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This is a timeline of punk rock, from its beginnings in the early 1960s to the present time.

Contents 1 1964 2 1965 3 1967 4 1968 5 1969 6 1970 7 1971 8 1972 9 1973 10 1974 11 1975 12 1976 13 1977 14 1978 15 1979 16 1980 17 1981 18 1982 19 1983 20 1984 21 1985 22 1986 23 1987 24 1988 25 1989 26 1990 27 1991 28 1992 29 1993 30 1994 31 1995 32 1996 33 1997 34 1998 35 1999 36 2000 37 2001 38 2002 39 2003 40 2004 41 2005 42 2006 43 See also

1964

• Newly formed bands
  • Motor City Five (MC5)

1965

• Newly formed bands
  • Velvet Underground**

1967

• Newly formed bands
  • The Stooges

• Albums
  • The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico

1968

• Albums
  • The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat

• Events
  • MC5 plays at Democratic National Convention in Chicago

1969

• Newly formed bands

• Albums
  • MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
    The Stooges - The Stooges
    The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

1970

• Newly formed bands

• Albums
  • MC5 - Back in the USA
    The Stooges - Fun House

1971

• Newly formed bands
  • New York Dolls
    Suicide

• Albums
  • MC5 - High Time

• Events
  • Writer Dave Marsh uses the word "punk-rock" to describe the music of ? and the Mysterians

1972

• Newly formed bands
  • Electric Eels
    The Saints
    The Strand (later became the Sex Pistols)

• Albums

• Disbandments
  • MC5

• Events
  • Original New York Dolls drummer Billy Murcia dies of alcohol poisoning while the band is touring London and is replaced with Jerry Nolan.

1973

• Newly formed bands
  • Television

• Albums
  • New York Dolls - New York Dolls
    The Stooges - Raw Power
    Neon Boys - Neon Boys 7"

1974

• Newly formed bands
  • Blondie
    The Dictators
    Rocket From The Tombs
    The Ramones
    The Stranglers
    Talking Heads
    Radio Birdman

• Albums
  • New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon

• Disbandments
  • The Stooges

• Events
  • Television start performing at the CBGB club in New York's Greenwich Village

1975

• Newly formed bands
  • The Adicts
    The Boomtown Rats
    The Heartbreakers
    Pere Ubu
    The Sex Pistols
    The Undertones

• Albums
  • Dictators - Go Girl Crazy!
    Patti Smith - Horses

• Disbandments
  • New York Dolls
    Rocket From The Tombs

• Events
  • Television records a demo tape for Island Records with Brian Eno, but the label decides not to sign the band. Richard Hell leaves the band after recording the tape to form The Heartbreakers with former New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders.
    The Sex Pistols play their first gig at St. Martin's College in November, opening for Bazooka Joe - whose lead singer Stuart Goddard soon changes his name to Adam Ant and forms his own punk band Adam and the Ants.

1976

• Newly formed bands
  • The Adverts
    The art attacks
    The Buzzcocks
    The Clash
    The Cramps
    The Damned
    Eater
    Dead Boys
    The Flowers of Romance
    Generation X
    The Jam
    London
    Masters of the Backside
    Metal Urbain
    Penetration
    Siouxsie and the Banshees
    The Slits
    Subway Sect
    Wire
    X-Ray Spex

• Albums
  • Blondie - Blondie
    The Ramones - The Ramones
    Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers (recorded 1971, released 1976)
    Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia
    The Saints - (I'm) Stranded

• Events
  • The Ramones make their first non-US appearance at the Roundhouse, London, July 4, often pointed to as a galvanizing event for the UK punk scene.
    Malcolm McLaren organizes a two day punk festival on Sunday, September 20th and Monday, September 21st at the 100 Club on Oxford Street in London. The Sunday performers were: Subway Sect, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, and the Sex Pistols. The Monday line-up consisted of the Stinky Toys, Chris Spedding and the Vibrators, The Damned, and the Buzzcocks.
    Sniffin' Glue, Mark Perry's punk fanzine is first published, shortly after The Ramones' Roundhouse appearance. Perry would soon form the band Alternative TV.
    The Damned, The Saints and the Sex Pistols release their first singles: "New Rose", "(I'm) Stranded" and "Anarchy in the U.K." respectively.
    The Sex Pistols, The Damned, and The Clash begin the Anarchy Tour in November. Most of the previously booked gigs refuse to let the bands play however.
    On December 1st, the Sex Pistols and several members of the Bromley Contingent (including Siouxsie and the Banshees singer Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steve Severin) appear live on ITV to be interviewed by television host William Grundy. The band unleashes a torrent of curse words. The following day the Daily Mirror runs the now infamous headline - "THE FILTH AND THE FURY!".

