The band announced on January 18, 2013, that they were selling the church they had been using as a studio due to a collapsed roof.
On January 9, 2013, Gontier resigned from Three Days Grace. He left as the band was about to embark on a co-headlining tour. Matt Walst from My Darkest Days , the brother of bassist Brad Walst, became the new lead singer.
English rock musician David Bowie contributed to backing vocals on the title song, ” Reflektor ” after praising the song’s quality in fall 2013.
Wintersleep toured extensively during 2013, including as the opening act for Scottish indie band Frightened Rabbit , who invited them on their UK tour and later their North American tour. Wintersleep also opened for Frightened Rabbit on the latter’s North American dates in early 2018.
In early 2013, the band started to play shows with a new intimate and interactive concept titled “A Very Long Evening with I Mother Earth”. The first set, open to VIP ticket holders, was a combination of question and answer mixed with acoustic or deconstructed versions of five or six…
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Also in 2013, Wind-Up Records’ catalogue was sold to the Bicycle Music Company
In 2013, Graham, Millar, and Finn reunited, joined by new bass player Johnny Fenton , formerly of the Toronto thrash/death metal band Solus . The group released the album Start @ One , which had been recorded in 1993 but never released.
At the end of 2013, drummer Rich Beddoe left the band
On April 24, 2013, Sloan announced the release of a hardcore punk 7″ single, Jenny b/w It’s In You, It’s In Me . Pre-orders of the single also included a T-shirt portraying the band members circa 1985, and a bonus digital download of 12 additional hardcore covers performed by Sloan.…
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On June 5, 2013, Ben Cook told Exclaim! that No Warning has reformed and will release a seven-inch on his own label Bad Actors Inc. The seven-inch will include new song called “Resurrection of the Wolf” on the A-side and a cover of Violent Minds’ “Bloodsucker” on the B-side. He…
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