According to bassist Emma Anzai, “( Robert Knight ) was like, ‘Hey I want to put you in my film’, so we were like, ‘All right, cool.’ So now it’s two years later and he documented when we did the first album, the first show, all that kind of stuff.…
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The band departed from Epic Records in 2009, after releasing just two albums. In early 2010, it was revealed that the band would be contributing a cover of ” Boys Keep Swinging ” to a tribute/charity record for David Bowie called We Were So Turned On from which all profits…
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Their fifth album, Wonderlustre , was released internationally on 13 September 2010, preceded by the first single, “My Ugly Boy”, which was released in the UK on 16 August 2010 and in Europe July/August. The video for “My Ugly Boy” was presented exclusively on Kerrang.com on 23 July 2010. Wonderlustre…
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The first single from the album, ” (It’s Not War) Just the End of Love “, was released on 13 September 2010.
Rob Thomas posted on Twitter that he was “heading out next week to start writing the new mb20 record” on September 13, 2010.
On September 11, 2010, the band said one final goodnight at The Altar Bar (since closed) in Pittsburgh where they donated all of the ticket sales to the Mario Lemieux Foundation .
Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up was released on 6 September 2010. The album showcased a heavier side to the band, who stated that it probably was their heaviest studio album to date. However, Vennart claimed that the album still had the diversity found on other Oceansize albums. The…
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however, in actuality, the downloadable version was released on 6 September 2010 with the physical copies being planned on being released sometime in the third week of October.
On September 4, 2010, while on VH1’s Top 20 Music Video Countdown, Thomas stated that Matchbox Twenty was planning to start working on their next studio album in mid-September and that he was 80% sure that the album would be released sometime in 2011.
In September 2010, in an interview with Rip It Up magazine, the band announced that they were in the middle of recording their third full-length album, and explained it to be completely different from anything they had released in the past.