The band booked small clubs for their 2004 tour, but growing interest forced many venue changes, far beyond the band’s expectations, and the tour continued into mid-2005 throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, the SummerSonic Festival in Japan, and the Hillside Festival in Guelph .
INXS returned to the news in 2004 when it was announced that a new reality television program titled Rock Star: INXS would feature a contest to find a new lead vocalist for the band.
On January 27, 2004, Elektra/Asylum/Rhino Records released Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings , a two-CD set compilation, with 31 digitally remastered songs, four of them demos and one unreleased. The second disc contained B-sides and outtakes throughout the band’s career up to that point, including many covers.…
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Following their success in the US, back home the group headed the leader board at the ARIA Music Awards of 2004 by winning six categories: Album of the Year , Best Group , Best Rock Album and Breakthrough Artist – Album for Get Born as well as Single of the…
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In 2004, Buck-Tick largely suspended activities in order for the band members to work on individual musical projects. Sakurai began a solo career, releasing the album Ai no Wakusei in June, while Imai also released an album that month with the trio Lucy that he formed with Kiyoshi ( Spread…
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The band joined the Warped Tour for five dates in the summer of 2004, and on one date the band had only performed three songs when the stage collapsed due to the large crowd.
In 2004 the band released the acclaimed two-disc set Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus , with Bargeld replaced by the English actor, guitarist and organist James Johnston , a member of Gallon Drunk and former guest member of the Bad Seeds from a Lollapalooza tour ten years prior…
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Following their signing to Interscope, Brand New stopped touring to work on their third album and major label debut. In this time, little to no interviews or updates came from the band. In 2004, Jesse Lacey told Chart magazine that he had written a “few songs” for the next album,…
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After The Economy of Sound , the group shifted once again to DRT Entertainment and, in 2004, released Dis/Location . Their sixth studio album, it failed entirely to chart as did its only single. Four years later, a seventh album, Day & Nightdriving , was released under Bellum Records.
the tsunami disaster that struck South Asia in 2004