Timeline of punk rock

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

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

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
  • Devo

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

1974

• Newly formed bands
  • Blondie
  • Cock Sparrer
  • The Dictators
  • Rocket From The Tombs
  • Ramones
  • The Stranglers
  • Talking Heads
  • Radio Birdman
  • The 101ers (Joe Strummer's first band)

• Albums
  • New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon

• Disbandments
  • The Stooges

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

1975

• Newly formed bands
  • The Adicts
  • The Boomtown Rats
  • The Heartbreakers
  • London SS
  • Pere Ubu
  • Dead Boys
  • The Sex Pistols
  • The Undertones

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

• Disbandments
  • Electric Eels
  • 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
  • Alternative TV
  • The art attacks
  • The Buzzcocks
  • The Clash
  • The Cramps
  • The Damned
  • DMZ
  • Eater
  • The Fall
  • The Flowers of Romance
  • Generation X
  • The Jam
  • London
  • Masters of the Backside
  • Metal Urbain
  • Penetration
  • Rezillos
  • Richard Hell and the Voidoids
  • Sham 69
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • The Slits
  • Subway Sect
  • UK Subs
  • The Vibrators
  • Wire
  • X-Ray Spex

• Albums
  • Blondie - Blondie
  • Ramones - Ramones
  • Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers (recorded 1971, released 1976)
  • Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia

• Events
  • Ramones make their first non-US appearance supporting the Flamin' Groovies 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 Bill 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
  • Angelic Upstarts
  • Big in Japan
  • Black Flag
  • Crass
  • Desperate Bicycles
  • The Forgotten Rebels
  • The Germs
  • Ebba Grön
  • Nina Hagen Band
  • The Nipple Erectors
  • The Members
  • Mr. Unique and the Leisure Suits
  • The Skids
  • 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
  • The 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 - (I'm) Stranded
  • Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
  • The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
  • The Stranglers - No More Heroes
  • The Stranglers - The Stranglers (EP)
  • Suicide - Suicide
  • 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.
  • 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, artist Jamie Reid, 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
  • Charged GBH
  • Dead Kennedys
  • Descendents
  • D.O.A.
  • Fatal Microbes
  • Hüsker Dü
  • Middle Class
  • Nervous Gender
  • Optics
  • Peter and the Test Tube Babies
  • The Plasmatics
  • Public Image Ltd (PiL)
  • The Scientists (Coming out of "The Invaders")
  • 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)
  • Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown(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
  • Wayne County and the Electric Chairs - Wayne County and the Electric Chairs
  • The Dickies - The Incredible Shrinking Dickies
  • Crass - The Feeding of the Five Thousand
  • Dead Boys - We Have Come For Your Children
  • Desperate Bicycles - New Cross New Cross (EP)
  • Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
  • Dictators - Bloodbrothers
  • Eater - Get Your Yo Yos Out (EP)
  • Generation X - Generation X
  • Jilted John - True Love Stories
  • The Jolt - The Jolt
  • London - Animal Games
  • The Lurkers - Fulham Fallout
  • Johnny Moped - Cycledelic
  • No New York
  • 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
  • The Saints - Eternally Yours
  • 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
  • The Stranglers- "Black and White"
  • 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
  • The Vibrators - "Pure Mania"
  • 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 12, 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
  • Cockney Rejects
  • The Exploited
  • MDC
  • Big Boys
  • The Rebels
  • The Replacements
  • The Teen Idles
  • TSOL
  • Slime
  • Social Distortion

• Albums
  • The Adverts - Cast of Thousands
  • Blondie - Eat to the Beat
  • Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
  • Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
  • 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
  • Descendents - Ride the Wild/It's a Hectic World
  • Devo - Duty Now For the Future
  • The Dickies - Dawn of the Dickies
  • The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials
  • Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows (EP)
  • 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)
  • The Ruts - The Crack
  • 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
  • UK Subs - Another Kind of Blues
  • The Undertones - The

Undertones

• • The Vibrators - "V2"
  • 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.
  • Nina Hagen creates a media uproar after appearing on Austrian talk-show Club 2 discussing female orgasm and simulating masturbation.

