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1979

• Newly formed bands
  • Cocteau Twins
    Cocteau Twins
    Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1979 to 1997, known for innovative instrumentation and atmospheric, non-lyrical vocals...
    
    
  • Fastbacks
    Fastbacks
    The Fastbacks were a Seattle punk rock band. Formed in 1979 by songwriter/guitarist Kurt Bloch , and friends Lulu Gargiulo and Kim Warnick , they disbanded in 2001...
    
    
  • Felt
    Felt (band)
    Felt were a 1980s British alternative rock band led by Lawrence, whose surname was never listed in any credits or press; the band's name was inspired by Tom Verlaine's emphasis of the word "felt" in the Television song "Venus"...
    
    
  • Fishbone
    Fishbone
    Fishbone is a U.S. alternative rock band formed in 1979 in Los Angeles, California, which plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, funk, hard rock and soul. Critics have noted of the band: "Fishbone was one of the most distinctive and eclectic alternative rock bands of the late '80s...
    
    
  • Hüsker Dü
    Hüsker Dü
    Hüsker Dü was an American rock band formed in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1979. The band's continual members were guitarist Bob Mould, bassist Greg Norton, and drummer Grant Hart....
    
    
  • The Replacements

• Events

• • Sub Pop
    Sub Pop
    Sub Pop is a record label founded in 1986 by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in Seattle, Washington. Sub Pop achieved fame in the late 1980s for first signing Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and many other bands from the Seattle music scene...
    
     is founded as the fanzine Subterranean Pop in Seattle, Washington
    Seattle, Washington
    Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
    
    .
  • 4AD
    4AD
    4AD is a British independent record label that was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records, and is still active today...
    
     is founded in London, England by Ivo Watts-Russell
    Ivo Watts-Russell
    Ivo Watts-Russell was joint-founder with Peter Kent of the English indie record label 4AD. He has also produced several records, himself preferring to use the term "musical director" to explain his role in the creation....
    
     and Peter Kent.

1980

• Newly formed bands

• • Malfunkshun
    Malfunkshun
    Malfunkshun is a band formed in 1980 by Andrew Wood and his brother Kevin Wood. Malfunkshun, along with Skin Yard, Green River, U-Men, and Melvins are considered the "godfathers" of grunge, with Malfunkshun being the first of those bands to form.-History:...
    
    
  • Meat Puppets
    Meat Puppets
    The Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980, in Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood , his brother Cris Kirkwood , and Derrick Bostrom . The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix...
    
    
  • Minutemen
    Minutemen (band)
    Minutemen were an American hardcore punk band formed in San Pedro, California in 1980. Composed of guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, Minutemen recorded four albums and eight EPs before Boon's death in an automobile accident in December 1985...
    
    
  • Mission of Burma
    Mission of Burma
    Mission of Burma is an American post-punk band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1979. The band was formed by Roger Miller , Clint Conley , Peter Prescott and Martin Swope...
    
    

• • R.E.M.
    R.E.M.
    R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
    
    
  • The Sisters of Mercy
    The Sisters of Mercy
    The Sisters of Mercy are an English rock band that formed in 1980. After achieving early underground fame in UK, the band had their commercial breakthrough in mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded output in protest against their record company...
    
    
  • Violent Femmes
    Violent Femmes
    Violent Femmes were an American alternative rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, initially active between 1980 and 1987 and again from 1988 to 2009...
    
    
  • Modern Eon
    Modern Eon
    Modern Eon was a British post-punk/New Wave band, formed in Liverpool, England in 1978. They released one album on the independent UK label Dindisc in 1981.-History:...
    
    

• Albums

• • The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
    Crazy Rhythms
    Crazy Rhythms is the Feelies' first album. It was released in April 1980 on Stiff Records.The album is known for its dry, clean "upfront" guitar sound and also its long interstitial passages of drones and improvised percussion...
    
    

• Events
  • Dischord Records
    Dischord Records
    Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music scene. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor Disturbance by The Teen Idles...
    
     is founded in Washington D.C. by Ian MacKaye
    Ian MacKaye
    Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk bands Minor Threat and The Teen Idles, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well...
    
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1981

• Newly formed bands
  • 10,000 Maniacs
    10,000 Maniacs
    10,000 Maniacs is a United States-based alternative rock band, which formed in 1981 and continues to be active with various line-ups.-1981–1993:...
    
    
  • Butthole Surfers
    Butthole Surfers
    Butthole Surfers is an American alternative rock band formed by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but its core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drummer King Coffey has been consistent since 1983. Teresa Nervosa served as second...
    
    
  • Dream Syndicate
    Dream Syndicate
    The Dream Syndicate was an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California active from 1981 to 1989. The band was associated with the Paisley Underground music movement.-History:...
    
    
  • James
    James (band)
    James are a British rock band from Manchester, England. They formed in 1982 and were active throughout the 1980s, but most successful during the 1990s. Their hit singles include "Come Home", "Sit Down", and "She's a Star" as well as their American College Radio hit "Laid"...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth
    Sonic Youth
    Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Magazine
    Magazine (band)
    Magazine are an English post-punk group active from 1977 to 1981, then reformed in 2009. Their debut single, "Shot by Both Sides", is now acknowledged as a classic and their debut album, Real Life, is still widely admired as one of the greatest albums of all time...
    
    

1982

• Newly formed bands
  • Beat Happening
    Beat Happening
    Beat Happening is an American punk band formed in Olympia, Washington in 1982. Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford have been the band's continual members...
    
    
  • Big Black
    Big Black
    Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's initial lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun...
    
    
  • Faith No More
    Faith No More
    Faith No More is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed originally as Faith No Man in 1981 by bassist Billy Gould, keyboardist Wade Worthington, vocalist Michael Morris and drummer Mike Bordin. A year later when Worthington was replaced by keyboardist Roddy Bottum, and Mike...
    
    
  • Guadalcanal Diary
    Guadalcanal Diary (band)
    Guadalcanal Diary is an alternative jangle pop group. They originated in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, but they were often billed as being "from Athens, Georgia" in the early 1980s. The band formed in 1981 and disbanded in 1989. They reformed in 1997, but never recorded any new material...
    
    
  • The Pogues
    The Pogues
    The Pogues are a Celtic punk band, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan. The band reached international prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. MacGowan left the band in 1991 due to drinking problems but the band continued first with Joe Strummer and then with Spider Stacy on vocals before...
    
    
  • Scratch Acid
    Scratch Acid
    Scratch Acid was an Austin, Texas noise rock group formed in 1982. When they first began, their lineup was Steve Anderson , David Wm. Sims , Brett Bradford , David Yow , and Rey Washam and Win Vitosky...
    
    
  • The Smiths
    The Smiths
    The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
    
    
  • Spacemen 3
    Spacemen 3
    Spacemen 3 were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce. Their music was "colorfully mind-altering, but not in the sense of the acid rock of the '60s; instead, the band developed its own minimalistic psychedelia"...
    
    
  • Swans
    Swans (band)
    Swans are an influential American post-punk band initially active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s New York No Wave scene and stay intact into the next decade. Formed by Gira in...
    
    
  • They Might Be Giants
    They Might Be Giants
    They Might Be Giants is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years Flansburgh and Linnell were frequently accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG became a full band. Currently, the members of TMBG are...
    
    

• Albums
  • Bauhaus – The Sky's Gone Out
    The Sky's Gone Out
    -Song appearances:*"Ziggy Stardust" was used in The Ongoing History of New Music episode "What's the Big Deal About Bauhaus?", from 1998.-Personnel:*Peter Murphy — vocals, guitar*Daniel Ash — guitar*David J — bass...
    
    
  • Cocteau Twins – Garlands
    Garlands
    For other uses, see Garland Garlands is the 1982 debut album of Cocteau Twins. It is the only album with original bassist Will Heggie.-Track listing:#"Blood Bitch" – 4:34#"Wax and Wane" – 4:04#"But I'm Not" – 2:45...
    
    
  • The Cure – Pornography
    Pornography (album)
    NME reviewer Dave Hill wrote, "This record portrays and parades its currency of exposed futility and naked fear with so few distractions or adornments, and so little sense of shame...
    
    
  • Dream Syndicate – The Days of Wine and Roses
    The Days of Wine and Roses
    The Days of Wine and Roses was the second album and the debut full-length album by American alternative rock band Dream Syndicate. Produced by Chris D. , it was recorded in Los Angeles in September 1982 and released later that year on Chris D.'s Ruby Records, which was a division of Slash Records...
    
    
  • The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
    Hex Enduction Hour
    Hex Enduction Hour is a 1982 album by The Fall. It was the first album to feature both Karl Burns and Paul Hanley in a two-drummer lineup and was partly recorded in Iceland during the group's 1981 visit, with the remainder being completed in a disused cinema in Hitchin, England...
    
    
  • Mission of Burma – Vs.
  • R.E.M. – Chronic Town
    Chronic Town
    Chronic Town is the debut EP by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1982 on I.R.S. Records. Chronic Town is the first illustration of R.E.M.'s signature musical style: jangling guitars, chords played in arpeggio, murmured vocals, and obscure lyrics.-Background and recording:After...
    
    EP
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
    A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
    A Kiss in the Dreamhouse is the fifth studio album by English post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees and was issued by Polydor Records in the UK in 1982. It was reissued, remastered, and expanded in 2009...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Sonic Youth
    Sonic Youth (album)
    Sonic Youth is the debut release by Sonic Youth. It was recorded in 1981 at Radio City Music Hall, New York City and released on Glenn Branca's Neutral label in 1982...
    
    
  • Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
    Violent Femmes (album)
    Violent Femmes is the debut album by Violent Femmes. Mostly recorded in July 1982, the album was released by Slash Records on vinyl and on cassette in April 1983, and on CD in 1987 with two extra tracks "Ugly" and "Gimme the Car"....
    
    

• Events
  • The Haçienda
    The Haçienda
    Fac 51 Haçienda was a nightclub and music venue in Manchester, England. It became most famous during the "Madchester" years of the late 1980s and early 1990s, during the 1990s it was labelled the most famous club in the world by Newsweek magazine...
    
     nightclub opens in Manchester, England.

1983

• Newly formed bands
  • American Music Club
    American Music Club
    American Music Club is a San Francisco-based alternative rock band led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel.-History:Although born in California, Eitzel spent his formative years in Okinawa, Taiwan, Great Britain and Ohio before returning to the Bay Area in 1981...
    
    
  • Camper Van Beethoven
    Camper Van Beethoven
    Camper Van Beethoven is an American alternative rock group formed in Redlands, California in 1983.An eclectic band, Camper Van Beethoven mixes elements of pop, ska, punk rock, folk and alternative country, as well as various types of world music. Their aggressive musical pluralism created a...
    
    
  • The Flaming Lips
    The Flaming Lips
    The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983.Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What...
    
    
  • Green River
    Green River (band)
    Green River was an American rock band from Seattle, Washington that was active from 1984 to 1988. Although the band had little commercial impact outside of its native Seattle, Green River proved to have significant influence on the genre later known as grunge, both with its own music and with the...
    
    
  • The Housemartins
    The Housemartins
    The Housemartins were an English indie pop band that was active in the 1980s. Many of the Housemartins' lyrics were a mixture of Marxist politics and Christianity, reflecting singer Paul Heaton's beliefs at the time .-Formation:The band was formed in late 1983 by Paul Heaton and...
    
    
  • The Lemonheads
    The Lemonheads
    The Lemonheads are an American alternative rock band first formed in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily and Jesse Peretz. Dando has remained the band's only constant member....
    
    
  • My Bloody Valentine
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne in 1983. The band is fronted by Nick Cave and has featured international personnel throughout their career.-Formation and early releases :...
    
    
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...
    
    
  • Soul Asylum
    Soul Asylum
    Soul Asylum is an American alternative rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1983.The band originally formed in 1981 under the name Loud Fast Rules, with the original line-up consisting of Dan Murphy, Dave Pirner, Karl Mueller and Pat Morley. The latter was replaced by Grant Young in...
    
    
  • Throwing Muses
    Throwing Muses
    Throwing Muses is an alternative rock band formed in 1981 in Newport, Rhode Island, that toured and recorded extensively until 1997, when its members began concentrating more on other projects. The group was originally fronted by two lead singers, Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly, who both wrote the...
    
    
  • The Tragically Hip
    The Tragically Hip
    The Tragically Hip, often referred to simply as The Hip, is a Canadian rock band from Kingston, Ontario, consisting of Gordon Downie , Paul Langlois , Rob Baker , Gord Sinclair and Johnny Fay . Since their formation in 1983 they have released 12 studio albums, two live albums, and 46 singles...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Bauhaus
  • Mission of Burma

• Albums
  • Bauhaus – Burning from the Inside
    Burning from the Inside
    -Personnel:*Peter Murphy – vocals, guitar*Daniel Ash – guitar, vocals*David J – bass, vocals*Kevin Haskins – drums-Production:*Arranged and produced by Bauhaus*Engineered and mixed by Derek Tomkins and Ted Sharp*Mastered by Arun Chakraverty...
    
    
  • Big Black – Bulldozer
    Bulldozer (EP)
    Bulldozer is the second EP by Chicago Post-Hardcore band Big Black, released in 1983. It was their first release to feature an actual band performing, including Pat Byrne from Urge Overkill playing drums on some of the songs...
    
    EP
  • Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heels
  • Depeche Mode – Construction Time Again
    Construction Time Again
    Construction Time Again is the third studio album by the British electronic band Depeche Mode, released in 1983. This was the first Depeche Mode album with Alan Wilder, who composed the songs "Two Minute Warning" and "The Landscape Is Changing"...
    
    
  • New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies
    Power, Corruption & Lies
    Power, Corruption & Lies is the second studio album by New Order, released in May 1983 on Factory Recordings. It is more electronic-based than their previous album Movement, with heavier use of synthesizers...
    
    
  • R.E.M. – Murmur
    Murmur (album)
    Murmur is the debut album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1983 on I.R.S. Records. Murmur drew critical acclaim upon its release for its sound, defined by singer Michael Stipe's cryptic lyrics, guitarist Peter Buck's jangly guitar style, and bassist Mike Mills' melodic...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Confusion Is Sex
    Confusion Is Sex
    Confusion Is Sex is Sonic Youth's first studio album, originally released on 12" vinyl in 1983 on Neutral. It was reissued on SST Records in 1987 and on CD in 1995 on DGC with extra tracks from the Kill Yr Idols EP. The album features a live cover of The Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog". The cover...
    
    

• Events
  • R.E.M.'s album Murmur is named Rolling Stones best album of 1983.
  • Creation Records
    Creation Records
    Creation Records was a British independent record label headed by Alan McGee. Along with Dick Green and Joe Foster, McGee founded Creation in 1983. The label lasted until its demise in 1999. The name came from the 1960s band The Creation , whom McGee greatly admired. McGee, Green and Foster were...
    
     is founded by Alan McGee
    Alan McGee
    Alan McGee has been a record label owner, musician, manager, and music blogger for The Guardian.McGee is best-known for co-forming and running the independent Creation Records label from 1983–1999, and then Poptones from 1999-2007...
    
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1984

• Newly formed bands
  • Dinosaur Jr.
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
    The Jesus and Mary Chain
    The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride, Glasgow in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid...
    
    
  • The Lemonheads
    The Lemonheads
    The Lemonheads are an American alternative rock band first formed in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily and Jesse Peretz. Dando has remained the band's only constant member....
    