1977

• Newly formed bands
  • The Misfits
    Alternative TV
    Angelic Upstarts
    Big in Japan
    Black Flag
    Crass
    Desperate Bicycles
    The Fall
    Ebba Grön
    Nina Hagen Band
    The Nipple Erectors
    The Members
    Rezillos
    Stiff Little Fingers
    Warsaw (later to become Joy Division)
    X (Australia)
    X (United States)

• Albums
  • Blondie - Plastic Letters
    The Boomtown Rats - The Boomtown Rats
    The Boys - The Boys
    Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch (EP)
    The Clash - The Clash UK release
    The Damned - Damned, Damned, Damned
    The Damned - Music for Pleasure
    Dead Boys - Young, Loud and Snotty
    Dictators - Manifest Destiny
    The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
    Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
    The Jam - In the City
    The Jam - This is the Modern World
    The Ramones - Leave Home
    The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
    Iggy Pop - The Idiot
    Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
    Radiators From Space - TV Tube Heart
    The Saints - Eternally Yours
    Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
    The Stranglers - Black and White
    The Stranglers - The Stranglers (EP)
    Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
    Television - Marquee Moon
    Throbbing Gristle - The Second Annual Report
    Warsaw Pakt - Needle Time!
    Wire - Pink Flag

• Disbandments
  • The Heartbreakers
    London

• Events
  • The Roxy club opens on January 1st, 1977 in London by club owner Andrew Czezowski. The opening night the Clash play. The club is solely a venue for punk acts. The club closes in April.
    Sex Pistols bassist is Glen Matlock is fired from the Sex Pistols and is replaced with Sid Vicious. Matlock forms The Rich Kids.
    The Stranglers embark on a three month nationwide tour in May. They are supported by the four piece band London.
    The Sex Pistols' single God Save the Queen is released on May 27, 1977 and reaches number #2 on the British charts. It is banned by the BBC's Radio 1 and the title is left blank in the chart listings.
    In June, the Sex Pistols rent a boat to take them down the Thames during Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee anniversary celebration. The police force the boat to dock and several Pistols fans are arrested and injured in the meleé. Among those arrested are Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, Vivienne Westwood, and Bromley Contingent members Tracie O'Keefe and Debbie Juvenile.
    The Roxy club deejay Don Letts begins filming The Punk Rock Movie, taking video footage of the London punk scene and editing it into a documentary.
    On October 28th the Sex Pistols' album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols is released by Virgin Records and despite being banned by most of Britain's record shops, reaches #1 on the British charts.

1978

• Newly formed bands
  • The Angry Samoans
    The B-52's
    Bad Brains
    Dead Kennedys
    D.O.A.
    The Descendents
    Hüsker Dü
    Optics
    Peter and the Test Tube Babies
    The Plasmatics
    Public Image Ltd (PiL)
    Vice Squad

• Albums
  • Adam and the Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox
    The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts
    Alternative TV - The Image Has Cracked
    Alternative TV - Vibing Up the Senile Man
    The Avengers - Avengers (EP)
    Big in Japan - From Y to Z and Never Again (EP)
    Blondie - Parallel Lines
    The B-52's - The B-52's
    The Boomtown Rats - A Tonic For The Troops
    Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
    Cherry Vanilla - Bad Girl
    The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
    The Cortinas - True Romances
    The Dictators - Bloodbrothers
    Wayne County and the Electric Chairs - Wayne County and the Electric Chairs
    Crass - The Feeding of the Five Thousand
    Dead Boys - We Have Come For Your Children
    Desperate Bicycles - New Cross New Cross (EP)
    Dictators - Bloodbrothers
    Eater - Get Your Yo Yos Out (EP)
    Generation X - Generation X
    The Jolt - The Jolt
    London - Animal Games
    The Lurkers - Fulham Fallout
    Johnny Moped - Cycledelic
    Penetration - Moving Targets
    Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
    Public Image Ltd - Public Image
    The Ramones - Road to Ruin
    The Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos
    The Rich Kids - Ghosts Of Princes In Towers
    Sham 69 - Tell Us the Truth
    Sham 69 - That's Life
    Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream
    Slaughter and the Dogs - Do It Dog Style
    Talking Heads - More Songs about Buildings and Food
    Television - Adventure
    Television Personalities - Where's Bill Grundy Now? (EP)
    Throbbing Gristle - D.o.A. The Third And Final Report
    Wire - Chairs Missing
    Wreckless Eric - Wreckess Eric
    Wreckless Eric - The Wonderful World of Wreckless Eric
    X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents

• Disbandments
  • Dead Boys
    Sex Pistols
    Television

• Events
  • SST Records is formed when Black Flag guitarist/founder Greg Ginn needs an outlet to release his band's music.
    The Sex Pistols' disastrous US tour ends on January 14 after Johnny Rotten walks off stage at their Winterland concert in San Francisco, famously uttering "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
    Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious is charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen who was found dead on the morning of October 12th, 1978 at New York's Chelsea Hotel.
    Rough Trade Records, a music store opened in 1976 in London begins working as a record label and signs almost exclusively punk inspired bands.
    Film director Derek Jarman releases the cult punk-themed film Jubilee, featuring Adam Ant, Toyah Willcox, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Malcolm McLaren protegé and early punk fashionista, Jordan.
    Blondie finally achieve worldwide success with their third album, Parallel lines, mixing together the style of 60's vocal pop and garage and the energy of new punk rock movement. Debbie Harry becomes a new icon for the younger generations.

