Following their signing to Interscope, Brand New stopped touring to work on their third album and major label debut. In this time, little to no interviews or updates came from the band. In 2004, Jesse Lacey told Chart magazine that he had written a “few songs” for the next album,…
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No Doubt was featured on the album True Love by Toots and the Maytals , which won the Grammy Award in 2004 for Best Reggae Album, and showcased many notable musicians including Willie Nelson , Eric Clapton , Jeff Beck , Trey Anastasio , Ben Harper , Bonnie Raitt ,…
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Described by Alternative Press as “the greatest screamo band you’ve never heard of,” Letter Kills rose from the Temecula, California, desert in the early 2000s with a riff-heavy collection of alternative rock, ’80s hair-metal and punk rock. The band’s 2004 Island Def Jam debut, The Bridge, introduced Letter Kills on…
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Since that time, the band have endured a lot of setbacks (such as a flooded recording studio) and pursued various side projects (such as raising families, session work, multimedia projects, Hart’s role as worship leader and pastor at a Houston area church, and managing Hart’s label Feverdream Records). After adding…
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Melissa Auf der Maur also embarked on a solo career, and released her self-titled debut album in 2004, which included Erlandson performing lead guitar on the track, “Would If I Could”.
Following a four-year hiatus from studio recording, Fastball signed with the independent label Rykodisc in early 2004. On June 8, 2004, the band released their fourth studio album, Keep Your Wig On. While the majority of the sessions were produced by Mike McCarthy, the band collaborated with Adam Schlesinger (of…
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In 2004 the band headed to Florida to record their Fueled by Ramen debut Almost Here , produced by James Paul Wisner, who has worked with Dashboard Confessional , Something Corporate , Further Seems Forever , and Underoath . After recording the album and doing a summer tour, the band…
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In 2004, although the band had been inactive for many years, Andrews and Edwards got together to collaborate on a CD/DVD set entitled Golden , which collects demos, outtakes , touring footage, both of the band’s videos, and other rare material from the band’s active period. Another posthumous compilation, a…
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After Midnight Project began in 2004 in Los Angeles, California.
Anselmo’s comment in a 2004 issue of Metal Hammer magazine, saying that Dimebag would “attack him” verbally and “deserves to be beaten severely”, typified Pantera’s internal conflicts; Anselmo insisted that this comment was tongue-in-cheek , and he was upset that the quote ended up on the cover of the magazine.