By the end of 1998, the band had prepared a concept album called The Sun, The Storm and The Traveler , based on Aesop’s fable of The North Wind and the Sun , and they planned to record it after a recess in the fall of 1999. That summer, John…
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They were given more financial support from Elektra to record their next album. The product was 1998’s Head Trip in Every Key , which included Davis playing theremin , piano , sitar , organ . It was co-produced with the band by Jerry Finn .
Released on April 28, 1998, the album was commercially successful and marked one of the band’s highest debuts yet on Billboard ‘ s charts. Critical reaction to End Hits was mixed. Many critics praised its heavier tracks, while others questioned the inclusion of the group’s longer, more experimental songs. Fugazi…
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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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