while touring ” Lost Cat ” was released on 22 April.
It was followed on April 22, by the band’s fourth album Style .
Evil Empire was released on April 16, 1996, and entered the Billboard 200 chart at number one, selling 249,000 copies in its first week.
Alice in Chains resurfaced on April 10, 1996, to perform for MTV Unplugged , a program featuring all-acoustic set lists.
After the exhaustive touring ended, IME ended up in different studios in Toronto and Morin Heights, Quebec in the summer and fall of 1995. In these studios, the band worked on its second album, co-produced by Jag Tanna and Paul Northfield , who was most noted for producing Rush. Daniel…
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After the success of their debut, Korn decided to enter the studio again for a second album. By then, the band had created a large fan base , having played between 200 and 250 shows, and the expectations for their follow-up album were high. They went back into the studio…
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In April 1996, the Banshees disbanded after 20 years of working together. Siouxsie blamed the split on “the situation with Polydor” and “internal problems as well.” She and Budgie announced that they would carry on recording as the Creatures. In 1999, they released the album Anima Animus .
Supergrass followed I Should Coco with 18 months of heavy touring, appearing at festivals such as Scotland’s T in the Park and the Glastonbury Festival . After Performing at Rio ‘s Hollywood Rock Festival in April 1996, Supergrass met the train robber Ronnie Biggs , and he apparently said to…
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At the time the lineup consisted of Pryor on guitar and lead vocals, Suptic on guitar, Rob Pope on bass, and Thomas Becker on drums. However, Becker soon left for college in California, and was replaced by Nathan Shay, who was attending school with Suptic at the Kansas City Art…
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Further singles “Might Be Stars” and “How Does It Feel?” were taken from Be a Girl but it was not until the re-release of “You and Me Song” in April 1996 that the band really made an impact in the United Kingdom, where the song peaked at number eighteen on…
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