art rock

2009
Muse (band) The Resistance Tour began with A Seaside Rendezvous in Muse’s

The Resistance Tour began with A Seaside Rendezvous in Muse’s hometown of Teignmouth, Devon, in September 2009. It included headline slots the following year at festivals including Coachella, Glastonbury, Oxegen , Hovefestivalen, T in the Park , Austin City Limits and the Australian Big Day Out . Between September and…
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Muse (band) The Resistance was released in September 2009, the first album

The Resistance was released in September 2009, the first album produced by Muse, with engineering by Adrian Bushby and mixing by Mark Stent . It topped album charts in 19 countries, became the band’s third number one album in the UK, and reached number three on the Billboard 200 .…
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Franz Ferdinand (band) What She Came For

and on 28 August, “What She Came For” was released as the 4th single in the form of a remix single.

Franz Ferdinand (band) The Tonight Show

The band performed “What She Came For” on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on Wednesday, 26 August 2009.

Arctic Monkeys In a preview article on Clash , writer Simon Harper claimed that the

In a preview article on Clash , writer Simon Harper claimed that the band had “completely defied any expectations or presumptions to explore the depths they can reach when stepping foot outside their accepted styles,” and that “Turner is his usual eloquent self, but has definitely graduated into an incomparable…
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Brand New (band) released digitally

The lead single ” At the Bottom ” was released digitally on August 11.

Franz Ferdinand (band) 8–26 August 2009

They played 8–26 August 2009, and they followed Kaiser Chiefs and The Bravery .

Brand New (band) played the main stage

Brand New also played the main stage at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in August 2009. The band’s sets at Reading and Glastonbury were both filmed by the BBC , but the band declined the BBC rights to broadcast either performance on television or online.

Bloc Party One More Chance

A new single, ” One More Chance “, was released in August 2009. The song did not appear on Intimacy and was produced by Jacknife Lee.

Arctic Monkeys As announced on Arctic Monkeys’ website, the first single from Humbug

As announced on Arctic Monkeys’ website, the first single from Humbug was “Crying Lightning”, released on 6 July. It also received its first radio premiere on the same day. On 12 July 2009, the single “Crying Lightning” debuted at number 12 in the UK singles chart. The second single, ”…
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