In an interview conducted shortly after Moyal’s departure, Rankine revealed that frictions with the vocalist had become increasingly problematic, especially since the band’s European and British tour from October–December 2001. Rankine voiced that Moyal’s attitude had been negative and holding back the band from progressing in a natural direction, and…
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A 45-track box set of Nirvana rarities was scheduled for release in October 2001.
The band began touring full-time in support of Won , starting with an American summer tour with Vangard, Keepsake , and Further Seems Forever from early August to mid-September 2001. The last leg of the American tour was cut short due to the September 11 attacks in New York City…
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In 2000, the band hired Nathan Calhoun as bassist. Having resolved their dispute with Capitol, Butthole Surfers re-recorded most of After the Astronaut’ s songs for Weird Revolution , on the Hollywood Records / Surfdog Records imprint. The album was released in August 2001, and reached number 130 on the…
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As Friends Rust recorded ten songs for its debut full-length, Won , in July 2001, with producer James Paul Wisner at Wisner Productions. Recorded material included new versions of “Morningleaver” and “This Is Me Hating You,” newly written songs “We on Some Next Level Shit,” “Fourteen or So,” “Austin, We…
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Bixler-Zavala and Rodríguez-López subsequently focused on their dub side project De Facto , which also included Ward’s cousin Jeremy Ward , before forming The Mars Volta . Jim Ward, Hinojos, and Hajjar formed Sparta in June 2001; Hinojos later left Sparta to join The Mars Volta from 2005 to 2009.…
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On 9 April 2001, the previously unreleased ” 27 ” was released as a single. On 1 October 2001, a song from thekidswho… was re-recorded and released as a single, ” Justboy “; this was repeated again on 4 February 2002, when the song ” 57 ” was released. On…
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Fugazi began work on The Argument in 1999. This process saw the group taking more time than usual to write and demo material. Each member brought his own riffs and ideas to the band, jammed on them, and then began piecing the songs together into various configurations before deciding on…
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In March 2001, less than a month away from a United States tour set to begin on April 14, At the Drive-In announced an indefinite hiatus at the height of their popularity thus far. The band had played their final show of the preceding world tour on February 21, 2001,…
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In February 2001, Moyal, Simmons, and Beckham recruited former Twelve Tribes drummer Alexander Vernon (who had relocated from Ohio to Florida to play with metalcore band Red Roses for a Blue Lady), and future Rehasher bass guitarist Guillermo Amador. This line-up wrote and recorded two songs, “Morningleaver” and “This Is…
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