Jane’s Addiction performed at the first-ever NME Awards USA on April 23, 2008, with the reunited core line-up of Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins. This was the first performance with bassist Eric Avery since 1991, taking place after their acceptance speech for the “Godlike Genius Award”.…
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When the band finished touring later during 2008, Rob Thomas began work on his second solo album, Cradlesong .
Cold War Kids’ second album, Loyalty to Loyalty , represented a departure from its debut, featuring a lot of narrative storytelling, as well as political and philosophical references. In an interview with NPR , Nathan described the songwriting process for the album: “The choices that we make have always been…
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On May 19, 2008, the band announced that they had signed to Barsuk Records . They released their debut album, The Rhumb Line , on August 19, 2008, in North America, and on September 22, 2008, in Europe via V2/ Cooperative Music . The music video for “Can You Tell”…
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On March 30, 2008, Borland made a post on the band’s MySpace about how he filled in for the band X Japan and was “looking forward to coming home and getting back to work on the next BLB album”, by which he means the second full length Black Light Burns…
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Also in 2008, he was commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra to create a percussion piece involving primarily Indonesian instruments.
In early 2008, Carbon/Silicon , a new band founded by Mick Jones and his former London SS bandmate Tony James , entered into a six-week residency at London’s Inn on the Green.
On March 7, 2008, it was announced that Frank Cavanagh had reunited with Filter and would play as a live member at the operation Myspace concert in Kuwait. It was confirmed at Operation MySpace that he would not be joining Filter on the full tour as he would be shipping…
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On April 9, 2008, Dexter announced that the album would be called Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace and would be released on June 17. The album’s first single, “Hammerhead”, went to radio on May 6. Additionally, the Offspring’s website provided an MP3 download of the song to the general…
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In 2008, the band supported Def Leppard and Whitesnake on their UK arena tour.