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Thursday, March 8: Explosions In The Sky
Explosions in the Sky was formed in Austin, Texas in 1999, originally called Breaker Morant. Hrasky is from Rockford, Illinois, They also garnered a small amount of media attention as a result of their second album, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever, due to rumors linking it to the September 11, 2001 attacks, a rumor the band denied in interviews. The album art shows an airplane with the caption "This plane will crash tomorrow." The belief arose that the album was released on September 10, 2001, adding to its coincidental mystique, but this belief is incorrect. The concept for the album art originated in 2000, and the album was released August 27, 2001. Their music was used extensively for the soundtrack of the 2004 Peter Berg film, Friday Night Lights. Their song "Remember Me as a Time of Day" was used extensively throughout the pilot of Friday Night Lights (the series) on 3 October 2006. Episode two featured "Your Hand in Mine". Explosions in the Sky has had two songs from The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean" and "Your Hand in Mine" played in the background of a Cadillac commercial. Explosions in the Sky has finished recording their next album, entitled All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone. It has six songs, ranging from three to thirteen minutes each. The artwork, again by Esteban Rey, is completed. The band recorded the album in Minnesota in August with John Congleton. The album is due for release in February with both a one disc version as well as a two-disc special editions featuing remixes by artists such as Eluvium and Adem. |
and the rest of the band hails from Midland. They quickly gained a reputation for themselves among other established local bands such as 
