After a nine-year hiatus, the band reformed in the summer of 2005 with a recording lineup bolstered by Bill Stevenson and Karl Alvarez , members of Descendents . The live lineup during this period fluctuated, with Stevenson and George Berz (Dinosaur Jr.) both sitting in on drums during 2005, while…
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During the summer of 2005, the band played the Vans Warped Tour for the first time and followed that with a European and Japanese tour. After the Greatest Hits world tour, the band took a break from writing, recording, and touring. During the hiatus, Willard was recruited by Tom DeLonge…
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In 2005, Anti-Flag signed a two-album record contract with the major label RCA . In an interview with British newspaper The Guardian , Justin Sane explained the band’s move to a major label:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2005, the Get Up Kids announced that after ten years, they were disbanding. They embarked on a national farewell tour, ending the band after a sold-out show on July 2, 2005, in their hometown of Kansas City at the Uptown Theater .
In 2005, the album ranked 420 in Rock Hard magazine’s book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time .
That same year, My Chemical Romance collaborated with the Used for a cover of the Queen and David Bowie song, ” Under Pressure “, which was released as a benefit single for tsunami relief on iTunes and other Internet outlets.
On September 14 and 15, 2005, Dando, Stevenson and Lattanzi performed two shows at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London as part of the ATP Don’t Look Back series, where they played It’s a Shame About Ray in its entirety.
In 2005, the band released a Greatest Hits album in both DualDisc and regular CD editions. Greatest Hits contains 14 of the band’s hits between Smash and Splinter , and two previously unreleased songs, ” Can’t Repeat ” and ” Next to You ” (a cover of the Police song…
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The album helped Green Day win seven of the eight awards it was nominated for at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards ; the “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” video won six of those awards.
They then co-headlined Warped Tour 2005 with Fall Out Boy