The band released a greatest hits album, The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves, the following year, which was re-released in 2004 under the title, The Best of Something Happens . A repackaged edition of Planet Fabulous, entitled Alan, Elvis & God , was released in 1997 with the addition…
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Also in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Police No. 70 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Taking Back Sunday guitarist Eddie Reyes told New York Magazine in 2004 that he was dissatisfied with his band being considered second-place to Brand New in the Long Island rock scene.
After lengthy touring in support of Bleed American , the band regrouped to work on the follow-up in early 2004. Once again, the band joined up with Trombino, but the collaboration was short lived. As the sessions began, the band decided that they did not have enough material for a…
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In 2004, the band released a live DVD, Show: A Night in the Life of Matchbox Twenty , filmed in Atlanta and featuring 20 songs, including all of their previous successful singles.
The band toured the U.S. in support of headlining groups such as Cheap Trick , Van Halen , Talking Heads , and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . For their stage performance, the 2004 documentary Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways (directed by former Runaway bassist Vicki Blue ) revealed…
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In 2004, Copeland and Summers joined Incubus onstage at KROQ ‘s Almost Acoustic Christmas concert in Los Angeles performing “Roxanne” and “Message in a Bottle”.
Following the album’s release, Brand New sold out a headlining tour of the UK in January 2004 supported by Straylight Run
In 2004, Woesthoff’s wife, Guusje Nederhorst , died of breast cancer at the age of 34. He devoted the song “Dreamer” to her, and it became the best-selling Dutch single that year.
The Who would not return to Australia until 2004.