    
  • Melvins
  • Primal Scream
    Primal Scream
    Primal Scream are a Scottish alternative rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie and now based in London. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes , Martin Duffy , and Darrin Mooney...
    
    
  • Soundgarden
    Soundgarden
    Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...
    
    
  • The Wedding Present
    The Wedding Present
    The Wedding Present are a British indie rock group based in Leeds, England, formed in 1985 from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. The band's music has evolved from fast-paced indie rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall, Buzzcocks and Gang of Four to more varied forms...
    
    
  • Ween
    Ween
    Ween is an American alternative rock group. They formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when central members Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class. Ween has a large cult underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in American pop music...
    
    
  • Yo La Tengo
    Yo La Tengo
    Yo La Tengo, sometimes abbreviated as YLT, is an American alternative rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan , Georgia Hubley , and James McNew .Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential...
    
    

• Albums
  • Butthole Surfers – Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac
    Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac
    Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac is the first full-length studio album by American punk band Butthole Surfers, released in December 1984 by Touch and Go Records and Fundamental Records. All songs were written and produced by the Butthole Surfers....
    
    
  • Cocteau Twins – Treasure
  • The Cure - The Top
    The Top (album)
    The Top is the fifth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1984.-Overview:The Top was the studio album to follow Pornography. After Pornography, Robert Smith found himself without his friend Simon Gallup, who departed the band due to a fight.Smith then took a radical shift in his music...
    
    
  • Depeche Mode – Some Great Reward
    Some Great Reward
    Some Great Reward is the fourth album by the British electronic group Depeche Mode, released in 1984. The album peaked at #5 in the UK and at #51 in the US. The title comes from the last lines of the bridge in "Lie to Me" when it repeats near the end....
    
    
  • Guadalcanal Diary – Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man
    Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man
    Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man was the first full-length album by Marietta, Georgia jangle poppers Guadalcanal Diary. The album was released in 1984 and was produced by Don Dixon. It was reissued on CD by Rhino Handmade in 2003, with additional tracks from the Watusi Rodeo EP, the B-side...
    
    
  • Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade
    Zen Arcade
    Upon its release Zen Arcade received positive reviews in many mainstream publications, including NME, The New York Times and Rolling Stone. In his review for Rolling Stone, David Fricke described Zen Arcade as "the closest hardcore will ever get to an opera .....
    
    
  • Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets II
    Meat Puppets II
    Meat Puppets II is the second album by the Tempe, Arizona band the Meat Puppets, released in 1984. It is a departure from their self-titled debut album, which consisted largely of noisy hardcore with unintelligible vocals...
    
    
  • Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
    Double Nickels on the Dime
    Double Nickels on the Dime is the third studio album by American punk trio Minutemen, released on the Californian independent record label SST Records in 1984...
    
    
  • R.E.M. – Reckoning
    Reckoning (R.E.M. album)
    Reckoning is the second album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1984 by I.R.S. Records. Produced by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, the album was recorded at Reflection Sound Studio in Charlotte, North Carolina over 16 days in December 1983 and January 1984...
    
    
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers (album)
    The Red Hot Chili Peppers is the debut studio album by American funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 10, 1984 on EMI America Records. The album was produced by Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill, and is the only album to feature guitarist Jack Sherman.-Background and recording:Red...
    
    
  • The Replacements – Let It Be
  • Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid EP
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – Hyæna
  • The Smiths – The Smiths
    The Smiths (album)
    Before their debut album, single "What Difference Does It Make?" was released in January 1984. The track peaked at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart. Released in February 1984, The Smiths debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart....
    
    
  • Violent Femmes – Hallowed Ground
    Hallowed Ground (Violent Femmes album)
    Hallowed Ground is the second album by the Violent Femmes, released in June 1984. Like the band's first album, the songs on Hallowed Ground were mostly written by singer/guitarist/lyricist Gordon Gano when he was in high school...
    
    

• Events
  • Sonic Youth vocalist-guitarist Thurston Moore
    Thurston Moore
    Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
    
     gets married to his bandmate, vocalist-bassist Kim Gordon
    Kim Gordon
    Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
    
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1985

• Newly formed bands
  • Guided by Voices
    Guided by Voices
    Guided by Voices is an American indie rock band originating from Dayton, Ohio. Beginning with the band's formation in 1983, it made frequent personnel changes but always maintained the presence of principal songwriter Robert Pollard...
    
    
  • Happy Mondays
    Happy Mondays
    Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1980, the band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, his brother Paul Ryder on bass, lead guitarist Mark Day, keyboardist Paul Davis, and drummer Gary Whelan...
    
    
  • Jane's Addiction
    Jane's Addiction
    Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell , Dave Navarro , Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins . After breaking up in 1991, Jane's Addiction briefly reunited in 1997 and again in 2001, both times...
    
    
  • Love and Rockets
    Love and Rockets (band)
    Love and Rockets were an English alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash , David J , and Kevin Haskins . Former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy had embarked on a solo career after Bauhaus split in 1983...
    
    
  • Pixies
  • Pussy Galore
    Pussy Galore (band)
    Pussy Galore was an American garage rock band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1985. They had a constantly fluid line-up until their demise in 1990. Like many garage rock outfits, they were dogged by substance abuse problems...
    
    
  • Screaming Trees
    Screaming Trees
    Screaming Trees was an American rock band formed in Ellensburg, Washington in 1985 by vocalist Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bass player Van Conner and drummer Mark Pickerel. Pickerel had been replaced by Barrett Martin by the time the band reached its most successful period...
    
    
  • The Stone Roses
    The Stone Roses
    The Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Minutemen

• Reunions
  • The Feelies

• Albums
  • Big Black – Atomizer
    Atomizer (album)
    Atomizer is a 1986 album by the American noise rock group Big Black. It is their debut album as all previous releases are EPs. The LP is accompanied by liner notes that explain the stories behind many of the songs...
    
    
  • Kate Bush
    Kate Bush
    Kate Bush is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and idiosyncratic vocal style have made her one of the United Kingdom's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years.In 1978, at the age of 19, Bush topped the UK Singles Chart...
    
     – Hounds of Love
    Hounds of Love
    Hounds of Love is a 1985 album by the British singer Kate Bush. It was Bush's fifth studio album, and her second no. 1. It has since been certified Double Platinum in the UK...
    
    
  • Camper Van Beethoven – Telephone Free Landslide Victory
    Telephone Free Landslide Victory
    Telephone Free Landslide Victory is a 1985 album by musical group Camper Van Beethoven, released on Independent Projects. It featured the band's best known song, "Take the Skinheads Bowling".-About:...
    
    
  • The Cure – The Head on the Door
    The Head on the Door
    The Head on the Door is the sixth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1985. The album is the first to feature drummer Boris Williams, it also features the return of Simon Gallup and is Porl Thompson's first album as an official member....
    
    
  • Dinosaur Jr. – Dinosaur
    Dinosaur (album)
    "Bulbs of Passion" was not featured on the original vinyl LP; it was a b-side to the "Repulsion" single. Subsequent reissues on cassette and compact disc featured it as the last song. The 2005 reissue on Merge Records placed "Bulbs of Passion" as the first track at J Mascis' request...
    
    
  • The Fall – This Nation's Saving Grace
    This Nation's Saving Grace
    This Nation's Saving Grace is a 1985 LP by The Fall. It reached number 54 in the UK charts. The album is frequently cited as one of the group's strongest and most consistent...
    
    
  • Green River – Come on Down
    Come on Down
    - Personnel :Green River* Jeff Ament – bass guitar, back and sleeve designs* Mark Arm – vocals* Stone Gossard – guitar* Steve Turner – guitar* Alex Vincent – drumsProduction* Green River – production, cover concept...
    
    
  • Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising
    New Day Rising
    New Day Rising is the third studio album by the American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released in 1985 on SST Records. Though less ambitious than prior album Zen Arcade, New Day Rising, in some ways, helped set the template for alternative rock for the next decade...
    
    
  • Hüsker Dü – Flip Your Wig
    Flip Your Wig
    Flip Your Wig is the fourth album by the American punk rock band, Hüsker Dü, and its last release on SST Records. By the time of this release in 1985, they had signed a major-label record deal. However, the band felt they owed one more album to SST and delivered Flip Your Wig...
    
    
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
    Psychocandy
    Psychocandy is the debut album by the Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain, released in November 1985. Psychocandy combined the concepts of pop songs and searing guitar chords....
    
    
  • Love and Rockets – Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
    Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
    Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven is the debut studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1985 on Beggar's Banquet.- Background :...
    
    
  • Meat Puppets – Up on the Sun
    Up on the Sun
    Up on the Sun is the third album by the Meat Puppets, released in 1985 by SST Records. In 1999 the album was reissued on Rykodisc with bonus tracks and recording notes...
    
    
  • New Order – Low-Life
    Low-Life
    Low-Life is the third studio album by English rock band New Order. Released in May 1985 by Qwest Records, Low-Life is considered to be among New Order's strongest work, displaying the moment in which the band completed its transformation from post-punk hold-overs to dance rock pioneers...
    
    
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – Freaky Styley
    Freaky Styley
    Freaky Styley is the second studio album by American funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 16, 1985 on EMI America. The album name holds its origins in a commonly used phrase in the 80's to describe anything as being "freaky styley". Freaky Styley marks founding guitarist Hillel...
    
    
  • R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction
    Fables of the Reconstruction
    Fables of the Reconstruction, also known as Reconstruction of the Fables, is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on the I.R.S...
    
    
  • The Replacements – Tim
    Tim (album)
    Tim is an album released in October 1985 on Sire Records by the alternative rock band The Replacements. It was their first major label release...
    
    
  • The Sisters of Mercy – First and Last and Always
    First and Last and Always
    First and Last and Always is the debut album by the British gothic rock band The Sisters of Mercy, which was released in 1985 and proved to be style-shaping in the musical category of gothic rock.- Background :...
    
    
  • The Smiths – Meat Is Murder
    Meat Is Murder
    Meat Is Murder is the second studio album by the English alternative rock band The Smiths. It was released in February 1985 and became the band's sole number one album in the UK charts during the band's lifetime, staying on the chart for 13 weeks. It reached number 110 in the US...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Bad Moon Rising
    Bad Moon Rising (album)
    Bad Moon Rising is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on the New York independent record label Homestead Records in 1985. The album is loosely themed around the dark side of America, and includes references to obsession and insanity, Charles Manson,...
    
    

• Events
  • The Minutemen
    Minutemen (band)
    Minutemen were an American hardcore punk band formed in San Pedro, California in 1980. Composed of guitarist D. Boon, bassist Mike Watt and drummer George Hurley, Minutemen recorded four albums and eight EPs before Boon's death in an automobile accident in December 1985...
    
    's D. Boon
    D. Boon
    d. Boon born Dennes Dale Boon, was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Active between 1978, when he joined The Reactionaries, and 1985, when he was killed in a van accident, Boon was best known as the guitarist and vocalist of the Californian punk rock trio Minutemen.-Youth:Dennes Boon...
    
     dies in a car crash on December 22.

1986

• Newly formed bands
  • The Afghan Whigs
    The Afghan Whigs
    The Afghan Whigs were a soul-influenced American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio. PopMatters described the band as "beyond simple genre categorization, and though lauded by the music press, never got their just due."-Band history:...
    
    
  • Galaxie 500
    Galaxie 500
    Galaxie 500 was an American alternative rock band that formed in 1987 and split up in 1991 after releasing three albums.-History:Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang had met at the Dalton School in New York City in 1981, but began playing together during their time...
    
    
  • Goo Goo Dolls
    Goo Goo Dolls
    The Goo Goo Dolls are a Grammy-nominated American rock band formed in 1986 in Buffalo, New York, by vocalist and guitarist John Rzeznik and vocalist and bass guitarist Robby Takac. Since the end of 1994, Mike Malinin has been the band's drummer, a position previously held by George Tutuska...
    
    
  • Inspiral Carpets
    Inspiral Carpets
    Inspiral Carpets are an alternative rock band from Oldham in Greater Manchester, England formed by Graham Lambert and Stephen Holt in 1983. The band is named after a clothing shop on their Oldham estate...
    
    
  • The La's
    The La's
    The La's were an English rock band from Liverpool, originally active from the mid-1980s to early 1990s. Fronted by singer, songwriter and guitarist Lee Mavers, the group is most famous for their hit single "There She Goes". The band was formed by Mike Badger in 1984 and Mavers joined soon after...
    
    
  • Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
    
     (as Betty Blue)
  • Nirvana
    Nirvana (band)
    Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
    
     (as Skid Row, later Pen Cap Chew, later Bliss, and later Ted Ed Fred)
  • No Doubt
    No Doubt
    No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...
    
    
  • The Posies
    The Posies
    The Posies are an alternative rock/power pop group. The band was formed in 1987 in Bellingham, Washington by primary songwriters Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow. They are best known for their radio hits "Golden Blunders" , as well as "Dream All Day", "Solar Sister" and "Flavor of the Month"...
    
    
  • Radiohead
    Radiohead
    Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...
    
     (as On a Friday)
  • Sebadoh
    Sebadoh
    Sebadoh is an American indie rock band, formed in 1986 in Westfield, Massachusetts by Eric Gaffney and Dinosaur Jr bass player Lou Barlow. Along with such bands as Pavement and Guided by Voices, Sebadoh helped pioneer lo-fi music, a style of indie rock characterized by low-fidelity recording...
    
    
  • The Sugarcubes
    The Sugarcubes
    The Sugarcubes were an Icelandic alternative rock band formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992. They received critical and popular acclaim internationally.-History:...
    
    
  • Stone Temple Pilots
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band from San Diego, California that consists of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz ....
    
     (as Mighty Joe Young)

• Albums
  • Butthole Surfers – Rembrandt Pussyhorse
    Rembrandt Pussyhorse
    Rembrandt Pussyhorse is the second full-length studio album by American experimental punk band Butthole Surfers, released in April 1986. All songs were written and produced by the Butthole Surfers, except "American Woman", which was written by Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Jim Kale, and Garry...
    
    
  • Depeche Mode – Black Celebration
    Black Celebration
    Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by Depeche Mode. Released by Mute Records on 17 March 1986, it further cemented the darkening sound that was initially hinted towards on their album Construction Time Again and Some Great Reward. Black Celebration was cited as one of the most influential...
    
    
  • The Fall – Bend Sinister
    Bend Sinister (album)
    Bend Sinister is a 1986 album by The Fall, released on Beggars Banquet Records. It reached number 36 in the UK charts. Its title is taken from Vladimir Nabokov's novel Bend Sinister . The US version of the album was titled The "Domesday Pay-Off" Triad Plus!.It was the third and last Fall album to...
    
    
  • The Feelies – The Good Earths
  • Guadalcanal Diary – Jamboree
    Jamboree (Guadalcanal Diary album)
    Jamboree is the second full-length release by Marietta, Georgia jangle poppers Guadalcanal Diary. The album was released in 1986.-Track listing:#"Pray for Rain" - 4:06#"Fear of God" - 3:22#"Jamboree" - 3:17#"Michael Rockefeller" - 4:50...
    
    
  • Hüsker Dü – Candy Apple Grey
    Candy Apple Grey
    Candy Apple Grey is the fifth album by the alternative rock band Hüsker Dü, released in 1986. It was their first major label album, though Warner Bros. had initially lobbied to release Flip Your Wig until the band decided to let SST have it...
    
    
  • Love and Rockets – Express
    Express (album)
    Express is the second studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1986 on Beggar's Banquet.- Background :...
    