1980

• Newly formed bands
  • The Adolescents
  • Bad Religion
  • Circle Jerks
  • Ism
  • Minutemen
  • 7 Seconds
  • Terveet Kädet
  • Minor Threat
  • Subhumans (UK band)

• Albums
  • Angry Samoans - Inside My Brain (EP)
  • Anti-Pasti - Four Sore Points (EP)
  • Black Flag - Jealous Again (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
  • Minutemen - Paranoid Time
  • Nina Hagen Band - Unbehagen
  • The Nipple Erectors - Only the End of the Beginning
  • Nervous Gender - Live at Target
  • 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
  • The Germs

• 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 Ruts lead singer Malcom Owen dies of a heroin overdose on July 14, 1980 at the age of 26.
  • 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
  • Crimpshrine (under previous name, "S.A.G.")
  • RIOT 111

• 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)
  • Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust Inc. (EP)
  • 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)
  • Métal Urbain - Les hommes morts sont dangereux
  • Minutemen - The Punch Line
  • Plasmatics - Beyond the Valley of 1984
  • Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
  • The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash
  • The Scientists - S/T
  • 7 Seconds - Socially Fucked Up (tape)
  • 7 Seconds - 3 Chord Politics (tape)
  • Slime - Slime I
  • Splodgenessabounds - Splodgenessabounds
  • 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
  • Epitaph Records is formed as "just a logo and a P. O. box."
  • Henry Rollins becomes lead singer of Black Flag.

1982

• Newly formed bands
  • Agnostic Front
  • Crucifucks
  • D.I.
  • Suicidal Tendencies
  • The Vandals

• Albums
  • Angry Samoans - Back from Samoa
  • 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
  • Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
  • 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)
  • Sonic Youth -Sonic Youth
  • 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
  • NOFX
  • Samhain
  • Dead Milkmen
  • Threatening Gesture
• 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
  • Minutemen - What Makes a Man Start Fires?
  • Minutemen - ""Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat"
  • Newtown Neurotics - Beggars Can Be Choosers
  • Peter and the Test Tube Babies - The Mating Sounds Of South American Frogs
  • The Ramones - Subterranean Jungle
  • The Scientists - Blood Red River
  • Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster
  • Subhumans - Time Flies ... but Aeroplanes Crash
  • Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
  • Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
  • X (U.S. 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
  • Sick of it All
  • The Offspring
  • Vennaskond

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Victim in Pain
  • Anti-Pasti - Anti-Pasti
  • Bad Religion - Back to the Known
  • Black Flag - Family Man
  • Black Flag - My War
  • Black Flag - Live In '84
  • Black Flag - Slip It In
  • D.I. - Team Goon
  • 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)
  • Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
  • New Model Army - Vengeance
  • Talking Heads" - Stop Making Sense (live concert film and album, re-released in 1999)
  • The Ramones - Too Tough to Die
  • The Replacements - Let It Be
  • The Scientists - This Heart Doesn't Run On Blood, This Heart Doesn't Run On Love
  • 7 Seconds - The Crew
  • Subhumans - From the Cradle to the Grave

• Disbandments
  • Bad Religion
  • Crass
  • The Members

• Events

1985

• Newly formed bands

• Albums
  • Black Flag - Loose Nut
  • Black Flag - In My Head
  • The Clash - Cut the Crap
  • Crucifucks - The Crucifucks
  • D.I. - Ancient Artifacts
  • D.I. - Horse Bites Dog Cries
  • Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
  • Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in my Back Yard
  • Descendents - I Don't Want to Grow Up
  • Descendents - Bonus Fat
  • Die Toten Hosen - Unter Falscher Flagge
  • The Exploited - Horror Epics
  • The Exploited - Live at the White House
  • Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig
  • Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
  • Lunchmeat/Mission Impossible - split 7"
  • Minutemen - Project Mersh
  • Minutemen - 3-Way Tie (For Last)
  • Peter and the Test Tube Babies - The Loud Blaring Punk Rock Album
  • The Scientists - You Get What You Deserve
  • The Scientists - Atom Bomb Baby
  • The Scientists - Demolition Derby
  • The Scientists - Heading For A Trauma
  • 7 Seconds - Walk Together, Rock Together
  • Subhumans - Worlds Apart
  • X - Ain't Love Grand!

