The following year, a shout-out from one of Germany's most popular bands, Die Ärzte, on their song "Unrockbar," brought the Beatsteaks increased attention, and their big breakthrough came in 2004 with their fourth album Smack Smash, which won them the MTV European Music Award for Best German Act. As the band became more successful, more of their time was devoted to touring, meaning longer waits between albums. The fruits of these many arena shows were released in 2008 as a live album, Kanonen auf Spatzen ("Cannons on Sparrows," a German idiom analogous to "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut"). Their fifth studio album, Limbo Messiah, dropped in 2007, and their sixth, Boombox, in 2011. That year their song "House on Fire" was included on the soundtrack of the third Transformers film Dark of the Moon, further increasing their visibility across Europe. In 2013, the Beatsteaks released the ambitous live collection Muffensausen which featured performances culled from their Boombox tour along with two discs of unreleased bonus material. The band's self-titled seventh studio LP arrived the following year yielding the singles "DNA" and "Gentleman of the Year." Returning in 2017, Beatsteaks delivered Yours, their infectious and surprisingly lengthy 21-song eighth album. ~ MacKenzie Wilson & John D. Buchanan, Rovi