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.

In 2002 and 2005 a stage show of Bagpuss songs toured UK folk festivals and theatres with original singers Sandra Kerr and John Faulkner, along with Kerr's daughter Nancy Kerr and her husband, James Fagan.

In 2002 Emerson re-formed and toured with The Nice, though performing a longer set of ELP music using a backing band including guitarist / vocalist Dave Kilminster.

The Datsuns toured Australia in 2002 with Melbourne band The Specimens and The Casanovas as well as playing a live to air on PBS radio.

In the 2000s, he won a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album for Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 and toured with Anoushka, who released a book about her father, Bapi: Love of My Life, in 2002.

The band currently consists of Alan Morse, Dave Meros, Ryo Okumoto, drummer Jimmy Keegan ( who has toured with the band since 2002 ) and vocalist Ted Leonard.

In 2002 and 2004, Ralphs toured with Hunter, as part of the latter's backing band.

This lineup toured sporadically between 2002 and 2006, playing at various festivals.

To support the album, Down toured on the second stage of Ozzfest in 2002.

After the release of their debut album in 1997, the group toured regularly from 1998 to 2002.

In the summer of 2002, De La Soul toured with Cake, Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, Kinky, and the Hackensaw Boys during the Unlimited Sunshine Tour.

In 2002, Jacobi toured Australia in The Hollow Crown with Sir Donald Sinden, Ian Richardson and Dame Diana Rigg.

Electric Sweat came out in 2002 and the band toured with longtime friends the Strokes and Swedish garage rockers the Hives.

In the fall of 2002, Rubio toured and performed material from Border Girl as the opening act for fellow Latin pop star Enrique Iglesias.

In 2002, the band released Let Go, a critically acclaimed album which included the successful single, " Inside of Love ", and toured for this album for several months, including many European festivals in the summer of 2003.

Poison and Cinderella toured together in 2000 and 2002, and in 2005 Cinderella headlined the Rock Never Stops Tour, with support from Ratt, Quiet Riot, and FireHouse.

In order to promote the release of the band's album in North America, they toured with Dio during November and December 2002.

They toured as an opening band for Goldfinger on July 20, 2002 in Las Vegas and then a few months later, released a DVD called The Show Must Go Off!

In both 1998 and 2002, Clark toured extensively throughout the UK.

After the release of 3 on June 25, 2002, Soulfly toured throughout Europe and North America with bands such as Slayer, In Flames, God Forbid, and Will Haven.

The band regrouped and toured the West Coast of North America in 2002 to support the release of their " debut " CD America's Most Wanton ( Nebula / Scooch Pooch ).

Other projects related to Rocket Power and developed under the aegis of Klasky-Csupo and / or Nickelodeon have included Rocket Power: Beach Bandits, and Maximum Rocket Power Live: The Battle for Madtown Park, a live-action extreme-sports dramatic arena play that briefly toured the U. S. Midwest in spring 2002, before being canceled over low ticket sales ( it had originally been scheduled to tour about 40 cities all over the U. S., all the way into the fall ).

In January 2002, in support of Superheroes and Snowball of Doom, Racer X toured Japan and Taiwan.

The original text-only version appeared in the Game On video games exhibition, which has toured museums worldwide since 2002, representing the text-based genre of video games.

From 4 April to 1 June 2002, 16 participants from OT offered a tour in Spain, toured 27 cities in Spain with 600, 000 tickets sold, followed two days filling the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona and the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid.

Since 2002, Mochrie and Sherwood have intermittently toured North America as a two-man stage show called " An Evening with Colin and Brad ," playing primarily in small theater venues.