• Disbandments
  • Minutemen

• Events
  • D. Boon of Minutemen dies in a car accident
  • Revolution Summer

1986

• Newly formed bands
  • fIREHOSE
  • Propagandhi
  • Soulside

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Cause for Alarm
  • Bad Brains - I Against I
  • Big Black - Atomizer
  • Dead Kennedys - Bedtime for Democracy
  • Dead Milkmen - Eat Your Paisley
  • 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 Lookouts - One Planet, One People (Lookout! Records' first release)
  • The Ramones - Animal Boy
  • The Scientists - Weird Love
  • 7 Seconds - New Wind
  • Subhumans - EP-LP

• Disbandments
  • Black Flag
  • The Clash

• Events
  • Lookout! Records is established, which will be the future home to artists such as Operation Ivy, Crimpshrine, Rancid and Green Day.

1987

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

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Liberty and Justice for...
  • Crucifucks - Wisconsin
  • Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
  • Dead Milkmen - Bucky Fellini
  • Descendents - ALL
  • 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
  • The Scientists - The Human Jukebox
  • Soulside - Less Deep Inside Keeps
  • Suicidal Tendencies - Join the Army
  • X - See How We Are

• Disbandments
  • Dead Kennedys
  • Hüsker Dü
  • Samhain

• Events
  • Bad Religion reunites
  • Social Distortion reunites
  • Will Shatter of Flipper dies of an overdose

1988

• Newly formed bands
  • Anti-Flag
  • Sweet Children (later to become Green Day)
  • Jawbreaker
  • Pennywise
  • Public Nusiance
  • Samiam
  • Sublime
  • The Un Concern

• Albums
  • Bad Religion - Suffer
  • Big Drill Car - Small Block (EP)
  • D.I. - What Good Is Grief to a God?
  • Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
  • Descendents - Two Things at Once
  • Die Toten Hosen - Ein Kleines Bisschen Horroschau
  • The Exploited - Punk's Alive
  • Flipper - Sex Bomb Baby!
  • Fugazi - Fugazi (EP)
  • NOFX - Liberal Animation
  • Social Distortion - Prison Bound
  • Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
  • Soulside - Trigger
  • X - Live at the Whisky 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
  • Green Day
  • The Groovie Ghoulies
• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Live at CBGB
  • Bad Brains - Quickness
  • Bad Religion - No Control
  • Big Drill Car -- CD Type Thing
  • D.I. - Tragedy Again
  • Descendents - Hallraker
  • The Exploited - Live Lewd Lust
  • Fugazi - Margin Walker (EP)
  • Green Day - 1,000 Hours (EP)
  • NOFX - S&M Airlines
  • The Offspring - The Offspring
  • Operation Ivy - Energy
  • The Ramones - Brain Drain
  • The Scientists - Scientists (Different from 1st Album)
  • Sick of it All - Blood, Sweat and No Tears
  • Soulside - Hot Bodi-gram
  • The Vandals - Peace Thru Vandalism/When in Rome Do as the Vandals

• Disbandments
  • Crimpshrine
  • Operation Ivy
  • Soulside

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

1990

• Newly formed bands
  • Ash
  • The Casualties
  • Bikini Kill
  • Lagwagon

• Albums
  • Bad Religion - Against the Grain
  • Die Toten Hosen - 125 Jahre auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück
  • Fugazi - 13 Songs (compilation of the two EPs)
  • Fugazi - "Repeater
  • Green Day - Sweet Children (EP)
  • Green Day - Slappy (EP)
  • Jawbreaker - Unfun
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Devil's Night Out
  • No Use for a Name - Incognito
  • Peter and the Test Tube Babies - The $Hit Factory
  • Social Distortion - Social Distortion

• Disbandments
  • None recorded

• Events
  • Dead Boys frontman Stiv Bators dies on June 4, 1990 from injuries sustained in an automotive accident.
  • Fat Mike of NOFX starts Fat Wreck Chords.

