Funeral and the single ” Cold Wind ” were nominated for Grammys in the Best Alternative Rock Album and Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media categories ( Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends ), respectively. On April 2, 2006, in Halifax, Nova Scotia…
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In March 2006, Evans Blue embarked upon their first U.S. tour alongside Taproot . They also played festivals, and several concerts with Breaking Benjamin . They have since played with bands such as Staind , Alice in Chains , 10 Years , Three Days Grace , Flyleaf and former labelmates…
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On February 3, 2006, Nori disbanded Treble Charger, ending their 14-year career.
In February 2006, Lavigne represented Canada at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics . Fox Entertainment Group approached Lavigne to write a song for the soundtrack to the 2006 fantasy-adventure film Eragon ; her contribution, ” Keep Holding On “, was released as a single to promote the…
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In 2005, the band performed on the Never Sleep Again Tour with bands such as Aiden , Hawthorne Heights and Bayside —a tour during which Bayside’s drummer John “Beatz” Holohan was then killed in a road accident. The song, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow , on their following album, Arrivals and…
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Hawk Nelson continued to gain popularity and was voted “Favorite New Artist” by CCM Magazine in their February 2006 Reader’s Choice Awards.
In 2006, twenty-five years after its initial release, Get Lucky was remastered and re-released with several previously unreleased songs, including the original demo of ” Working for the Weekend “.
and the tracks “Rebellion (Lies)” and ” Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) ” on adverts in January 2006.
Despite the hiatus, in 2006 Brad Roberts began to record the album that would become Oooh La La with producer and friend Stewart Lerman, using the optigan and omnichord .
During the downtime between Funeral and the beginning of recording sessions for Neon Bible , the band purchased a defunct church in the small Quebec town of Farnham , approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) southeast of Montreal, and spent the early part of 2006 converting it into a recording studio.