Although both “Scream Thy Last Scream” and “Vegetable Man” circulated widely on bootleg recordings for decades, they remained officially unreleased until their inclusion on the box set The Early Years 1965–1972 in 2016.
In 2016, it was announced that Ward had joined the band Counting Days.
In 2016, Blues Traveler made a cameo appearance in the film The Meddler .
In 2016, Albert Bouchard played again as guest with the then-current line-up of the band, playing at shows in New York, Los Angeles, Dublin and London, where Blue Öyster Cult played the album Agents of Fortune in its entirety. The shows featured songs from Agents of Fortune that had either…
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In January 2016 the band appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and performed “Mess Around”.
As of 2016, the group are on hiatus, with Leary saying: “I just don’t want to play live anymore. It’s not fun, I don’t like touring. That hour on stage is a whole lot of fun, but the other 23 hours off stage just fucking suck.”
They performed at the Day for Night music festival in Houston, Texas, which ran December 17–18, 2016.
Cage the Elephant released their fourth album, Tell Me I’m Pretty , on December 18, 2015, with Dan Auerbach, a member of The Black Keys , as the producer.
In December 2015, the Beatles released their catalogue for streaming on various streaming music services including Spotify and Apple Music .
Recording took place in British Grove Studios , London, in December 2015, and featured Eric Clapton on two tracks.