The band completed their third album and released it exclusively digital on August 29, 2009.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

He sings and plays guitar with a band called " Bill Haley and the Satellites ," and released a CD in 2011.

In 1997, the band released a compilation album, My Body, The Hand Grenade, which featured material from the band's earliest recordings in 1989 up until 1995, and, in September 1998, released their third studio album, Celebrity Skin, which featured a stark power pop sound as opposed to the group's earlier punk rock influences.

Love and Erlandson continued to pursue with the band, and released the single " Be A Man "— an outtake from the Celebrity Skin sessions — for the soundtrack of the Oliver Stone film Any Given Sunday ( 1999 ).

His bands have included Watt 4 ( 1980 ), in which he played keyboards and provided voice, Craig Charles and the Beat Burglars ( 1989 ), The Sons of Gordon Gekko ( 1989 ), where he wrote lyrics and also composed tunes for the band, and The Eye ( 2000 – 01 ), with whom he released the rock album " Giving You The Eye, Live at the Edinburgh Festival ".

Canadian death metal band Ex Deo released an album called Caligvla after the famous bloody Caesar.

The band released one album, 2003's Handheld Torch, which was produced by Seymour.

It was the first of several concept albums released by the band through the first few years of the 1970s.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

Alternative metal band Fear Factory, released several concept albums in the 90s.

In 1999, progressive metal band Dream Theater released Metropolis Pt.

Although the band had created a twenty-minute follow-up to Part 1 in the mid-nineties, it hadn't been released.

The Swedish progressive extreme metal band Opeth released two concept albums in the late 90s.

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

In addition, Grammy-winning metal band Mastodon has released three concept albums, Leviathan, Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye, which, along with their debut album, Remission, make up a quadrilogy, each representing its own element: water, earth, air and fire, respectively.

Progressive metal band Dominici, released three albums in 2005, 2007 and 2008.

English alternative rock band Coldplay released a concept album, Mylo Xyloto, in October 2011.

Massachusetts-based Hardcore Punk band Defeater has released two full length albums and one EP telling the story of an alcoholic WWII veteran and the trials and tribulations of his family.

Hudson is a folk indie rock band with two narrative concept albums released to date.

In June, the band released their first single, " California Über Alles ", on the independent label Alternative Tentacles.

Later that year, the band released their debut album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.

* The Aliens ( Australian band ), a 1970s new wave group

The band is set to begin writing a new record this year.

Since 1994, a new version of the band has toured, with Parsons performing live acoustic guitar, keyboards and vocals, with various lineups.

Arrangers in pop music recordings often add parts for orchestral or band instruments involving new material such that the arrangers may reasonably be considered co-composers, although for copyright and royalty purposes usually are not.

Duke Ellington's and Billy Strayhorn's arrangements for the Duke Ellington big band were usually new compositions, and some of Eddie Sauter's arrangements for the Benny Goodman band and Artie Shaw's arrangements for his own band were new compositions as well.

Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, BAO ; " Benny Anderssons Orkester " (" Benny Andersson's orchestra "), utilising the vocal talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm ( from Kristina from Duvemåla ) and Tommy Körberg ( of Chess fame ), with lyrics to new material sometimes written by his song-writing partner and best friend of 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.

The band and their producer Mike Thorne had gone back into the studio in early 1985 to record a new single, " Run From Love ".

In October 2006, members of the band helped put together a CD collection of new songs for children titled Colours Are Brighter, with the involvement of major bands such as Franz Ferdinand and The Flaming Lips .< ref >

In May 2010, the band stated on their website that they were " back in the studio working on some new songs " and later revealed that they were " in the final stages of recording the album ".

It was recorded in her presence on October 21, 1958, at Decca's Pythian Temple, with Dick Jacob, Coral-Brunswick's new head of Artists and Repertoire, serving as both producer and conductor of the 18-piece orchestra, which included members of the New York Symphony Orchestra, NBC Television's house orchestra and Abraham " Boomie " Richman, formerly of Benny Goodman's band.

* Blitz ( Brazilian band ), a new wave Brazilian band from the 1980s

Three years later, Bernard was sent with a band of twelve monks to found a new house at Vallée d ' Absinthe, in the Diocese of Langres.

Bob Wills ' bus during a parade in TulsaAfter forming a new band, The Playboys, and relocating to Waco, Wills found enough popularity there to decide on a bigger market.

In recent years, a growing Tex-Mex polka band trend from Mexican immigrants ( i. e. Conjunto or Norteño ) has influenced much of new Chicano folk music, especially in large market Spanish language radio stations and on television music video programs in the U. S. The band Quetzal is known for its political songs.

However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.

Finn and Hester decided to form a new band during the Split Enz farewell tour, Enz with a Bang, during November and December 1984.

Seymour approached Finn during the after party for the Melbourne show and asked if he could audition for the new band.

As the band's primary songwriter, Neil Finn was under pressure to create a second album to match their debut and the band joked that one potential title for the new release was Mediocre Follow-Up.