In February 1993, Nirvana released “Puss” / “Oh, the Guilt” , a split single with the Jesus Lizard , on the independent label Touch & Go .
Garcia left on January 26, 1993, and Lucas and Daniels began looking for a replacement bassist.
In early 1993, Peter Mengede left Helmet due to a contractual dispute. He would later join the supergroup Handsome in 1995, which released one album on Epic Records in 1997 before disbanding. Mengede was replaced by Rob Echeverria , guitarist from the hardcore band Rest in Pieces. Helmet collaborated with…
Read More
and the band toured the United Kingdom in the summer of that year (including the Phoenix Festival on July 16), mainly performing material from their upcoming major label debut, Live Through This
Sage restarted Wipers in 1993, rejoined by Plouf, releasing three additional albums as a duo: Silver Sail (1993) and The Herd (1996), both on the Tim/Kerr label, and Power in One (1999) on Sage’s new Zeno Records. The band became inactive after 1999.
During this time the band served as the opening act for many female-fronted national acts such as Joan Jett , L7 , Silverfish , Tribe 8 , Fetchin’ Bones and the Lunachicks . Singer Jessicka’s on-stage antics included covering the audience with fake blood and throwing candy. In early 1993,…
Read More
The band toured heavily, and released Total Destruction in 1993 on Matador Records / Atlantic Records . Their third album, Scattered, Smothered & Covered , was issued by Amphetamine Reptile in 1995. The music video for the song “Scrape”, made for a mere $200, had significant play on MTV .…
Read More
Jawbox then made a series of compilation appearances and released various one-off singles, including a split single with the band Tar in 1993, in which Tar covered the Jawbox song “Static” and Jawbox covered the Tar song also titled “Static”.
Capitol immediately reissued piouhgd and paired the band with their first big-name producer, John Paul Jones , best known as the bassist for Led Zeppelin . The fruit of their partnership, 1993’s Independent Worm Saloon , featured a more straightforward rock approach at Jones’s insistence. This paid off for Butthole…
Read More
The band formed in the summer of 1993 after Palumbo and Beck met each other at camp. Of the band name, Beck has said: “We had a list of names, and we were just like, let’s pick one of these band names which ones the coolest. At the time there…
Read More