The Dayglo lineup of Love Battery (Nine, Whitworth, Tillman, and Finn) reunited in 2018 to play the Dayglo album in its entirety at several Seattle shows. In late 2022, a Love Battery album got remastered for the first time as Jackpot Records handled the Dayglo reissue on vinyl. The Dayglo…
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In 2018, a documentary film, The Public Image Is Rotten , was released. Also in 2018, the band released The Public Image is Rotten – Songs from the Heart , a compilation CD/DVD box set to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band. It consists of five CDs and two…
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Around 2018 this song became an Internet meme expressing the sadness one feels at the worst moments of one’s life.
The surviving members of the band, including Mesaros, performed together as The Smithereens in a tribute show to DiNizio on January 13, 2018, at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ. In a five-hour concert, the band was joined by Steven Van Zandt , Dave Davies , Ted Leo…
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Vinyl reissues and expanded CD sets of ”Attack of the Grey Lantern” and “Six” were released in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Their compilation album, Vestige of Scratches , was released on January 2, 2018. Dir En Grey’s twenty-ninth single “Ningen wo Kaburu” was released on April 25, 2018. One of its B-sides is a remake of “Ash”, a song with origins as far back as 1997.
In fall 2018, the band tweeted that they would do a “Back from the Dead! One Night Only!” show at The Pageant in St. Louis on Oct. 27 to celebrate 15 years of the band and the 10-year anniversary of You’re Awful, I Love You . Dubbed “HalLUDOween” , the…
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The band released an EP Water on February 9, 2018, which featured the lead single “Roll On Bye”. Less than a week after the release of Water , the band announced they had begun recording a follow-up EP in Nashville , Tennessee . The EP Wind was released on September…
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In 2018, after the tour supporting California , Hoppus formed the spin-off project Simple Creatures with All Time Low frontman Alex Gaskarth .
On May 25, 2018, the band released Covers on Sunset Blvd. Records, featuring 22 of the band’s favorite songs first recorded by other artists. The CD collects b-sides and movie soundtrack recordings, and some previously unreleased tracks.