    
  • New Order – Brotherhood
  • Public Image Ltd – Album
  • R.E.M. – Lifes Rich Pageant
    Lifes Rich Pageant
    Lifes Rich Pageant is the fourth album by the American band R.E.M., released in 1986. Intended as an upbeat reaction to the sobering and historical Fables of the Reconstruction, R.E.M...
    
    
  • Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating
    Just Keep Eating
    Just Keep Eating is the only full-length album by the Austin, Texas noise rock band Scratch Acid. Although it was only released on vinyl, it can be found as tracks 9-21 on the compilation album The Greatest Gift.-Track listing:...
    
    
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – Tinderbox
  • The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
    The Queen Is Dead
    The Queen Is Dead is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band The Smiths. It was released on 16 June 1986 in the United Kingdom by Rough Trade Records and released in the United States on 23 June 1986 through Sire Records. The album reached #2 on the UK Albums Chart, maintaining...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Evol
    EVOL
    Evol is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released in 1986 on SST Records, and recorded and mixed by New York recording icon Martin Bisi. The album cover features a picture of Lung Leg, a still taken from Submit to Me, a film by Richard Kern...
    
    
  • They Might Be Giants – They Might Be Giants
    They Might Be Giants (album)
    They Might Be Giants is the eponymous debut album from Brooklyn-based band They Might Be Giants, also known as The Pink Album. It was released by Bar/None in 1986....
    
    
  • Violent Femmes – The Blind Leading the Naked
    The Blind Leading the Naked
    The Blind Leading the Naked is the third album by Violent Femmes. It was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and released in 1986. The title is a play on the title of the famous Bruegel painting "The Blind Leading the Blind".-Track listing:All songs written by Gordon Gano except as...
    
    
  • XTC – Skylarking
    Skylarking
    Skylarking is XTC's eighth studio album, released on 27 October 1986 and produced by American musician Todd Rundgren. Skylarking is a "life-in-a-day" semi-concept album which displayed songwriting and arranging heavily influenced by The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Kinks...
    
    

• Events
  • MTV
    MTV
    MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
    
     begins airing 120 Minutes
    120 Minutes
    120 Minutes is a television show in the United States dedicated to alternative music, originally airing on MTV from 1986 to 2000, and then on MTV's sister channel MTV2 from 2001 to 2003....
    
    , a program devoted to videos by alternative artists.
  • NME
    NME
    The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
    
     magazine in the UK releases the C86
    C86 (music)
    C86 is a cassette compilation released by the British music magazine NME in 1986, featuring new bands licensed from independent labels of the time. As a phrase, C86 quickly evolved into shorthand for a guitar-based musical genre characterised by "jangly" guitars and fey melodies, although other...
    
     cassette compilation, which becomes a seminal release in British indie rock
    Indie rock
    Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...
    
    .

1987

• Newly formed bands
  • Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr...
    
    
  • Fugazi
  • Gin Blossoms
    Gin Blossoms
    Gin Blossoms is an American pop rock band formed in 1987, in Tempe, Arizona. They took their name from a photo of W.C. Fields which bore the caption "W.C. Fields with gin blossoms", referring to what appeared to be the actor's gin-ravaged nose, but was actually a skin condition known as rosacea...
    
    
  • Green Day
    Green Day
    Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool...
    
     (as Sweet Children)
  • The Jesus Lizard
    The Jesus Lizard
    The Jesus Lizard was an American alternative rock and noise rock band formed in 1987 in Austin, Texas. They were "a leading noise rock band in the American independent underground…[who] turned out a series of independent records filled with scathing, disembowelling, guitar-driven pseudo-industrial...
    
    
  • Local H
    Local H
    Local H is an American rock duo, formed by Joe Daniels and Scott Lucas in Zion, Illinois in 1987. Local H's 1996 album, As Good as Dead, includes the top 10 hit "Bound for the Floor" Author, rock critic and Rolling Stone contributor Greg Kot and the Chicago Tribune named the band its 2008 Chicago...
    
    
  • Slint
    Slint
    Slint was an American rock band consisting of Brian McMahan , David Pajo , Britt Walford , Todd Brashear and Ethan Buckler...
    
    
  • Uncle Tupelo
    Uncle Tupelo
    Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville, Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994. Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn formed the band after the lead singer of their previous band, The Primitives, left to attend college. The trio recorded three albums for Rockville...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Hüsker Dü
  • The Smiths

• Albums
  • 10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe
    In My Tribe
    In My Tribe is an album by American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs. It was their second major-label album and their first to achieve large-scale success. John Lombardo, Natalie Merchant's songwriting partner on previous albums, left the band in 1986...
    
    
  • Big Black – Songs About Fucking
    Songs About Fucking
    Songs About Fucking is the second and final album by the noise rock band Big Black. It placed 54th on Pitchfork Media's 'Top 100 Albums of the 1980s'. Included are covers of Kraftwerk's "The Model" and Cheap Trick's "He's a Whore".-Production:...
    
    
  • Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician
    Locust Abortion Technician
    Locust Abortion Technician is the third full-length studio album by American experimental punk band the Butthole Surfers, released in March 1987...
    
    
  • The Cure – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
    Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
    Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the seventh studio album by British alternative rock band The Cure. Released in 1987, this album helped put The Cure into the American mainstream, becoming their first album to reach the Billboard Top 40.-History:...
    
    
  • Depeche Mode – Music for the Masses
    Music for the Masses
    Music for the Masses is the sixth studio album by Depeche Mode. It was released by Mute Records on September 28, 1987, and was supported by the Music for the Masses Tour.-Mainstream success in the United States:...
    
    
  • Dinosaur Jr. – You're Living All Over Me
    You're Living All Over Me
    You're Living All Over Me is the second album by the American alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr., released in 1987 on SST Records. The album was named after a line uttered by frontman J Mascis while on tour with the band....
    
    
  • Echo & the Bunnymen – Echo & the Bunnymen
    Echo & the Bunnymen (album)
    Echo & the Bunnymen is the fifth studio album by the British post-punk band Echo & the Bunnymen, and the last with founding member Ian McCulloch and drummer Pete de Freitas. The album was produced by Laurie Latham who recorded the album in Germany, Belgium, London and Liverpool after an aborted...
    
    
  • Guadalcanal Diary – 2X4
    2X4 (Guadalcanal Diary album)
    2X4 is the third album by Guadalcanal Diary. It was released in 1987.-Track listing:# "Litany "  – 3:41# "Under the Yoke"  – 4:28# "Get over It"  – 3:00# "Little Birds"  – 3:57...
    
    
  • Guided By Voices – Devil Between My Toes
    Devil Between My Toes
    Devil Between My Toes is the second release and first full album from Dayton, Ohio-based band Guided by Voices, released 15 February 1987 . Only 300 copies of the original vinyl were pressed...
    
    
  • Guided By Voices – Sandbox
    Sandbox (album)
    -Track listing:#"Lips of Steel" – 1:33#"A Visit to the Creep Doctor" – 1:36#"Everyday" – 2:58#"Barricade" – 4:31#"Get to Know the Ropes" – 3:48#"Can't Stop" – 2:26#"The Drinking Jim Crow" – 1:36#"Trap Soul Door" – 1:15#"Common Rebels" – 2:03...
    
    
  • Hüsker Dü – Warehouse: Songs and Stories
    Warehouse: Songs and Stories
    -Personnel:*Bob Mould – guitar, vocals*Grant Hart – drums, vocals*Greg Norton – bass guitar, vocals-Production:*Producers: Bob Mould, Grant Hart*Engineer: Steven Fjelstad*Mastering: Howie Weinberg*Photography: Daniel Corrigan, Hüsker Dü...
    
    
  • Jane's Addiction – Jane's Addiction
    Jane's Addiction (album)
    Jane's Addiction, also known as Triple-X or XXX by fans, is the debut album by the band Jane's Addiction. It was recorded live at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles on January 26, 1987. Overdubs were later recorded at The Edge studio in Los Angeles and added to the album mix. The audience track is...
    
    
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain – Darklands
    Darklands (album)
    Darklands is the second album by Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. Unlike their previous album, drum machines were used in place of drummer Bobby Gillespie, who had left to pursue a successful career as the frontman with Primal Scream...
    
    
  • The Lemonheads – Hate Your Friends
    Hate Your Friends
    Hate Your Friends is the debut album of the American alternative rock band The Lemonheads. The original 1987 LP release is a rare find; most available copies are of the 1992 reissue, featuring tracks from the original LP, along with bonus tracks from small-run singles and EPs...
    
    
  • Love and Rockets – Earth, Sun, Moon
    Earth, Sun, Moon
    Earth, Sun, Moon is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1987 on Beggar's Banquet.The album was remastered, but not expanded , in 2001.- Background :...
    
    
  • Pixies – Come on Pilgrim
    Come on Pilgrim
    Come On Pilgrim is the debut mini-LP release by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in September 1987 by 4AD.- Background :...
    
    
  • Primal Scream – Sonic Flower Groove
    Sonic Flower Groove
    Sonic Flower Groove was Scottish band Primal Scream's debut album. Released in 1987, Sonic Flower Groove featured psychedelic, Byrdsy jangle pop and was the only Primal Scream album to feature founder member Jim Beattie ....
    
    
  • Public Image Ltd – Happy?
  • R.E.M. – Document
    Document (album)
    Robert Christgau praised the album, and called "It's the End of the World as We Know It " an "inspirational title." Stephan Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said that "Where Lifes Rich Pageant sounded a bit like a party record, Document is a fiery statement, and its memorable melodies and riffs are made...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
    The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
    The Uplift Mofo Party Plan is the third studio album by American funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 29, 1987 on EMI America Records...
    
    
  • The Replacements – Pleased to Meet Me
    Pleased to Meet Me
    Pleased to Meet Me is the sixth full-length album by The Replacements. It was released on July 7, 1987 .The album to some degree maintains the style of the previous album, and major label debut, Tim...
    
    
  • Scratch Acid - Berserker (Scratch Acid album)
    Berserker (Scratch Acid album)
    Berserker is an EP, the final release by Austin, Texas noise rock band Scratch Acid. Although it is now out of print, it can be found as tracks 22-27 on the compilation album The Greatest Gift.Berserker reached #7 in the UK Indie Chart....
    
    
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – Through the Looking Glass
  • The Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
    Floodland
    Floodland is the second album by the British band The Sisters of Mercy, which was released in 1987 and marked their commercial break-through.-Break-up of the original band:...
    
    
  • The Smiths – Strangeways, Here We Come
    Strangeways, Here We Come
    -Band:* Morrissey – vocals, piano on "Death of a Disco Dancer"* Johnny Marr – guitar, keyboards, harmonica, autoharp , synthesized strings and saxophone arrangements* Andy Rourke – bass guitar* Mike Joyce – drums-Additional musicians:...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Sister
    Sister (Sonic Youth album)
    Sister is the fourth album by alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released in 1987 on SST Records. It was re-released in late 1994 on DGC.The album furthers the band's move away from noise rock towards more traditional pop structures, while maintaining an aggressively experimental approach. It...
    
    

• Events
  • R.E.M.
    R.E.M.
    R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
    
    's "The One I Love" unexpectedly becomes a Top Ten hit on the American pop charts, helping to increase alternative rock's mainstream profile and earning the band a major label deal.
  • No Doubt
    No Doubt
    No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...
    
    's original lead singer John Spence commits suicide.

1988

• Newly formed bands
  • Barenaked Ladies
    Barenaked Ladies
    Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian alternative rock band. The band is currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, then a suburban municipality outside the City of Toronto...
    
    
  • Better Than Ezra
    Better Than Ezra
    Better Than Ezra is an American alternative rock trio based in New Orleans, Louisiana.-Formation and early success:Better Than Ezra was formed in 1988 by its four original members - vocalist and guitarist Kevin Griffin; Joel Rundell, the lead guitarist; bassist Tom Drummond; and drummer, Cary...
    
    
  • The Boo Radleys
    The Boo Radleys
    -Studio albums:-Compilation albums:-Extended plays:-Singles:-External links:* * * * * * by Laurent Orseau * *...
    
    
  • The Breeders
    The Breeders
    The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. The band has experienced a number of line-up changes; the current line-up consists of Kim Deal , her twin sister Kelley Deal , Jose Medeles , Mando Lopez Todd the Fox...
    
    
  • Live
    Live (band)
    Live is an American rock band from York, Pennsylvania, composed of Chad Taylor , Patrick Dahlheimer , and Chad Gracey . Lead singer and principal songwriter Ed Kowalczyk left the band in November 2009....
    
     (as Public Affection)
  • Lush
    Lush (band)
    Lush were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1998. They were one of the first bands to attract the "shoegazing" label...
    
    
  • Mother Love Bone
    Mother Love Bone
    Mother Love Bone was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988. The band was active from 1988 to 1990. Frontman Andrew Wood's personality and compositions helped to catapult the group to the top of the burgeoning late 1980s/early 1990s Seattle music scene...
    
    
  • Mudhoney
  • Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
    
    
  • Ride
    Ride (band)
    Ride were a British alternative rock band that formed in 1988 in Oxford, England, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence "Loz" Colbert, and Steve Queralt. The band were initially part of the "shoegazing" scene. Following the break-up of the band in 1996, members moved on to various other...
    
    
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan frontman and James Iha , the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin , D'arcy Wretzky , and currently includes Jeff Schroeder Mike Byrne , and Nicole Fiorentino The Smashing...
    
    
  • Sublime
    Sublime (band)
    Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band's line-up, unchanged until their breakup, consisted of Bradley Nowell , Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh . Michael "Miguel" Happoldt also contributed on a few Sublime songs, such as "New Thrash." Lou Dog, Nowell's...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Big Black
  • Green River
  • The Housemartins

• Albums
  • Barenaked Ladies – Buck Naked
  • Butthole Surfers – Hairway to Steven
    Hairway to Steven
    Hairway to Steven is the fourth full-length studio album by American punk band Butthole Surfers, released in February 1988. All songs were written by the Butthole Surfers, co-produced by the Surfers and Ric Wallace, and mixed by Wallace...
    
    
  • Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll
    Blue Bell Knoll
    Blue Bell Knoll is the fifth album by Scottish band Cocteau Twins.This was the first LP by the Twins to receive major-label distribution in the USA, as it was originally licensed by Capitol Records from 4AD for North American release...
    
    
  • Dinosaur Jr. – Bug
  • The Feelies – Only Life
    Only Life
    Only Life is the third album released by the Feelies. It was released in 1988 with the same line-up that appeared on the band's previous album, The Good Earth. It features a cover of "What Goes On", originally performed by The Velvet Underground...
    
    
  • Fishbone – Truth and Soul
    Truth and Soul
    Truth and Soul is the second album by alternative rock band Fishbone. It was released on September 13, 1988. The album features a wide array of genres including punk, ska, reggae, soul, hard rock, funk, blues and heavy metal...
    
    
  • Fugazi – Fugazi
    Fugazi (EP)
    Fugazi is the first EP by the American post-hardcore band of the same name. Unlike all other Fugazi releases, Guy Picciotto did not contribute guitar to this record; all guitar present was performed by Ian MacKaye...
    
    EP
  • Happy Mondays – Bummed
    Bummed
    Bummed was the second album by British band Happy Mondays. It was released in November 1988.Warner later released a 2CD Collector's Edition on . This release collected the original 1988 album with a second disc of remixes from the era.- Production :...
    
    
  • Robyn Hitchcock
    Robyn Hitchcock
    Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar....
    
     – Globe of Frogs
    Globe of Frogs
    Globe of Frogs is an album released by Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians on A&M Records in 1988. Made in London, it was recorded by the Egyptians along with Pat Collier, and emerged as the group's debut after signing to major label A&M.The album is densely produced, most of the tracks shying away...
    
    
  • Jane's Addiction – Nothing's Shocking
    Nothing's Shocking
    Nothing's Shocking is the first studio album by the American alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, released on August 23, 1988 through Warner Bros. Records. Nothing's Shocking was well received by critics upon release and is often cited as the band's best album. Despite this, it peaked at number...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • The Lemonheads – Creator
  • Morrissey
    Morrissey
    Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...
    
     – Viva Hate
    Viva Hate
    Viva Hate is Morrissey's debut solo album, released on 14 March 1988 by HMV Records. The album was considered a very strong foray into Morrissey's solo career, as he utilised his traditional lyrical style and retained the basic sound that The Smiths had developed by the time they broke up. It...
    
    
  • Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff
    Superfuzz Bigmuff
    Superfuzz Bigmuff is the debut EP by the Seattle grunge band Mudhoney. It was released in October 1988 through record label Sub Pop. The songs later appeared on their 1990 compilation album Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles...
    
    EP
  • Peter Murphy
    Peter Murphy (musician)
    Peter John Murphy is an English rock vocalist. He was the vocalist of the rock group Bauhaus, and later went on to release a number of solo albums, such as Deep and Love Hysteria...
    
     – Love Hysteria
    Love Hysteria
    Love Hysteria is the second album by the British solo artist Peter Murphy, formerly of the gothic rock band Bauhaus. It was released in 1988....
    
    
  • My Bloody Valentine – Isn't Anything
    Isn't Anything
    Isn't Anything is the debut full-length studio album by My Bloody Valentine, released in November 1988 on Creation Records after three years of issuing extended plays, singles, and mini-LPs.-Background:...
    
    
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey
    Tender Prey
    Tender Prey is the fifth album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in 1988 on Mute Records.Tender Prey contains Cave's 'signature' tune "The Mercy Seat", which he has subsequently played at almost all of his live performances since 1988, and was covered by Johnny Cash...
    
    
  • Pixies – Surfer Rosa
    Surfer Rosa
    Like Come On Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa displays a mix of musical styles; pop guitar songs such as "Broken Face", "Break My Body", and "Brick Is Red" are featured alongside slower, more melodic tracks exemplified by "Where Is My Mind?". The album includes heavier material, and prominently features the...
    
    
  • R.E.M. – Green
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – Peepshow
    Peepshow (album)
    Peepshow is the ninth studio album by the English band Siouxsie and the Banshees and their first as a quintet. With the arrival of multi-instrumentalist Martin McCarrick, Peepshow was one of their most musically complex albums, including the singles "Peek-a-Boo" and "The Last Beat of My...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
    Daydream Nation
    Daydream Nation is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released in October 1988 by Enigma Records in the United States, and by Blast First in the United Kingdom....
    
    (breakthrough)
  • The Sugarcubes – Life's Too Good
    Life's Too Good
    Life's Too Good, released in April 1988, was the first album by the Icelandic alternative rock-pop band The Sugarcubes, which brought fame to lead vocalist Björk...
    
    
  • They Might Be Giants – Lincoln
    Lincoln (album)
    Lincoln is the second album by the band They Might Be Giants. It was released in 1988 . The album is named after John Linnell and John Flansburgh's boyhood home of Lincoln, Massachusetts. The two men pictured are Linnell's great-grandfather, Lewis T...
    
    

• Events
  • Mother Love Bone
    Mother Love Bone
    Mother Love Bone was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988. The band was active from 1988 to 1990. Frontman Andrew Wood's personality and compositions helped to catapult the group to the top of the burgeoning late 1980s/early 1990s Seattle music scene...
    
     and Mudhoney
    Mudhoney
    Mudhoney is an American alternative rock band. Formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1988 following the demise of Green River, Mudhoney's members are vocalist and rhythm guitarist Mark Arm, lead guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer Dan Peters. Original bassist Matt Lukin left the...
    
     form from members of Green River
    Green River (band)
    Green River was an American rock band from Seattle, Washington that was active from 1984 to 1988. Although the band had little commercial impact outside of its native Seattle, Green River proved to have significant influence on the genre later known as grunge, both with its own music and with the...
    
     after they break up.
  • Sub Pop begins the Sub Pop Singles Club.
  • Hillel Slovak
    Hillel Slovak
    Hillel Slovak ‏ was an Israeli-American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers...
    
    , guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...
    
     dies from a heroin overdose.
  • Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
    
    names R.E.M. "America's Best Rock 'n' Roll Band" and places them on the cover.
  • Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer-songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani is the lead vocalist for the rock and ska band No Doubt. Stefani recorded her first solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004. The album was inspired by music of the 1980s, and was a success with sales of over...
    
     becomes lead singer of No Doubt
    No Doubt
    No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...
    
    .

1989

• Newly formed bands
  • 311
    311 (band)
    311 is an American rock band from Omaha, Nebraska. The band was formed in 1988 by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Nick Hexum, lead guitarist Jim Watson , bassist Aaron "P-Nut" Wills and drummer Chad Sexton...
    
    
  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon
    Blind Melon is an American rock band active from 1989 to 1999, and from 2006 onward.Best remembered for their 1993 single "No Rain", the group enjoyed critical and commercial success in the early 1990s with their neo-psychedelic take on alternative rock...
    
    
  • Blur
    Blur (band)
    Blur is an English alternative rock band. Formed in London in 1989 as Seymour, the group consists of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Blur's debut album Leisure incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegazing...
    
     (as Circus and later Seymour)
  • Hole
    Hole (band)
    Hole is an American alternative rock band that originally formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The band is fronted by vocalist/songwriter and rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with former songwriter/lead guitarist Eric Erlandson...
    
    
  • Hum
    Hum (band)
    Hum is a post-hardcore band from Champaign, Illinois. They are best known for their 1995 radio hit "Stars." Hum has not been consistently active as a recording or touring group since 2000.-Founding and early recordings:...
    
    
  • Mazzy Star
    Mazzy Star
    Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in Santa Monica, California, in 1989 from the group Opal, a collaboration of guitarist David Roback and bassist Kendra Smith...
    
    
  • Neutral Milk Hotel
    Neutral Milk Hotel
    Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band formed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Mangum in the early 1990s. The band was noted for its experimental sound, obscure lyrics and eclectic instrumentation....
    
    
  • Pavement
    Pavement (band)
    Pavement is an American alternative rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989. In their career, they achieved a significant cult following, and they were called the best band of the 1990s by prominent music critics Robert Christgau and Stephen Thomas Erlewine...
    
    
  • Red House Painters
    Red House Painters
    Red House Painters were an alternative rock group formed in 1989 in San Francisco, California by singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek.-History:While in Atlanta, Georgia, Ohio-born Kozelek became friends with Anthony Koutsos, a drummer. He then moved to San Francisco, California, adding guitarist Gorden...
    
    
  • Spiritualized
    Spiritualized
    Spiritualized are an English space rock band formed in 1990 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Jason Pierce after the demise of his previous outfit, space-rockers Spacemen 3...
    
    
  • Suede
    Suede (band)
    Suede are an English alternative rock band from London, formed in 1989. The group's most prominent early line-up featured singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Bernard Butler, bass player Mat Osman and drummer Simon Gilbert. By 1992, Suede were hailed as "The Best New Band in Britain", and attracted...
    
    
  • Superchunk
    Superchunk
    Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, consisting of singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s...
    
    
  • Teenage Fanclub
    Teenage Fanclub
    Teenage Fanclub are an alternative rock band from Bellshill, Scotland. The band is composed of Norman Blake , Raymond McGinley , Gerard Love and Francis MacDonald , with songwriting duties shared equally among Blake, McGinley and Love...
    
    
  • Toadies
    Toadies
    Toadies are an alternative rock band from Fort Worth, Texas, best known for the song "Possum Kingdom." The band's classic lineup consisted of Todd Lewis on vocals/guitar, Mark Reznicek on drums, Lisa Umbarger on bass, and Darrel Herbert on guitar. It formed in 1989 and disbanded in 2001 after...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Guadalcanal Diary
  • Dream Syndicate

• Albums
  • The Cure – Disintegration
  • Faith No More – The Real Thing
    The Real Thing (Faith No More album)
    The Real Thing is the third studio album by the American rock band Faith No More. It was first released through Slash Records on June 20, 1989. It was the first release by the band not to feature vocalist Chuck Mosley, instead the album featured Mike Patton from the experimental band Mr. Bungle...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Fugazi – Margin Walker
    Margin Walker
    Margin Walker is an EP by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi. It was originally released in June 1989 on vinyl and again in the same year on the compilation release 13 Songs along with the debut EP Fugazi...
    
    EP
  • Goo Goo Dolls – Jed
    Jed (album)
    Jed is the second album by the Goo Goo Dolls. It is the first studio album in which John Rzeznik sung vocals for some of the tracks. The majority of the songs are sung by Robby Takac, with Rzeznik taking over for two...
    
    
  • Gin Blossoms – Dusted
    Dusted (album)
    Dusted is the first album by Alternative rock band the Gin Blossoms. It was released through San Jacinto Records, a small independent label as a 12-song tape and record in 1989....
    
    
  • Guadalcanal Diary – Flip-Flop
    Flip-Flop (album)
    Flip-Flop is the fourth and final album by Marietta, Georgia jangle poppers Guadalcanal Diary. It was released in 1989 on Elektra Records.-Track listing:#"Look Up!" – 2:33#"Always Saturday" – 4:15#"The Likes of You" – 3:06#"Barometer" – 4:07...
    
    
  • Guided By Voices – Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
    Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
    Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia is the third album by Dayton, Ohio musical group Guided by Voices.-Track listing:#"The Future Is in Eggs" – 3:29#"The Great Blake St...
    
    
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain – Automatic
    Automatic (The Jesus and Mary Chain album)
    Automatic is the third album by Scottish alternative rock band The Jesus and Mary Chain. The Mary Chain on this record is basically the core duo of brothers William and Jim Reid, with a drum machine providing percussion, and even a synthesizer filling in on bass guitar. The only other credited...
    
    
  • The Lemonheads – Lick
    Lick (album)
    Lick is the third album by The Lemonheads and the last to feature founding member Ben Deily. It was released in 1989 and was the group's last album before signing to major label Atlantic. Due to a typo on the album itself, many believe that this record was actually released in 1988, but this...
    
    
  • Love and Rockets – Love and Rockets
    Love and Rockets (album)
    Love and Rockets is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1989 on Beggar's Banquet.- Background :...
    
    
  • Meat Puppets – Monsters
  • Mudhoney – Mudhoney
    Mudhoney (album)
    Mudhoney is the debut studio album by American grunge band Mudhoney, released in 1989. It was their first LP after several singles and an EP ....
    
    
  • New Order – Technique
    Technique (album)
    Technique is the fifth studio album by New Order, released in 1989 via Factory Records. Partly recorded on the island of Ibiza, it incorporates Balearic beat and acid house influences into the group's electro/rock sound...
    
    
  • Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine
    Pretty Hate Machine
    Pretty Hate Machine is the debut album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released October 20, 1989, on TVT Records. Pretty Hate Machine is compiled of reworked tracks from the Purest Feeling demo, as well as tracks recorded after its recording...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Nirvana – Bleach
    Bleach (album)
    Bleach is the debut album by the American rock band Nirvana, released in June 1989 through the independent record label Sub Pop. The main recording sessions took place at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle, Washington between December 1988 and January 1989...
    
    
  • Pixies – Doolittle
    Doolittle (album)
    Doolittle features an eclectic mix of musical styles. While tracks such as "Tame" and "Crackity Jones" are fast and aggressive, and incorporate the band's trademark loud–quiet dynamic, other songs such as "Silver", "I Bleed", and "Here Comes Your Man" reveal a quieter, slower and more melodic...
    
    
  • Primal Scream – Primal Scream
    Primal Scream (album)
    Primal Scream was the second album of British band Primal Scream. Released in 1989 it took a harder rock approach than their debut album Sonic Flower Groove and did not achieve great success...
    
    
  • Primus – Suck on This
    Suck on This
    -Personnel:Primus*Les Claypool – bass guitar, vocals*Larry "Ler" LaLonde – guitars*Tim "Herb" Alexander – drumsProduction*Bob Cock – producer*Howard Johnston – editing*Tim "Soya" Leroy – stage*Lauren Miller – sound...
    
    
  • Public Image Ltd – 9
    9 (Public Image Ltd. album)
    -Personnel:*John Lydon: vocals*John McGeoch: guitar*Allan Dias: bass*Bruce Smith: drums-Track-by-track commentary by the band:"Happy?":*John Lydon : “'Happy?' was much more militant in its approach, kind of pissed off at the world. That was the attitude. But this one is much more happy, much more...
    
    
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – Mother's Milk
    Mother's Milk
    Mother's Milk is the fourth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on August 16, 1989, on EMI America Records. It was the first album to feature the band's most well-known lineup...
    
    
  • Slint – Tweez
  • Soundgarden – Louder Than Love
    Louder than Love
    Louder Than Love is the second studio album by the American grunge band Soundgarden, released on September 5, 1989 through A&M Records. After touring in support of its first full-length studio album, Ultramega OK , Soundgarden signed with A&M and began work on its first album for a major label...
    
    
  • The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
    The Stone Roses (album)
    The Stone Roses is the debut album by English rock band The Stone Roses, released on Silvertone Records in 1989. It cemented the band's reputation among critics, and is still rated by some as one of the most important albums ever...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Violent Femmes – 3
    3 (Violent Femmes album)
    -Personnel:* Gordon Gano – Guitar, Vocals, Composer* Brian Ritchie – Bass* Victor DeLorenzo – Drums* Sigmund Snopek III – Keyboards* Peter Balestrieri – Baritone Saxophone* Warren A...
    
    

• Events
  • New Order
    New Order
    New Order are an English rock band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris...
    
    , Public Image Ltd, and The Sugarcubes
    The Sugarcubes
    The Sugarcubes were an Icelandic alternative rock band formed in 1986 and disbanded in 1992. They received critical and popular acclaim internationally.-History:...
    
     embark on the "Monsters of Alternative Rock" tour.
  • Matador Records
    Matador Records
    Matador Records is an independent record label, with a roster of indie rock artists and bands.-History:Matador was started by Chris Lombardi in 1989 in his New York City apartment. The following year, Lombardi was joined by former Homestead Records manager Gerard Cosloy, and the two of them have...
    
     is founded.
  • The documentary film 101
    101 (album)
    -Disc one:A Side# "Pimpf" – 0:58# "Behind the Wheel" – 5:55# "Strangelove" – 4:49# "Something to Do" – 3:54# "Blasphemous Rumours" – 5:09B Side# "Stripped" – 6:45# "Somebody" – 4:34...
    
    is released, telling the story of how Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
    
     became a major draw in the United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
    
     without any major radio airplay and climaxing with their famous Rose Bowl
    Rose Bowl (stadium)
    The Rose Bowl is an outdoor athletic stadium in Pasadena, California, U.S., in Los Angeles County. The stadium is the site of the annual college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl, held on New Year's Day. In 1982, it became the home field of the UCLA Bruins college football team of the Pac-12...
    
     concert in Pasadena, California
    Pasadena, California
    Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Although famous for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena is the home to many scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology , the Jet...
    
    .

1990

• Newly formed bands
  • Catherine Wheel
    Catherine Wheel
    Catherine Wheel were a four-piece alternative rock band from Great Yarmouth, England. The band was active from 1990 to 2000, experiencing fluctuating levels of commercial success, and embarking on many lengthy tours.-Biography:...
    
    
  • The Cranberries
    The Cranberries
    The Cranberries are an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989 under the name The Cranberry Saw Us, later changed by vocalist Dolores O'Riordan. The band currently consists of O'Riordan, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler...
    
    
  • Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
    Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
    The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are an American alternative rock trio, formed in 1991 and based out of New York City, New York. The band consists of Judah Bauer on guitar, backing vocals, harmonica and occasional lead vocals, Russell Simins on drums and Jon Spencer on vocals, guitar and theremin...
    
    
  • Kyuss
    Kyuss
    Kyuss is a rock band, originally from Palm Desert, California. After forming in the late 1980s and releasing an EP under the name Sons of Kyuss in 1990, the band shortened its name to Kyuss. Over the next five years the band released four full-length albums, and one last split EP in 1997 with...
    
    
  • Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...
    
     (as Mookie Blaylock)
  • Rage Against the Machine
    Rage Against the Machine
    Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, the group's line-up consists of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello and drummer Brad Wilk...
    
    
  • Travis
    Travis (band)
    Travis are a post-Britpop band from Glasgow, Scotland, comprising Fran Healy , Dougie Payne , Andy Dunlop and Neil Primrose...
    
    
  • The Verve
    The Verve
    The Verve were an English rock band formed in 1989 in Wigan by lead vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones, and drummer Peter Salisbury. Guitarist and keyboardist Simon Tong later became a member. Beginning with a psychedelic sound indebted to shoegazing and space...
    
     (as Verve)
  • Swervedriver
    Swervedriver
    Swervedriver are an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band went on hiatus in 1998 before reforming in 2008 for a world tour, which included a performance at the high-profile Coachella Festival...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Camper Van Beethoven
  • Mother Love Bone

• Albums
  • 311 – Dammit!
    Dammit!
    Dammit! was 311's second independent release , on their own record company, What Have You Records. It was released in 1990 and it's considered by some people to be the band's first album. This album is no longer in print and is very rare...
    
    
  • 311 – Downstairs EP
    Downstairs EP
    Downstairs is an EP by 311, which was recorded in Nick Hexum's basement in 1989, and is considered the band's first recording. It is an independent release without cover art. Almost nothing is known about this collectors item, and an original version of the EP is almost impossible to find...
    
    
  • Barenaked Ladies – Barenaked Lunch EP
  • Alice in Chains – Facelift
    Facelift (album)
    Facelift is the debut studio album by the American rock band Alice in Chains. The album was released on August 21, 1990. The album is the band's second highest selling album and has been certified double-platinum by the RIAA for shipments of two million copies in the United States.-Background and...
    
    
  • The Breeders – Pod
  • Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
    Heaven or Las Vegas
    Heaven or Las Vegas is a 1990 album by Scottish rock group Cocteau Twins, their last for the music label 4AD. In terms of chart positions, it is the most successful Cocteau Twins album, reaching number seven in the UK. The album is noteworthy for the musical evolution the band was showing at the time...
    
    
  • Depeche Mode – Violator
    Violator (album)
    Violator is the seventh studio album by the English electronic group Depeche Mode, released by Mute Records on 19 March 1990.Preceded by the hit singles "Personal Jesus" and "Enjoy the Silence" , Violator propelled the band into international stardom. The album yielded two further hit singles,...
    
    (Breakthrough)
  • Echo & the Bunnymen – Reverberation
    Reverberation (album)
    Reverberation is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Echo & the Bunnymen. The album was released amidst a line-up change for the group, due to the departure of vocalist Ian McCulloch and the death of drummer Pete de Freitas. The remaining members, guitarist Will Sergeant and bassist Les...
    
    
  • Fugazi – Repeater
    Repeater (album)
    Repeater is the debut full-length studio album by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi. It was released on April 19, 1990 as Repeater on LP, and in May 1990 on CD bundled with the 3 Songs EP as Repeater + 3 Songs...
    
    
  • Goo Goo Dolls – Hold Me Up
    Hold Me Up
    Hold Me Up is the third professional album release of the Buffalo-born Goo Goo Dolls, released under Metal Blade Records in 1990. This is considered to be their true major label debut, as previous albums had been organized by the band themselves. It features their first single, "There You Are",...
    
    
  • Green Day – 39/Smooth
    39/Smooth
    -Personnel:* Billie Joe Armstrong – lead vocals, guitar* Mike Dirnt – bass, backing vocals* John Kiffmeyer – drums, percussion, backing vocals* Andy Ernst – producer, engineer...
    
    
  • Guided By Voices – Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
    Same Place The Fly Got Smashed
    Same Place the Fly Got Smashed is the fourth album from Dayton, OH's Guided by Voices. Often said to be a concept album about alcoholism, the album displays bandleader Robert Pollard's maturing songcraft and increasing interest in lo-fi soundscapes....
    
    
  • The Happy Mondays – Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
    Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
    Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches was the third album by British band Happy Mondays. It was released in 1990 and was produced by Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne at Eden Studios in London....
    
    
  • Jane's Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
    Ritual de lo Habitual
    Ritual de lo habitual is the second studio album by Jane's Addiction, released on August 21, 1990 on Warner Brothers. Co-produced by Dave Jerden, it was the band's final studio album before their initial break-up in 1991...
    
    
  • The La's – The La's
    The La's (album)
    The La's, the self titled album by The La's, was the only studio release from the Liverpudlian four piece, released in 1990, but it earned them a place in the history books of British music and inspired a generation of bands, from Oasis and The Charlatans to Pete Doherty...
    
    
  • Mother Love Bone – Apple
    Apple (album)
    - Personnel :Mother Love Bone* Jeff Ament – bass guitar, art direction and concept* Bruce Fairweather – lead guitar* Greg Gilmore – drums* Stone Gossard – rhythm guitar* Andrew Wood – vocals, pianoProduction...
    
    
  • Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles
    Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles
    Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles is a compilation album by the grunge band Mudhoney. The album contains the entire Superfuzz Bigmuff EP, the A-sides and B-sides of 2 singles, and 2 covers from split singles with Sonic Youth and The Dicks. It was released by Sub Pop Records in October 1990...
    
    
  • Peter Murphy – Deep
    Deep (album)
    Deep is the third album by the British solo artist Peter Murphy. It was released in 1989 along with his biggest single, "Cuts You Up".-Track listing:All tracks composed by Peter Murphy and Paul Statham; except where indicated...
    
    
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Good Son
    The Good Son (album)
    The Good Son is the sixth album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released in 1990 . It was preceded by the release of "The Ship Song/The Train Song" single. "The Weeping Song/Cock's 'n' Asses" was later also released as a single. After an album as dark and intense as Tender Prey, some fans were...
    
    
  • Pixies – Bossanova
    Bossanova
    Bossanova is the third album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in August 1990 on the English independent record label 4AD in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. All of Bossanovas original material was written by the band's frontman Black Francis; it...
    
    
  • Primus – Frizzle Fry
    Frizzle Fry
    -Personnel:Primus*Les Claypool – electric bass, electric fiddle bass, string bass, vocals*Larry LaLonde – electric guitar, acoustic guitar*Tim "Herb" Alexander – drumsProduction*Todd Huth – second acoustic guitar on "Toys"...
    
    
  • Ride – Nowhere
    Nowhere (album)
    Nowhere is the debut album by British shoegazing band Ride. The album was released by Creation Records on 15 October 1990. Allmusic has cited the album as one of the greatest albums of the shoegazing genre, second only to My Bloody Valentine's Loveless...
    
    
  • The Sisters of Mercy – Vision Thing
  • Social Distortion – Social Distortion
    Social Distortion (album)
    Social Distortion is the eponymous third studio album by the American punk rock band Social Distortion, released on March 27, 1990, through Epic Records. After touring in support of its previous full-length studio album, Prison Bound , Social Distortion signed with Epic in 1989 and began work on...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Goo
    Goo (album)
    Goo is the sixth album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 26, 1990. Goo was the first album released after the band signed to major label Geffen Records.-Background and recording:...
    
    
  • They Might Be Giants – Flood
  • Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
    No Depression (album)
    No Depression is the first studio album by alternative country band Uncle Tupelo, released in June 1990. After its formation in the late 1980s, Uncle Tupelo recorded the Not Forever, Just for Now demo tape, which received a positive review by the College Media Journal in 1989. The review led to the...
    
    
  • Ween – GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
    GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
    -Personnel:Dean Ween - Guitar, VocalsGene Ween - Guitar, Vocals, liner notesWeen - ArrangerGreg Frey - Engineer, Recording TechnicianTheo VanRock - MixingAndrew Weiss - Producer, Mixing-Song information:...
    
    

• Events
  • Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone
    Mother Love Bone
    Mother Love Bone was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1988. The band was active from 1988 to 1990. Frontman Andrew Wood's personality and compositions helped to catapult the group to the top of the burgeoning late 1980s/early 1990s Seattle music scene...
    
     is found dead.
  • Sonic Youth
    Sonic Youth
    Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...
    
     signs with DGC
    DGC Records
    DGC Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and currently operates as an auxiliary label of Interscope Records.-Company history:...
    
     records.

1991

• Newly formed bands
  • AFI
    AFI (band)
    AFI is an American alternative rock band from Ukiah, California that formed in 1991. They have consisted of the same lineup since 1998: lead vocalist Davey Havok, drummer and backup vocalist Adam Carson, with bassist Hunter Burgan and guitarist Jade Puget, who both play keyboard and contribute...
    
    
  • Cake
    Cake (band)
    Cake is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. Consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Gabe Nelson and drummer Paulo Baldi, the band has been noted for McCrea's sarcastic lyrics and deadpan voice, DiFiore's trumpet parts, and...
    
    
  • Candlebox
    Candlebox
    Candlebox is an American alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington. Since their debut, the group has released four studio albums, which have achieved multi-platinum and gold certification, as well as numerous charting singles, a compilation, and a CD+DVD....
    
    
  • Dave Matthews Band
    Dave Matthews Band
    Dave Matthews Band, sometimes shortened to DMB, is a U.S. rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was...
    
    
  • HIM
  • Luna
    Luna (band)
    Luna was a dream pop/indie pop band formed in 1991 by Dean Wareham after the breakup of Galaxie 500, with Stanley Demeski and Justin Harwood...
    
    
  • Luscious Jackson
    Luscious Jackson
    Luscious Jackson are an alternative rock group formed in 1991. The band's name was inspired by now-retired American basketball player Lucious Jackson....
    
    
  • Oasis
    Oasis (band)
    Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
    
    
  • Primitive Radio Gods
    Primitive Radio Gods
    Primitive Radio Gods are an American alternative rock band from Southern California. Current members consist of frontman Chris O'Connor, who performs vocals and bass; percussionist Tim Lauterio; and Luke McAuliffe, who contributes various additional instrumentation as well as much of the art that...
    
    
  • Sponge
    Sponge (band)
    Sponge is a post-grunge band from Detroit, Michigan formed in 1991 by Vinnie Dombroski, Mike Cross, Tim Cross and Joey Mazzola. Sponge was signed to Sony Records in 1994 but have since switched to other labels....
    
    
  • Stereolab
    Stereolab
    Stereolab are an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England. The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier , both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Galaxie 500
    Galaxie 500
    Galaxie 500 was an American alternative rock band that formed in 1987 and split up in 1991 after releasing three albums.-History:Guitarist Dean Wareham, drummer Damon Krukowski and bassist Naomi Yang had met at the Dalton School in New York City in 1981, but began playing together during their time...
    
    
  • Jane's Addiction
    Jane's Addiction
    Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell , Dave Navarro , Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins . After breaking up in 1991, Jane's Addiction briefly reunited in 1997 and again in 2001, both times...
    
    
  • The Replacements
  • Spacemen 3
    Spacemen 3
    Spacemen 3 were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce. Their music was "colorfully mind-altering, but not in the sense of the acid rock of the '60s; instead, the band developed its own minimalistic psychedelia"...
    
    

• Albums
  • 311 – Unity
    Unity (311 album)
    Unity was 311's third independent release and first CD release on their own record company, What Have You Records. It was released in 1991 on both CD and Cassette. It is considered by some to be the band's second album if Dammit! is counted as their debut album. This album is no longer in print...
    
    
  • Barenaked Ladies – The Yellow Tape
  • Blur – Leisure
    Leisure (album)
    Leisure is the debut album by English alternative rock band Blur. The album was released on 26 August 1991 in the United Kingdom via Food Records, and peaked at #7 in the UK Albums Chart. It was released in the US a month later with a different track listing. The album was certified Gold in the...
    
    
  • Dinosaur Jr. – Green Mind
    Green Mind
    -Personnel:*J Mascis - Vocals, Guitar, Producer*Murph - Drums *Joe Harvard - Guitar, Tape*Jay Spiegel - Drums, Tambourine, Tom-Tom*Don Fleming - Bass, Guitar, Vocals *Sean Slade - Engineer, Mellotron*Tom Walters - Assistant Engineer...
    
    
  • Fishbone – The Reality of My Surroundings
    The Reality of My Surroundings
    The Reality of My Surroundings is the third full-length album by Fishbone, released on April 23, 1991. It was the first Fishbone album to include former Miles Davis music director John Bigham , who joined in 1989 during the Truth and Soul tour.-Album information:Fishbone took the rest of 1989 off...
    
    
  • Fugazi – Steady Diet of Nothing
    Steady Diet of Nothing
    Steady Diet of Nothing is the second full-length studio album by American post-hardcore band Fugazi, released in July, 1991. The title is taken from a quote by the late American stand-up comedian Bill Hicks....
    
    
  • Hole – Pretty On The Inside
    Pretty on the Inside
    Pretty on the Inside is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Hole. Released August 23, 1991 on Caroline Records, it was Hole's first major label release after their formation in 1989 by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson...
    
    
  • The Jesus Lizard – Goat
    Goat (album)
    -External links:*...
    
    
  • Kyuss – Wretch
    Wretch (album)
    Wretch is the first full-length album by Kyuss. It was released in September 1991, on Dali Records. Previously calling themselves Sons of Kyuss, they shortened their name prior to releasing this....
    
    
  • Live – Mental Jewelry
    Mental Jewelry
    -Album:-Singles:...
    
    
  • Morrissey – Kill Uncle
    Kill Uncle
    Kill Uncle is Morrissey's second solo album, released on 4 March 1991 by EMI and HMV Records...
    
    
  • Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
    Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
    Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge is the second studio album by the grunge band Mudhoney. It was recorded in 1991, at a time when the band was thinking of signing to a major record label, but decided to release the album on Sub Pop...
    
    
  • My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
    Loveless (album)
    Loveless is the second studio album by alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. Released on 4 November 1991, Loveless was recorded over a two-year period between 1989 and 1991 in nineteen recording studios...
    
    
  • Nirvana – Nevermind
    Nevermind
    Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind was the group's first release on DGC Records...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Pearl Jam – Ten
    Ten (Pearl Jam album)
    Ten is the debut studio album by the American grunge band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1991 through Epic Records. Following the disbanding of bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard's previous group Mother Love Bone, the two recruited vocalist Eddie Vedder, guitarist Mike McCready, and...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Pixies – Trompe le Monde
    Trompe le Monde
    Trompe le Monde is the fourth and final album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in 1991 on the English independent record label 4AD in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States...
    
