• Core, the band’s debut album, was released on September 29, 1992.
• Core went 8x platinum.
• Singles: “Plush”, “Creep”, “Sex Type Thing” and “Wicked Garden”
• Must have tracks: “Crackerman”, “Piece of Pie”.

“Creep”


• Purple was released on June 7, 1994.
• Purpledebuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and went 6x platinum.
• Singles: “Interstate Love Song”, “Vasoline” and “Big Empty”.
• Must have tracks: “Kitchenware & Candybars”, “Lounge Fly”, “Army Ants”.

“Interstate Love Song”


• Tiny Music…Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop was released on March 26, 1996.
• Tiny Musiconly went 2x platinum.
• Singles: “Big Bang Baby”, “Lady Picture Show” and “Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart”.
• Must have tracks: “Tumble In The Rough”, “Adhesive”, “Seven Caged Tigers”.

“Trippin On A Hole In A Paper Heart”


• No. 4 was released on October 26, 1999.
• No. 4would reach platinum status.
• Singles: “Down”, “Sour Girl”.
• Must have tracks: “Atlanta”, “Glide”, “Church on Tuesday”.

“Sour Girl”


• Shangri-La Dee Da was released on June 19, 2001.
• Shangri-La Dee Da debuted at #9 on the Billboard 200, but failed to reach platinum status.
• Singles: “Days of the Week”, “Hollywood Bitch”.
• Must have tracks: “Too Cool Queenie”, “Regeneration”, “Bi-Polar Bear”.

“Days of the Week”


• Thank You, a greatest hits collection, was released on November 11, 2003.
• Thank You debuted at #26 on the Billboard 200.
• Singles: “All In The Suit That You Wear”, plus every other track cause it’s a greatest hits package.
• Must have tracks: “All In The Suit That You Wear”, “Plush” (acoustic)

