While three of the band members were in Chicago with the full support of their parents, guitarist Brian Fortune had enrolled at St. John’s University and withdrew from the band. After months of auditioning guitar players with little luck, the band agreed to move vocalist Dan Nigro to guitar. The…
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Towards the end of the year, Stereophonics performed a sold-out tour of the UK, ending with a Christmas show at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, supported by Feeder , Ocean Colour Scene and Adam Masterson. The show was closed with a version of ” Merry Xmas Everybody “, originally recorded by…
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In July 2004, Van Halen released The Best of Both Worlds , a double CD compilation featuring three new songs with Hagar: “It’s About Time”, “Up for Breakfast”, and “Learning to See”. These new songs were credited to Hagar/Van Halen/Van Halen, which was unusual since normally the entire lineup, which…
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On July 1, the band held their third ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION presents Nano-Mugen Festival at the Tokyo arena Nippon Budokan .
In July 2004, while still relatively unknown inside the UK, Kaiser Chiefs performed their first festival outside the UK at a festival in Moscow . headlined by UK band Goldblade .
On 30 June 2004, Poets released their debut single “Late Goodbye” in Finland which was followed by ” Lift ” on 9 September 2004. The music videos for both songs were directed by Tuomas “Stobe” Harju. The songs charted #14 and #8 on the Finnish single charts and reached #2…
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The band’s second album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge , was released on June 8, 2004.
Shortly after, on June 2, the single ” Jiyuu e no Shoutai ” was the first to feature a song by P’unk-en-Ciel .
Cake’s fifth album, Pressure Chief , was recorded in June 2004 in a converted house in Sacramento; the album was again released on Columbia Records.
Creed disbanded in June 2004, after more than a year of inactivity.