N.E.R.D 2005-08: Hiatus and Seeing Sounds
Is Hiatus the name of an album or did the band take a hiatus?
Is Hiatus the name of an album by N.E.R.D in 2005 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. 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
In 2005, N.E.R.D ended their contract with Virgin Records over a label dispute and the band disbanded.
Rossington is a blues rock group formed by Gary Rossington, of Lynyrd Skynyrd fame, and his wife Dale Krantz-Rossington after the breakup of The Rossington-Collins Band.

History 

Gary and Dale married in 1982. Their marriage, in conjunction with the death of Allen Collins' wife and an unsuccessful second album, contributed to the demise of the Rossington-Collins Band.

The couple formed a new group, called The Rossington Band. The band released their debut album, Returned to the Scene of the Crime in 1986. Two years later, the band shortened its name to "Rossington" and released a second album, Love Your Man. After a 28 year hiatus, the album, Take It On Faith   was released in November 2016.

Discography 

 Returned to the Scene of the Crime (1986)
 Love Your Man (1988)
 Take It On Faith (2016)

References

American blues rock musical groups Hiatus Kaiyote () is an Australian jazz/funk band formed in Melbourne in 2011, made up of singer/guitarist Nai Palm, bassist Paul Bender, keyboardist Simon Mavin, and drummer Perrin Moss.

History

2011–2013: Formation and Tawk Tomahawk
In 2010, Nai Palm (born Naomi Saalfield) performed a solo show in Melbourne that was witnessed by Paul Bender. After the show, Bender approached Palm and suggested a collaboration. After working as a duo for a short time, they recruited Perrin Moss and Simon Mavin in 2011 and formed Hiatus Kaiyote. Mavin was then a member of The Bamboos but left that band to focus on Hiatus Kaiyote. 

Hiatus Kaiyote played their first gig at the 2011 Bohemian Masquerade Ball among sword swallowers, fire twirlers, and gypsy death core bands. In February 2012, the band opened for Taylor McFerrin in Melbourne. McFerrin was so impressed with them that he introduced their music to influential broadcaster and record label owner DJ Gilles Peterson.

The band released their debut album Tawk Tomahawk independently in April 2012. It was noticed by numerous musicians including Animal Collective and Dirty Projectors, and the band later received public endorsements from Erykah Badu, Questlove, and Prince, who urged their social media followers to explore the band's music. In early 2013, Gilles Peterson named them the Breakthrough Artists of the Year at his Worldwide Music Awards in London, and shortly thereafter they were introduced to Salaam Remi who had just started working as an A&R executive at Sony Music. Sony gave Remi the opportunity to start his own label, Flying Buddha, and his first signing was Hiatus Kaiyote. The band licensed Tawk Tomahawk to the label, adding an updated version of the song "Nakamarra" featuring Q-Tip. Following this release, the band toured internationally, and in 2014 were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance for "Nakamarra." They were the first Australian act to be nominated for a Grammy in an R&B category.

2014–2016: Choose Your Weapon

In 2014, the band began working on their second album, Choose Your Weapon, which was released on 1 May 2015. The review aggregator Metacritic gave the album a normalized rating of 88 out of 100, based on 6 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". On 9 May 2015, Choose Your Weapon debuted at number 22 on the Australian albums chart. Nai Palm described the album as an "extension" of their debut, and stated that she and the band had no intention to make a one-genre body of work. Many of the songs on the album started with Saalfield's original ideas and were later fleshed out by the band collectively. During the recording the band wanted to pay tribute to the mixtape format, so they incorporated interludes. 

Choose Your Weapon became the band's first release to chart in the US, reaching #127 on the Billboard 200, and #11 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The song "Breathing Underwater" from the album was nominated for a Best R&B Performance at the 58th Grammy Awards.

Starting in 2016, prominent rap and R&B artists began sampling Hiatus Kaiyote songs, starting with Anderson .Paak's sample of "Molasses" in "Without You" on his album Malibu. The following year, Kendrick Lamar sampled "Atari" in "Duckworth" from his album Damn, and Drake sampled "Building a Ladder" on the song "Free Smoke" from his playlist More Life. In 2018, Beyonce and Jay-Z sampled "The World It Softly Lulls" in "713" from their album Everything Is Love.

2017-2021: Side projects and Mood Valiant 
In 2017, Nai Palm released her debut solo album Needle Paw. In June 2018, Palm was featured on Scorpion by Drake, who has spoken highly of both her and the band. She sang a cover of "More Than a Woman" by Aaliyah, which appears at the end of Drake's song "Is There More?". On 18 October 2018, Palm revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. While recuperating in the hospital following a mastectomy, Palm and Bender performed a cover of Curtis Mayfield's "The Makings of You" which was released online. Palm announced in 2019 that she was cancer-free.

