the DVD shipping March 31, 2009.
In March 2009 Corgan announced on the band’s website that Chamberlin had left the group and would be replaced. Chamberlin subsequently stated that his departure from the band was “a positive move forward for me. I can no longer commit all of my energy into something that I don’t fully…
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At the beginning of 2009, the band played a small club show at Madame Jojo’s in London , their first in the capital since the NME Big Gig the previous year. During the set, the band featured new songs “Imaginary Pleasures” and “In Silver Forest”, together with the previously aired…
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” Wrong ” was the first single from the album, released digitally in February 2009.
On 24 January 2009, 25 years after its first release and the 50th anniversary of the official hit list in Norway, A-ha won the Spellemann Award for VG-lista Hit of All Time for ” Take On Me “.
On January 21, 2009, Arcade Fire and Jay-Z were the musical guests at the Obama Campaign Staff Ball at the DC Armory, at Obama’s request.
On 15 January 2009, the official Depeche Mode website announced that the band’s twelfth studio album would be called Sounds of the Universe .
In a 2009 interview from Cody Eide in Music Week , celebrating A-ha’s up-and-coming 25-year anniversary, the members revealed that the record-breaking concert and the lack of media attention they received were a devastating blow to the band. The festival, which should have been the band’s crowning achievement, was instead…
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However, Sumner revealed in 2009 that he no longer wished to make music as New Order.
On October 26, 2009, Tegan and Sara released their sixth album, Sainthood , produced by Chris Walla and Howard Redekopp . Sainthood debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at number 21, selling 24,000 copies in its first week. While recording the album, Tegan and Sara wrote songs together in New…
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