1991

• Newly formed bands
  • AFI
  • Glue Gun (as Glü Gun)
  • Rancid
  • Unwritten Law
  • The Secretions

• Albums
  • Bad Religion - '80-'85 (collection of old recordings)
  • Big Drill Car - Batch
  • The Casualties - "40oz Casualty EP"
  • Descendents - Somery
  • Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
  • Jawbreaker - Bivouac
  • Green Day - 39/Smooth
  • Green Day - 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours (compilation of the EPs 1000 Hours, 39/Smooth and Slappy)
  • No Use for a Name - Don't Miss the Train
  • NOFX - Ribbed
  • Operation Ivy - Energy (CD reissue)
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Where'd You Go?
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - More Noise and Other Disturbances
  • Pennywise - Pennywise
  • Sublime - Jah Won't Pay the Bills (independent demo tape)
  • The Scientists - Absolute

• 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-182
  • MxPx
  • The Living End (as their original name The Runaway Boys)
  • Reel Big Fish

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - One Voice
  • Bad Religion - Generator
  • Blink-182 - Flyswatter
  • Die Toten Hosen - Learning English, Lesson One
  • Flipper - American Grafishy
  • Green Day - Kerplunk
  • Lagwagon - Duh!
  • NOFX - The Longest Line
  • NOFX - Maximum Rocknroll
  • NOFX - White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
  • Pennywise - A Word from the Wise/Wildcard (compilation of the band's self-released EPs)
  • Ramones - Mondo Bizarro
  • Rancid - I'm Not The Only One EP
  • Sublime - 40 Oz. To Freedom
  • Television - Television
  • The Offspring - Ignition
  • Unwritten Law - Six Song Demo (out of print)
  • Vennaskond - Rockpiraadid

• Disbandments
  • None recorded

• 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
  • Billy Talent
  • Ignite

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Last Warning
  • Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate
  • Blink-182 - Buddha
  • D.I. - Live at a Dive
  • Dead Milkmen - Metaphysical Graffiti
  • Die Toten Hosen - Kauf MICH!
  • Fugazi - In on the Kill Taker
  • Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Ska-Core, the Devil, and More
  • No Use for a Name - Daily Grind
  • Pennywise - Unknown Road
  • Propagandhi - How To Clean Everything
  • Rancid - Rancid (Gun Cover)
  • Unwritten Law - Blurr (7" vinyl)
  • X - Hey Zeus!

• Disbandments

• Events
  • Bad Religion goes to the 4th Annual KROQ Acoustic Christmas.
  • GG Allin dies of an accidental heroin overdose days after being released from prison.

1994

• Albums
  • Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
  • Big Drill Car - No Worse for the Wear (final album)
  • Blink-182 - Cheshire Cat
  • The Bouncing Souls - The Good, The Bad & The Argyle
  • D.I. - State of Shock
  • Glü Gun - Just Glü It
  • Green Day - Dookie (breakthrough)
  • Lagwagon - Trashed
  • Less Than Jake - Losers, Kings, and Things We Don't Understand
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Question the Answers
  • Home Grown - "Smoking is a Cool 7-Inch"
  • MxPx - Pokinatcha
  • Millencolin - Tiny Tunes (re-released under the title Same Old Tunes in 1998)
  • NOFX - Punk in Drublic
  • The Offspring - Smash
  • Rancid - Let's Go!
  • Sublime - Robbin' the Hood
  • Unwritten Law - Blue Room (Re-released in 1995 under the same name)
  • Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)

• Disbandments
  • None recorded

• Events
  • With the release of Green Day's "Dookie," The Offspring's "Smash," Bad Religion's "Stranger Than Fiction," and NOFX's "Punk in Drublic," punk rock goes mainstream, and 1994 becomes one of the biggest years for punk rock artists in terms of album sales.
  • Bad Religion goes to the 5th Annual KROQ Acoustic Christmas.
  • 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.
  • Green Day perform at Woodstock '94

1995

• Newly formed bands
  • Black September
  • Bus Station Loonies
  • Fenix*TX
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
  • The Restarts
  • Good Charlotte

• Albums
  • AFI - Answer That and Stay Fashionable
  • Agnostic Front - Raw Unleashed
  • ALL - Pummel
  • Bad Religion - All Ages
  • Bouncing Souls - Maniacal Laughter
  • Crucifucks - Our Will Be Done
  • Die Toten Hosen - Love, Peace & Money
  • Face to Face - Big Choice
  • Fugazi - "Red Medicine
  • Good Riddance - For God And Country
  • Green Day - Insomniac
  • Jawbreaker - Dear You
  • Ignite - Call On My Brothers
  • Lagwagon - Hoss
  • Less Than Jake - Pezcore
  • Lifetime - Hello Bastards
  • Mike Watt - Ball-Hog or Tugboat?
  • Millencolin - Life on a Plate
  • MxPx - On The Cover
  • MxPx - Teenage Politics
  • NOFX - I Heard They Suck Live!!
  • No Use for a Name - Leche Con Carne
  • Pennywise - About Time
  • Ramones - ¡Adios Amigos!
  • Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
  • Reel Big Fish - Everything Sucks
  • SNFU - The One Voted Most Likely To Succeed
  • Social Distortion - Mainliner: Wreckage From the Past (recorded 1981, released 1995)