    
  • Primal Scream – Screamadelica
    Screamadelica
    Screamadelica is the third studio album by the Scottish alternative rock group Primal Scream and was their first to be a commercial success. It was released on 23 September 1991 in the UK by Creation Records, and 8 October 1991 in North America by Sire Records. Screamadelica peaked at #8 on the UK...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
    Sailing the Seas of Cheese
    -Personnel:Primus*Les Claypool – electric bass, string bass, six-string fretless bass, clarinet, vocals*Larry LaLonde – electric guitar, six-string banjo*Tim "Herb" Alexander – drums, water jugProduction*Chris Bellman – mastering...
    
    
  • R.E.M. – Out of Time
    Out of Time (album)
    Out of Time is the seventh album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on Warner Bros. Records in 1991. With Out of Time R.E.M.'s status grew from that of a cult band to a massive international act. The record topped the album sales charts in both the U.S...
    
    
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    Blood Sugar Sex Magik
    Blood Sugar Sex Magik is the fifth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Rick Rubin, it was the band's first record released on Warner Bros. Records...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Sebadoh – Sebadoh III
    Sebadoh III
    III is the third album by the American indie rock band, Sebadoh. It was released by Homestead Records in 1991.III was the first full length Sebadoh album to feature Jason Loewenstein, who joined the band's two founding members Lou Barlow and Eric Gaffney in 1989, and debuted on the "Gimme Indie...
    
    
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – Superstition
    Superstition (album)
    Superstition is the tenth studio album by Siouxsie and the Banshees, released in 1991. The first single, "Kiss Them for Me" gave the band its first top-forty Billboard Hot 100 hit in the United States, peaking at number 23...
    
    
  • Slint – Spiderland
    Spiderland
    Spiderland is the second studio album by the American post-rock band Slint, released on March 27, 1991 on Touch and Go. Featuring dramatically alternating dynamics and vocals ranging from spoken word to shouting, the album contains narrative lyrics that emphasize alienation...
    
    
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – Gish
    Gish
    Gish is the debut album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released in May 1991 through Caroline Records. Frontman Billy Corgan described Gish as a "very spiritual album"...
    
    
  • Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
    Badmotorfinger
    Badmotorfinger is the third studio album by the American grunge band Soundgarden, released on October 8, 1991 through A&M Records. After touring in support of its previous album, Louder Than Love , Soundgarden began the recording sessions for its next album with new bassist Ben Shepherd...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend
    Girlfriend (album)
    Girlfriend is the third album by Matthew Sweet, his most commercially and critically successful album to date. AV Club has referred to it as Sweet's magnum opus and labeled it the best power pop album of the 1990s...
    
    
  • Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque
    Bandwagonesque
    Bandwagonesque is the third album by Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released in November 1991 on Creation Records. Bandwagonesque became famous by beating Nirvana's landmark album Nevermind to be voted 'album of the year' for 1991 by American music magazine Spin...
    
    
  • Temple of the Dog – Temple of the Dog
    Temple of the Dog
    Temple of the Dog was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. It was conceived by vocalist Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone...
    
    
  • Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona
    The Real Ramona
    The Real Ramona is an album by Throwing Muses. Released in 1991, it was the last album recorded by the band before the departure of founding member Tanya Donelly....
    
    
  • U2 – Achtung Baby
    Achtung Baby
    Achtung Baby is the seventh studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 19 November 1991 on Island Records. Stung by the criticism of their 1988 release Rattle and Hum, U2 shifted their musical direction to incorporate alternative...
    
    
  • Violent Femmes – Why Do Birds Sing?
    Why Do Birds Sing?
    Why Do Birds Sing? is Violent Femmes' fifth studio album, released on April 30, 1991. It featured the single "American Music," which received modest airplay on modern rock radio, and became a staple of the band's live shows.-Track listing:...
    
    

• Events
  • Nirvana
    Nirvana (band)
    Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
    
     releases Nevermind
    Nevermind
    Nevermind is the second studio album by the American rock band Nirvana, released on September 24, 1991. Produced by Butch Vig, Nevermind was the group's first release on DGC Records...
    
    , popularizing grunge
    Grunge
    Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in the Seattle area. Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and indie rock, grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song...
    
     in the mainstream, especially due to the hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Smells Like Teen Spirit
    "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. It is the opening track and lead single from the band's second album, Nevermind , released on DGC Records...
    
    ".
  • Temple of the Dog
    Temple of the Dog
    Temple of the Dog was an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. It was conceived by vocalist Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a tribute to his friend, the late Andrew Wood, lead singer of Malfunkshun and Mother Love Bone...
    
    , made up of members of Soundgarden and the newly formed Pearl Jam, releases their only album as a tribute to Andrew Wood.
  • The first ever Lollapalooza
    Lollapalooza
    Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. The music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a...
    
     takes place.
  • The first Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album
    Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album is an award presented to recording artists for quality albums in the alternative rock genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...
    
     is given out.
  • During a Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
    
     interview by NME journalist Steve Lamacq
    Steve Lamacq
    Steve Lamacq , sometimes known by his nicknames Lammo or "The Cat" is an English disc jockey, currently working with the BBC radio stations BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2.-Early career:He was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire...
    
    , Richey Edwards carved the words "4 Real" into his arm with a razor blade to prove the band's sincerity in music.
  • Barenaked Ladies
    Barenaked Ladies
    Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian alternative rock band. The band is currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, then a suburban municipality outside the City of Toronto...
    
    ' The Yellow Tape goes platinum in Canada. It is the first indie release in Canada to ever do this. Sales are partly fueled by controversy regarding Toronto
    Toronto
    Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
    
     mayor June Rowlands
    June Rowlands
    June Rowlands was the 60th mayor of Toronto, Ontario, and the first woman to hold that office. She had previously been a long time city councillor, unsuccessful federal candidate, and chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission....
    
     banning the group from playing a show at Nathan Phillips Square
    Nathan Phillips Square
    Nathan Phillips Square is an urban plaza that forms the forecourt to Toronto City Hall, or New City Hall, at the intersection of Queen Street West and Bay Street, and named for Nathan Phillips, mayor of Toronto from 1955 to 1962. The square opened in 1965, and, as with the City Hall, the square was...
    
     in Toronto because she thought the name "Barenaked Ladies" objectified women.

1992

• Newly formed bands
  • Ash
    Ash (band)
    Ash are an alternative rock band that formed in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1992. The band has sold 8 million albums worldwide.-Band beginning, Trailer and 1977 :...
    
    
  • Bush
    Bush (band)
    Bush are an alternative rock band formed in London in 1992 shortly after vocalist/guitarist Gavin Rossdale and guitarist Nigel Pulsford met in a London nightclub. Realising they shared a love for such diverse artists as the Pixies, Bob Marley, The Jesus Lizard, MC5, Nirvana, Hüsker Dü, and Big...
    
    
  • The Cardigans
    The Cardigans
    The Cardigans are a Swedish rock band formed in the town of Jönköping in October 1992.Their debut album Emmerdale gave them a solid base in their home country and enjoyed some success abroad, especially in Japan. It was not until their second album Life that an international reputation was secured...
    
    
  • Elastica
    Elastica
    Elastica were an English alternative rock band that played punk rock-influenced music. They were best known for their 1995 album Elastica, which produced singles that charted in the US and the UK.-History:...
    
    
  • Everclear
    Everclear (band)
    Everclear is a rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1992 best known for their radio hits spanning more than a decade. For most of its existence, Everclear has consisted of Art Alexakis , Craig Montoya , and Greg Eklund . Eklund replaced original drummer Scott Cuthbert in 1994...
    
    
  • Grandaddy
    Grandaddy
    Grandaddy was an American indie rock band, formed in 1992 in Modesto, California by singer, guitarist, and keyboardist Jason Lytle, bassist Kevin Garcia, and drummer Aaron Burtch. Guitarist Jim Fairchild and keyboardist Tim Dryden later joined the band in 1995...
    
    
  • Our Lady Peace
    Our Lady Peace
    Our Lady Peace is a Canadian alternative rock band that formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1992. Headed by lead vocalist Raine Maida since its formation, the band additionally consists of Jeremy Taggart on percussion, Duncan Coutts on bass, and Steve Mazur as lead guitarist...
    
    
  • Porno for Pyros
    Porno for Pyros
    Porno for Pyros was an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1992, following the initial break-up of Jane's Addiction...
    
    
  • Reel Big Fish
    Reel Big Fish
    Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out". The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold certified album Turn the Radio Off. Soon after, the band...
    
    
  • Seven Mary Three
    Seven Mary Three
    Seven Mary Three, occasionally abbreviated to 7 Mary 3 or 7M3, is an American hard rock band. They have released seven studio albums and one live album, and are best known for their hit singles "Cumbersome", "Water's Edge", "Lucky", and "Wait"....
    
    
  • Silverchair
    Silverchair
    Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
    
     (as Innocent Criminals)
  • Soul Coughing
    Soul Coughing
    Soul Coughing was a popular New York-based alternative rock band. The band found modest mainstream success during the mid-to-late 1990s. Soul Coughing developed a devout fanbase and have garnered largely positive response from critics. Steve Huey describes the band as "one of the most unusual cult...
    
    
  • Stereophonics
    Stereophonics
    The Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band now living in turners x that formed in 1992 in the village of Cwmaman in Cynon Valley, Wales. The band currently comprises lead vocalist and guitarist Kelly Jones, bassist and backing vocalist Richard Jones, drummer Javier Weyler, guitarist and backing...
    
     (as Tragic Love Company)
  • The Verve Pipe
    The Verve Pipe
    The Verve Pipe is an American rock band from East Lansing, Michigan. It was formed in 1992 by Brian and Brad Vander Ark, Brian Stout and Donny Brown.-History:...
    
    
  • Weezer
    Weezer
    Weezer is an American alternative rock band. The band currently consists of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Brian Bell , and Scott Shriner . The band has changed lineups three times since its formation in 1992...
    
    
  • Puddle of Mudd
    Puddle of Mudd
    Puddle Of Mudd is an American rock band from Kansas City, Missouri, USA. To date the band has sold over 7 million albums, and have had a string of #1 mainstream rock singles in the United States. Their major-label debut Come Clean has sold over 5 million copies...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • The Feelies
  • The Happy Mondays
  • Pixies
  • Public Image Ltd
  • The Sugarcubes

• Albums
  • 311 – Hydroponic
    Hydroponic (album)
    Hydroponic is an EP by 311, released in 1992. It was their last independent release before they were signed to Capricorn Records for their first studio album Music. It was considered the first EP with S.A. Martinez as an official member of the band. This EP was a six track demo that contained four...
    
    
  • Alice in Chains – Dirt (breakthrough)
  • Alice in Chains – Sap
    Sap (album)
    I "Right Turn" is credited to Alice Mudgarden in the liner notes.II "Love Song" is unlisted on the CD.-Personnel:Alice in Chains*Layne Staley – vocals, drums on "Love Song"*Jerry Cantrell – guitar, vocals, bass on "Love Song"...
    
    EP
  • Tori Amos
    Tori Amos
    Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
    
     – Little Earthquakes
    Little Earthquakes
    -B-sides:The album is also known for its collection of B-sides. The four songs recorded with Davitt Sigerson that did not make it to the final version of the album were included on the singles released from Little Earthquakes....
    
    
  • Barenaked Ladies – Gordon
    Gordon (album)
    Gordon is the debut album by Canadian band Barenaked Ladies. It was released through Sire Records on July 28, 1992. After The Yellow Tape was certified platinum in Canada, the group won a contest hosted by a local radio station. With the winnings, Barenaked Ladies were able to hire producer Michael...
    
    
  • Blind Melon – Blind Melon
    Blind Melon (album)
    Blind Melon is the eponymous debut album by the rock band Blind Melon, released on September 14, 1992 through Capitol Records. Fronted by singer Shannon Hoon, Blind Melon had a distinctive traditional rock sound, influenced by southern rock and psychedelic music...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Catherine Wheel – Ferment
    Ferment (album)
    Ferment is the first full-length album by the English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel, released in 1992 . Four songs had previously appeared on independently released 12" EPs, and were re-recorded for inclusion on the album...
    
    
  • The Cure – Wish
  • Faith No More – Angel Dust
  • Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience
    New Miserable Experience
    New Miserable Experience is the breakthrough album by pop-rock band the Gin Blossoms, released on August 4, 1992. The album was released to little fanfare and relatively lackluster reviews. However, nearly a year after its release, lead single "Hey Jealousy" ascended into the top 40, with "Found...
    
    
  • Green Day – Kerplunk
  • Guided By Voices – Propeller
    Propeller
    A propeller is a type of fan that transmits power by converting rotational motion into thrust. A pressure difference is produced between the forward and rear surfaces of the airfoil-shaped blade, and a fluid is accelerated behind the blade. Propeller dynamics can be modeled by both Bernoulli's...
    
    
  • PJ Harvey
    PJ Harvey
    Polly Jean Harvey is an English musician, singer-songwriter, composer and occasional artist. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments including piano, organ, bass, saxophone, and most recently, the autoharp.Harvey began her career in...
    
     – Dry
    Dry (album)
    Dry is the debut album by PJ Harvey. It was recorded at the Icehouse, Yeovil, UK, and released in the UK on Too Pure , and subsequently on Indigo Records in the US...
    
    
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain – Honey's Dead
    Honey's Dead
    Released in 1992, Honey's Dead is the fourth studio album by the Scottish rock group The Jesus and Mary Chain on Blanco y Negro Records. The title refers to one of the band's early hits, "Just Like Honey", and is intended to demonstrate a complete departure from their earlier musical style.The...
    
    
  • The Jesus Lizard – Liar
    Liar (The Jesus Lizard album)
    Liar is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band The Jesus Lizard released in 1992 by Touch and Go Records. The album is considered to be among the band's best work, and according to Mark Demling of Allmusic "Liar isn't quite the wildest or weirdest album the Jesus Lizard ever...
    
    
  • Kyuss – Blues for the Red Sun
    Blues for the Red Sun
    Blues for the Red Sun is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Kyuss, released in 1992. While the album received mainly favorable reviews, it sold only 39,000 units....
    
    
  • L7 – Bricks Are Heavy
    Bricks Are Heavy
    Bricks Are Heavy is the third album by the Los Angeles band L7, released in April 1992 through Slash Records. Backed by the single "Pretend We're Dead", the album became a breakthrough hit and the band became the "poster girls" of grunge music....
    
    
  • The Lemonheads – It's a Shame About Ray
    It's a Shame about Ray
    It's a Shame about Ray is the fifth album by The Lemonheads. It was released on June 2, 1992 . Tom Morgan of Australian band Smudge helped author the album, while Juliana Hatfield played bass and sang backing vocals on some songs....
    
    
  • Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists
    Generation Terrorists
    - Personnel :Manic Street Preachers*James Dean Bradfield – lead vocals, guitar*Richey Edwards – guitar*Sean Moore – drums, percussion, backing vocals*Nicky Wire – bass, piano on Little Baby NothingAdditional personnel...
    
    
  • Morrissey – Your Arsenal
    Your Arsenal
    Your Arsenal is a 1992 album by British singer Morrissey, which was released through HMV Records. The album was regarded by many fans and critics as his strongest and heaviest effort yet upon its release...
    
    
  • Mudhoney – Piece of Cake
    Piece of Cake (album)
    Piece of Cake is the third studio album by the grunge band Mudhoney. Recorded and released in 1992, it was their first album released through Reprise Records...
    
    
  • Nine Inch Nails – Broken EP
  • No Doubt – No Doubt
    No Doubt
    No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...
    