During Palm's recovery period, the other members of Hiatus Kaiyote formed several side projects. Perrin Moss, under the name Clever Austin, released the solo album Pareidolia in 2019. Simon Mavin formed a band called The Putbacks, and produced the album Control by Natalie Slade in 2020. Paul Bender formed an act called The Sweet Enoughs and released the album Marshmallow in 2020. Bender has also produced albums for Jaala, Vulture St. Tape Gang, and Laneous. Bender, Mavin, and Moss also released an all-instrumental album called Improvised Music 2015-17 in 2020, under the name Swooping (formerly Swooping Duck). 

Hiatus Kaiyote reconvened in 2020 and signed a global publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music. They began work on a new album inspired by Palm's health crisis and her loss of a beloved pet, as well as the social difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The song "Get Sun" was arranged and conducted by Brazilian musician Arthur Verocai. The album Mood Valiant was released on 25 June 2021, and reached the Top Ten on the Australian albums chart.

Discography

Albums

Extended plays

Music videos
 "Jekyll" (2012)
 "Lace Skull" (2013)
 "Nakamarra" (2013)
 "Breathing Underwater" (2015)
 "Red Room" (2021)
 "Get Sun" (2021)
 "And We Go Gentle" (2021)

Prominent samples
Anderson Paak: "Without You" from Malibu (2016) samples "Molasses"
Kendrick Lamar: "Duckworth" from Damn (2017) samples "Atari"
Drake: "Free Smoke" from More Life (2017) samples "Building A Ladder"
Beyonce and Jay-Z as The Carters: "713" from Everything is Love (2018) samples "The World It Softly Lulls" live performance in 2013

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music.

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| Choose Your Weapon
| ARIA Award for Best Urban Album
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| 2021
| Mood Valiant
| ARIA Award for Best Soul/R&B Release
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Australian Music Prize
The Australian Music Prize (the AMP) is an annual award of $30,000 given to an Australian band or solo artist in recognition of the merit of an album released during the year of award. It commenced in 2005.

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| Mood Valiant
| Australian Music Prize
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognise achievement in the music industry.

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| 2014
| "Nakamarra" featuring Q-Tip
| Best R&B Performance
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| 2016
| "Breathing Underwater"
| Best R&B Performance
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| 2022
| "Mood Valiant"
| Best Progressive R&B Album
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J Awards
The J Awards are an annual series of Australian music awards that were established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's youth-focused radio station Triple J. They commenced in 2005.

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| J Awards of 2015
| Hiatus Kaiyote
| Double J Artist of the Year
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| J Awards of 2021
| Hiatus Kaiyote
| Double J Artist of the Year
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Music Victoria Awards
The Music Victoria Awards, are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music. They commenced in 2005.

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| Hiatus Kaiyote
| Best Emerging Artist
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| Tawk Tomahawk
| Best Soul, Funk, R'n'B and Gospel Album
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| Mood Valiant
| Best Victorian Album
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| "Red Room"
| Best Victorian Song
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| Best Group
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| Best Soul, Funk, R’n’B or Gospel Act
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| Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote)
| Best Musician
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National Live Music Awards
The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) are a broad recognition of Australia's diverse live industry, celebrating the success of the Australian live scene. The awards commenced in 2016.

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| National Live Music Awards of 2016
| Hiatus Kaiyote
| Live R&B or Soul Act of the Year
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| National Live Music Awards of 2017
| Hiatus Kaiyote
| Live R&B or Soul Act of the Year
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References

External links
 Hiatus Kaiyote official website

Australian soul musical groups
Musical groups from Melbourne
Musical groups established in 2011
2011 establishments in Australia
Brainfeeder artists Only Pain is Real is the second and final studio album by the Portuguese band Silence 4. It was released in July 2000, after the huge success of its predecessor, Silence Becomes It. Recorded in London, the album presented new sounds and fuller orchestrations, with 14 songs all written in English. Even not equaling their first album, it went to become another massive success for the band, achieving two platinum albums and selling 100 000 units.

Musical critics pointed the band's more mature sound and songwriting, mostly done by lead singer David Fonseca. Only two singles were released: "To Give" and "Only Pain Is Real". The album seems somewhat autobiographical or conceptual, even if David Fonseca never clarified if all the lyrics were related or tried to tell a story. Nevertheless, the album shows a new level of maturity and introspection, more consistent then their debut album. The themes of loneliness, sadness, loss, melancholy and hope, are basically the same of their first album, but with an added level of poignancy.

The band toured the record for an extended period of time across Portugal until December 2000. The tour proved to be exhausting, and the members of the band decided to go for an indeterminate hiatus, which meant the end of the band, since all their four members went into different directions. David Fonseca went on to start his own successful solo career with Sing Me Something New, released in 2003.

Track listing
All songs by David Fonseca except where noted.
 "To Give"
 "Not Brave Enough" (music by Rui Costa)
 "Empty Happy Song"
 "Only Pain is Real"
 "I´m not Perfect"
 "Sleepwalking Convict" (music by David Fonseca, Rui Costa)
 "Cruel II"
 "Ceilings" (music by Rui Costa)
 "Where Are You?"
 "Alright"
 "Search Me Not"
 "Don't II"
 "Take Me Away"
 "Wild Oscar (Part I)" (instrumental, Rui Costa)

2000 albums
Silence 4 albums