On 7 April 2010, Sick Puppies released an acoustic EP titled Live & Unplugged , featuring three tracks from their Tri-Polar album and one B-Side from that album. The versions of “Odd One”, “So What I Lied”, and “The Pretender” were recorded in a studio, while “You’re Going Down” was…
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in the USA / Canada on 6 April
in the UK on 5 April
In April 2010, Blur released their first new recording since 2003, ” Fool’s Day “, for the Record Store Day event, as a vinyl record limited to 1000 copies; it was later made available as a free download on their website.
In early 2009 they toured with Waking Eyes across Canada. Arkells were featured on Aux.tv ‘s Alt Sessions where they performed their full EP. In October, 2009, Arkells won a favourite new artist CASBY Award (short for Canadian Artists Selected by You) from Toronto radio station 102.1 The Edge at…
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In April 2010, Gotoh posted an entry into his diary stating that the band’s 6th full-length album would be released in June 2010 with the title ” Magic Disk ” ( マジックディスク , Majikkudisuku ) .
In another Myspace post on December 28, 2009, Alexakis announced that former Everclear guitarist Davey French had returned, and Johnny Hawthorn was exiting the band. In the same blog, Alexakis said the band would be recording the next album in March and April 2010, for a 2011 release.
In April 2010, Classic Fantastic was released, kicking off a European tour that began in Manchester. Legal wranglings with their previous manager meant that this album was their first official output in five years, although they had played live during this period. Leiser and Benbini had produced much of the…
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In April 2010, PiL began an extensive North American tour, including a sub-headlining appearance at the Coachella Festival . The band played several European concerts in July 2010 and at the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan in August 2011.
In an April 2010 interview with South Yorkshire newspaper The Star , Grant expressed his disappointment with the side-project band’s sudden increase in success and awareness, in which he claimed that he wanted the band to continue playing in clubs with a slower ascendency to the bigger venues. The tour…
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