On February 1, 2004, a cover of ” I Fought the Law ” (originally performed by the Crickets ) made its debut on a commercial for iTunes during NFL Super Bowl XXXVIII .
” Ready Steady Go “, the group’s first single in more than three years, was released in February 2004.
Bayside’s debut full-length album, Sirens and Condolences , was released on January 27, 2004, through Victory Records.
From January 19 to February 25, AKG held their first headlining tour: Five Nano Seconds. The tour consisted of thirteen shows.
Birds of Tokyo formed in 2004 from a collaboration between members of the Perth bands Tragic Delicate and Karnivool , from which Ian Kenny came. The group formed after guitarist Adam Spark asked Kenny to sing on a handful of commercial demos. The pair were happy with the results and…
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Seattle guitarist Andrew McKeag joined the Presidents in late 2004 as an occasional live-performance stand-in for Dederer, who had expressed an interest in spending more time with his family. In late 2007, McKeag started touring full-time with the band and later replaced Dederer.
The band was inactive for a period of time. Collingwood, in particular, had a difficult time coping with the band being dropped by their label. In 2004 he said, “When we got dropped from Atlantic, it’s my fault that it took so long, because I wasn’t sure I wanted to…
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Exhausted from months of touring in late summer 2004, the band decided to take a temporary break. During his time off, McMahon laid down piano and vocal tracks for a song on Hidden in Plain View ‘s Life in Dreaming and two songs on Tommy Lee ‘s Tommyland: The Ride…
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In 2004, Genesis released Platinum Collection , a three-disc compilation album covering the band’s career that reached No. 21 in the UK.
In 2004, De Backer’s parents opted to sell The Frat House and De Backer moved into a shared house in the South East of Melbourne. He took up work at a local library, while continuing to perform with The Basics and record his own Gotye tracks. Over the next few…
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