After five years apart, the band appeared on stage together as presenters at the February 2009 Grammy Awards to announce their reunion.
Reel Big Fish released a new studio album on January 20, 2009. The name of the album is Fame, Fortune and Fornication , and it consists of 10 cover songs. Another album, A Best of Us for the Rest of Us , featuring a 22-track disc of re-recorded songs and…
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In 2009, the band met with award-winning director Michael Mayer , along with many cast and crew members of the Tony Award -winning musical Spring Awakening , to create a stage version of American Idiot .
On September 29, 2009, Strung Out released their 7th studio album titled Agents of the Underground .
after a farewell tour, which took place between October and December 2009
The musical American Idiot opened in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre at the end of 2009.
During the Spike TV Video Game Awards 2009 , it was announced that Green Day was set to have its own Rock Band video game titled Green Day: Rock Band (2010), as a follow-up to the last band-specific game, The Beatles: Rock Band (2009). The game features the full albums…
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In 2009, Secretly Canadian reissued both “Vicious Circle” and “History Of”, making the latter available on CD for the first time.
Their second album American Rubicon was released in 2009. Leading up to its release the band participated in the Old Skars and Upstarts Tour with Anti-Nowhere League and Duane Peters . Followed by a west coast tour opening for the Lawrence Arms and Teenage Bottlerocket .
In 2009, Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman performed an instrumental cover of “Tsume Tsume Tsume” on his tribute/cover album Tokyo Jukebox . Though not mentioned in the title, near the end of the track he segues into an abbreviated version of the song “Louisiana Bob”. On November 19, 2009, the band…
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