In January 2010, Lavigne worked with Disney to create clothing designs inspired by Tim Burton ‘s feature film Alice in Wonderland . She recorded a song for its soundtrack, ” Alice “, which was played over the end credits and included on the soundtrack album Almost Alice . In February,…
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Oooh La La was released on May 11, 2010. The album’s release was accompanied by the band touring in an “acoustic trio” format consisting of Roberts and Ellen Reid, accompanied by either Stuart Cameron or Murray Pulver on guitar. On October 9, 2010, as part of the Canadian leg of…
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The National Football League featured this recording in commercials throughout the broadcast of the 2010 Super Bowl .
In November 2009, Sloan added a digital music store to their website. To promote the store, the band released an online-only EP titled Hit & Run . The song Take It Upon Yourself was released as a free single. In February 2010, the band released another online exclusive, the compilation…
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The first song from the new album “Sick of It” was released on iTunes on March 31. The song went to No. 1 in the research at SiriusXM Octane and was No. 2 on the 2009 year-end Octane chart. Based on this success, SiriusXM Octane added a second track, “Bulletproof,”…
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In 2009, the band continued to tour Canada and select Northeastern United States cities. However, on September 1, 2009, it was announced that the band had again parted ways with original keyboardist Ray Coburn. Peter Nunn returned to the band’s line-up to replace him for the second time. The band…
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A re-recorded version of the band’s song “Wake Up” from their 2004 debut album, Funeral , was used for the trailer of the Spike Jonze film Where the Wild Things Are , which was released in October 2009.
The new Helix CD was tentatively titled It’s Rock Science, NOT Rocket Science! , before being changed to Vagabond Bones after a song co-written by Kelly. Doerner, Gray and Hinz all appear on the album, along with Sean Kelly, Brent Niemi, Rob MacEachern and Russ “Dwarf” Graham of Moxy and…
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In an unexpected turn of events, after their July 10, 2009 Rocklahoma performance, Sean Kelly amicably gave notice that he was quitting Helix to be the new guitar player in Nelly Furtado ‘s band. His first date with Furtado was in Mexico City in September 2009. After Kelly’s departure, Brian…
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Work continued in 2008 on songs for an album which was tentatively titled Toys . In July 2009, the title of the album was renamed from Toys to Oooh La La .