At the Juno Awards of 2017 , Arkells were nominated for Juno Award for Group of the Year and the Juno Award for Rock Album of the Year . They performed their viral hit “Drake’s Dad” live on the television broadcast. They released a new single on April 7, 2017,…
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Noodles was absent from the Offspring’s 2017 tour with Sublime with Rome due to a “sudden family matter”; filling in for him on dates were Tom Thacker and Jonah Nimoy. That year, Holland earned a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Southern California .
but returned in 2017.
Cicierega uploaded the song “Funkytown” to his Patreon page in 2017, later contributing it to the 2020 charity compilation album Needlejustice , which benefits the NAACP Legal Defense Fund . It would later be released as an official single alongside “One Weird Tip” on January 21, 2023.
On October 12, 2017, the band released a new single called “Passion” to be featured on the third album. On November 6, 2017, Bruno announced the new album’s name, Here Come the Runts , alongside the release of a new song “Seven Sticks of Dynamite”. The band followed the album…
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On October 24, 2017, as part of the Villains tour, the band headlined Madison Square Garden for the first time, having opened for Nine Inch Nails there in 2005, and for Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2003. Homme said he was “stoked”. Three sets of free tickets to this show…
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In January 2017, Mike Inez stated in an interview that the band had begun work on a new album.
In 2017, Chino Moreno revealed that Deftones had begun writing material for their ninth studio album, which he stated hoped would be out sometime in 2019. Moreno went on to state that the band would be going in a different direction than they had on Gore and that he would…
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In 2017, Bixler-Zavala stated that Ward was not ready for a new album and tour: “His head wasn’t there. His head wasn’t trustworthy. Because of the way Omar and I exploded [with the Mars Volta], I completely understood that. You know, you either let it go and keep going forward,…
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DiNizio died in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, on December 12, 2017, at the age of 62. According to bandmates, his health declined following a series of issues that began in 2015, resulting in nerve damage that limited the use of his right hand and arm.