The group went on another international tour in September named after their most recent single ” Dozing Green “, beginning in Japan and continuing in Europe, including their first performance in the Netherlands and Switzerland. In late November, Dir En Grey opened two shows for Linkin Park at Saitama Super…
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Relations with the label had sufficiently improved for the band to begin recording their next album in the autumn of 1998 with a ten-day session at the Chateau De La Rouge Motte studio in Normandy , France with producer Mike Hedges .
On their fourth album, In an Expression of the Inexpressible , Guy Picciotto of Fugazi was hired as producer. Picciotto also contributed in the construction to the song “Futurism vs. Passéism Part 2” as well as lending it his vocals to the 1998 release.
while ” No Shelter ” appeared on the Godzilla soundtrack in 1998.
After constant touring throughout 1998, and after selling over 100,000 copies of S.C.I.E.N.C.E. without the support of radio or television exposure, Incubus took a break for two years and then began working on their third album Make Yourself . After just two weeks in the studio with producer Jim Wirt,…
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At the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards , the Beastie Boys won the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award for their contributions to music videos. The following year at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards , they also won the award for Best Hip Hop Video for their hit song “Intergalactic”.…
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Cobra Verde’s Doug Gillard was tapped for yet another new Guided by Voices lineup in 1998, which also included “classic”-era bassist Greg Demos , former Breeders drummer Jim Macpherson , and eventually, former Amps /Breeders guitarist Nate Farley .
By the time that the band were due to begin recording their second album, Flipside had stopped releasing new material and Offtime was financially unable to, “so the band figuratively approached almost every indie label they could think of” but could not find one willing to work with them. Eventually,…
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In 1998, James Dewees recorded his first solo album under the pseudonym Reggie and the Full Effect . While Dewees wrote the songs himself, he asked Matt Pryor and Rob Pope to help record some of the instrumentals. The resulting album, Greatest Hits 1984–1987 leaned heavily on the use of…
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Written in 1998, the album’s lyrical content focused heavily on what Cantrell regarded as the demise of Alice in Chains, which still remained evident as the album approached its June 2002 release.