In 1998, all of the Proletariat’s recorded material, including four previously unreleased tracks, was compiled on Voodoo Economics and Other American Tragedies , a double CD collection released on Taang! Records .
Despite stronger sales with their second Capitol album, the band’s relationship with the label grew increasingly strained. A planned 1998 album, After the Astronaut , was scrapped, and the Butthole Surfers parted ways acrimoniously with their manager, Tom Bunch.
In 1998, Limp Bizkit toured with Soulfly and Cold on Soulfly’s first European tour. Touring consistently increased Limp Bizkit’s success and the second single from Three Dollar Bill, Y’all , a cover of George Michael’s “Faith”, became a successful radio hit, leading to a slot on Ozzfest , a tour…
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Dishwalla released their second album in 1998, And You Think You Know What Life’s About . Its lead single, “Once in a While”, managed to appear on both the Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. Both “Once in a While” and “Stay Awake” also respectively peaked at No.…
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Recorded following the death of Corgan’s mother and his divorce, 1998’s Adore represented a significant change of style from the Pumpkins’ previous guitar-based rock, veering into electronica. The record, cut with assistance from drum machines and studio drummers including Matt Walker, was infused with a darker aesthetic than much of…
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In 1998, after almost two years of constant touring, Dog Eat Dog began working on new material. They worked in a studio four days a week and wrote fifteen new songs in a few short months. These songs would result in the Amped album, recorded in Washington, D.C., with Italric,…
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and later that year, the band entered the studio with producer Jerry Finn to begin work on their third album.
Meanwhile, pursuing his own musical interests, Weiland released his first solo album, 12 Bar Blues , 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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During the band’s first nationwide tour, Piercey left the band, resulting in the tour being completed without a bass player. In 1998, bassist Billy Davis joined the band, and they recorded the “Life and Death” EP for Davis’s own Partners In Crime Records. After Davis’s departure in 1999, Ryan Teetzen,…
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