breaking up in 2008
In early 2008, Eels released their first “greatest hits” compilation as well as a compilation of B-sides , rarities, soundtrack singles and unreleased tracks. Meet the Eels: Essential Eels Vol. I spans the first decade of the Eels, including singles from all their albums, as well as a DVD featuring…
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On August 22 and 23, 2008, Queens of the Stone Age performed the last shows of their Era Vulgaris tour at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in the UK, and Josh Homme announced in an interview with the BBC and during the show that he would be returning to the…
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On November 25, Anti-Flag revealed that their latest album was called The Bright Lights of America . The album was produced by Tony Visconti and was released on April 1, 2008. The album’s title single was released exclusively on iTunes on February 12, 2008. A video of the song was…
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The group’s fourth studio album, Float , debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 in 2008 and produced two well-received singles: “Requiem for a Dying Song” (No. 35 on the Billboard Modern Rock charts) and the title track (No. 40).
Lynyrd Skynyrd was among hundreds of recording artists whose original master recordings were believed to have been destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire . Though it is not known with certainty which, if any, of the band’s master recordings were lost in the blaze, Lynyrd Skynyrd was among the artists…
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That summer Deerhoof released the song “Fresh Born” online as sheet music only, anticipating similar experiments by Beck and Blur by several years. Fans recorded and uploaded their own versions of the song to a website before anyone outside the band had heard Deerhoof’s version.
In early 2008 Dave DeRoo announced the band decided to go on a “hiatus” to regroup, take a break, and assured fans they had not broken up.
Rhapsody Originals was released exclusively for Rhapsody as the first EP by Hawthorne Heights on August 26, 2008. It was recorded by Rhapsody, and released as promotion for the studio album Fragile Future . It contains three live acoustic songs from Fragile Future , and one from their second studio…
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On March 8, 2008, Superdrag visited Lake Fever Productions in Nashville and recorded four songs for an upcoming album with Jason Bullock and Joe Colvert. On March 17, 2009, the band released Industry Giants . A U.S. tour started in the spring of 2009, and after a performance on May…
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