On May 1, 2020, the band released an EP titled Atonement II: B-Sides for Charity , containing six songs that were recorded during the Atonement sessions, but did not make the album. The EP was released on Bandcamp and sold as a “pay what you want” price, with all proceeds…
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On April 29, Manson and Jennings confirmed they had finished work on the band’s eleventh studio album, with both calling it a “masterpiece”.
A day later, their twenty-first single ” The Beyond ” was released in limited production. It became their first song in over 20 years to top the Oricon Singles Chart .
The next day, it was announced that the Two Thousand Trees Festival was being pushed back to 2021, also due to the pandemic.
On April 28, 2020, the band released the digital song “Make a Vow”, which was produced remotely within two weeks as an answer to the pandemic.
On April 27, 2020, Puget said that the album was finished, but that its release date was being pushed back as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic .
The song was released on 23 April 2020, and 8 days later, became the band’s third UK #1 single.
On April 23, the band confirmed that they had begun work on a fourteenth studio album, utilizing the period of lockdown due to COVID-19 to begin writing. The album was said to be fully written as of April 2021.
On 23 April, Jagger announced through his Facebook page the release (the same day at 5:00 pm BST ) of the single ” Living in a Ghost Town “, a new Rolling Stones song recorded in London and Los Angeles in 2019 and finished in isolation (part of the new…
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The surviving members of Fountains of Wayne performed together for the first time since 2013 on April 22, 2020, as part of a charity livestream event to raise funding for the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund. The performance was a tribute to Schlesinger, and featured Sharon Van Etten taking his…
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