In response to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11 in Japan,
They concluded their South African tour by playing in Durban and Johannesburg on 9 and 12 March 2011 respectively.
A box set entitled Twenity Box was later released on March 9 and contains all three of the albums. It also came with a special digest DVD that covered the 20-year history of the band, a deluxe booklet, and a special music box that contained either ” Flower “, “Anata”,…
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On March 8, 2011, former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr was found dead at his home in Salt Lake City.
Elbow’s fifth studio album, Build a Rocket Boys! , was released on 7 March 2011. Upon its release, the album hit Number 2 in the UK album charts, the highest of any Elbow album to date. Build a Rocket Boys! also earned the band their third nomination for the Mercury…
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The next day, Cornell reported that the new album would not be released until the spring of 2012.
On 5 March 2011, the band played their first ever show in South Africa, at the RAMFest in Worcester, outside of Cape Town alongside Alkaline Trio and Die Antwoord .
Four days later, the band stated it would consist of material that was “90 percent new” with the rest consisting of updated versions of older ideas. They also noted that they had 12 to 14 songs that were “kind of ready to go”.
NME reported in May 2011 that the band were teaming up with producer James Ford once again and would be releasing their fourth studio album in late spring at the earliest. Q magazine reported that the fourth Arctic Monkeys album would be of a “more accessible vintage” than Humbug .…
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On 3 March 2011, Stereophonics announced that they were working on new music in the studio. In July 2012 it was announced that Weyler and the band had parted company. It was announced on 24 September 2012 that Jamie Morrison , former drummer for Noisettes , had replaced Weyler in…
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