After a chance to think about their music and their direction, Super Furry Animals decided to record a new EP in early 1998 at Gorwel Owen’s house and released it in May. This was the Ice Hockey Hair EP, widely held as one of their finest moments (“ice hockey hair”…
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Unable to continue with new Alice in Chains material, Cantrell released his first solo album, Boggy Depot , in 1998, also featuring Sean Kinney and Mike Inez.
They also won the Best Band in the World Today award at the 1998 Q Awards .
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 .