Lookout! released Green Day’s debut studio album 39/Smooth in early 1990.
Recycler , released in 1990, was ZZ Top’s final studio album with Warner Records and the last of a distinct sonic trilogy in their catalogue, marking a return towards a simpler guitar-driven blues sound with less synthesizer and pop bounce than their previous two albums.
Garvey, then aged 16, met guitarist Mark Potter in 1990, while both were attending Bury College in Bury, Greater Manchester . Potter asked Garvey to sing in a band he was in with drummer Richard Jupp and bassist Pete Turner. Together, the four formed the band Mr. Soft, named after…
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In the early 1990s, Peterson and Whaley re-located to Germany. In 1992, Peterson recorded his first solo album, Child of the Darkness , in Cologne with a band named “The Scrap Yard”. The album appeared five years later in Japan on Captain Trip Records . After Peterson came back to…
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In 1990, Queen ended their contract with Capitol and signed with Hollywood Records ; through the deal, Disney acquired the North American distribution rights to Queen’s catalogue for $10 million, and remains the group’s recorded-music rights owner and distributor in the US and Canada; the band retained ownership of the…
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Originally a noisy and chaotic band, their first album A Catholic Education , released in 1990 on Paperhouse , is largely atypical of their later sound, with the possible exception of “Everything Flows”. Mostly written by Blake and McGinley, the record included several songs originally intended for the Boy Hairdressers.…
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During 1990, a new album, Medicine Man , was released by the independent Loop company.
Following repeated recommendations by Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon , Nirvana signed to DGC Records in 1990.
In October 1988, the group released Rattle and Hum , a double album and theatrically released documentary film that captured the band’s experiences with American roots music on the Joshua Tree Tour. The record featured nine studio tracks and six live U2 performances, including recordings at Sun Studio in Memphis…
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and on December 17 the band sold all 150 tickets for their first official one-man live concert at Machida Play House.