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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In 2011, they came back as B’z with their forty-eighth single, ” Sayonara Kizu Darake no Hibi yo “, which was written for and used as a commercial song for Pepsi NEX. They released their eighteenth studio album, C’mon , on July 27, 2011, which also featured their forty-ninth single,…
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The magazine also named Thank You, Happy Birthday as the 15th best album of the year.
In 2011, DDT released the concept album Inache (Otherwise). According to Shevchuk, the album’s central theme is freedom in all its forms and the lyrical hero is a Prince Hamlet of the 21st century which has no doubt regarding the question ” To be, or not to be ?”. He…
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It was announced on September 28, 2011, that the Foo Fighters would be performing during the closing ceremony of Blizzard Entertainment ‘s annual video game convention, BlizzCon.
In 2011, the band announced a tour running from early February to late March. The band appeared at the Download Festival in June. A planned performance at the Soundwave Revolution , an Australian music festival, was cancelled. During the summer, the band performed in several European festivals such as Rock…
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