On January 1, 2008, Good Charlotte was featured on Tila Tequila’s New Year’s Eve Masquerade on MTV, as the band was the second performance of the new year and performed its hit “Dance Floor Anthem”.
In early 2008 Dave DeRoo announced the band decided to go on a “hiatus” to regroup, take a break, and assured fans they had not broken up.
Vermillion enjoyed a solo career now playing his own folk and American roots songs as well as covering many classic but perhaps lesser-known American country artists such as Townes Van Zandt, Merle Haggard and Jim Croce. He plays shows frequently in the Seattle area and also DJs under the name…
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Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace was nominated for five Grammy Awards in 2008. The Foo Fighters won Best Rock Album and Best Hard Rock Performance (for “The Pretender”). The album was also nominated for Album of the Year, while “The Pretender” was also nominated for Record of the Year and…
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In 2008 rock and roll comic C.C. Banana recorded a song called ” Ted Poley “, released on the album Kiss My Ankh . The song is a parody of the Kiss song ” Unholy “, inspired by the story of Poley’s first encounter with Kiss lead singer Paul Stanley…
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The band made an appearance performing in the 2008 iCarly movie, iGo to Japan .
In 2008 the band released their sixth studio album, Twelve Angry Months , a concept album in which each of the twelve songs represented a stage in a year-long process of overcoming a failed relationship.
As the process would drag on, privately, internal strife flared up again across 2008. According to Fredianelli, morale was low at the time because of the departure of Salazar, Jenkins beginning to lose interest in the band, and tensions between Jenkins and long-time friend and band manager Eric Godtland. Jenkins…
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To celebrate ten years as a band, Godsmack released a greatest hits album entitled Good Times, Bad Times… Ten Years of Godsmack on December 4 , 2007. The album debuted at number thirty-five on the Billboard 200, selling 40,000 copies in the first week of release. It includes a cover…
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The “Keep Your Hands Off My Girl” video was certified gold by MTV International in December 2007.