• Disbandments
  • Big Drill Car
  • D.I.
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

1996

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

• Albums
  • AFI - Very Proud of Ya
  • Anti-Flag - Die For The Government
  • Ash - 1977
  • Bad Religion - The Gray Race
  • Bouncing Souls - Maniacal Laughter
  • Crucifucks - L.D. Eye
  • Descendents - Everything Sucks
  • Face to Face - face to face
  • Glue Gun - The Scene Is Not for Sale
  • Goldfinger - Goldfinger
  • H2O - H2O
  • Ignite - Past Our Means EP
  • Less Than Jake - Losing Streak
  • Millencolin - Life on a Plate
  • MxPx - Life in General
  • MxPx - Move To Bremerton EP
  • NOFX - Heavy Petting Zoo
  • Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock
  • Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off
  • Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash
  • Sublime - Sublime
  • Unwritten Law - Oz Factor
  • Vennaskond - Mina ja George
  • Weezer - Pinkerton

• Disbandments
  • Ramones

• Events
  • Bass player Jason Thirsk formerly of Pennywise dies of self-inflicted gunshot wounds 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.
  • The Sex Pistols reunite and release their album Filthy Lucre Live.

1997

• Newly formed bands
  • 1208
  • Against Me!
  • Pistol Grip
  • Thought Riot

• Albums
  • 311 - Transistor
  • AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
  • The Ataris - Anywhere but Here
  • Blink-182 - Dude Ranch
  • The Bouncing Souls - Bouncing Souls
  • Green Day - Nimrod
  • Goldfinger - Hang-Ups
  • H2O - Thicker Than Water
  • Lagwagon - Double Plaidinum
  • Less Than Jake - Greased
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Have a Ball
  • Millencolin - For Monkeys
  • NOFX - So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
  • The Offspring - Ixnay On The Hombre
  • No Use for a Name - Making Friends
  • Pennywise - Full Circle
  • Reel Big Fish - Keep Your Receipt EP
  • Save Ferris - It Means Everything

• Disbandments
  • Glue Gun

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

1998

• Newly formed bands
  • The Distillers

• Albums
  • Agnostic Front - Something's Gotta Give
  • Alkaline Trio - Goddamnit
  • Bad Religion - No Substance
  • The Bouncing Souls - Tie One On
  • Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights
  • Dropkick Murphys - Do Or Die
  • Fugazi - "End Hits"
  • Lagwagon - Let's Talk About Feelings
  • Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview
  • 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
  • Propagandhi - Where Quantity Is Job #1
  • Rancid - Life Won't Wait
  • Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
  • Social Distortion - Live at the Roxy
  • Unwritten Law - Unwritten Law
  • Zebrahead - Waste of Mind

• Disbandments
  • Refused

• Events
  • Former Plasmatics singer Wendy O. Williams commits suicide on April 6th, 1998 at the age of 49.

1999

• Newly formed bands
  • Rise Against
  • Transplants

• Albums
  • 7 Seconds - Good to Go
  • AFI - All Hallow's EP
  • AFI - 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
  • The Bouncing Souls - Hopeless Romantic
  • Bowling for Soup - Rock On Honorable Ones!!!
  • Bus Station Loonies - Mad Frank's Zonal Disco
  • Catch 22 - Washed Up!
  • Choking Victim - No Gods, No Managers
  • 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
  • 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
  • Less Than Jake - Pesto
  • Long Beach Dub Allstars - Right Back
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Are a Drag
  • No Use for a Name - More Betterness!
  • MxPx - At the Show
  • Mike Ness - Cheating at Solitaire
  • Mike Ness - Under the Influences
  • New Found Glory - Nothing Gold Can Stay
  • NOFX - The Decline
  • No Use for a Name - More Betterness!
  • Pennywise - Straight Ahead
  • Rx Bandits - Halfway Between Here and There
  • 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
  • Thrice - First Impressions (EP)
  • Thursday - Waiting
  • Tilt - Viewers Like You
  • The Unseen - So This Is Freedom
  • Yellowcard - Where We Stand

