In late 2009, Pitchfork ranked the album No.2 in their list of the top 200 albums of the 2000s, behind Radiohead ‘s Kid A .
and was performed by Franz Ferdinand on Comic Relief 2009 Top of The Pops special.
However, Sumner revealed in 2009 that he no longer wished to make music as New Order.
The new line-up (consisting of Lydon, earlier members Bruce Smith and Lu Edmonds , plus multi-instrumentalist Scott Firth ) played to generally positive reviews in late 2009, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Metal Box . However, protested Lydon, “This tour is absolutely nothing to do with an anniversary of…
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In 2009, two nationally syndicated shows— The Dan Patrick Show and The Petros and Money Show —frequently used the song as “bumper” music.
USS brought home their second consecutive COCA Award (Canadian Organization of Campus Activities) for Emerging Artist, (Winner of Emerging Artist Award 2009/2010), on June 25, 2010.
Happy Mondays toured the US and Canada with the Psychedelic Furs in late 2009 with Paul Ryder’s son and Shaun Ryder’s nephew Jake Ryder filling in for Gaz Whelan on drums.
although production of the album was briefly interrupted so that Albarn could join Blur for a reunion tour in the summer of 2009
In 2009, Depeche Mode allowed their likeness to be used in Valve ‘s Left 4 Dead 2 . The character Rochelle wears a pink T-shirt with an image from the “Touring the Angels” tour on the front.
January 2009 saw the release of the single ” Galaxy “, with the band’s sixteenth studio album, Memento Mori , following on February 18. The album continues to explore the sound of “straight rock”, and Sakurai said that while the focus of his previous lyrics had been about death, for…
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