Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum were members of the hard rock band Guns N’ Roses . However, disagreements with singer Axl Rose resulted in Slash leaving the band in 1996 and McKagan departing in 1997 shortly before Sorum was fired. Following their departures the trio focused on separate projects,…
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In the same year, the band entered New Alliance Studio in Boston to record its debut album, All Wound Up… . The CD was recorded in just three days for $2,600
In 1996, Guster independently recorded its second album, Goldfly , releasing it early the next year. In 1998 the band signed with Sire Records and re-released Goldfly . In 1999, the band released the album Lost and Gone Forever , produced by Steve Lillywhite . With the backing of a…
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After the breakup, Enigk pursued a solo career, releasing his first solo album, Return of the Frog Queen , in 1996. Hoerner moved out to a farm in rural Washington , while Mendel and Goldsmith joined Foo Fighters , the band which Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl had formed following the…
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Swinnerton left the band in January 1996.
By now, the band’s popularity had reached the point to which they would headline Japan’s largest indoor concert venue, the Tokyo Dome , on December 23.
The first incarnation of HIM was formed in 1991 by childhood friends Ville Valo and Mikko “Mige” Paananen in Helsinki , Finland . Valo played six-string bass, which substituted for guitar, while Mige also played bass. The band had two rotating drummers: Sami “Juippi” Jokilehto and Juha Tarvonen. Dubbed His…
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The band released the home video The Nona Tapes On December 12, a mockumentary featuring interviews with the band members conducted by journalist Nona Weisbaum (played by Jerry Cantrell), and the music video for “Grind”.
Frogstomp was a number-one album in Australia and New Zealand. It reached the Billboard 200 Top 10, making Silverchair the first Australian band to do so since INXS . It was certified as a US double- platinum album by the RIAA , triple-platinum in Canada by the CRIA , and…
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Idlewild, named after the quiet meeting place from the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables , formed in December 1995 in Edinburgh, Scotland when a 19-year-old Roddy Woomble met drummer Colin Newton at a party. The two discovered that they had much in common, including similar musical interests and record…
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