune – “a story about a man on a horse”, entitled “The plAIN and mountAIN” recorded on Day 73.
Please everyone check out his site at http://www.365songs.co.uk/.
All the best to you, Chris – please keep up the awesome work, best of luck with the remainder of the project and stay well!
In addition to the previously released Official Soundtrack album and Verve Remixed EP currently available on iTunes for download, we've just created an Official L.A. Noire iTunes Playlist collection of over 25 classic jazz and standards songs heard in the game.
If it's a tune you've heard on the radio in the game and it's on iTunes, then it's here in the playlist - from Dizzie Gillespie to Count Basie to Hank Williams, Peggie Lee and many other legends.
Click here to check it out on iTunes.
Enjoy all.
Get that primo Rockstar product - directly from the source - and now with some new high-grade stuff, like the first items from the Grand Theft Auto III 10-Year Anniversary Collection and the new Navy & Gold Edition Rockstar Cap - at the relaunched Rockstar Warehouse online store.
New product today includes:
The Grand Theft Auto III 10-Year Anniversary Collection currently featuring the limited-edition Sideshow Claude Action Figure as announced yesterday. This fully articulated 1:6 scale action figure was created by renowned collectible manufacturer, Sideshow, and is available for pre-order in limited quantities now. You can also order the Grand Theft Auto III 10-Year Anniversary poster set - featuring both the special anniversary edition treatments of the game's original US poster art that introduced GTA's signature cover art aesthetic and also of the European release version montage art. Keep an eye on the Rockstar Newswire for more special items to be announced and added from the Grand Theft Auto III 10-Year Anniversary Collection in the coming weeks.
The brand new Navy & Gold Edition Rockstar Cap as well as the original Navy & White Rockstar Baseball cap which is back in stock by popular demand.
We've also worked with our traffickers to hustle up some improved shipping rates, both for the U.S. and for international customers, with significantly cheaper shipping to the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Sweden and lots of other territories, now between 15-20% lower on average than our old rates. This is something we're going to be continuing to work on and improve, so rates will get even lower in the coming months as well.
The relaunched Warehouse also features the new Digital Downloads store where you can find a compendium of links to our digital soundtracks, DLC downloads and more, plus enhanced package tracking, Game Series collections, and Social Club member login support so that our best customers can make an easy transaction to get in and out. We've got a lot more in store as well being cooked up in terms of new product, features and shipping so stay tuned.
www.rockstarwarehouse.com
It's pretty awesome that this long after release, Red Dead Redemption is still inspiring original songs - and custom-made machinima music videos to boot.
Check out this new little folk rock ditty that Miracle of Sound put out last week, "Redemption Blues (Red Dead Redemption)". Nice one, gents.
On The Escapist's site: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/miracle-of-sound/4634-Redemption-Blues-Red-Dead-Redemption
Previously:
A Red Dead Rap Homage by the UK's Akira the Don
Why not? All this Reefer Madness talk got us in the mood.
Good weekend all...
