Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

In the 2000s, the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars released two concept albums, 30 Seconds to Mars ( 2002 ) and This Is War ( 2009 ).

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

* Eu Phoria, an active Japanese all girl pop / rock band formed in 2002

In 2002 the first multimedia messaging services ( MMS ) were introduced and the first GSM network in the 800 MHz frequency band became operational.

In 2002, the band produced an album — Vapor Trails — that was completely free of keyboards and synthesizers, featuring only voice, guitar, bass guitar, drums and percussion.

In 2002, the Ramones were voted the second greatest rock and roll band ever in Spin, trailing only The Beatles.

At the end of 2002, Uncle Kracker left the band to pursue a solo career, and Detroit underground rapper Paradime replaced him.

The band officially announced the production of a new studio album in December 2002, revealing its new work was inspired by the rocky region of Meteora in Greece, where numerous monasteries have been built on top of the rocks.

The band broke up twice, in 1996 and 2002, but reunited again in 2006.

Curt formed a new band in Austin, TX called the Royal Neanderthal Orchestra, but they changed their name to Meat Puppets for legal reasons and released a promotional EP entitled You Love Me in 1999, Golden Lies in 2000 and Live in 2002.

In 2002 he played on a CD Music Drama of the band " My Little Cheap Dictaphone " La Médiatheque de Belgique.

* Rock band The Flaming Lips perform the song " Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon ( Utopia Planitia )" on their 2002 release Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

* American progressive metal band Symphony X interprets multiple scenes of the epic in their song, The Odyssey ( 2002 ).

* Phrenology ( album ) is the fifth studio album by American hip hop band The Roots, released November 26, 2002, on Geffen Records and MCA Records.

With the help of producer Paul Northfield the band returned in May 2002 with Vapor Trails, written and recorded in Toronto.

Despite having completely dropped out of the public eye for five years after the gold-selling Test for Echo ( which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 ) and the band being relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the U. S., Vapor Trails reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release in 2002 with 108, 000 albums sold.

*" Seneca Falls ", a song by the band The Distillers from their 2002 album Sing Sing Death House

" In 2002, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The band played " Life During Wartime ", " Psycho Killer " and " Burning Down the House " together on March 18, 2002, at the ceremony of their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The band has won two Grammy Awards, one in 2002 for their song " Boss of Me ", which served as the theme to Malcolm in the Middle.

Tommy Womack, a singer / songwriter from Nashville, sings a mostly biographical song called " The Replacements " recounting the history and histrionics of the band on his 2002 Circus Town CD.

The last play-only cassette Walkman to be introduced ( in North America, at least ) was the WM-FX290, first sold in 2002, which also featured digital tuning, AM, FM, TV and weather band radio, operating on a single AA battery.

After the end of her solo tour, Nicks convened with the other members of the band for recording during 2002.

In 2002, Tork resumed working with his band Shoe Suede Blues.

A beta test version of AIX 5L for IA-64 systems was released, but according to documents released in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, less than forty licenses for the finished Monterey Unix were ever sold before the project was terminated in 2002.

A videotape released with The Wills of the New York and Washington Battle Martyrs, was aired on Al Jazeera on April 16, 2002.

In 2002, a tribute album was released under the name Yüreğimdeki Barış Şarkıları (" Peace's Songs In My Heart ", also " Peace Songs In My Heart ") featuring 15 extremely popular Turkish artists of such diverse genres as arabesque, pop and rock ( both Anatolian and western style ) demonstrating his wide range of influence.

In 2002, a homebrew version for the TI-83 graphing calculator was released.

In 2002, Love began composing an album with Linda Perry ; the record, America's Sweetheart, was released on Virgin Records in February 2004, was embraced by critics with mixed reviews.

In the fall of 2002, the administration released the much-awaited Colombian national security strategy, entitled Democratic Security and Defense Policy.

It was released on October 8, 2002, and features the duo performing acoustic originals and cover songs on a variety of instruments

Although the track was edited out of the final cut, it would later be re-recorded and released as " Safe " on the B-side of Bowie's 2002 single " Everyone Says ' Hi '".

* Discharge ( album ), a self-titled album by released in 2002

In 2001, an uncut German DVD version was released, but the Berlin-Tiergarten Court ordered seizure of the DVD in April 2002 ( Case Number 351 Gs 1749 / 02 ).

On April 2002 The Commission released its decision ( with a clarification in 2003 ).

* Ectopia ( album ), an electronica album by Steroid Maximus released in 2002, recorded at Self Immolation Studios

In the director's commentary on the DVD edition of the film ( released in 2002 ), Coppola states that this film was the first major motion picture to use " Part II " in its title.

* 2002 – The Budapest Open Access Initiative, one of the cornerstones of the Open access movement, was released to the public.

In February 2002, Morpheus, a commercial file sharing group, abandoned its FastTrack-based peer-to-peer software and released a new client based on the free and open source gnutella client Gnucleus.

* Also released as part of the Ultimate Godzilla DVD Collection, which was simultaneously released on September 17, 2002

A sequel, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface, was released in 2002, and a serialized manga, Ghost in the Shell 1. 5: Human-Error Processer, which contained material that was planned for but not included in the sequel, was released in 2003.

The Resident Evil video game franchise was adapted into a film released in March 2002.

Windows XP SP1 was released in September 2002, SP2 came out in August 2004 and SP3 came out in April 2008.

* Windows XP Media Center Edition ( MCE ), released in October 2002 for desktops and notebooks with an emphasis on home entertainment.

An associate of Abu Zubaydah, al-Libi was one of those whose assets were frozen by order of the September 26, 2002 list of terrorists released by the U. S. government following the September 11 attacks.