Belle and Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow in January 1996.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

Originally active from 1985 to 1996, the band have had consistent commercial and critical success in Australia and New Zealand and international chart success in two phases, beginning with their self-titled debut album, Crowded House, which reached number twelve on the US Album Chart in 1987 and provided the Top Ten hits, " Don't Dream It's Over " and " Something So Strong ".

Worried that their goodbye had been too low-key and had disregarded their home fans, the band performed the Farewell to the World concert on the steps of the Sydney Opera House on 24 November 1996, which raised funds for the Sydney Children's Hospital.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

The band performed on part of the 1996 Lollapalooza tour in the rotating Mystery Spot, with a setlist largely composed of material from their heyday between 1978 and 1982.

Monkees activity ceased until 1996 when Jones reunited with Dolenz, Tork, and Michael Nesmith to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band.

The 1996 Canadian film Hard Core Logo, about a punk band was done in the style of a documentary.

* 1996 – Officer of the Order of Canada, along with band mates Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart

In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played their final show and then disbanded.

* 1996 – A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.

Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.

Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries.

Though limited in resources, the band began recording and producing songs within Shinoda ’ s makeshift bedroom studio in 1996, resulting in a 4-track demo tape.

The band broke up twice, in 1996 and 2002, but reunited again in 2006.

In the 1996 Furthur Festival, Mickey Hart's Mystery Box played, as did Bob Weir's band Ratdog.

Secret Theatre 1994 compiled rare tracks and demos, while Orange and Blue 1996 contained previously unreleased material including a flower-power cover of Kurt Cobain's song " Lithium " originally recorded by Cobain's grunge band of the same name, Nirvana.

Throughout 1995, 1996 and 1997, the band made worldwide tours to support their first two albums.

In 1996, the band performed a live concert at Mount Rushmore on Presidents Day.

In October 1996, in support of Test For Echo, the band embarked on a North American tour, the band's first without an opening act and dubbed " An Evening with Rush ".

The tour was broken up into two segments spanning October through December 1996 and May through July 1997 with the band taking a respite between tour legs.

The three band members were made Officers of the Order of Canada in 1996.

* 1996: The German power metal band Grave Digger included a song called " The Bruce " on their album Tunes of War, a concept album about the Scottish struggles for independence from England.

The band was signed within a year to Warner Bros subsidiary Slash Records, and released three albums: Ruby Vroom ( 1994 ), Irresistible Bliss ( 1996 ), and El Oso ( 1998 ).

The first South Asian a cappella group was Penn Masala, founded in 1996 at the University of Pennsylvania.

A combination of these two styles gave birth to de Spookrijders, a three-man hip-hop group founded in 1996.

In 1996 Borland acquired Open Environment Corp ( OEC ), a Cambridge based company founded by John J. Donovan.

JAMfest, the original brand of The JAM Brands, has been around since 1996 and was founded by Aaron Flaker and Emmitt Tyler.

The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, founded by Milton and Rose Friedman in 1996, is a non-profit organization that promotes universal school vouchers and other forms of school choice.

Le Courrier, founded in 1868, was originally supported by the Roman Catholic Church, but has been independent since 1996.

Léman Bleu is a local TV channel, founded in 1996 and distributed by cable.

Powers ' son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., founded a museum of Cold War history in 1996.

In 1996, as a result of a three-year research project led by Lindsay B. Yeates, the Australian Hypnotherapists ' Association ( founded in 1949 ), the oldest hypnotism-oriented professional organization in Australia, instituted a peer-group accreditation system for full-time Australian professional hypnotherapists, the first of its kind in the world.

KDE was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich, who was then a student at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

Spacey played an egomaniacal district attorney in A Time to Kill ( 1996 ), and founded Trigger Street Productions in 1997, with the purpose of producing and developing entertainment across various media.

KIAS was founded in 1996, aiming to become a world's leading research institute where international elite scholars gather and dedicate to fundamental research in basic sciences.

* University of Medical Sciences and Technology, better known as UMST, it was founded in 1996 by Prof. Mamoun Humaida as Academy of Medical Science & Technology.

In 1996 Friedman, together with his wife, founded the The Foundation for Educational Choice to advocate school choice and vouchers.

Milken and his brother Lowell founded Knowledge Universe in 1996, as well as Knowledge Learning Corporation ( KLC ), the parent company of KinderCare Learning Centers, the largest for-profit child care provider in the country.

The government agency " Contradrogas ", founded in 1996, facilitates coordination among Peruvian Government agencies working on counter-narcotics issues.

After the government dropped its case without indictment in early 1996, Zimmermann founded PGP Inc. and released an updated version of PGP and some additional related products.

Youth Speaks, a non-profit literary organization founded in 1996 by James Kass, patterned the slam competitions at the annual Brave New Voices festival after that seminal Taos event.

Youth Speaks, a non-profit literary organization founded in 1996 by James Kass, serves as one of the largest youth poetry organizations in America, offering opportunities for youth ages 13 – 19 to express their ideas on paper and stage.

A political arm founded in 1996 as Solidarity Electoral Action ( AWS

As of March 2007 he has been the CEO and Chief Software Engineer of Construx Software, a software engineering consulting firm he founded in 1996.

Romania's largest think tank is the Romanian Academic Society ( SAR ), which was founded in 1996.

* Museum Of New Art ( MONA )- founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1996 this contemporary art museum is generally acknowledged to be the pioneer of the concept of the pop-up museum.

About. com was originally founded in 1996 as The Mining Company.