1979

• Newly formed bands
  • Cheese
    Cockney Rejects
    MDC
    The Big Boys
    The Rebels
    The Replacements
    The Teen Idles
    TSOL
    Social Distortion

• Albums
  • The Adverts - Cast of Thousands
    Blondie - Eat to the Beat
    Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
    Chelsea - Chelsea
    Cherry Vanilla - Venus D Vinyl
    The Clash - London Calling
    Wayne County and the Electric Chairs - Storm the Gates of Heaven
    Wayne County and the Electric Chairs - Things Your Mother Never Told You
    Crass - Stations of the Crass
    The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
    The Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies
    The Dickies - Dawn of the Dickies
    The Germs - (GI)
    The Members - At The Chelsea Nightclub
    Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
    Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band
    The Outcasts - Self Conscious Over You
    Public Image Ltd - Metal Box
    The Ramones - It's Alive (live album)
    Sham 69 - The Adventures of Hersham Boys
    Siouxsie and the Banshees - Join Hands
    The Slits - Cut
    Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
    Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville
    Talking Heads - Fear of Music
    The Undertones - The Undertones
    The Weirdos - Who? What? When? Where? Why? (EP)
    Wire - 154
    Wreckless Eric - The Whole Wide World

• Disbandments
  • The Adverts
    Penetration
    X-Ray Spex

• Events
  • Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose at the age of 21.

1980

• Newly formed bands
  • The Adolescents
    Bad Religion
    Circle Jerks
    Ism
    The Minutemen
    7 Seconds
    Terveet Kädet

• Albums
  • Angry Samoans - Inside My Brain (EP)
    Anti-Pasti - Four Sore Points (EP)
    Blondie - Autoamerican
    Circle Jerks - Group Sex
    The Clash - Sandinista! (triple album)
    The Damned - The Black Album
    Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
    Discharge - Realities of War (EP)
    Discharge - Fight Back (EP)
    Discharge - Decontrol (EP)
    Jayne County - Rock & Roll Resurrection-Live!
    Joy Division - Closer
    Nina Hagen Band - Unbehagen
    The Nipple Erectors - Only the End of the Beginning
    The Nuns - The Nuns
    Peter and the Test Tube Babies - Pissed & Proud
    Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wretched
    The Ramones - End Of The Century
    Snatch - Snatch (EP)
    Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Heroes
    Talking Heads - Remain in Light
    The Teen Idles - Minor Disturbance (EP)
    Toyah - Sheep Farming In Barnet
    The Undertones - Hypnotised
    Vice Squad - Last Rockers (EP)
    The Weirdos - Action Design {EP}
    X - Los Angeles

• Disbandments
  • Joy Division
    The Teen Idles

• Events
  • Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis commits suicide on May 18, 1980 at the age of 23. The rest of the band go on to become New Order
    The Germs lead singer Darby Crash commits suicide on December 7, 1980 at the age of 22.
    KROQ establishes the Top 106.7 Countdowns. The Clash and Dead Kennedys both reached on it on the same year.
    Documentary film-maker Penelope Spheeris captures the Los Angeles punk scene in the cult hit The Decline of Western Civilization. The documentary features interviews performances by Southern California punk bands Alice Bag Band, Black Flag, Catholic Discipline, Circle Jerks, Fear, The Germs, and X.
    The semi-documentary Rude Boy is released. The film stars Ray Gange as a roadie for the Clash and splices in live performances by the band.

1981

• Newly formed bands
  • JFA

• Albums
  • The Adolescents - The Adolescents
    Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
    Anti-Pasti - The Last Call ...
    Bad Religion - Bad Religion (EP)
    Black Flag - Damaged
    Crass - Penis Envy (EP)
    Dead Boys - Night Of The Living Dead Boys (Live)
    The Descendents - Fat (EP)
    Dictators - Fuck 'Em If They Can't Take a Joke
    Discharge - Never Again (EP)
    The Exploited - Punks Not Dead
    The Exploited - On Stage
    Flux of Pink Indians - Neu Smell (EP)
    The Minutemen - The Punch Line
    Plasmatics - Beyond the Valley of 1984
    Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
    The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
    7 Seconds - Socially Fucked Up (tape)
    7 Seconds - 3 Chord Politics (tape)
    TSOL - T.S.O.L. (EP)
    TSOL - Dance With Me
    The Undertones - Positive Touch
    Vice Squad - Resurrection (EP)
    Vice Squad - No Cause for Concern (EP)
    Vice Squad - Live in Sheffield (Tape)
    X - Wild Gift

• Disbandments
  • The Weirdos
    Throbbing Gristle

• Events
  • Henry Rollins becomes lead singer of Black Flag.

1982

• Newly formed bands
  • Agnostic Front
    Suicidal Tendencies
    The Vandals

• Albums
  • Angry Samoans - Back From Samoa
    The Anti-Nowhere League - Anti-Nowhere League
    Bad Brains - Bad Brains
    Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? (full-length debut)
    Black Flag - Everything Went Black
    Circle Jerks - Wild in the Streets
    The Clash - Combat Rock
    Crass - Christ The Album
    The Damned - Strawberries
    The Descendents - Milo Goes to College
    Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
    The Exploited - Troops of Tomorrow
    Fear - The Record
    Flipper - Generic Flipper
    Flux of Pink Indians - Strive to Survive Causing the Least Suffering Possible
    MDC - Millions of Dead Cops
    The Replacements - Stink (EP)
    Subhumans - The Day the Country Died
    Vice Squad - Stand Strong Stand Proud
    X - Under the Big Black Sun

• Disbandments

• Events
  • 18 December- Members of Crass, The Mob, The Apostles and others squat the Zig Zag Club in west London and put on a free all day event featuring a number of anarcho-punk bands.

