They were presented with Best Album and Best Group at the 2008 Swedish Grammy Awards .
On October 27, 2008, the band announced via a MySpace bulletin that they would release their newest album independently. The album would be their first release through their own “Abstract Dragon” label. The album, titled, The Effects of 333 is instrumental and was made available as a digital download through…
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In 2008, Sweet released Sunshine Lies , his 10th studio album, which also incorporated a 2-LP set featuring 4 bonus tracks.
The band members all attended Citipointe Christian College in Mansfield together, and as of 2008 continued to reside there. The postcode of the suburb, “4122”, appears in the band’s merchandise artwork and frequently appears in band-related images.
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 .