Unable to continue with new Alice in Chains material, Cantrell released his first solo album, Boggy Depot , in 1998, also featuring Sean Kinney and Mike Inez.
The song’s music video was critically acclaimed, winning two awards at the 1998 Billboard Music Video Awards
The members of Fastball still had side jobs as late as January 1998. Tony Scalzo worked the graveyard shift at The Bagel Manufactory in Austin. He, Shuffield, and Zuniga would be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O’Brien just four months later. Fastball’s second…
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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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Following the breakup of Bikini Kill in 1998, Kathleen Hanna released a solo album under the pseudonym Julie Ruin and moved to New York, where she wanted to perform Julie Ruin songs live. Not wanting to perform the material alone, she recruited Johanna Fateman, whom Hanna had known since meeting…
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Copeland was commissioned by Universal Interactive and Insomniac Games in 1998 to make the musical score for the PlayStation game Spyro the Dragon .
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was released on February 10, 1998. Merge pressed 5,500 CD and 1,600 vinyl copies, and expected sales to be similar to On Avery Island . These initial projections were correct, as the album sold moderately well for the first few months. Critical responses to…
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In the next few years, as the original vinyl pressings became rarer and rarer, demand for Malignus Youth on CD prompted a 1998 re-release of the Malignus Youth EP, the Crisis EP and the full-length LP, More To It on a single CD entitled Vinal CD . These CDs are…
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The band’s first greatest hits album, Choice Cuts , arrived in 1998. Geffen Records produced a music video for their cover of We’re an American Band , a 1970s hit song by Grand Funk Railroad .
Hopesfall (stylized as .hopesfall. ) began as a Christian hardcore band in 1998.