• Disbandments
  • Choking Victim

• 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
  • The (International) Noise Conspiracy - Survival Sickness
  • Against Me! - Against Me! E.P.
  • AFI - The Art of Drowning
  • Alkaline Trio - The Alkaline Trio
  • Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire
  • ALL - Problematic
  • The Ataris - Let It Burn
  • 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
  • Dropkick Murphys - Singles Collection
  • Dynamite Hack - Superfast
  • Face to Face - Reactionary
  • Green Day - Warning
  • Goldfinger - Stomping Groung
  • Ignite - Place Called Home
  • Lagwagon - Let's Talk About Leftovers
  • Less Than Jake - Borders and Boundaries
  • The Living End - Roll On
  • Midtown - Save The World,Lose The Girl
  • 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
  • NOFX - Bottles to the Ground
  • NOFX - Pump Up the Valuum
  • The Offspring - Conspiracy Of One
  • Pennywise - Live At The Key Club
  • Rancid - Rancid (Skull Cover)
  • Shutdown - Few and Far Between
  • Thrice - Identity Crisis
  • Thursday - Waiting
  • Vürst Trubetsky & J. M. K. E. - Rotipüüdja

• Disbandments
  • Save Ferris

• Events
  • Social Distortion guitarist Dennis Danell dies of brain aneurysm at the age of 38. Social Distortion was resurrected months later with new guitarist Jonny Wickersham.

2001

• Newly formed bands

• Albums
  • 311 - From Chaos
  • Against Me! - Crime As Forgiven By E.P.
  • Agnostic Front - Dead Yuppies
  • Alkaline Trio - From Here to Infirmary
  • ALL/Descendents - Live Plus One
  • Anti-Flag - Their System Doesn't Work For You
  • 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
  • Finch - Falling Into Place E.P.
  • The Fleshies - Kill the Dreamer's Dream
  • Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards - Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
  • From Autumn To Ashes - Too Bad You're Beautiful
  • Fugazi - "The Argument
  • Green Day - International Superhits
  • Good Riddance - Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit
  • Guttermouth - Covered With Ants
  • H2O - Go
  • Ignite - Still Screaming For Change
  • The (International) Noise Conspiracy - A New Morning, Changing Weather
  • Leftöver Crack - Mediocre Generica
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Blow in the Wind
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Turn Japanese (EP)
  • Millencolin - The Melancholy Collection
  • Millencolin - No Cigar
  • MxPx - The Renaissance
  • Nerf Herder - My E.P.
  • No Use for a Name - Live in a Dive
  • Pennywise - Land of the Free?
  • Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
  • Rise Against - The Unraveling
  • Rx Bandits - Progress
  • Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
  • Sex Pistols - "No Future U.K?"
  • Starting Line - With Hopes Of Starting Over E.P.
  • Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Global a Go-Go
  • Taking Back Sunday - Taking Back Sunday EP
  • Thursday - Full Collapse
  • 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

• Disbandments
  • At the Drive-In

• Events
  • After seven years on major label Atlantic Records, Bad Religion returns to their former indie label Epitaph Records and their original guitarist Brett Gurewitz rejoins the band. Also during 2001, longtime drummer Bobby Schayer leaves Bad Religion and is replaced by former Suicidal Tendencies drummer Brooks Wackerman.
  • The UK's Bus Station Loonies create a new world record, playing 25 separate concerts in 12 hours. The event raises funds to buy equipment for music therapy at a special school.
  • Jism, frontman of Ism, is sentenced to 5-10 years in a New York State Prison.
  • Ramones frontman Joey Ramone dies on April 15th at 49 of lymphoma.
  • Green Day and Blink-182 team up to play in the Pop Disater tour.

