On November 6, 2008, the band announced the departure of Warren, despite having unfulfilled concert dates. Initially, the band intended to honor their remaining dates, and announced Chris Shinn of Unified Theory as lead vocalist for the remainder of their tour. However, this was later retracted, and the tour canceled.…
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After Gray and Tribbett returned from touring with Hellyeah, Mudvayne began recording The New Game with Dave Fortman. After the album’s 2008 release, Fortman told MTV that it would be followed in six months by another full-length record.
On September 30, 2008, the band announced in a Myspace blog post that on October 3 they would be premiering a demo version of a song from the upcoming album. The song was available a day earlier for members of The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus “Alliance” fan group. However, the studio…
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In 2008, the band left Fearless Records and added Ryan Neighbors, their touring keyboardist, as an official member and a replacement for Wes Hubbard. On July 30, 2008, it was announced that Portugal. The Man was releasing Censored Colors under its own independent record label, Approaching AIRballoons, in partnership with…
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The band played a show on Valentine’s Day with Faster Pussycat then in April were announced as one of the acts appearing at Rocklahoma 2008 on Sunday, July 13.
In early 2008, Brand New toured Australia and New Zealand on the Big Day Out festival.
By the beginning of 2008, however, Twiggy Ramirez had rejoined the band as bassist, resulting in the exit of Skold, with Holliday moving from bass to lead guitar for the remaining duration of the tour.
After the Combinations tour, the band originally planned to take a break before starting work on their third album. At this time, relationships with their label was not at the best, and the band’s personal lives were getting back into control. However, at the urging of their good friend and…
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On May 19, 2008, the band announced that they had signed to Barsuk Records . They released their debut album, The Rhumb Line , on August 19, 2008, in North America, and on September 22, 2008, in Europe via V2/ Cooperative Music . The music video for “Can You Tell”…
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On September 30, 2008, Chris No. 2 started posting on his blog that the band had begun to work on their seventh studio album. On December 2, Anti-Flag began recording the album, starting with “The Economy is Suffering… Let It Die”.