art rock

2007
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released debut album

The band, featuring Cave playing guitar for the first time, played garage rock -influenced music that still retained much of The Bad Seeds’ aura and released a self-titled debut album in 2007.

Arcade Fire five best albums of 2007

Paste voted it one of the five best albums of 2007.

Alt-J met at University of Leeds

Alt-J (∆) were formed when Gwilym (Gwil) Sainsbury (guitar/bass), Joe Newman (guitar/lead vocals), Augustus (Gus) Unger-Hamilton (keyboards/vocals) and Thomas Stuart (Thom Sonny) Green (drums) met at University of Leeds in 2007. Unger-Hamilton (younger brother of Ferdy, head of A&R for Polydor Records ) studied English , the other three Fine…
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2006
Muse (band) Muse spent November and much of December 2006 touring Europe with

Muse spent November and much of December 2006 touring Europe with British band Noisettes as the supporting act. The tour continued in Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia in early 2007 before returning to England for the summer. At the 2007 Brit Awards in February, Muse received their second award…
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Arcade Fire Intervention

The first track officially released from Neon Bible was ” Intervention ” in December 2006 on iTunes .

Brand New (band) music video was released

In late December 2006, a music video was released for the instrumental track “Untitled”, also known as “-“, which consists of a man spray-painting the phrase “evil and good are raging inside me” onto a wall before correcting it to read the album title.

Brand New (band) corrected the date

before the band corrected the date to November 21, 2006, in North America , and the day before in Europe.

the Who in November 2006

and the Who in November 2006, but he declined and split his time between the two.

Genesis (band) announced their reunion

In a press conference held in London in November 2006, Banks, Rutherford and Collins announced their reunion for the Turn It On Again Tour , their first with Collins in fourteen years. They revealed the initial plan of touring The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway with Gabriel and Hackett.

Pulp (band) Cocker was involved in a number of one-offs and side projects

Cocker was involved in a number of one-offs and side projects, including the group Relaxed Muscle with Jason Buckle and the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , where he fronted a group which included Steve Mackey and members of Radiohead . In 2006 he collaborated with Air,…
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