1983

• Newly formed bands
  • Samhain
    Dead Milkmen
• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - United Blood
    Anti-Pasti - Caution in the Wind
    Bad Brains - Rock for Light
    Bad Religion - Into the Unknown
    Circle Jerks - Golden Shower of Hits
    Crass - Yes Sir, I Will
    Die Toten Hosen - Opel-Gang
    The Exploited - Let's Start a War ... Said Maggie One Day
    Ism - A Diet For The Worms
    MDC - Multi-Death Corporations
    Minor Threat - Out of Step
    The Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires?
    Newtown Neurotics - Beggars Can Be Choosers
    Peter and the Test Tube Babies - The Mating Sounds Of South American Frogs
    The Ramones - Subterranean Jungle
    Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster
    Subhumans - Time Flies ... but Aeroplanes Crash
    Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
    Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
    X (US band) - More Fun in the New World

• Disbandments
  • The Jam
    Minor Threat
    The Misfits
    The Undertones

• Events
  • Mick Jones is kicked out of The Clash

1984

• Newly formed bands
  • NOFX
    Sick of it All
    Vennaskond

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Victim in Pain
    Anti-Pasti - Anti-Pasti
    Bad Religion - Back to the Known
    Black Flag - Slip It In
    Flipper - Blow'n Chunks
    Flipper - Gone Fishin'
    Flux of Pink Indians - The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks
    Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
    MDC - Chicken Squawk (EP)
    The Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
    New Model Army - Vengeance
    Talking Heads" - Stop Making Sense (live concert film and album, rereleased in 1999)
    The Ramones - Too Tough to Die
    The Replacements - Let It Be
    7 Seconds - The Crew
    Subhumans - From the Cradle to the Grave

• Disbandments
  • Bad Religion
    Crass
    The Members

• Events

1985

• Newly formed bands
  • The Offspring

• Albums
  • Black Flag - Loose Nut
    Black Flag - In My Head
    The Clash - Cut The Crap
    The Descendents - I Don't Want to Grow Up
    Die Toten Hosen - Unter Falscher Flagge
    Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
    Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in my Back Yard
    The Exploited - Horror Epics
    The Exploited - Live at the White House
    Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig
    Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
    Peter and the Test Tube Babies - The Loud Blaring Punk Rock Album
    7 Seconds - Walk Together, Rock Together
    Subhumans - Worlds Apart
    X - Ain't Love Grand!

• Disbandments
  • The Minutemen

• Events
  • D. Boon of The Minutemen dies is a car accident

1986

• Newly formed bands
  • Felis Ultramarinus
    Good Riddance

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Cause for Alarm
    Bad Brains - I Against I
    Big Black - Atomizer
    Dead Kennedys - Bedtime for Democracy
    Dead Milkmen - Eat Your Paisley
    The Descendents - Enjoy!
    Die Toten Hosen - Damenwahl
    Discharge - Grave New World
    The Exploited - Totally Exploited
    The Exploited - Jesus Is Dead (EP)
    Gang Green - Drunk and Disorderly, Boston MA (EP)
    Gang Green - Another Wasted Night
    Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey
    The Ramones - Animal Boy
    7 Seconds - New Wind
    Subhumans - EP-LP

• Disbandments
  • Black Flag
    The Clash

• Events

1987

• Newly formed bands
  • Big Drill Car
    Bouncing Souls
    Fugazi
    Public Nuisance
    No Use for a Name
    Rollins Band
    Screeching Weasel
    Operation Ivy

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Liberty And Justice For...
    Bad Religion - Suffer
    Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini
    The Descendents - All
    The Descendents - Liveage!
    Die Toten Hosen - Never Mind the Hosen, Here's die Roten Rosen
    Die Toten Hosen - Bis Zurn Bitteren Ende
    The Exploited - Live and Loud!!
    The Exploited - Death Before Dishonour
    Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories
    MDC - This Blood's for You
    Oi Polloi - Unite and Win
    The Ramones - Halfway to Sanity
    Subhumans - 29-29 Split Vision
    Suicidal Tendencies - Join the Army
    X - See How We Are

• Disbandments
  • Dead Kennedys
    Hüsker Dü
    Samhain

• Events
  • Bad Religion reunites
    Social Distortion reunites
  • Drunk Punks are born

1988

• Newly formed bands
  • Anti-Flag
    Jawbreaker
    Pennywise
    Public Nusiance
    Samiam
    Sublime
    The Un Concern

• Albums
  • Bad Religion - Suffer
    Big Drill Car - Small Block (EP)
    Die Toten Hosen - Ein Kleines Bisschen Horroschau
    The Exploited - Punk's Alive
    Flipper - Sex Bomb Baby!
    Fugazi - Fugazi (EP)
    Sex Pistols - Anarchy World Wide
    Social Distortion - Prison Bound
    X - Live at the Whiskey a Go-Go

• Disbandments
  • Big Black

• Events
  • Bad Religion's album "Suffer" was released on the restarted Epitaph records, and is credited by some as "saving" the American hardcore scene, inspiring the second wave of American hardcore.

