However, Sumner revealed in 2009 that he no longer wished to make music as New Order.
In 2009, Guano Apes reunited and played a string of concerts in Europe, starting in Sofia , Bulgaria, and also including Braga , Portugal, Nickelsdorf , Austria, Przystanek Woodstock , Poland, and Rock im Park , Germany, and Bucharest , Romania. In Bucharest, the band announced they were working on…
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Them Crooked Vultures was released by Interscope Records in North America, and Sony Music internationally. On October 21, radio personality Alan Cross announced the lead single for Them Crooked Vultures debut album to be ” New Fang ” which premiered on October 26. The single was released on November 2…
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January 2009 saw the release of the single ” Galaxy “, with the band’s sixteenth studio album, Memento Mori , following on February 18. The album continues to explore the sound of “straight rock”, and Sakurai said that while the focus of his previous lyrics had been about death, for…
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in 2009, in the soundtrack of the video game Band Hero
Cave and the band curated Australia’s first edition of the All Tomorrow’s Parties music festival that was held in various Australian locations during January 2009.
A song by BRMC, “Done All Wrong”, appeared on the soundtrack to the 2009 film The Twilight Saga: New Moon .
The new line-up (consisting of Lydon, earlier members Bruce Smith and Lu Edmonds , plus multi-instrumentalist Scott Firth ) played to generally positive reviews in late 2009, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Metal Box . However, protested Lydon, “This tour is absolutely nothing to do with an anniversary of…
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On February 3, 2009, the band released Distractions , their third release for Fat Wreck Chords . The EP consists of three original songs, two of which (‘Distracted’ and ‘Last Call’) were brand new and the other (‘Spy Diddley’) was originally released as part of the Fat Wreck Chords X-Mas…
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Coldplay were nominated for four awards at the 2009 Brit Awards : British Group, British Live Act, British Single (“Viva la Vida”) and British Album ( Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends ).