NME named Franz Ferdinand the best album of 2004
Two retrospective box sets, The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson Volume One 1969–1974 and The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson Volume Two 1981–2003 , were issued in 2004 and 2005 respectively.
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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Following the album’s release, Brand New sold out a headlining tour of the UK in January 2004 supported by Straylight Run
It was also nominated for best album at the 2004 Brit Awards .
Among other accolades, it was ranked number 16 in Q magazine’s “The 50 Best British Albums Ever” in 2004, a poll done in collaboration with British music and entertainment retailer HMV .
The British public voted it the 13th-greatest album of all time in a 2004 Channel 4 poll.
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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The Who would not return to Australia until 2004.
At the end of 2004, May and Taylor announced that they would reunite and return to touring in 2005 with Paul Rodgers (founder and former lead singer of Free and Bad Company ).