    
  • Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
    Slanted and Enchanted
    Slanted and Enchanted is the debut studio album by American indie rock band Pavement, released in April 1992 on Matador Records. The album was distributed to critics as early as 1991, months before its official release; the original distribution did not feature the entire band as several members...
    
    
  • Public Image Ltd – That What Is Not
    That What Is Not
    That What Is Not was Public Image Ltd's eighth, and to date final album, released in 1992.-Track listing:# "Acid Drops"# "Luck's Up"# "Cruel"# "God"# "Covered"# "Love Hope"# "Unfairground"# "Think Tank"# "Emperor"# "Good Things"-Personnel:...
    
    
  • R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
    Automatic for the People
    Automatic for the People is the eighth album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1992 on Warner Bros. Records. While R.E.M...
    
    
  • Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine
    Rage Against the Machine (album)
    Rage Against the Machine is the debut studio album by rap metal band Rage Against the Machine. The album was released on November 10, 1992...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Ride – Going Blank Again
    Going Blank Again
    Going Blank Again is the second studio album by British alternative rock band Ride, released in March 1992 on Creation Records. It was produced by Alan Moulder, and peaked at #5 in the UK Albums Chart...
    
    
  • Screaming Trees – Sweet Oblivion
    Sweet Oblivion
    Sweet Oblivion is Screaming Trees' 6th full length album that was released on September 8, 1992. The recording was the band's highest landmark in terms of album sales, and was the closest they would come to ever achieving mainstream success...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Dirty
  • Soul Asylum – Grave Dancer's Union
  • Stone Temple Pilots – Core
    Core (Stone Temple Pilots album)
    The album was released on September 29, 1992 on Atlantic, the same day Alice in Chains released Dirt, another important album of the grunge era. Despite high sales, the album received mixed to negative reviews. Critics blasted the band as "rip-offs" of grunge bands such as Pearl Jam and Alice in...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Sublime – 40oz. to Freedom
    40oz. to Freedom
    40oz. to Freedom is the 1992 debut album by the Southern California ska-punk band Sublime released by Skunk Records and again by MCA. 40oz. to Freedom received mixed critical reviews upon its first release, but has earned an improved public perception since...
    
    
  • Sugar – Copper Blue
    Copper Blue
    Copper Blue was the debut album of the US alternative rock band Sugar. It was voted 1992 Album of the Year by the NME. All of the songs were written by guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould, who also co-produced with Lou Giordano. The song "The Slim" is about losing someone to AIDS...
    
    
  • They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18
    Apollo 18 (album)
    Apollo 18 is They Might Be Giants' fourth studio album. It was released in 1992 and named after the Apollo missions, the last of which was Apollo 17....
    
    
  • Ween – Pure Guava
    Pure Guava
    -Personnel:Dean Ween - Guitar, Vocals, EngineerGene Ween - Vocals, EngineerMean Ween - VocalsGuy Heller - Vocals on "Flies On My Dick"Scott Lowe - Vocals, Whistle Larry Curtin - Vocals , Whistle Howie Weinberg - Mastering...
    
    

• Events
  • Alternative rock fully breaks into the American mainstream consciousness, as albums and singles by bands such as Nirvana
    Nirvana (band)
    Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
    
    , Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...
    
    , Soundgarden
    Soundgarden
    Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...
    
    , Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...
    
    , Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr...
    
    , R.E.M.
    R.E.M.
    R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
    
    , Soul Asylum
    Soul Asylum
    Soul Asylum is an American alternative rock band that formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1983.The band originally formed in 1981 under the name Loud Fast Rules, with the original line-up consisting of Dan Murphy, Dave Pirner, Karl Mueller and Pat Morley. The latter was replaced by Grant Young in...
    
    , The Cure
    The Cure
    The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...
    
    , and Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
    
     reach the Top 40 of the Billboard
    Billboard (magazine)
    Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
    
    charts.
  • The grunge speak
    Grunge speak
    Grunge speak was a hoax created by Megan Jasper, receptionist for Sub Pop Records. Under pressure from a reporter for The New York Times who wanted to know if grunge fans had their own slang, Jasper, 25 at the time, told the reporter a set of slang terms that she claimed were associated with the...
    
     hoax appears in the November 15 issue of The New York Times
    The New York Times
    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
    
    .
  • Trent Reznor
    Trent Reznor
    Michael Trent Reznor is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Reznor is also a member of How to Destroy Angels alongside his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross. He was previously associated with bands Option 30,...
    
     founds Nothing Records
    Nothing Records
    Nothing Records was an American record label, specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by John Malm Jr. and Trent Reznor in 1992...
    
    .
  • Merge Records
    Merge Records
    Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as a way to release music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world and records...
    
     is founded by members of Superchunk
    Superchunk
    Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, consisting of singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s...
    
    .
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...
    
    ' guitarist John Frusciante
    John Frusciante
    John Anthony Frusciante is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record and film producer. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he had been for a number of years and recorded five studio albums...
    
     quits the band; he returns in 1998.

1993

• Newly formed bands
  • Black Grape
    Black Grape
    Black Grape were a 1990s rock band from England, featuring former members of Happy Mondays. The group's music was funky and eclectic, using varied instrumentation and samples.-History:...
    
    
  • Collective Soul
    Collective Soul
    Collective Soul is an American rock band originally formed in Stockbridge, Georgia. Collective Soul broke into mainstream popularity with their first hit single, "Shine", which came from their debut album Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid, released in 1993...
    
    
  • Eraserheads
  • Filter
    Filter (band)
    Filter is a rock group formed in 1993 in Cleveland by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang. Filter has released five studio albums, the most recent being The Trouble with Angels, which was released on August 17, 2010....
    
    
  • Folk Implosion
  • Garbage
    Garbage (band)
    Garbage are an alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1994. The group consists of Scottish singer Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson , Steve Marker and Butch Vig . All four members are involved in songwriting and production...
    
    
  • Modest Mouse
    Modest Mouse
    Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. They are based in Portland, Oregon. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think...
    
    
  • Jimmy Eat World
    Jimmy Eat World
    Jimmy Eat World is an American alternative rock band from Mesa, Arizona, that formed in 1993. The band is composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Jim Adkins, guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch and drummer Zach Lind....
    
    
  • The Presidents of the United States of America
    The Presidents of the United States of America (band)
    The Presidents of the United States of America, commonly referred to as Pot USA or "PUSA" or The Presidents, are a twice Grammy-nominated American alternative rock band. The band formed in Seattle, USA, in 1993. The three-piece group currently comprises vocalist and "basitarist" Chris Ballew,...
    
    
  • Billy Talent
    Billy Talent
    Billy Talent is a Canadian post-hardcore band from Streetsville, Ontario. They formed in 1993 with Ben Kowalewicz as the lead vocalist, Ian D'Sa on lead guitar, bassist Jon Gallant and drummer Aaron Solowoniuk ....
    
     (Formerly Pezz)
  • Soul Coughing
    Soul Coughing
    Soul Coughing was a popular New York-based alternative rock band. The band found modest mainstream success during the mid-to-late 1990s. Soul Coughing developed a devout fanbase and have garnered largely positive response from critics. Steve Huey describes the band as "one of the most unusual cult...
    
    
  • Super Furry Animals
    Super Furry Animals
    Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band that lean towards psychedelic rock and electronic experimentation. Since their formation in Cardiff, Wales in 1993, the band has consisted of Gruff Rhys , Huw Bunford , Guto Pryce , Cian Ciaran and Dafydd Ieuan Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band...
    
    
  • Supergrass
    Supergrass
    Supergrass was an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band consisted of brothers Gaz and Rob Coombes , Mick Quinn and Danny Goffey ....
    
    
  • Third Eye Blind
    Third Eye Blind
    Third Eye Blind is an American alternative rock band formed in the early 1990s in San Francisco. The songwriting duo of Kevin Cadogan and Stephan Jenkins signed the band's first major label recording contract with Elektra records in 1996 resulting in two multi platinum albums. The band's lineup...
    
    
  • Veruca Salt
    Veruca Salt (band)
    Veruca Salt is an alternative rock band founded in 1993 in Chicago, Illinois. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included vocalist-guitarist Louise Post. Guitarist Stephen Fitzpatrick has been with the band since 1999 and drummer Kellii Scott has worked with the group on and off since 1999...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Echo & the Bunnymen

• Albums
  • 311 – Music
    Music (311 album)
    - Charts :Album...
    
    
  • Björk – Debut
  • Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish
    Modern Life Is Rubbish
    Modern Life Is Rubbish is the second album by English alternative rock band Blur, released in May 1993. Although their debut album Leisure had been commercially successful, Blur faced a severe media backlash soon after its release, and fell out of public favour...
    
    
  • The Breeders – Last Splash
    Last Splash
    Last Splash is the second album by indie rock band The Breeders, released August 1993. Originally formed as a side project for Pixies bassist Kim Deal, The Breeders quickly became her primary recording outlet....
    
    
  • Butthole Surfers – Independent Worm Saloon
    Independent Worm Saloon
    Independent Worm Saloon is the sixth album by alternative rock band Butthole Surfers, released in 1993 on Capitol Records.-Track listing:# "Who Was in My Room Last Night?" – 4:09# "The Wooden Song" – 3:50# "Tongue" – 2:06...
    
    
  • Catherine Wheel – Chrome
  • The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
    Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
    Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? is the debut album by Irish rock band The Cranberries. Released in 1993, it was their first full-length album after having released four EPs, and is also their first major label release. The album was written entirely by the band's lead singer Dolores...
    
    
  • Depeche Mode – Songs of Faith and Devotion
    Songs of Faith and Devotion
    Songs of Faith and Devotion is the eighth album by the British electronic music group Depeche Mode, released in 1993 on Mute Records. The album incorporated more guitar textures than previous releases. Upon its release, Songs of Faith and Devotion reached number one in both the UK and US album...
    
    
  • Dinosaur Jr. – Where You Been
    Where You Been
    Where You Been is the fifth official studio album by Dinosaur Jr., released on February 9, 1993. "Start Choppin'" was their biggest hit, hitting number 3 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the U.S., and the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart. This was Murph's last recording with J Mascis until 2007's...
    
    
  • Eraserheads – UltraElectroMagneticPop!
    UltraElectroMagneticPop!
    UltraElectroMagneticPop! is the debut album of the Filipino alternative rock band The Eraserheads, it was released by Sony BMG Music Philippines Inc. in 1993. UltraElectroMagneticPop! spawned hit songs such as "Ligaya", "Tindahan Ni Aling Nena", and "Pare Ko"...
    
    
  • The Fall – The Infotainment Scan
    The Infotainment Scan
    The Infotainment Scan is an album by The Fall, released in 1993 on Permanent Records in the UK and by Matador Records in the US. It was considered at the time of its release as the band's most accessible album, and came when the band were experiencing unprecedented recognition in the media...
    
    
  • The Flaming Lips – Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
    Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
    Transmissions from the Satellite Heart is The Flaming Lips' sixth album, released in 1993. Its fourth track, "She Don't Use Jelly", is notable for being The Flaming Lips' first charting radio hit, after its video was featured on the MTV show Beavis and Butt-Head, nearly a year after the album's...
    
    
  • Fugazi – In on the Kill Taker
    In on the Kill Taker
    In on the Kill Taker is the third full-length studio album by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi. It was released on June 30th, 1993 through Dischord Records and was recorded at Inner Ear Studios and produced by Ted Nicely and Don Zientara...
    
    
  • Goo Goo Dolls – Superstar Car Wash
    Superstar Car Wash
    Superstar Car Wash is the fourth studio album by the Goo Goo Dolls, released in February, 1993 on Warner Bros.. John Rzeznik wrote the song "We Are the Normal" with his idol, The Replacements' singer Paul Westerberg. The two corresponded by mail but never sat in a studio together. The song "Fallin'...
    
    
  • Guided By Voices – Vampire on Titus
    Vampire on Titus
    Vampire on Titus is the sixth album by indie rock group Guided by Voices, from Dayton, Ohio, United States.The image on the cover is from The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary by Henry Lee, 1887...
    
    
  • PJ Harvey – Rid of Me
    Rid of Me
    Rid of Me is the second studio album by British musician PJ Harvey. It was released by Island Records in May 1993, approximately one year after the release of her critically acclaimed debut album Dry...
    
    
  • Hum – Electra 2000
    Electra 2000
    Electra 2000 is the second studio album by the Champaign, Illinois post-hardcore band Hum. Originally released in 1993 by 12 Inch Records, the first run was limited to 1,000 copies had the band's name printed in black lettering. The album also included "Monty Python Organ Grinder", an instrumental...
    
    
  • The Juliana Hatfield Three – Become What You Are
    Become What You Are
    Become What You Are is the debut album by The Juliana Hatfield Three, released in 1993.-Track listing:All songs by Juliana Hatfield unless otherwise stated.#"Supermodel" – 2:52#"My Sister" – 3:22#"This Is the Sound" – 3:01#"For the Birds" – 4:14...
    
    
  • The Lemonheads – Come on Feel the Lemonheads
    Come on Feel the Lemonheads
    Come On Feel the Lemonheads is an album by The Lemonheads. It was released on October 12, 1993 .Although the album did not maintain the same popularity as the previous album, It's a Shame About Ray, Come on Feel the Lemonheads reached number 56 on the Billboard 200, making it the Lemonheads'...
    
    
  • Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul
    Gold Against the Soul
    Gold Against the Soul is the second album by Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers released on June 14, 1993.All lyrics were written by Nicky Wire and Richey James Edwards, all music was written by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore.-Album overview:...
    
    
  • Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See
    So Tonight That I Might See
    So Tonight That I Might See is the second studio album by the dream pop band Mazzy Star, released on October 5, 1993. The album's first track, "Fade into You," was the band's only single to make the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #44...
    
    
  • Mudhoney – Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew
    Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew
    Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew is an EP by the grunge band Mudhoney released on October 26, 1993 by Reprise Records. Mudhoney vocalist Mark Arm described this EP as a chance for the band to "get new songs out for fans in between albums."...
    
    
  • New Order – Republic
    Republic (album)
    Republic is the sixth studio album by New Order. Released in 1993 by London Records, it was their first album released after the demise of Factory Records, and their last for eight years....
    
    
  • Nirvana – In Utero
  • Pearl Jam – Vs.
  • Liz Phair
    Liz Phair
    Phair's entry into the music industry began when she met guitarist Chris Brokaw, a member of the band Come. Brokaw and Phair moved to San Francisco together, and Phair tried to become an artist there...
    
     – Exile in Guyville
    Exile in Guyville
    The album, which was out of print, was again available on CD, vinyl and, for the first time, in digital format. The special reissue package includes three never-before-released songs from the original recording sessions: "Ant in Alaska", "Say You", and an untitled instrumental with Phair on guitar...
    
    
  • Porno for Pyros – Porno for Pyros
    Porno for Pyros (album)
    Porno for Pyros is the eponymous debut album by Porno for Pyros, which was the next project for Perry Farrell and Stephen Perkins after the demise of Jane's Addiction. It was released on April 27, 1993 after Jane's Addiction's break-up. The album contains the #1 Modern Rock single "Pets"...
    
    
  • Primus – Pork Soda
    Pork Soda
    -Personnel:Primus*Les Claypool – basses, mandolin, vocals*Larry LaLonde – guitar, six-string banjo*Tim "Herb" Alexander – drumsProduction*Derek Featherstone – engineer*Leslie Gerard-Smith – project coordinator...
    
    
  • Radiohead – Pablo Honey
    Pablo Honey
    Pablo Honey is the debut studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released in February 1993. The album was produced by Sean Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie and was recorded at Chipping Norton Studio and Courtyard Studio, Oxfordshire from September to November 1992...
    
