In a 2018 interview with Australia’s Broadsheet , De Backer said, “You can dial in an incredibly wide range of sounds on the ondioline, and the unique mechanics for playing it allows you to create sounds very sensitively and with a musical deftness I just feel isn’t present on most…
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Longtime bassist MacGregor was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in 2015. The cancer was first detected at an earlier stage in 2012, but MacGregor was not informed until 2015. Following this incident, he became a proponent of a bill that would require physicians to communicate test results with patients…
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On February 5, 2018, a music video for ” Rose-Colored Boy ” was released, which is also the album’s fourth single.
Instead the tour began on February 3.
In February 2018, the band announced that work on their next album had begun. By May of the same year, Halestorm announced the release of their next album, Vicious on July 27, 2018. The band released the first single from the album, “Uncomfortable” that same day. It was followed by…
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On January 25, 2018, Thirty Seconds to Mars released ” Dangerous Night ” as the second single from their upcoming fifth studio album. In February 2018, the band officially announced the Monolith Tour with Walk the Moon , Misterwives , K. Flay , Joywave , and Welshly Arms . Thirty…
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In February 2018, former drummer Pete Boot died at the age of 67. For many years he had been coping with Parkinson’s disease .
In February 2018, the band released their first single, Burnin’ , from their new album Family Tree which was released on April 20, 2018, through Mascot Records . They released their second EP in the series of covers Black to Blues, Vol. 2 on October 19, 2019. They spent a…
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On December 13, 2017, it was announced that Bon Jovi would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, after winning the 2017 fan ballot with over 1.1 million votes. Jon Bon Jovi invited Sambora and Such to appear with the band at the Rock and…
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Starting in February 2018, Duritz began recording the Underwater Sunshine Podcast, a weekly music podcast with author and music journalist James Campion . Having parted ways with Spaulding, Duritz and friends began putting on their own twice-annual music festival in New York called the Underwater Sunshine Fest to showcase independent…
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