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• The festival was inspired by the “A Gathering of the Tribes”, which was held October 6 and 7, 1990 at Mountain View and Los Angeles, CA.
• “A Gathering of the Tribes” featured: Soundgarden, Iggy Pop, Indigo Girls, Ice T, Joan Baez, Queen Latifah and more.
• Perry Farrell attended the L.A. “A Gathering of the Tribes” and came up with a similar and diverse festival as a farewell tour for Jane’s Addiction.
• Lollapalooza means: “remarkable or wonderful person or thing”, and also means a lollipop.
• Farrell heard the word lollapalooza in a “Three Stooges” short.
• The inaugural line up in 1991 was: Jane’s Addiction, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Living Colour, Nine Inch Nails, Ice T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes.
• 1992 a second stage was added and the show included: Main Stage: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush   Side Stage: Jim Rose Circus, Sharkbait, Archie Bell, Porno for Pyros, Basehead, Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Sweaty Nipples, Arson Garden, Seaweed, Seam, Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., The Look People, Stone Temple Pilots, Vulgar Boatmen, Truly, Skrew, Tribe, The Authority, Samba Hell, Café Tacuba, Rage Against the Machine.
• 1992 often saw Pearl Jam and Soundgarden popping up during each others sets, even some Temple of the Dog reunions.
• 1993: Main Stage: Primus, Alice in Chains, Dinosaur Jr, Fishbone, Arrested Development, Front 242, Babes in Toyland, Tool, Rage Against the Machine       Side Stage: Tool, Sebadoh, Cell, Unrest, Mercury Rev, Mosquito, Free Kitten, Royal Trux, Tsunami, Mutabaruka, The Coctails, Scrawl, Luscious Jackson, Genitorturers, Truly, Eggs, Girls Against Boys, Thurston Moore, A Lighter Shade of Brown, Glue, The Karl Hendricks Trio, Hurl, The Goats
• Nirvana was offered to headline the 1994 edition, but declined. The Smashing Pumpkins replaced Nirvana after Kurt Cobain was found dead.
• 1994: Main Stage: The Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars, The Breeders, A Tribe Called Quest, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, L7, Boredoms (first half of tour), Green Day (second half)                                      Side Stage: The Flaming Lips, The Verve, The Boo Radleys, The Frogs (first six dates only), Guided by Voices, Lambchop, Girls Against Boys, Rollerskate Skinny, Palace Songs, Stereolab, Fu-Schnickens, The Pharcyde, Shudder to Think, Luscious Jackson, God Lives Underwater, King Kong, Charlie Hunter Trio, Shonen Knife, Blast Off Country Style, Souls of Mischief, Cypress Hill, The Black Crowes.
• 1995:  Main Stage: Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, Pavement, Sinéad O’Connor (first few shows; bowed out due to pregnancy), Elastica (replaced O’Connor, as did Moby for a few shows), Beck, The Jesus Lizard, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones          Side Stage: Coolio, Doo Rag, Possum Dixon, Poster Children, Yo La Tengo, Brainiac, The Coctails, Geraldine Fibbers, Dambuilders, Laika, The Pharcyde, Tuscadero, Built to Spill, Helium, Redman, St. Johnny, Dirty Three, Mike Watt, Versus, Hum, Blonde Redhead, The Roots, Blowhole, The Zeros, Pork Queen, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Sabalon Glitz, Psychotica, Patti Smith, Overpass, Moby, Superchunk, Beck (acoustic, generally), Spring Heeled Jack U.S.A., Ariel, Incredibly Strange Wrestling.
• In 1996, Farrell quit the organization that planned the festival. The William Morris Agency bought most of the rights. And, the decline begins…
• 1996: Main Stage: Metallica, Soundgarden, The Ramones, Rancid, Shaolin monks, Screaming Trees, Psychotica  Main Stage on Selected Dates: Rage Against the Machine, Cocteau Twins, Waylon Jennings, Cheap Trick, Violent Femmes, The Tea Party, Wu-Tang Clan, Steve Earle, Devo, 311                                                                Side Stage: Beth Hart Band, Girls Against Boys, Ben Folds Five, Ruby, Cornershop, You Am I, Soul Coughing, Sponge, Melvins, Satchel, Jonny Polonsky, Fireside, Ass Dildo                                                                                                                                          Indie Stage: Chune, Moonshake, Lutefisk, Capsize 7, The Cows, Long Fin Killie, Thirty Ought Six, Varnaline, Crumb.
• 1997: Main Stage: Orbital, Devo, The Prodigy, The Orb, Tool, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Tricky, KoЯn, James, Julian and Damian Marley and the Uprising Band, Eels, Failure                                                                                                                                 Side Stage: Beck, Summercamp, Artificial Joy Club, Jeremy Toback, Radish, Old 97’s, Inch, Porno for Pyros, The Pugs, The Lost Boyz, Agnes Gooch, Demolition Doll Rods, Skeleton Key, Molly McGuire, Orbit.
• 1998, the festival couldn’t land a headliner and ended.
• In 2003, the festival and Jane’s Addiction return.
• 2003 line up: Main Stage: Jane’s Addiction, Audioslave, Incubus, Queens of the Stone Age (7/5-8/13), A Perfect Circle (8/15-8/23), Jurassic 5, The Donnas, The Distillers, Rooney                                                                                                             Side Stage: Steve-O, Burning Brides, Cave In, Kings of Leon, Hierosonic, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Music, The Mooney Suzuki, Fingertight, MC Supernatural, Boysetsfire, Billy Talent, Campfire Girls, Mondo Generator.
• In 2004, Lollapalooza planned a touring two day festival, but was cancelled after poor ticket sales.
• 2004 line up, if it happened: Morrissey, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, The Killers, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, The Von Bondies, The String Cheese Incident, Modest Mouse, Le Tigre, Gomez, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Danger Mouse, The Polyphonic Spree, Broken Social Scene, The Datsuns, Bumblebeez 81, The Secret Machines, Brayndead Freakshow, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Elbow, Wheat, The Coup, Wolf Eyes, The Dresden Dolls.
• In 2005, the festival becomes a three day at Chicago’s Grant Park.
• 2005 included: Weezer, Primus, Cake, The Killers, Liz Phair, Pixies, Billy Idol, Death Cab for Cutie, and a ton more.
• The festival returned to Chicago on August 4-6, 2006 and featured the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco, Queens of the Stone Age, Ween, Blues Traveller, The Racounteurs, The Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth and more.
• On October 25, 2006 the festival and the city of Chicago agreed to keep Lollapalooza in Chicago until 2011.
• 2007: Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, Muse, Daft Punk, Silverchair, Kings of Leon, Iggy Pop and The Stooges and many, many more.
• August 1-3, 2008: Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine, Wilco, Kanye West, The Raconteurs, Gnarls Barkley, Blues Traveller and more.

