N.E.R.D 2005-08: Hiatus and Seeing Sounds Is Hiatus the name of an album or did the band take a hiatus? In 2005, N.E.R.D ended their contract with Virgin Records over a label dispute and the band disbanded. What happened after they disbanded? While touring, the band became "hooked" on the energy from their fans, which led them to begin recording their third studio album, What was the name of there third Album? Seeing Sounds What was a single form the Seeing Sounds album? Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom)", What else happened with the band during this time period? A song entitled "Soldier" featuring Santigold and Lil Wayne was featured on the soundtrack of the teen drama 90210. Who left the band during the Hiatus? I don't know.
Was seeing sounds successful?
Was the album Seeing Sounds by N.E.R.D successful?
In 2005, N.E.R.D ended their contract with Virgin Records over a label dispute and the band disbanded. While touring, the band became "hooked" on the energy from their fans, which led them to begin recording their third studio album, spending their own money while still unsigned. Williams and Hugo later established Star Trak Entertainment, a subsidiary of Interscope Records. In March 2008, the band performed at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. While there they filmed a PSA for Rock the Vote saying why they thought voting was important and the issues they cared about that election year.  From April to June 2008, the band toured with Kanye West as an opening act along with Rihanna and Lupe Fiasco as part of the Glow in the Dark Tour. On June 13, they gave an energetic performance at the Isle of Wight festival, however they almost missed their scheduled show because they didn't know where the island was. On June 25, they performed in front of 40,000 people at the Isle of MTV 2008 at the Floriana granaries, Malta with free admission. On August 9, 2008, the band played at the Way Out West music festival held in the city park of Gothenburg, Sweden. In September 2008, N.E.R.D performed to a sold-out crowd at the House of Blues in Chicago, and brought special guest Bad Brains onstage.  N.E.R.D released their third studio album, Seeing Sounds in June 2008. The first single off the album, titled "Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom)", was first mentioned on their Billionaire Boys Club blog in January 2008. The second single off the album, titled "Spaz", was used in a TV commercial for the Microsoft Zune.  A song entitled "Soldier" featuring Santigold and Lil Wayne was featured on the soundtrack of the teen drama 90210.  The group toured with American rock band, Linkin Park on the European leg of their Projekt Revolution tour in 2008 with artists like HIM, The Used and Jay-Z. The group also played at the National Bowl, Milton Keynes before the recording of Road to Revolution by Linkin Park. CANNOTANSWER
The second single off the album, titled "Spaz", was used in a TV commercial for the Microsoft Zune.
The Sounds of the Sounds of Science is a score written by Yo La Tengo for filmmaker Jean Painlevé. It contains 78 minutes of instrumental music to accompany his eight short documentary-style films shot underwater.  The live performances are known as “The Sounds of Science.”  The program debuted in 2001 at the San Francisco Film Festival.  The entire score has been performed approximately twelve times.  The band had not heard of Painlevé before being asked to work on the project nor did the band view the films much before writing the music.

In an interview with Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times, guitarist Ira Kaplan stated: What was different was that it was all sound for the most part. There was melody involved in the pieces, but it was really all about mood. There's so much of that in the songs we work on anyway, but to think only about the way the mood was developing was a big difference. The songs tend to start the same way with just the three of us kind of playing and seeing what comes out, but once we had something that we were working on, it was a lot different, and the pieces were all 10 minutes long!
The album's cover photos are from the accompanying films.  The album artwork was designed by Jim Woodring and Jad Fair.

Track listing

References

Sources
Yo La Tengo.com's Page on The Sounds of the Sounds of Science

Yo La Tengo albums
Film scores
Instrumental albums
2002 soundtrack albums
Albums produced by Roger Moutenot Nilon Bombers were a Britpop band from Cheltenham, formed in 1992. They split up in November 1996.

The line-up was Drew Norton (vocals, guitar), Gareth Ballard (guitar, vocals, bouzouki, keyboards and violin), Martin Williams (drums), and Kim Dorman (bass).

They released an album titled Bird on Almo Sounds in 1996 which was produced by Kim Fowley. It was described by Roy Wilkinson in Select as combining "Mega City Four's Transit-frequenting worthiness with the everyman rock of Ian McNabb...stultifyingly competent". Their most successful single, "Superstar", reached no. 96 on the UK Singles Chart in May 1996. The band's final single, "I'm Not Built for This", was described by Tania Branigan in Melody Maker as "Two years too late for New Wave of New Wave".

In July 1996 they were a last-minute addition at the T in the Park festival at Strathclyde Country Park where they were first on in the King Tuts Wah Wah tent.

After the band split up, Williams went on to form Silverman.

Discography

Albums
 Nilon Bombers (1995), Almo Sounds
 Bird (1996), Almo Sounds

Singles
"Cleo" (1995), Almo Sounds
"Cracked" (1995), Almo Sounds
"Superstar" (1996), Almo Sounds – UK no. 96
"I'm Not Built for This" (1996), Almo Sounds

References

External links
[ AMG entry]

Britpop groups
People from Cheltenham
Music in Gloucestershire
Musicians from Gloucestershire Geoff Barton (born July 1955) is a British journalist who founded the heavy metal magazine Kerrang! and was an editor of Sounds music magazine.

He joined Sounds at the age of 19 after completing a journalism course at the London College of Printing. He specialised in covering rock music and helped popularise the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) after using the term for the first time (after editor Alan Lewis coined it) in the May 1979 issue of Sounds. In 1981 he edited the first issue of Kerrang!, which was published as a one off. This was successful so it became a fortnightly magazine. He left the magazine in 1995.

Barton's articles for Sounds which covered the NWOBHM helped to create the sense that an actual movement was taking place, and in a sense helped to create one in the process. Barton recalls: "The phrase New Wave of British Heavy Metal was this slightly tongue-in-cheek thing...I didn't really feel that any of these bands were particularly linked in a musical way, but it was interesting that so many of them should then be emerging at more or less the same time."
He currently works for Classic Rock.

References

British male journalists
Living people
British magazine editors
1955 births