1989

• Newly formed bands
  • Sweet Children (later became Green Day)

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Live at CBGB
    Bad Brains - Quickness
    Bad Religion - No Control
    Big Drill Car -- CD Type Thing
    The Exploited - Live Lewd Lust
    Fugazi - Margin Walker (EP)
    NOFX - S&M Airlines
    The Offspring - The Offspring
    Operation Ivy - Energy
    The Ramones - Brain Drain
    Sick of it All - Blood, Sweat and No Tears
    The Vandals - Peace Thru Vandalism/When in Rome Do as the Vandals

• Disbandments
  • Operation Ivy

• Events
  • Social Distortion leaves Time Bomb Recordings and signs to Epic Records.

1990

• Newly formed bands
  • Ash
    The Casualties
    Bikini Kill
    Lagwagon
    Presidents of the United States of America

• Albums
  • Bad Religion - Against the Grain
    Dead Milkmen - Metaphysical Graffiti
    Die Toten Hosen - 125 Jahre auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück
    Fugazi - 13 Songs (compilation of the two EPs)
    Fugazi - "Repeater
    Green Day - 1,000 Hours (EP)
    Green Day - 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (compilation of early material)
    Green Day - 39/Smooth (EP)
    Green Day - Slappy (EP)
    Green Day - Sweet Children (EP)
    Jawbreaker - Unfun
    Pennywise - Wildcard/A Word From the Wise (compilation of the two EPs)
    Peter and the Test Tube Babies - The $Hit Factory
    Social Distortion - Social Distortion

• Disbandments

• Events
  • Dead Boys frontman Stiv Bators dies on June 4, 1990 from injuries sustained in an automotive accident.

1991

• Newly formed bands
  • AFI (A Fire Inside)
    Glue Gun (as Glü Gun)
    Rancid
    Unwritten Law

• Albums
  • Bad Religion - '80-'85 (collection of old recordings)
    Big Drill Car - Batch
    The Casualties - "40oz Casualty EP"
    Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
    Jawbreaker - Bivouac
    NOFX - Ribbed
    Operation Ivy - Energy (CD reissue)
    Pennywise - Pennywise
    Sublime - Jah Won't Pay the Bills (independent demo tape)

• Disbandments
  • Talking Heads

• Events
  • Punk pioneer Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers dies on April 23, 1991 at the age of 38 of a methadone and alcohol overdose.
    Television reunites to record a new album for Capitol Records.
    In the late summer 1990 Tre Cool becomes drummer for Green Day as their old drummer Al Sobrante leaves the band to focus on college

1992

• Newly formed bands
  • Blink (Later became blink-182)
    MxPx
    The Living End (as their original name The Runaway Boys)
    Weezer

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - One Voice
    Bad Religion - Generator
    blink-182 - Flyswatter (self-produced demo release)
    Die Toten Hosen - Learning English, Lesson One
    Flipper - American Grafishy
    Green Day - Kerplunk!
    Lagwagon - Duh!
    The Ramones - Mondo Bizarro
    Sublime - 40 Oz. to Freedom
    Television - Television
    Vennaskond - Rockpiraadid

• Disbandments

• Events
  • Former New York Dolls drummer Jerry Nolan dies January 14th, 1992 from a stroke while undergoing treatment for meningitis and pneumonia.

1993

• Newly formed bands
  • Millencolin
    U.S. Bombs
    The Unseen

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Last Warning
    Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate
    Blink-182 - Buddha (self-produced demo release)
    Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
    Die Toten Hosen - Kauf MICH!
    Fugazi - In on the Kill Taker
    Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
    The Offspring - Ignition
    Pennywise - Unknown Road
    Rancid - Rancid (Gun Cover)
    X - Hey Zeus!

• Disbandments

• Events
  • Bad Religion goes to the 4th Annual KROQ Acoustic Christmas.
    Green Day leaves Lookout! Records and sings to their recent label Reprise Records before recording their next album Dookie (see 1994).

1994

• Newly formed bands
  • The Ataris

• Albums
  • Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
    Big Drill Car - No Worse for the Wear (final album)
    Blink-182 - Cheshire Cat
    Glü Gun - Just Glü It
    Green Day - Dookie (breakthrough)
    Lagwagon - Trashed
    NOFX - Punk in Drublic
    The Offspring - Smash (breakthrough)
    Rancid - Let's Go!
    Weezer - Weezer (breakthrough)

• Disbandments

• Events
  • Bad Religion goes to the 5th Annual KROQ Acoustic Christmas.
    Green Day and The Offspring goes to the 2nd Annual KROQ Weenie Roast.
    During the Stranger Than Fiction tour, Brett Gurewitz left Bad Religion just to concentrate on the fast growing Epitaph Records. Former Minor Threat/Dag Nasty guitarist Brian Baker is his replacement.
    Glü Gun changes their name to Glue Gun after releasing their first album.