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FYI: Stone Temple Pilots

Enjoy the video for “Hello, It’s Late”, which was a gem from their last album, 2001’s Shangri-La-Dee-Da.

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Here’s the video for a new track “Machine Gun”

• Portishead formed in Bristol, England in 1991 after vocalist Beth Gibbons met keyboardist Geoff Barrow at job-retaining program.
• Barrow already had experience in the studio, he was a tape operator for Massive Attack, produced a track for Tricky and remixed tracks for Paul Weller, Primal Scream and Depeche Mode.
• The band is rounded out by jazz guitarist Adrian Utley and sound engineer Dave McDonald.
• The band’s name comes from the shipping town where Barrow grew up.
• Portishead records a 3 song demo, which includes “Sour Times”, “It’s a Fire” and “It Could Be Sweat”, which lands them a contract with the label Go! Discs.
• Barrow and Gibbons write, perform and provide the soundtrack for their short espionage film To Kill a Dead Man.
• Portishead release the EP Numb
• The band’s debut album, Dummy, is released in October of 1994.
• Dummy goes on to win the Mercury Music Prize for Album of the Year.
• “Sour Times” samples some of the “Mission Impossible” theme.
• “Glory Box” samples the Issac Hayes track “Ike’s Rap II” and was featured in the flicks Stealing Beauty and Lord of War. 
• The two-disc Glory Times is released in 1995; disc one is 5 remixes of “Sour Times, disc two is “Glory Box”.
• The track “Mourning Air” appears on the 1995  The Help Album, (which was a charity album to help children in Bosnia and Herzegovina) and also features Radiohead, Oasis, Blur, The Stone Roses and the supergroup The Smokin’ Mojo Filters (Paul McCartney, Paul Weller, Noel Gallagher, etc).
• Portishead is released on September 30, 1997.
• The track “All Mine” is later covered by Tom Jones.
• Roseland NYC Live is released in 1998, where the band was backed by the New York Philharmonic orchestra.
• In 2002 the band releases the DVD for Roseland NYC Live and it also features the videos for “Numb”, “Sour Times”, “All Mine”, “Over”, “Only You” and the short films Roadtrip, To Kill a Dead Man.
• The band reunites in Feburary of 2005 to perform at a Tsunami benefit show with Massive Attack.
• Portishead performs at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in December 2007.
• The band announce that their album will be entitled Third and will be released on April 28.

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FYI: Smashing Pumpkins

For now check out enjoy old school Pumpkins with the video for “Rhinoceros”, which is still one of my favorite Pumpkin songs:

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FYI: The Black Crowes

Here’s the video for the band’s first single off of Warpaint, “Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution”.

