The National’s second album, Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers , released in 2003, was the band’s first collaboration with record producers Paul Heck and Peter Katis , who would later also produce the band’s albums Alligator and Boxer . After the French release of the album on the French label…
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The first album to feature Evans was Vicious Cycle , released in 2003. This album had improved sales over the other post-reunion albums, and had a minor hit single in the song “Red, White and Blue”. The band also released a double album called Thyrty , which had songs from…
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which was recorded during a concert in Cologne earlier that same year.
The band also embarked on their first Japanese tour that same year.
De Backer went on to produce two more four-track Gotye collections which were met with positive reviews, with several tracks getting onto the rotation at youth radio station Triple J. The CDs were made in the same style as the first, with De Backer hand crafting each one and tenaciously…
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Since Fugazi went on hiatus in 2003, rumors began circulating about a reunion, with some insinuating that the band may get back together to headline the Coachella Festival . While the band has confirmed that it has been offered large sums of money to reunite and headline festivals, such as…
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It was promoted with an East Coast US tour with Goodwill and Junction 18 in April and May 2003.
(In 2003, Rolling Stone would place the album at number 300 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. )
The band then released Nocturama in 2003.
Williams was originally signed to Atlantic Records as a solo artist in 2003. She had been introduced to Atlantic A&R Tom Storms by Kent Marcus and Jim Zumwalt, lawyers of managers Dave Steunebrink and Richard Williams, and then eventually signed to Atlantic by Jason Flom . Steunebrink and Richard had…
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