In July 2018, Wilson, Jardine, Love, Johnston, and Marks reunited for a one-off Q&A session moderated by director Rob Reiner at the Capitol Records Building in Los Angeles. It was the first time the band had appeared together in public since their 2012 tour. That December, Love described his new…
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In December 2016, Turner confirmed to BBC Radio Sheffield that the band’s hiatus had ended and work had begun on their sixth studio album. The album had begun recording in September 2017. The album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino was released on 11 May 2018. The band headlined a handful…
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Former band member Richard Swift died on July 3, 2018. He was admitted to the hospital in June for hepatitis.
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino was nominated for the 2018 Mercury Prize , an annual prize awarded to the year’s best British or Irish album. This became the band’s fourth nomination for the award: the second most nominations received by any act. The album was nominated for Best Alternative Music…
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In 2018, Mason formed a new band, Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets , to perform Pink Floyd’s early material. It includes Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet and the longtime Pink Floyd collaborator Guy Pratt .
Greg Camp rejoined Smash Mouth in early 2018. An acoustic re-recording of Smash Mouth’s first album, Fush Yu Mang , funded through PledgeMusic was released in 2018 for the album’s 20th anniversary.
Mason said in 2018 that, while he remained close to Gilmour and Waters, the two remained “at loggerheads”.
On November 1, 2018, Smash Mouth released the single “Unity”. It features hip-hop artists Kool Keith and Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC . They then toured Australia in the same year during November to sell-out crowds around the country, performing a mix of theater, festival, and pub shows. During the Arlie…
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In 2018, Guided by Voices announced the future release of the double album Zeppelin Over China and Warp and Woof for 2019. They also made their 7″ single, “You Own the Night” available for pre-order containing singles from both albums.
In 2016, the group recorded a cover of the Beatles ‘ ” The Word ” for the Netflix show Beat Bugs . During this time, Mercer was at work on the band’s fifth album, which he felt was closer in sound to the Shins’ earlier work than Port of Morrow…
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