1995

• Newly formed bands
  • Black September
    Fenix*TX
    The Restarts

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Raw Unleashed
    ALL - Pummel
    Bouncing Souls - Maniacal Laughter
    Die Toten Hosen - Love, Peace & Money
    Face to Face - Big Choice
    Fugazi - "Red Medicine
    Green Day - Insomniac
    Jawbreaker - Dear You
    Lagwagon - Hoss
    Lifetime - Hello Bastards
    Millencolin - Life on a Plate
    MxPx - Teenage Politics
    Pennywise - About Time
    Presidents of the United States of America - Presidents of the United States of America
    The Ramones - ¡Adios Amigos!
    Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
    SNFU - The One Voted Most Likely To Succeed
    Social Distortion - Mainliner: Wreckage From the Past (recorded 1981, released 1995)
    Mike Watt - Ball-Hog or Tugboat?

• Disbandments
  • Big Drill Car
    Siouxsie and the Banshees

• Events
  • The Offspring releases a cover of "Smash It Up", which was originally recorded by the Damned. The song appeared on the soundtrack of Batman Forever

1996

• Newly formed bands
  • Story of the Year (as their original name Big Blue Monkey)
    Sum 41
    Dropkick Murphys

• Albums
  • Ash - 1977
    Bad Religion - The Gray Race
    Face to Face - Face to Face
    Glue Gun - The Scene Is Not for Sale
    MxPx - Life in General
    NOFX - Heavy Petting Zoo
    Presidents of the United States of America - II
    Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off
    Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash
    Sublime - Sublime
    Vennaskond - Mina ja George
    Weezer - Pinkerton

• Disbandments
  • Sublime
    The Ramones

• Events
  • Frontman Bradley Nowell of Sublime dies of an overdose at the age of 28 on May 25th in just 2 weeks after his marriage and birth of his first child Jakob.
    Green Day takes the year off after 2 years of hard work. But, they wrote some new songs for their next album Nimrod, which was released in the year after.
    The Offspring leaves Epitaph Records and signs to their latest label Columbia Records.
    Bass player Jason Thirsk formerly of Pennywise dies of accidental overdose at the age of 28 on July 29th. But the group did not break up after all and recent bass player Randy Bradbury continued for him.

1997

• Newly formed bands
  • 1208
    Long Beach Dub Allstars
    Good Charlotte

• Albums
  • blink-182 - Dude Ranch (Breakthrough)
    Bouncing Souls - Bouncing Souls
    Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights
    Green Day - Nimrod
    Lagwagon - Double Plaidinum
    Millencolin - For Monkeys
    NOFX - So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
    The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It
    The Offspring - Ixnay on the Hombre
    Pennywise - Full Circle
    Save Ferris - It Means Everything

• Disbandments
  • Glue Gun

• Events
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Offspring, Reel Big Fish and Social Distortion all went to the 5th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast.

1998

• Newly formed bands
  • The Distillers
    Sugarcult

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Something's Gotta Give
    Alkaline Trio - Goddamnit
    At the Drive-In - In/Casino/Out
    Bad Religion - No Substance
    Fugazi - "End Hits"
    Lagwagon - Let's Talk About Feelings
    The Living End - The Living End
    Mad Caddies - Duck And Cover
    Millencolin - Same Old Tunes (recorded 1994, released 1998)
    MxPx - Let It Happen
    MxPx - Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo
    The Offspring - Americana
    Presidents of the United States of America - Pure Frosting
    Rancid - Life Won't Wait
    Reel Big Fish - Why Do They Rock So Hard?
    Social Distortion - Live at the Roxy
    Unwritten Law - Unwritten Law
    Zebrahead - Waste of Mind
    Dropkick Murphys - Do Or Die

• Disbandments

• Events
  • Former Plasmatics singer Wendy O. Williams commits suicide on April 6th, 1998 at the age of 49.
    Blink 182 drummer Scott Raynor is replaced by Travis Barker. The band later re-released the demo album Buddha for the first time on CD.

1999

• Newly formed bands
  • The Exit
    Protest The Hero
    Simple Plan
    The Transplants

• Albums
  • 59 Times the Pain - End of the Millennium
    7 Seconds - Good to Go
    A.F.I. - Black Sails in the Sunset
    Agnostic Front - Riot! Riot! Upstart
    Anti-Flag - A New Kind of Army
    At the Drive-In - Vaya
    The Ataris - Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits
    blink-182 - Enema of the State
    Bouncing Souls - Hopless Romantic
    Consumed - Hit for Six
    Death By Stereo - If Looks Could Kill I'd Watch You Die
    Down By Law - Fly the Flag
    Dropkick Murphys - The Gang's All Here
    F-Minus - F-Minus
    Face to Face - Ignorance is Bliss
    Fenix*TX - Fenix*TX
    The Get Up Kids - Something to Write Home About
    Good Riddance - Operation Phoenix
    Guttermouth - Gorgeous
    H2O - F.T.T.W. (Finally Taste The Water)
    Hi-Standard - Making the Road
    The (International) Noise Conspiracy - The First Conspiracy
    Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
    Less Than Jake - Pesto
    Long Beach Dub Allstars - Right Back
    Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Are a Drag
    MxPx - At the Show
    Mike Ness - Cheating at Solitaire
    Mike Ness - Under the Influences
    New Found Glory - New Found Glory
    No Use for a Name - More Betterness!
    Pennywise - Straight Ahead
    Save Ferris - Modified
    Saves the Day - Through Being Cool
    Joe Strummer - Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
    Ten Foot Pole - Insider
    Tiger Army - Tiger Army
    Tilt - Viewers Like You
    The Unseen - So This Is Freedom
    Yellowcard - Where We Stand

