At the end of May, the group performed at HFStival. During their set, a music video was filmed for “Festival Song”, directed by Marc Webb .
died of the illness in New York on April 15, 2001
In April, the video for “The Motivation Proclamation” was receiving airplay from video outlets.
Autopilot Off formed in 1996 under the name Cooter. They slowly gained popularity by doing live shows throughout the 90s while sharing the stage with more popular bands such as MxPx , Goldfinger , Sum 41 , Yellowcard and H 2 O . Cooter released a split with Slick Shoes…
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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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On March 1, 2001, “Little Things” was released as a single in Australia.
In 2001, Anti-Flag teamed up with punk music producer Mass Giorgini to record the album Underground Network on Fat Wreck Chords . The album addressed the topics of fascism (specifically neo-Nazis infiltrating the “hardcore scene”) and the foreign policy of the United States . The album contained a now-commonplace booklet…
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The band also launched an independent tour to support the album in 2001.
Between March and May, the group supported MxPx on their headlining US tour.
At the 2001 California Music Awards, Green Day won all eight awards for which they were nominated: Outstanding Album ( Warning ), Outstanding Punk Rock/Ska Album ( Warning ), Outstanding Group, Outstanding Male Vocalist, Outstanding Bassist, Outstanding Drummer, Outstanding Songwriter, and Outstanding Artist.