Story of the Year released The Black Swan in 2008. For the album, they brought back producer John Feldmann and Elvis Baskette. The album received praise from music critics and achieved decent commercial success, more so than the previous album. The success was led by the first single off album,…
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The band reunited with Jeff Pinkus and Teresa Nervosa for a tour of the East Coast and Europe in Summer 2008 with the Paul Green School of Rock All Stars. It was the first time the reunited line up played together since 1989. The group performed at the All Tomorrow’s…
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Despite Chad having proclaimed the new material to be their best work yet, incorporating elements of all the band’s previous albums and praising Draper’s writing as being better than ever, Draper later claimed that when working on the new album, none of the band’s hearts were in it and in…
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3 Doors Down released their self-titled fourth album on May 20, 2008. It debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 , selling 154,000 copies in its first week. It became the band’s second consecutive number 1 album on the chart after Seventeen Days , as well their fourth album…
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During the summer, Kent toured Scandinavia, first with a short spring tour at the end of May (24 May–2 June) and then at festivals and own concerts in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark during June, July and August. During this summer tour they started their concerts with an old unreleased…
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Still in 2008, legendary English rock band Oasis extended an offer for the Pillows to play as the opening act at their concert in Japan, but frontman Sawao Yamanaka refused their offer. In a January interview for Japanzine , Yamanaka joked that he “turned down the offer in order to…
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In mid-2008, the band played all the U.S. dates of the “Easycore Tour” along with New Found Glory , Four Year Strong , Crime in Stereo and International Superheroes of Hardcore .
as well as appearing at the 2008 Warped Tour .
They played a series of shows in Europe in 2008, including Rock am Ring and Rock im Park , Pinkpop Festival , T in the Park in Scotland, the Hultsfred Festival in Sweden, the Reading and Leeds Festivals in England and the Oxegen Festival in Ireland.
Blindside has been performing a new song called “Remember December” from their upcoming album. Christian and Simon have also been performing in a side project named Lindforest (The English translation of Christian’s Swedish lastname “Lindskog”). Blindside took some time off throughout 2008 but also has written new songs and is…
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