In 1995, Alice in Chains released their final studio album with frontman Layne Staley. Alice in Chains: A Wounded Animal While Dirt served as a warning sign, their self-titled album was a sonic farewell. The album cover was graced by a three-legged dog, which some say represented Alice in Chains, who by this point in […]
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1991 was a great year for some pretty major albums. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N’ Roses, REM, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden were a few artists with big releases that year. U2 also had a huge release that year. Their album Achtung Baby was one of the most highly anticipated albums
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Alice in Chains established themselves as the first band out of Seattle’s “grunge” movement to have a gold record. Addiction and infighting led to the band stop touring in any major capacity by 1993. Frontman Layne Staley’s addiction to heroin would be the group’s achilles heel and it wasn’t something that the singer really hid.
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By 1994, grunge was in its last throes as Nirvana was done, Alice in Chains were on hiatus, Pearl Jam was growing more uncomfortable with success and fighting with Ticketmaster and punk rock was all of a sudden becoming fashionable. Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We? One band who got their start
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By 1999, Garth Brooks had been dominating the country charts for the entire decade, selling over 100 million albums. He was the most successful solo artist in US history, but in 1999 his career took a strange turn. Deciding to take a break from country music, Brooks came up with a screenplay and a detailed
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