In 2014, The Shins recorded and released a new song, “So Now What”, for the soundtrack of Wish I Was Here (directed by Zach Braff of Garden State ). Mercer noted to Billboard that he was immensely proud of how the track came out: “I think it’s one of the…
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The band released a vinyl box set consisting of their six studio albums, their rarities album, and the previously unreleased Live from the Crystal Palace for Record Store Day 2014.
The Road to Red (1974)
In 2014, Joe Simmons & Jeremy Rompala split with the rest of the band.
Le Tigre members JD Samson and Johanna Fateman collaborated with Russian activist punk rock collective Pussy Riot during a concert organised by Vice magazine in 2014, performing Le Tigre’s “Deceptacon”. Later, in 2015, they reunited with Pussy Riot to record a song and video for Netflix series House of Cards…
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The trio also undertook a large national tour in February and March 2014 to support the release of the new album.
On the weekend of November 28, 2014, the band’s merchandise website had a Black Friday sale where fans would get 19.93% off their order if they applied the promo code “weactuallyjuststartedwriting”, hinting that a new album was in the works.
In 2014 the band extended its tour worldwide as a four-piece. The new lineup included previous collaborators, Ilan Rubin, Alessandro Cortini, and Robin Finck. The band was joined by Queens of the Stone Age for the Australia and New Zealand tour, during which a nightly coin toss determined who opened.…
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In 2014, Merchant looked back to her time with the band, “I learned so much with 10,000 Maniacs and have great memories being with that band. I’ll never forget 1987 when it became so crazy. It was exciting and insane in terms of the schedule. It was so intense I…
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In 2014, Cobain, Novoselic, and Grohl were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . At the induction ceremony, Novoselic, Grohl and Smear performed a four-song set with guest vocalists Joan Jett , Kim Gordon , St. Vincent and Lorde . Novoselic, Grohl and Smear then performed a…
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