On May 21, 2011, the Foo Fighters headlined the middle day of the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama . On June 4, 2011, they played a surprise set at the 2011 KROQ Weenie Roast . They also headlined two sold-out shows at the Milton Keynes National Bowl on…
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On March 5, 2011, the Presidents performed a new tribute song, “Can’t Stop (Catchin’ ‘Em All)”, at the Nintendo World launch event for the video game Pokémon Black and White .
On January 5, 2011, the band announced that they had recruited TV on the Radio guitarist and producer Dave Sitek as a replacement for Duff McKagan . Sitek was set to record the bass for the band’s fourth studio album, entitled The Great Escape Artist . On January 14, 2011,…
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In 2011, Gustaf Norén and Björn Dixgård began working on poems written by the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding , and setting them to music.
Primus continued to tour throughout 2011, playing a number of dates in North America in May and June, including the Bonnaroo Music Festival , followed by a tour of Europe from late June to mid July. They then returned to the U.S.A. to play a few more music festivals leading…
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In January 2011, Wire released Red Barked Tree , which according to the band’s press release “rekindles a lyricism sometimes absent from Wire’s previous work and reconnects with the live energy of performance, harnessed and channelled from extensive touring over the past few years”. The album was written and recorded…
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Best International Album at the 2011 BRIT Awards
In January 2011, Pink Floyd signed a new five-year contract with EMI that permitted the sale of single downloads.
In 2011, Cornell revealed further information about the band’s breakup; “Personally a lot of it was me trying to land on my feet again. I went through a lot of personal turmoil right around the time Audioslave formed and unfortunately I think that affected the band a little bit in…
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Early January 2011, Shiny Toy Guns’ official website featured a countdown which ended at midnight between February 10 and 11. Below the countdown, read the following text: “You know what you hope is at the end of this timer, but you can’t be sure. and it doesn’t matter… because we’ll…
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