The band’s eponymous debut five-song EP, released by Emperor Jones on November 18, 2003, was produced by Spoon frontman Britt Daniel .
On March 16, 2003, it was announced that longtime drummer Ron Welty had left the group in 2003 to play in Steady Ground , a band in which he played drums and co-produced (they broke up in 2007). It was later revealed that Welty was fired on January 3, 2003…
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In 2003, after the release of The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs , Chrome reformed Rocket from the Tombs with David Thomas, Craig Bell, with Steve Mehlman ( Pere Ubu ) on drums and Richard Lloyd (Television) replacing the late Peter Laughner . This reincarnation of…
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Later in 2003, Bayside signed to Victory Records , where the band resided for the next six years.
The band also embarked on their first Japanese tour that same year.
After all playing in different groups in the Ocala music scene, singer Jeremy McKinnon , guitarists Neil Westfall and Tom Denney , bassist Joshua Woodard, and drummer Bobby Scruggs came together in 2003. Soon after, the band embarked onto playing only 7 shows in their first year of touring.
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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The band’s debut full-length album, Black Lips! , was released on Bomp! Records in 2003. Within this tribute album commemorating Ben Eberbaugh’s life as a quality musician, they released three more songs from their set with Gagnon (2000): “Stone Cold” (with Gagnon on bass), “Can’t Get Me Down” and “Everybody…
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The band returned to the national spotlight on February 20, 2003. At the beginning of a Great White performance at The Station night club in Rhode Island , pyrotechnics used by the band’s crew created a spray of sparks that ignited the makeshift and unapproved, unlisted foam soundproofing material affixed…
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In 2003, the band released Welcome Interstate Managers , a successful album that spawned the hit single ” Stacy’s Mom “, which Adam Schlesinger says was a tribute to the Cars .