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• Nick Hexum, Chad Sexton and Tim Mahoney went to high school school together and in 1988 they formed Unity, with a keyboardist named Ward Bones.
• After a unsuccessful stint in L.A., the band moved back to Omaha and teamed up with P-Nut.
• Their first show was opening up for Fugazi on June 10, 1990.
• In 1991 guitarist Jim Watson with SA Martinez.
• The band’s name comes from Omaha code 311 (indecent exposure).
• From 1990-1991 the band released 3 records on their own label, What Have You Records, the albums were: Dammit, Hydroponic, Unity.
• 311 signs with Capricorn Records in 1992.
• February 1993 the band’s major label debut Music is released.
• While on the road, the band’s touring RV caught on fire and destroyed their equipment, but thanks to donations by fans, the band only missed one gig.
• July 1994, their second album, Grassroots, is released and the band starts gaining a loyal fan-base.
• July 1995, 311is released and has reached 3X platinum status.
• 311 made their network TV debut on Late Night with Conan O’ Brien in August of 1993.
• “Down” hits the number one spot on Billboard’s Modern Rock Chart.
• The band released a long form video, Enlarged to Show Detail, which contained live performances, interviews, videos, etc.
• The video was also packaged with a 5 track EP.
• Transistor is released on August 5, 1997.
• In September 1998 311 releases the Omaha Session EP, which contains 9 tracks from their first 3 independent albums.
• November 1998 311 Live is released.
• October 12, 1999 Soundsystem is released.
• In 2000 the band buys their own studio in North Hollywood and have named it “The Hive”.
• Also in 2ooo, the band begins their annual 3-11 Day.
• 2001 From Chaos is released.
• July 22, 2003 Evolver is released.
• Their 2003 tour included opening acts such as The Roots, O.A.R., Something Corporate, G. Love and Special Sauce and more.
• 311 contributes a cover of The Cure classic “Love Song” for the Adam Sandler flick Fifty First Dates.
• On 3-11-04 in New Orleans the band performs an amazing 5 hour set, that included 68 songs! This was captured on the DVD 3-11 Day Live in New Orleans.
• June 8, 2004 the band’s greatest hits package is released and featured 2 new tracks, “How Do You Feel” and “First Straw”.
• August 16, 2005 the band’s 8th studio album, Don’t Tread On Me, is released.
• In the summer of 2007 the “Summer Unity Tour” teamed 311 up with several reggae artists.
• 3-11-08 the band will return to New Orleans for 3-11 Day.

For more facts and news on 311, check out their official site.

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FYI: R.E.M.

For now, enjoy this performance of “Man on the Moon” from their induction into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame from last year. As if this song couldn’t get any cooler, the band was joined by one Eddie Vedder. Sweet.

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• Evan Dando and Ben Deily formed the band in 1986 while in high school in Boston and the band was briefly known as The Whelps.
• Laughing All The Way To The Cleaners was the band’s first recording in 1986.
• Tanng! Records released three album by The Lemonheads: Hate Your Friends, Creator, Lick.
• The band signed to Atlantic Records and released Lovely in 1990.
• After the failure of Lovely, Dando went to Australia and wrote some songs that would eventually become the album It’s A Shame About Ray.
• It’s a Shame About Ray was released on June 2, 1992 and would make the Billboard 200 Album Charts at 68.
• The album featured a cover of “Mrs. Robinson”, which was released as a single (the band wasn’t happy this); it was also used to promote the video release of The Graduate and was also used in Wayne’s World 2.
• The album title and the track of the same name was taken from an Australian newspaper heading “It’s A Shame About Ray”, which was about the misfortune of a child named Ray.
• The Lemonheads released Come on Feel the Lemonheadson October 12, 1993; before this release the band was known as Lemonheads.
• “Into Your Arms” reached the number one spot on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks.
• After some drug battles, Dando reformed The Lemonheads 1996 album Car Button Cloth.
• Also in 1996 the band contributed their version of “My Hero, Zero” for the Schoolhouse Rock! tribute album Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks.
• After touring in 1997, the band went on hiatus from 1998 to 2004.
• Atlantic Records released The Best of The Lemonheads in 1998.
• Dando reformed The Lemonheads in 2005 and on September 14, 15 the band performed It’s A Shame About Rayin it’s entirety, minus “Mrs. Robinson”, in London.
• The band signed to Vagrant Records in April of 2006 and released a self-titled album on September 25.
• The Lemonheadsfeatured Garth Hudson from The Band on keyboards and J Mascis from Dinosaur Jr. on guitar.
• The band is currently in the studio working on their ninth album.
• Evan Dando is the only original member left in the band, the current line-up is something like this: Evan Dando, Karl Alvarez, Vess Ruhtenberg, Bill Stevenson and Devon Ashley.
• Former members include: Ben Deily, Corely Loog Brennan, John Strohm, Doug Trachten, Jesse Peretz, Juliana Hatfield, Nic Dalton, Dave Ryan and Patrick Murphy.

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