In April, the band’s mainstream breakthrough came when they won a national competition called Pick Me, using their demo of “Tomorrow”. The competition was conducted by the SBS TV show Nomad and Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) alternative radio station Triple J . As part of the prize, Triple J recorded…
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The Gorge , a combination 2-CD/1-DVD set with highlights from their three-night 2002 tour-closing stand at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington , was released on June 29, 2004.
After departing from TVT in 2002, Guided by Voices returned to Matador and released Universal Truths and Cycles , a departure from the previous two radio-aspiring albums, and a return to the band’s mid-90s, mid-fi aesthetic.
The band was initially known as Pilot and played its first show under that name in 2002. While in college, the band constructed a marketing strategy which involved placing hundreds of promotional stickers across the walls of Stafford asking “Who’s the Pilot?”. They realised the name was already taken by…
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When musician Randy Castillo died from cancer in 2002, Slash, McKagan, and Sorum performed at a benefit concert to raise money and commemorate Castillo, with Josh Todd and Keith Nelson of Buckcherry as well as B-Real and Sen Dog of Cypress Hill . Recognizing that their musical relationship was still…
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In 2002 Blindside released Silence .
In 2002, the Argentine edition of the Rolling Stone magazine in partnership with MTV issued a list featuring Soda Stereo’s songs among the best 100 rock songs in Argentina .
The release of their debut album Bring ‘Em In in 2002, and of their first single ” Sheepdog ” made the band popular in Sweden; the 1960s and 1970s music style and sound as well as the singers´ voices were soon seen as the “typical” Mando Diao sound by their…
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The group relocated to a San Francisco recording studio in early 2002 with producer Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads to begin work on their next album. The band released the live album, Raw and Rare , in 2003 through Dim Mak Records . On August 25, 2003, the Von Bondies…
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The title of the album is a reference to their performance at the 2002 Glastonbury Festival , where they recorded the audience singing, “We still believe in love, so fuck you”.