HOT GALLERY: From No Doubt to Sugar Ray, See Where These ’90s Hitmakers Are Today!

Oh, Sarah… your music was “better than ice cream” back in the ‘90s. Seriously, we couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing, “Building a Mystery,” “Adia,” “Sweet Surrender” and the ever-haunting “Angel” from her most successful album, Surfacing (1997). Sarah piggy-backed off her success to showcase other amazing female artists when she founded the Lilith Fair tour in 1997. The tour lasted 4 summers and was revived briefly in 2010. She has won three Grammys for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Building a Mystery" and again for the live version of "I Will Remember You." She was also awarded Best Pop Instrumental Performance in for "Last Dance."

The Canadian vocal dynamo has continued to release beautiful music, though she never quite regained the popularity she achieved in the '90s—though selling nearly 40 million albums worldwide ain’t too shabby! Since Surfacing, McLachlan released Afterglow (2003), a Christmas album called Wintersong (2006), and Laws of Illusion (2010). On the personal front, in 1997 the singer married her drummer, Ashwin Sood, and together they had two daughters, India and Taja. The couple has since divorced. Philanthropy plays a large part in her life as well, and for her fine work raising millions of dollars for causes ranging from women's charities, AIDS patients, and inner-city children, Simon Fraser University conferred on Sarah McLachlan the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, on June 13, 2011.

We could not forget these ska favorites and their addictive tunes. The Bosstones formed in 1984 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and spent years playing clubs and barrooms around the Boston area. They found massive commercial success at after developing their signature “Third Wave” ska-punk sound, popularizing the genre in their platinum-selling Let’s Face It and its hit single “The Impression That I Get” in 1997.

The Bosstones had toured endlessly and released seven studio albums by the time they announced their hiatus from music in 2003. They reunited in 2007 to resume touring and to release their eighth studio album, Pin Points and Gin Joints, in December 2009. Their newest album, The Magic of Youth, was released on December 6, 2011. They still tour all over the country and sometimes get a fancy guest musician to play with them—like this awesome version of “The Impression That I Get” featuring the one and only Jimmy Kimmel on saxophone.

Everybody sing! “Nah, nah, nah, nah nah…” Natalie Merchant first gained fame as the lead singer of 10,000 Maniacs but departed in 1993 to launch a solo career. And launch it did! Her first effort, Tigerlily, was released in 1995 and peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard 200 chart and produced megahits “Wonder,” “Carnival,” and “Jealousy.” Us Weekly said, “Possessed of the clearest voice in pop music, Merchant writes subtle songs about longing and loss that make you dance and ache at the same time.” She also joined folk artist powerhouses on the Lilith Fair tour in 1998 and 1999.

Merchant has gone on to release several solo albums, including Ophelia (1998), which Entertainment Weekly praised, saying, “On her new album Ophelia and especially its first single ‘Kind & Generous’ Natalie Merchant manages to make every virtue Bill Bennett ever extolled sexy, even a little subversive.” She also released Motherland (2001), The House Carpenter’s Daughter (2003), and Leave Your Sleep (2010), which reached No. 1 on the Billboard folk albums chart. She married Daniel de la Calle in 2003 and had a daughter with him named Lucia. However, the couple has since divorced. Merchant’s album Leave Your Sleep is being turned into a picture book by the renowned children's book illustrator Barbara McClintock.

The first line that pops into our head when we think of Smash Mouth is “Hey now, you’re a rock star, get your game on, get paid!” This could be Smash Mouth’s motto. They entered the music biz as more of a ska-punk band, but some critics believe they sold out and went mainstream pop-rock. But, hey, they are rock stars, and man did they get paid! The band formed in 1994 in San Jose, California, and have collectively sold over 10 million albums worldwide, due in part to their success on the airwaves but also to millions of kids bopping around to “All Star” and “I’m a Believer” from the Shrek movie franchise.

Since their success with albums Fush Yu Mang (1997), Astro Lounge (1999), and Smash Mouth (2001), Smash Mouth has had a rotating door of band members, but they have a new album due September 4, 2012, called Magic. They continue to tour all over the country, and kids everywhere still rock out to those magical songs in Shrek.

No Doubt was originally formed in Anaheim, California, in 1986 by Eric Stefani (keyboard) and John Spence (vocals). Sadly, Spence committed suicide and the band regrouped with Eric, Tony Kanal as bassist, Gwen as lead vocalist, Tom Dumont on guitar, and Adrian Young on drums. The band signed with Interscope Records in 1990 but things didn’t run smoothly at first. Eric left the band in 1994, and Gwen and Tony’s seven-year relationship ended—which inspired many of their hit songs from Tragic Kingdom (1995). But, that painful breakup translated to music gold! Fans couldn’t get enough of Gwen’s punky-yet-feminine style and wicked lead vocals in hits like “Just a Girl,” “Don’t Speak,” and “Spiderwebs.” The band had a hit on their hands, selling over 16 million copies worldwide and landing at 441 on Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Albums of All Time.” No Doubt went on to release Return of Saturn (2000) and Rock Steady (2002).

No Doubt released The Singles 1992–2003 with the hit cover of “It’s My Life” in 2003 but then decided to take a hiatus from music. Gwen Stefani explored her solo career and Japanese fashionista side (love those Harajuku girls!) when she released Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004 and The Sweet Escape (2006). She also settled down in her personal life after she married Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale in 2002. Together they have two sons, Kingston and Zuma with a third on the way. No Doubt just released the first single, “Settle Down,” from their album Push and Shove, came out on September 25, 2012. They are currently on another hiatus.

To say that Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill was the angry girl’s anthem to the '90s may be an understatement. Blasted on car radios and Discmans (yep, we’re that old) all over the world, “You Oughta Know” became every dumped girl’s theme song. Pill was released in 1995 and shot to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts for 12 weeks, going on to sell 33 million copies worldwide.

Since her insanely successful debut with Jagged Little Pill, the former Canadian pop princess went on to make much more mellow records—in tone and sales. She released Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998), MTV Unplugged (1999), Under Rug Swept (2002), Feast on Scraps (2002), So-Called Chaos (2004), and Flavors of Entanglement (2008). She has also proved to be a very fun and talented actress, playing God in Kevin Smith’s Dogma (why start small?), Justin Kirk’s love interest on Weeds, and most recently as Maya Rudolph's hip-hop bandmate on Up All Night. Hip-hop, we tell you! Though Alanis’s engagement to Ryan Reynolds didn’t work out, she has since moved on and is happily married to Mario “Souleye” Treadway, and together they are busy with attachment-parenting their son Ever.

We can still picture warm summer nights with Sugar Ray’s “Someday” floating through our stereo speakers. But before Mark McGrath and his bandmates found success in the pop world, they were just another alternative metal band from Orange County, California. That all changed when the band signed with Atlantic Records in 1994 and later with the success of their hit single “Fly” off their 1997 album Floored. The album peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 and was certified double platinum. Their success snowballed from there with the release of 14:59  (1999)—which spawned radio staples “Every Morning” and “Someday”—and their self-titled Sugar Ray (2001), which gave us “When It’s Over.”

Sugar Ray was still going strong when lead singer McGrath decided he wanted to try out life as a TV host. He was brought on as a host for the popular entertainment show Extra in September 2004 and left in 2008 to return to music. His latest TV gigs have included hosting Don't Forget the Lyrics in 2010 and a stint on The Celebrity Apprentice (You know, the Gary Busey season?) in March 2011 (he lasted six weeks before hearing “You’re fired!”). McGrath joined Sugar Ray during the Summerland 2012 tour alongside other '90s hitmakers like the Gin Blossoms and Everclear.