• Disbandments

• Events
  • Bad Religion's founding guitarist Brett Gurewitz and vocalist Greg Graffin get back together in the studio to record the song "Believe It" for their new record The New America. This is the first time the songwriting team had collaborated since 1995.
    The Undertones reunite with Paul McLoone replacing Feargal Sharkey, who refuses to participate.
    Original TSOL drummer Todd Barnes dies on December 6, 1999 of an aneuryism at the age of 34.

2000

• Newly formed bands
  • Roger Miret and the Disasters

• Albums
  • 98 Mute - Slow Motion Riot
    The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Survival Sickness
    A.F.I. - The Art of Drowning
    Alkaline Trio - The Alkaline Trio
    Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire
    ALL - Problematic
    At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
    Avail - One Wrench
    Bad Religion - The New America
    Blink-182 - The Mark, Tom, And Travis Show: The Enema Strikes Back
    Bowling for Soup - Let's Do It for Johnny!
    Catch 22 - Alone in a Crowd
    The Distillers - The Distillers
    Dynamite Hack - Superfast
    Face to Face - Reactionary
    Green Day - Warning:
    Less Than Jake - Borders and Boundaries
    The Living End - Roll On
    Mest - Wasting Time
    The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pay Attention
    Millencolin - Pennybridge Pioneers
    Mr. T Experience - Miracle of Shame
    MxPx - The Ever Passing Moment
    Nerf Herder - How to Meet Girls
    New Found Glory - New Found Glory
    NOFX - Pump Up the Valuum
    No Doubt - Return of Saturn
    The Offspring - Conspiracy of One
    Presidents of the United States of America - Freaked Out and Small
    Rancid - Rancid (Skull Cover)
    Shutdown - Few and Far Between
    Sum 41 - Half Hour of Power
    Thursday - Waiting
    Vürst Trubetsky & J. M. K. E. - Rotipüüdja

• Disbandments
  • Save Ferris
    Social Distortion

• Events
  • Social Distortion guitarist Dennis Danell dies of brain aneurysm at the age of 38. Social Distortion was resurrected in months later with new guitarist Johnny Wickersham.
    The Offspring goes to the 8th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast.
    Weezer reunites (without previous bassist Matt Sharp).

2001

• Newly formed bands
  • The Creeps

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Dead Yuppies
    Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
    Anti-Flag - Underground Network
    The Ataris - End Is Forever
    Blink-182 - Take off Your Pants and Jacket
    Bouncing Souls - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
    The Business - No Mercy For You
    The Damned - Grave Disorder
    Death By Stereo - Day of the Death
    Dropkick Murphys - Sing Loud Sing Proud
    F-Minus - Suburban Blight
    Face to Face - Standards & Practices
    Face to Face - We Love Gas
    Fenix*TX - Lechuza
    The Fleshies - Kill the Dreamer's Dream
    Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards - Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards)
    Fugazi - "The Argument
    Good Riddance - Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit
    Guttermouth - Covered With Ants
    The (International) Noise Conspiracy - A New Morning, Changing Weather
    Leftover Crack - Mediocre Generica
    MxPx - The Renaissance
    Nerf Herder - My E.P.
    Pennywise - Land of the Free
    Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
    Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros - Global a Go-Go
    Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
    Tiger Army - II: Power of Moonlite
    Tilt - Been Where? Did What?
    The Unseen - The Anger & The Truth
    Useless ID - Bad Story Happy Ending
    Vendetta Red - White Knuckled Substance
    Vennaskond - News from Nowhere
    Weezer - Weezer
    The Creeps - The Creeps

• Disbandments
  • At the Drive-In

• Events
  • After years on major label Atlantic Records, Bad Religion returns to their former indie label Epitaph Records. The same year longtime drummer Bobby Schayer leaves the band and is replaced by former Suicidal Tendencies drummer Brooks Wackerman.
    Jism, frontman of Ism, is sentenced to 5-10 years in a New York State Prison.
    The Ramones' frontman Joey Ramone dies on April 15th at 49 of lymphoma.

