In early 2008, Brand New toured Australia and New Zealand on the Big Day Out festival.
The band’s interest in new releases emerged from a 2008 meeting about their shared properties, both financial and legal, where they realized Soundgarden lacked online presence such as a website or a Facebook page.
For the first two months of 2008, Editors played 30 shows on a tour across America and Canada. During the tour Editors were nominated for a Brit Award , in the Best British Group Category. Also as a result of the nomination, one of the North American tour dates had…
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Band members changed over the course of several years. Greg Camp left the band in the summer of 2008. Smash Mouth recruited Leroy Miller to play guitar. Leroy left in 2009 and Camp returned to the band, but in 2011 Camp left once again and this time the band recruited…
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Both EPs were collected on a single disc entitled Unicorn Steak which features two unreleased songs: an early demo of “Empty’s Promise” and the cover of the Beatsteaks song “Hand in Hand” . A video was also recorded after the release of Unicorn Steak , for the song “Saved By…
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In 2008, Gomez opened several shows for Dave Matthews Band .
The album was dedicated to actor Brad Renfro , who died in 2008 at the age of 25. Renfro was Jesse Hasek’s cousin.
In 2008, the album was re-released as a deluxe edition and renamed to its original title, Bleed American . This edition contains a total of 32 tracks—the original 11 as well as 21 bonus tracks, which are live recordings, demos and B-sides.
On December 13, 2008, the Offspring headlined the nineteenth annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas . In an interview at the Almost Acoustic Christmas show, guitarist Noodles stated that the Offspring would be taking a break for a month or two and promised a US tour to kick off in 2009.…
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A Day to Remember toured the UK for the first time in January 2008.