2002

• Newly formed bands
  • Plan of Attack

• Albums
  • 1208 - Feedback is Payback
  • Against Me! - The Disco Before the Breakdown E.P.
  • Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
  • Agnostic Front - Working Class Heroes
  • Anti-Flag - Mobilize
  • Authority Zero - Passage In Time
  • Bad Religion - The Process of Belief'
  • Bouncing Souls - Bad, The Worse, And The Out-Of-Print
  • D.I. - Caseyology
  • The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
  • The Exit - New Beat
  • Face to Face - How to Ruin Everything
  • Green Day - Shenanigans
  • Guttermouth - Gusto!
  • Home Grown - Kings of Pop
  • Less Than Jake - Goodbye Blue & White
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Jackknife To A Swan
  • Millencolin - Home from Home
  • MxPx - Ten Years and Running
  • Nerf Herder - American Cheese
  • NOFX - 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records
  • No Use for a Name - Hard Rock Bottom
  • Protest The Hero - A Calculated Use of Sound
  • Joey Ramone - Don't Worry About Me
  • Roger Miret and the Disasters - Roger Miret and the Disasters
  • Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
  • Thought Riot - Shattered Mirror Syndrome
  • Thrice - The Illusion of Safety
  • The Transplants - The Transplants
  • Unwritten Law - Elva

• Disbandments
  • Fenix*TX
  • The Naked Mannequins
• Events
  • D.I. reunites.
  • The Clash vocalist/guitarist Joe Strummer dies on December 22nd at the age of 50 of a heart attack.
  • Ramones bassist Dee Dee Ramone dies on June 5th at 49 from heroin toxicity.
  • 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

• Newly formed bands
  • The Network
• Albums
  • AFI - Sing the Sorrow
  • Against Me! - As the Eternal Cowboy
  • Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
  • Anti-Flag - The Terror State
  • The Ataris - So Long, Astoria
  • Billy Talent - Billy Talent
  • Blink-182 - Blink-182
  • Bouncing Souls - Anchors Aweigh
  • Brand New - Deja Entendu
  • Buzzcocks - Buzzcocks
  • Catch 22 - Dinosaur Sounds
  • D.I. - Best of D.I.
  • Death By Stereo - Into the Valley of the Death
  • Dropkick Murphys - Blackout
  • The Distillers - Coral Fang
  • The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic
  • From Autumn To Ashes - The Fiction We Live
  • Lagwagon - Blaze
  • Less Than Jake - Anthem
  • The Living End - Modern ARTillery
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Take a Break
  • MxPx - Before Everything & After
  • The Network - Money Money 2020
  • NOFX - Regaining Unconsciousness
  • NOFX - The War on Errorism
  • The Offspring - Splinter
  • Pennywise - From the Ashes
  • Rancid - Indestructible
  • Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute
  • Rx Bandits - Resignation
  • Starting Line - Make Yourself at Home E.P.
  • Story of the Year - Page Avenue
  • Joe Strummer - Streetcore
  • Thought Riot - Sketches of Undying Will
  • Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
  • Thursday - War All The Time
  • The Undertones - Get What You Need
  • The Unseen - Explode
  • Unwritten Law - Music in High Places (Live in Yellowstone National Park)
  • Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue

• 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
  • Romanes
  • Starving Millionaires
  • Towers of London
• Albums
  • 1208 - Turn of the Screw
  • Alkaline Trio - BYO Split Series Vol. V
  • Authority Zero - Andiamó
  • Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
  • Bowling for Soup - Hangover You Don't Deserve
  • The Briefs - Sex Objects
  • Descendents - Cool To Be You
  • Descendents - 'Merican
  • Dropkick Murphys - Tessie E.P.
  • Error - Error
  • Green Day - American Idiot
  • Guttermouth - Eat Your Face
  • The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
  • The Exit - Home for an Island
  • Hazen Street - Hazen Street
  • Jello Biafra with The Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can't See
  • Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards - Viking
  • Leftöver Crack - Fuck World Trade
  • Less Than Jake - B Is for B-sides
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah
  • Midtown - Forget What You Know
  • Pepper - In With the Old
  • Simple Plan - Still Not Getting Any...
  • 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
  • Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want To Be
  • A Wilhelm Scream - Mute Print

• Disbandments
  • The Movielife
  • Mass Destruction
• 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

