With Tempesta on drums and Hamilton covering vocals and guitar, the three recorded Size Matters in early 2004. Traynor recorded both the album’s guitar and bass parts. The album featured lyrics which were inspired by Hamilton’s brief 2003 relationship with Hollywood actress Winona Ryder , and has been cited by…
Read More
Nolan also wrote an apology song to Lacey with his new project Straylight Run , “Your Name Here (Sunrise Highway)”, which was released in 2004.
In 2004, although the band had been inactive for many years, Andrews and Edwards got together to collaborate on a CD/DVD set entitled Golden , which collects demos, outtakes , touring footage, both of the band’s videos, and other rare material from the band’s active period. Another posthumous compilation, a…
Read More
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.
On October 21, 2004, Mould and Hart reunited at a Minneapolis benefit concert for ailing Soul Asylum bassist Karl Mueller , who had been receiving treatment for cancer. At the end of what had been scheduled as a solo set by Mould, he brought out Hart to play “Never Talking…
Read More
Following the album’s release, Brand New sold out a headlining tour of the UK in January 2004 supported by Straylight Run
Schwab comments in a 2004 interview regarding the number 86 in the band name: “The generation before us used that phrase to describe when they would reject or remove something…Project 86 is like the whole idea of being rejected, or separate, or not going along with the current.” The group…
Read More
The band’s use of imagery and symbolism (notable the use of Sigils ) took a decided turn after the release of Epics in Minutes, as it was followed by two limited 12-inches, the Looking for Gold 12-inch, and the live Let Likes be Cured by Likes 12-inch. The Looking for…
Read More
Following their signing to Interscope, Brand New stopped touring to work on their third album and major label debut. In this time, little to no interviews or updates came from the band. In 2004, Jesse Lacey told Chart magazine that he had written a “few songs” for the next album,…
Read More
The band self-released an EP titled Halos for Heros, Dirt for the Dead in 2004, which was sold at their live shows.