2002

• Newly formed bands
  • Boxcar Racer
    Plan of Attack

• Albums
  • 1208 - Feedback is Payback
    Agnostic Front - Working Class Heroes
    Bad Religion - The Process of Belief
    The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
    The Exit - New Beat
    Face to Face - How to Ruin Everything
    Goldfinger - Open Your Eyes
    Green Day - Shenanigans
    Guttermouth - Gusto!
    Home Grown - Kings of Pop
    Millencolin - Home from Home
    Roger Miret and the Disasters - Roger Miret and the Disasters
    Nerf Herder - American Cheese
    Protest The Hero - A Calculated Use of Sound
    Joey Ramone - Don't Worry About Me
    Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?
    The Transplants - The Transplants
    Unwritten Law - Elva
    Weezer - Maladroit
    Box Car Racer - box car racer

• Disbandments
  • Fenix*TX

• Events
  • Bad Religion, Jimmy Eat World and New Found Glory goes to the 10th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast.
    The Clash vocalist/guitarist Joe Strummer dies on December 22nd at the age of 50 of a heart attack.
    The Ramones' bassist Dee Dee Ramone dies on June 5th at 49 of heroin.
    The Ramones and the Talking Heads become the first punk bands to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

2003

• Albums
  • Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
    Bouncing Souls - Anchors Aweigh
    Brand New - Deja Entendu
    Buzzcocks - Buzzcocks
    Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
    Death By Stereo - Into the Valley of the Death
    The Distillers - Coral Fang
    The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
    Lagwagon - Blaze
    Less Than Jake - Anthem
    Liam Lynch - Fake Songs
    The Living End - MODERN ARTillery
    NOFX - The War on Errorism
    The Offspring - Splinter
    Pennywise - From the Ashes
    Rancid - Indestructible
    Story of the Year - Page Avenue
    Joe Strummer - Streetcore
    Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
    The Undertones - Get What You Need
    The Unseen - Explode

• Disbandments
  • Face to Face
    Box Car Racer

• Events
  • Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz forms an industrial/electronic side band called Error.
    The Clash are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.
    Social Distortion reunites
    Adam Cox, Matt Fitzgerald, and Jeremy Gage of The Exploding Hearts are killed in a highway crash.

2004

• Newly formed bands
  • Starving Millionaires

• Albums
  • 1208 - Turn of the Screw
    Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
    The Briefs - Sex Objects
    Error - Error
    Into the Sun - I wanna Blow Your Man
    The Exit - Home for an Island
    The Flowers of Romance - Sue Catwoman (Note that this refers to a different band than the one formed in 1976.)
    Green Day - "American Idiot".
    Good Charlotte - Chronicles of Life and Death
    Jello Biafra & The Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can't See
    Jimmy Eat World - Futures
    Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards - Viking
    Midtown - Forget What You Know
    My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
    Pepper - In With the Old
    Presidents of the United States of America - Love Everybody
    Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
    SNFU - In The Meantime And In Between Time
    Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll
    Sugarcult - Palm Trees and Power Lines
    Hazen Street - Hazen Street

• Disbandments

• Events
  • Richard Hell And The Voidoids guitarist Robert Quine dies on May 31st at 61.
    The Ramones' former guitarist Johnny Ramone dies on September 15th at 55 from cancer.
    The Nils guitarist Alex Soria dies on December 13th at 39.
    Social Distortion's bassist John Maurer leaves the band after his 20 years of serving and Matt Freeman from Rancid takes place for him.
    Dead Milkmen bassist Dave Schulthise takes his own life on March 10, 2004

2005

• Newly formed bands
  • Angels and Airwaves (new project of blink-182 co-frontman Tom DeLonge)
    Plus-44 (new project of blink-182 co-frontman Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker)
• Albums
  • All American Rejects- "Move Along"
    Alkaline Trio - Crimson
    American Hi-Fi - Hearts on Parade
    The Aquabats - Charge!!
    The Ataris - Welcome the Night
    Dropkick Murphys - The Warrior's Code
    The Epoxies - Stop The Future
    Goldfinger - Disconnection Notice
    Lagwagon - Resolve
    Millencolin - Kingwood
    MxPx - Panic
    No Use For A Name - Keep Them Confused
    Roger Miret and the Disasters - 1984
    Pennywise - The Fuse
    Story of the Year - In the Wake of Determination
    The Transplants - Haunted Cities
    Thrice - Vheissu
    Unwritten Law - Here's to the Mourning
    Weezer - Make Believe

• Disbandments
  • Tsunami Bomb
    Wizo
    Million Dead
    Mclusky

• Events
  • blink-182 goes on indefinite hiatus when all members were involved with their band projects.
    The Vandals former lead singer Stevo (Steve Jensen) passes away on August 20, 2005 at the age of 46.

2006

• Albums
  • NOFX - Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
    Angels and Airwaves - We Don't Need to Whisper
    Yellowcard - Lights and Sounds
    Anti-Flag - For Blood and Empire
    Bracket - Requiem

• Disbandments
  • Mest
    The Transplants

• Events
  • Glue Gun reunites and their singer Bob Oedy is now the remaining member of the band.

See also

• Timeline of alternative rock

Punk rock
Anarcho-punk - Anti-folk - Crust punk - Garage punk - Hardcore - Post-hardcore - Horror punk - New Wave - No Wave - Noise rock - Oi! - Pop punk - Post-punk - Psychobilly - Deathcountry - Riot grrrl - Ska punk - Streetpunk - Two Tone
Other topics
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