The Residents
American art rock band
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| April 20 2024 | Nolan Cook confirmed he ceased working with The Residents on this date, after initially stopping in April 2023. |
| February 20 2024 | Publicly announced they would no longer be working with long-time guitarist Nolan Cook. |
| April 20 2023 | Nolan Cook officially ceased working with The Residents, as revealed in a Facebook comment. |
| March 31 2023 | Performed a free webcast show at WXPN as part of their 50th anniversary tour. |
| January 26 2023 | Embarked on their 50th anniversary tour, featuring selections from Duck Stab, Metal, Meat & Bone, and fan favorites, with their film Triple Trouble opening US tour dates. |
| July 29 2022 | Debuted their film 'Triple Trouble' in Chicago, composed of new footage shot during the COVID-19 pandemic and including material from the Vileness Fats project. |
| May 13 2022 | Performed their 'God In Three Persons' album live at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco, presenting themselves as a six-piece band with visuals by John Sanborn. |
| 2021 | Conducted the 'Dog Stab!' tour, marketed as their 50th anniversary show, presenting songs from the new album and rearranged tracks from their 1978 album Duck Stab / Buster & Glen. |
| July 2020 | Released the album 'Metal, Meat & Bone: The Songs of Dyin' Dog', featuring fictional blues singer Alvin Snow's recordings and the band's interpretations, with music videos featuring Black Francis. |
| February 20 2020 | Publicly announced they would no longer be working with guitarist Nolan Cook. |
| December 14 2018 | The official Residents mailing list acknowledged Fox as 'engineer, producer and sometime composer of much of the Residents' best-loved work'. |
| October 30 2018 | Hardy Fox died from brain cancer at the age of 73. |
| September 2018 | Fox added the dates '1945–2018' to his website, despite still being alive at the time. |
| July 2018 | The Residents published their second novel, 'The Brick-Eaters', described as an absurdist buddy movie story. |
| May 2018 | The Residents released the 'I am a Resident!' album to contributors, featuring fan-submitted interpretations of their songs. |
| January 2018 | The Residents began their pREServed reissue series, releasing deluxe editions of major albums in their discography with brand new remasters and previously unreleased recordings. |
| October 2017 | Hardy Fox publicly identified himself as the anonymous primary composer and producer for the Residents, as well as the pseudonymous Charles Bobuck. |
| October 2017 | The Residents began their 'In Between Dreams' tour, which ran until February 2019, featuring a loose theme centered around dreams. |
| July 2017 | Hardy W. Fox confirmed in a newsletter that Jay Clem's voice was featured uncredited on early Residents recordings. |
| March 2017 | The Residents presented a new lineup called 'The Real Residents', featuring 'Tyrone' on vocals, 'Eekie' (Nolan Cook) on guitar, 'Erkie' (Eric Feldman) on keyboards, and 'Cha Cha' on drums and percussion. |
| 2016 | The Residents concluded their 'Randy, Chuck, and Bob' performance era. |
| 2016 | Charles Bobuck (Hardy Fox) quits the Residents, revealing his true identity and leaving the touring business due to health problems. |
| 2015 | Hardy Fox departed from the group, leading to Eric Drew Feldman being asked to help with previous duties. |
| 2015 | 'Chuck Bobuck' retired from live performance due to ill health. |
| August 2015 | Shadowland tour continues with Eric Drew Feldman replacing Charles Bobuck on keyboards, performing as 'Rico'. |
| March 2015 | The documentary 'Theory of Obscurity' premieres at the SXSW Film Festival, coinciding with a revival of the Shadowland show. |
| 2014 | Randy maintains a series of vlogs titled 'In My Room' and later 'Randyland' with director Don Hardy, documenting personal experiences and band history. |
| 2014 | The Residents tour with the show 'Shadowland', described as part three of the 'Randy, Chuck & Bob' trilogy. |
| 2013 | The Residents collaborate with Belgian dancer/choreographer Grace Ellen Barkey, composing music for the show 'Mush-Room'. |
| January 2013 | The Residents begin their 40th anniversary tour 'The Wonder of Weird', which runs until May 2013, featuring Randy discussing the band's history between songs. |
| 2010 | The Residents began performing under the stage personas of 'Randy Rose', 'Chuck Bobuck', and 'Bob', and referring to a former member 'Carlos'. |
| June 2010 | Randy begins performing his solo show 'Sam's Enchanted Evening', a musical theater-like performance that explores the life story of a character named Sam. |
| January 2010 | The Residents debut their new 'power trio' formation with Randy, Chuck Bobuck, and Bob during the Talking Light tour, which runs until April 2011. The tour features reworked arrangements and 'ghost stories' with video projections. |
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