In late 2016, Fastball experienced a significant resurgence in mainstream visibility when American rapper Machine Gun Kelly and singer Camila Cabello released the single “Bad Things.” The track heavily interpolates the chorus and melody of Fastball’s 1999 hit “Out of My Head,” written by Tony Scalzo. “Bad Things” became a…
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In November, just a week after the terrorist attacks in Paris , including the Bataclan where fellow desert rockers Eagles of Death Metal were playing, Mondo Generator kicked off a European tour at Speed Fest in Eindhoven, Netherlands, to a crowd of more than 5,000. The tour ran through 10…
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The band reconvened in 2016 to work on their eighth full-length studio album.
On March 11, 2016, the band released a new song, “Always Coming Back”, that was featured in NTT Docomo ‘s phone commercial series, “Kanjou no Subete / Nakama”. In mid-2016, One OK Rock joined 5 Seconds of Summer on the first North American leg of their Sounds Live Feels Live…
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Both Slash and McKagan rejoined Guns N’ Roses in 2016.
At the end of 2016, the group signed to Mascot Label Group .
On March 3, 2016, the song “Squirrel vs. Snake” was released as a teaser for their forthcoming eighth album, and the band embarked on an extensive month-long European tour on March 29. The album Solid States was released on April 29 by British indie label Lojinx in Europe; the American…
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Writing for the album began in 2016
In 2016, en route to play a show in Philadelphia , the group was stopped in Pittsburgh due to the January 2016 United States blizzard . The group tweeted that they planned to play a short set on the North Side in front of a dumpster at the corner of…
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The band was featured as a band at a punk show in the 2016 Richard Linklater film Everybody Wants Some!! .