On April 6, 1994, it was announced that Nirvana withdrew from their planned appearance at the Lollapalooza 94 tour due to Cobain’s ongoing health problems, with reports that they had broken up.
The band were unsatisfied with the sound of Comfort and their lack of involvement in the mixing process; they wanted a more flattering, produced sound that went beyond Albini’s style of essentially documenting a band’s raw live sound. So when the band went back into the studio in 1993, Andrews…
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When Isaac Brock was a teenager, he was employed at a local family video store just outside Seattle, where he met bassist Eric Judy . Brock and Judy later discovered drummer Jeremiah Green , who also resided near Seattle, at a heavy metal show, at which point they decided to…
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In 1994, Grohl founded a new band, the Foo Fighters .
In 1994, bassist Kristen Pfaff went into a drug treatment facility to treat her heroin addiction.
Upon the album’s release, Corgan told CNN that he should have “been given credit [for writing the entire album]”. Erlandson responded to Corgan’s statements in a Rolling Stone interview, commenting: “We were working on all the stuff that Courtney and I had already written. Billy really facilitated things, in a…
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By 1994, record labels were trying to capitalize on the popularity of harder-edged alt-rock bands like Nirvana , Pearl Jam , Soundgarden , and Stone Temple Pilots , and the band caught the attention of Joe Bosso, an A&R rep for Polydor Records , which was then in the process…
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Blindside was formed in 1994.
Jawbox released their third album For Your Own Special Sweetheart in early 1994. The album peaked at #28 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and it sold roughly 50,000 copies overall. The first single released was ” Savory “, which became one of the band’s most recognizable songs. It was aired…
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When Pinkus left in 1994, the remaining members enlisted a series of fill-in musicians, and continued to tour sporadically, even as all three pursued side projects. Haynes was working with Johnny Depp , Bill Carter , Sal Jenco , Flea , and others in a new group, P . In…
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