In 2018, 3 Doors Down embarked on the Rock n’ Roll Express tour with Collective Soul and opening act Soul Asylum . The tour had shows in 36 cities in the US.
Jawbreaker was one of the headliners of the Upstream Music Festival in Seattle on June 2, 2018 where they played “Shield Your Eyes”, the first song the band ever wrote with Schwarzenbach on vocals and the opening song on Bivouac , for the first time in 22 years. The band…
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In 2018, Mason formed a new band, Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets , to perform Pink Floyd’s early material. It includes Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet and the longtime Pink Floyd collaborator Guy Pratt .
On May 4, 2018, the band released “Love Never” / “half heart”, featuring two new songs.
Former member Ed King, who had been battling cancer, died in his Nashville, Tennessee , home on August 22, 2018, at 68 years of age.
On June 9, 2018, the Offspring debuted one song expected to appear on the new album, “It Won’t Get Better”, while performing at the Greenfield Festival in Switzerland. On July 20, 2018, it was announced the Offspring would release a cover of 311’s ” Down ” and 311 would release…
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In January 2018, Christopher Dowd made a guest appearance with the band onstage and decided to rejoin, thus replacing both trombonist Jay Armant and keyboardist Paul Hampton.
In 2018, 311 and the Offspring toured together on the Never-Ending Summer tour. That summer, the Offspring released a cover of 311’s ” Down ” and 311 released a “reggaefied” cover of the Offspring’s ” Self Esteem “. Hexum states that 311 had “the bulk of an album written” and…
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On February 19, 2018, the band announced on their Facebook page that Jordan Burns is no longer the drummer. Soon after it was revealed that RJ Shankle of the band Runaway Kids was selected to be the new drummer of Strung Out. Daniel Blume was tapped to fill in for…
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Mason said in 2018 that, while he remained close to Gilmour and Waters, the two remained “at loggerheads”.