While announcing the Cocked, Locked, and Ready to Rock Tour in 2009, Tyler and Perry said that the next item on the agenda was a new Aerosmith album, the group’s first since 2004’s Honkin’ on Bobo. The group did some recording with producer Brendan O’Brien in 2008 but halted because…
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After a roughly 20-year hiatus, Biedermann reformed Blind Illusion in 2009 with a new lineup of Danny Harcourt on guitar and Robert Nystrom on drums, releasing their second studio album Demon Master on July 7, 2010. The album marked a very different style and sound from The Sane Asylum ,…
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On August 24, 2010, the band announced that they were leaving Wind-Up after nine years, stating “We felt it was time for a change. We have a vision for this band that we feel is best pursued elsewhere.”
On 20 August 2010, Queen’s manager Jim Beach announced that the band had signed a new contract with Universal Music Group after almost 40 years with EMI . On 22 September, May confirmed that the band’s new deal was with Island Records , a subsidiary of Universal. Hollywood Records remained…
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On August 17, 2010, they performed the songs “Bad Company” and “Hard to See” on the ABC show Jimmy Kimmel Live! .
They also made a brief appearance at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York , on August 17, 2010.
“Black Rain” hit rock radio stations on August 10, 2010, and was the band’s first single since 1997.
The band headlined Lollapalooza on August 8.
On August 5, it was confirmed that there was another version of the song on Universal International , this one a duet with Anna Tsuchiya .
The track appeared on the deluxe edition of Hoobastank’s first compilation album, The Greatest Hits: Don’t Touch My Moustache , which came out on August 5.