In 1998, Anti-Flag released their second full-length album, Their System Doesn’t Work for You . The album contained all nine Anti-Flag songs from the 1996 Anti-Flag/ d.b.s. split album North America Sucks , as well as 10 new unreleased songs. The band decided to release the album independently, and Their…
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The band released their second EP entitled For Your Lungs Only , in 1998.
Following the release of Static Prevails , Jimmy Eat World were dissatisfied with their business relationship with Capitol and wanted to leave the label. However, Capitol still wanted the band to record another album. From late-1998 to early-1999, the band recorded their third studio album Clarity at two studios: Sound…
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In 1998, the Offspring released Americana . Three of the album’s singles – ” Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) “, ” Why Don’t You Get a Job? ” and ” The Kids Aren’t Alright ” – became the band’s biggest hits and made the album the peak of the…
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In 1998, the group appeared on the album Happy Hour by Japanese female rockers Shonen Knife , singing backing vocals on the song “Sushi Bar”.
Afterglow provided the band their only Grammy Award nomination to date, a Best Rock Instrumental nod in 1998 for “El Distorto de Melodica”. Later that year, the band won Billboard’s Modern Rock Band of the Year Award . Though Afterglow never charted higher than No. 33 on the Billboard album…
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The album was released in October 1997
By the end of 1996, the band had nearly completed the album, which they planned to release under the title Pure White Evil . Alexakis, however, was dissatisfied with the results and decided to work on more songs for the effort, including “One Hit Wonder” and the eventual title-track to…
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The band continued to tour relentlessly, making connections with the likes of Jimmy Eat World , Mineral , and Boys Life , largely playing basement shows and building a dedicated fan base through word of mouth. In September 1997 the band released their debut full-length record Four Minute Mile .…
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The record was released the following June,