• Albums
  • Against Me! - Searching for a Former Clarity
  • Alkaline Trio - Crimson
  • American Hi-Fi - Hearts on Parade
  • The Aquabats - Charge!!
  • The Ataris - Welcome the Night
  • Dropkick Murphys - The Warrior's Code
  • Epoxies - Stop The Future
  • From Autumn To Ashes - Abandon Your Friends
  • Green Day - Bullet in a Bible (CD+DVD)
  • Goldfinger - Disconnection Notice
  • Jello Biafra with The Melvins - Sieg Howdy
  • Lagwagon - Live in a Dive (Lagwagon album)
  • Lagwagon - Resolve
  • Millencolin - Kingwood
  • MxPx - Panic
  • No Use for a Name - Keep Them Confused
  • Pennywise - The Fuse
  • Propagandhi - Potemkin City Limits
  • Roger Miret and the Disasters - 1984
  • The Transplants - Haunted Cities
  • The Unseen - State of Discontent
  • Thrice - Vheissu
  • Unwritten Law - Here's to the Mourning
  • A Wilhelm Scream - Ruiner

• Disbandments
  • Blink 182
  • Tsunami Bomb
  • Wizo
  • Million Dead
  • Mclusky

• Events
  • The Vandals former lead singer Stevo (Steve Jensen) passes away on August 20, 2005 at the age of 46.

2006

• New Bands
  • Eventual Mayhem formed, later changed to John Smith and the Generics
• Albums
  • A Global Threat - Where the Sun Never Sets
  • Anti-Flag - For Blood And Empire
  • Bigwig - Reclamation (album)
  • Bomb The Music Industry - Goodbye Cool World
  • Bouncing Souls - The Gold Record
  • Bracket - Requiem
  • Catch 22 - Permanent Revolution
  • Fucked Up - Hidden World
  • Ignite - Our Darkest Days
  • Less Than Jake - In With the Out Crowd
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Love Their Country
  • New Found Glory - Coming Home
  • New Mexican Disaster Squad - Don't Believe
  • NOFX - Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
  • Plain White T's - Every Second Counts
  • Randy - Randy the Band
  • Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness
  • Sick of It All - Death to Tyrants
  • Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
  • Strike Anywhere - Dead FM
• Disbandments
  • Mest
  • The Suicide Machines
  • Sleater-Kinney
  • Boysetsfire
• Events
  • Glue Gun reunites and their singer Bob Oedy is now the remaining original member of the band.
  • Gorilla Biscuits reunite for a couple shows after a 15 year hiatus.
  • CBGB's closes its doors on October 31.

2007

• Newly formed Bands
  • The Skuds (HR)
  • The CIA
• Albums
  • Against Me! - New Wave
  • A Wilhelm Scream - Career Suicide
  • American Steel - Destroy Their Future
  • Tim Armstrong - A Poet's Life
  • Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell
  • Bad Brains - Build a Nation
  • Crime In Stereo - Crime In Stereo Is Dead
  • D.I. - On the Western Front
  • Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest of Times
  • The Flatliners - The Great Awake
  • From Autumn To Ashes - Holding A Wolf By The Ears
  • Groovie Ghoulies - 99 Lives
  • Lifetime - Lifetime
  • Mad Caddies - Keep It Going
  • MxPx - Secret Weapon
  • Only Crime - Virulence
  • Reel Big Fish - Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free
  • The Queers - Munki Brain
  • Strung Out - Blackhawks Over Los Angeles
  • The Stooges - The Weirdness
  • Thrice - The Alchemy Index: Vols. I & II - Fire & Water (October 16^th)
  • The Unseen - Internal Salvation
  • Yellowcard - Paper Walls

• Disbandments
  • Cheap Sex
  • The Explosion
  • Good Riddance
  • Groovie Ghoulies
  • Matchbook Romance
  • Much the Same
  • Vennaskond

• Events
  • Matchbook Romance goes on a long-term hiatus.
  • On January 18, original Social Distortion bassist Brent Liles, who played on their first album Mommy's Little Monster, died after being hit by a semi truck while riding a dirt bike in Placentia, California. He was 43 years old.
  • On February 10, Alan "Nidge" Miller from Blitz was struck by a car and died the morning after a concert in Austin, Texas.
  • On October 11, frontman Dicky Barrett announces that The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have reformed and will perform together for the first time in four years at a 10th official Hometown Throwdown at Cambridge's famed Middle East club on December 26th-30th.