    
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
    Siamese Dream
    Siamese Dream is the second album by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on July 27, 1993 on Virgin Records. The album fused diverse influences such as shoegazing, dream pop, grunge, classic rock, heavy metal, and progressive rock.Despite recording sessions fraught...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Stereolab – Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements
  • Suede – Suede
    Suede (album)
    Suede is the debut album by English alternative rock band Suede, released in March 1993 on Nude Records. At the time the fastest-selling debut album in British history, Suede debuted at the top of the UK Album Chart, won the 1993 Mercury Music Prize, and is often credited with starting the Britpop...
    
    
  • U2 – Zooropa
    Zooropa
    Zooropa Based on the pronunciations of "zoo" and "Europa". is the eighth studio album by rock band U2. Produced by Flood, Brian Eno, and The Edge, it was released on 5 July 1993 on Island Records. Inspired by the band's experiences on the Zoo TV Tour, Zooropa expanded on many of the tour's themes...
    
    
  • The Verve – A Storm in Heaven
    A Storm in Heaven
    A Storm in Heaven is the debut studio album by English rock band The Verve , released in June 1993 on the Hut Recordings label...
    
    
  • The Verve Pipe – Pop Smear
    Pop Smear
    Pop Smear is a 1993 album by The Verve Pipe. It was their last release before signing with RCA Records and gaining national recognition. It features more acoustic and harmony-based sounds than their later records...
    
    

• Events
  • Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...
    
     singer Eddie Vedder
    Eddie Vedder
    Eddie Vedder is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is best known for being the lead singer and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. He is widely considered a cultural icon of alternative rock.He is also involved in soundtrack work and contributes to albums...
    
     appears on the cover of the October 25 issue of Time as part of its feature article on the rising popularity of alternative rock.
  • Nirvana
    Nirvana (band)
    Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
    
     plays MTV Unplugged
    MTV Unplugged
    MTV Unplugged is a TV series showcasing many popular musical artists usually playing acoustic instruments. The show has received the George Foster Peabody Award and 3 Primetime Emmy nominations among many accolades.-Unplugged:...
    
     on November 18.
  • Mazzy Star
    Mazzy Star
    Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in Santa Monica, California, in 1989 from the group Opal, a collaboration of guitarist David Roback and bassist Kendra Smith...
    
     has some success with the single "Fade into You
    Fade into You
    "Fade Into You" was the highest charting song from alternative rock/dream pop group Mazzy Star. The song was written by lyricist Hope Sandoval and composer David Roback, who also served as producer. The song made the Top 5 of Billboard's Modern Rock chart in 1994, peaking at number three, and is...
    
    ", becoming the biggest hit for dream pop
    Dream pop
    Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, when bands like The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane began fusing post-punk and ethereal experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into dreamy, sensual soundscapes. The term was almost...
    
     in the mainstream.
  • Former Jane's Addiction
    Jane's Addiction
    Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell , Dave Navarro , Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins . After breaking up in 1991, Jane's Addiction briefly reunited in 1997 and again in 2001, both times...
    
     guitarist Dave Navarro
    Dave Navarro
    David Michael "Dave" Navarro is an American guitarist who plays in the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction and cover band Camp Freddy. He has also played with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Panic Channel, and many others.- Early life :...
    
     joins the Red Hot Chili Peppers after numerous guitarist changes.

1994

• Newly formed bands
  • The Dandy Warhols
    The Dandy Warhols
    The Dandy Warhols are an American alternative rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1994. The band was founded by singer-guitarist Courtney Taylor-Taylor and guitarist Peter Holmström, with keyboardist Zia McCabe and drummer Eric Hedford later joining. Hedford left in 1998 and was replaced by...
    
    
  • Evanescence
    Evanescence
    Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording private albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003. Fallen sold more than 17 million copies worldwide...
    
    
  • Foo Fighters
    Foo Fighters
    Foo Fighters is an American alternative rock band originally formed in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of his previous band. The band got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War...
    
    
  • Muse
    Goldfinger (band)
    Goldfinger is a Los Angeles pop punk/ska punk band that formed in 1994. Currently, the band is composed of vocalist/guitarist John Feldmann, guitarist Charlie Paulson, bassist Kelly LeMieux, and drummer Darrin Pfeiffer...
    
    
  • Hoobastank
    Hoobastank
    Hoobastank is an American rock band, best known for their 2004 hit "The Reason" and other hits "Crawling in the Dark" and "Running Away". They formed in 1994 in Agoura Hills, California, with singer Doug Robb, guitarist Dan Estrin, drummer Chris Hesse, and original bassist Markku Lappalainen. They...
    
    
  • Muse
    Muse (band)
    Muse are an English alternative rock band from Teignmouth, Devon, formed in 1994. The band consists of school friends Matthew Bellamy , Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard...
    
     (as Gothic Plague, later Fixed Penalty, and later Rocket Baby Dolls)
  • Placebo
    Placebo (band)
    Placebo are a British rock band from London, England, formed in 1994 by singer and guitarist Brian Molko and bass guitarist Stefan Olsdal. The band was joined by drummer Robert Schultzberg, who was later replaced by Steve Hewitt after conflicts with Molko. Hewitt left the band in October 2007 and...
    
    
  • The Rasmus
    The Rasmus
    The Rasmus are a Finnish rock band that formed in 1995 in Helsinki while the band members were still in upper comprehensive school. The original band members were Lauri Ylönen , Eero Heinonen , Pauli Rantasalmi and Janne Heiskanen...
    
    
  • Sleater-Kinney
    Sleater-Kinney
    Sleater-Kinney was an alternative rock band from Portland, Oregon that formed in 1994. Originally formed in Olympia, Washington, the group's name is derived from Sleater-Kinney Road, Interstate 5 off ramp #108 in Lacey, Washington, the location of one of their early practice spaces. They were a...
    
    
  • Snow Patrol
    Snow Patrol
    Snow Patrol are an alternative rock band from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Formed at the University of Dundee in 1994 as an indie rock band, the band is now based in Glasgow...
    
    
  • Spacehog
    Spacehog
    Spacehog is an English rock band formed in 1994. Their music is heavily influenced by David Bowie, Queen, and T.Rex.-Members:* Royston Langdon a.k.a. "Ray Sprinkles" – bass and vocals...
    
    
  • Supergrass
    Supergrass
    Supergrass was an English alternative rock band from Oxford. The band consisted of brothers Gaz and Rob Coombes , Mick Quinn and Danny Goffey ....
    
    
  • Wilco
    Wilco
    Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup has changed frequently, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Nirvana
  • Uncle Tupelo

• Albums
  • 311 – Grassroots
    Grassroots (album)
    -Personnel:*Nicholas Hexum - rhythm guitar, vocals*Tim Mahoney - guitar*S.A. Martinez - turntables, vocals*P-Nut - bass*Chad Sexton - percussion, drums-Production:*Producers: Eddie Offord, 311*Engineers: Eddie Offord, Scott Ralston, 311...
    
    
  • Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies
    Jar of Flies
    Jar of Flies is the third studio EP by the American rock band Alice in Chains, released on January 25, 1994 through Columbia Records. It is the first EP in music history to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 Chart and was well-received by critics.-Background and recording:Following Alice in...
    
    EP
  • Barenaked Ladies – Maybe You Should Drive
    Maybe You Should Drive
    - Singles :* "Jane"** Released: 1994** Formats: CD, cassette* "Alternative Girlfriend"** Released: 1995** Formats: CD- Charts :Album...
    
    
  • Beck
    Beck
    Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...
    
     – Mellow Gold
    Mellow Gold
    Mellow Gold is the third studio album by American alternative rock musician Beck, as well as his major label debut. Mellow Gold was released on March 1, 1994 on the strength of the surprise hit "Loser"...
    
    
  • Blur – Parklife
    Parklife
    Parklife is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band Blur, released in April 1994 on Food Records. After disappointing sales for their previous album Modern Life Is Rubbish , Parklife returned Blur to prominence in the UK, helped by its four hit singles: "Girls & Boys", "End of a...
    
    
  • Jeff Buckley
    Jeff Buckley
    Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...
    
     – Grace (breakthrough)
  • Bush – Sixteen Stone
    Sixteen Stone
    Sixteen Stone is the debut album of British rock band Bush. Released in 1994 through Trauma Records, it boasted numerous successful singles and is widely regarded as the band's most popular album.-Title:...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Cake
    Cake (band)
    Cake is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. Consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Gabe Nelson and drummer Paulo Baldi, the band has been noted for McCrea's sarcastic lyrics and deadpan voice, DiFiore's trumpet parts, and...
    
     – Motorcade of Generosity
    Motorcade of Generosity
    Motorcade of Generosity is the first studio album by American alternative rock band Cake. It was released on 7 February 1994 on Capricorn Records.-Reissue:...
    
    
  • Collective Soul – Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid
    Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid
    Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid is the debut album of Atlanta rock band Collective Soul. It was originally released as a demo on a small indie label in Atlanta called Rising Storm Records. However, the track "Shine" attracted attention to the band thanks to college radio...
    
    
  • The Cranberries – No Need to Argue
    No Need to Argue
    No Need to Argue is the second studio album by Irish rock band The Cranberries, released in 1994. It was the band's most successful album, and has sold about 17 million copies worldwide. It contains the band's most successful single to date, "Zombie". The album's mood is darker than that on...
    
    
  • Dinosaur Jr. – Without a Sound
    Without a Sound
    Without a Sound is the sixth studio album by alternative rock band Dinosaur Jr, released on August 23, 1994. It is the first Dinosaur Jr. album not to feature Murph on drums, who is replaced by vocalist and guitarist J. Mascis. It is also their most commercially successful album, peaking at number...
    
    
  • Eraserheads – Circus
    Circus (Eraserheads album)
    CiRcuS is the second studio album released by Filipino alternative rock group The Eraserheads in 1994. Hits from CiRcuS are "Alapaap", "Sembreak", "Kailan" , "Magasin", and "With A Smile"...
    
    
  • Green Day – Dookie
    Dookie
    Dookie is the third studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day. It was released on February 1, 1994 through Reprise Records. It was the band's first collaboration with producer Rob Cavallo and its major record label debut. Dookie became a worldwide commercial success, peaking at number...
    
     (breakthrough, popularizing of punk rock music)
  • Guided by Voices – Bee Thousand
    Bee Thousand
    Bee Thousand is the seventh album by American indie rock band Guided by Voices released on June 21, 1994. The album was recorded on consumer-quality audio recorders rather than in a studio, and many of the songs included were less than two minutes long...
    
    
  • Hole – Live Through This
    Live Through This
    Live Through This is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Hole. It was released by Geffen Records on April 12, 1994, just four days after frontwoman Courtney Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, was found dead in their home....
    
    
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain – Stoned & Dethroned
    Stoned & Dethroned
    Stoned & Dethroned is the fifth album by the Scottish alternative band The Jesus and Mary Chain. After spending most of 1992 touring, including a slot on that year's Lollapalooza tour, the band went into the studio during January 1993 with the notion of recording an acoustic album...
    
    
  • Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley
    Welcome to Sky Valley
    Welcome to Sky Valley is the third studio album by American stoner rock/metal band Kyuss, originally released on June 28, 1994.-Album information:...
    
    
  • Live – Throwing Copper
    Throwing Copper
    -Outtakes and B-sides:*"Hold Me Up"*"Susquehanna"*"We Deal in Dreams" -Album:-End-of-decade charts:-Singles:-Personnel:*Ed Kowalczyk: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar*Chad Taylor: Lead Guitar, Backing Vocal...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible
    The Holy Bible (album)
    The Holy Bible is the third studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 29 August 1994 by Epic Records and was the last of the band's albums released before the disappearance of lyricist and guitarist Richey Edwards , on 1 February 1995.Edwards was...
    
    
  • Meat Puppets – Too High to Die
    Too High to Die
    Too High to Die is the eighth album by the Meat Puppets, released on January 25, 1994. This album sold very well due to the success of its single "Backwater", which reached #2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The album itself also reached #1 on the Heatseekers chart, making it one of...
    
    
  • Morrissey – Vauxhall and I
    Vauxhall and I
    Vauxhall and I is a 1994 Parlophone album by British musician Morrissey. Q listed it as one of the top ten albums of 1994. The release cemented Morrissey's success in the US, giving him a top 20 album and his first hit single there with the song "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get"...
    
    
  • Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
    The Downward Spiral
    The Downward Spiral is the second studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released March 8, 1994, on Interscope Records. It is a concept album detailing the destruction of a man, from the beginning of his "downward spiral" to his climactic attempt at suicide...
    
    (most commercially successful album)
  • Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
    MTV Unplugged in New York
    MTV Unplugged in New York is a live album by the American rock band Nirvana. It features an acoustic performance taped at Sony Music Studios in New York City on November 18, 1993 for the television series MTV Unplugged. The show was directed by Beth McCarthy and first aired on the cable television...
    
    
  • The Nixons – Halo
  • Oasis – Definitely Maybe
    Definitely Maybe
    Definitely Maybe is the debut album by English rock band Oasis, released in August 1994. It was an immediate commercial and critical success in the UK, having followed on the heels of singles "Supersonic", "Shakermaker" and "Live Forever"....
    
    
  • The Offspring – Smash (breakthrough)
  • Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
    Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
    Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is an album released by Pavement in 1994. With this album, the band abandoned the lo-fi sound displayed on Slanted and Enchanted...
    
    
  • Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
    Vitalogy
    Vitalogy is the third studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on November 22, 1994 through Epic Records. Pearl Jam wrote and recorded Vitalogy while touring behind its previous album Vs....
    
    
  • Liz Phair – Whip-Smart
    Whip-Smart
    Critical reception was generally favorable. Richie Unterberger of Allmusic states that "if there are flaws in this generally first-rate follow-up, they mostly arise in comparison with Guyville, a record of such unexpected impact that most anything Phair could have done may have been found lacking"...
    
    
  • Portishead – Dummy
    Dummy (album)
    Dummy is the debut album of the Bristol-based group Portishead. Released in October 22, 1994 on Go! Discs, the album earned critical acclaim, winning the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularizing the trip-hop genre and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the...
    
    
  • Primal Scream – Give Out But Don't Give Up
    Give Out but Don't Give Up
    Give Out But Don't Give Up is a 1994 album by Primal Scream. It was the follow-up to the successful Screamadelica.-Track listing:All tracks written by Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes and Robert Young, unless noted.# "Jailbird" - 3:46# "Rocks" - 3:37...
    
    
  • Pulp – His 'n' Hers
    His 'n' Hers
    His 'n' Hers is the fourth studio album by Pulp and is commonly cited as the band's breakthrough album, reaching #9 in the UK charts. In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the 70th greatest album of all time. A "deluxe edition" of His 'n' Hers was released on 11 September 2006. It contained a second...
    
    
  • R.E.M – Monster
  • Ride – Carnival of Light
    Carnival of Light (album)
    Carnival of Light is the third studio album by British alternative rock band Ride, released in June 1994 via Creation Records. "How Does It Feel to Feel?" is a cover of a song by The Creation...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
    Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
    Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star is the eighth album by alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released in May 1994. The album includes one of the group's biggest hits, "Bull in the Heather"...
    
    
  • Soundgarden – Superunknown
    Superunknown
    Superunknown is the fourth album by American grunge band Soundgarden, released on March 8, 1994 through A&M Records. Soundgarden began work on the album after touring in support of its previous album, Badmotorfinger...
    
    
  • Sponge – Rotting Pinata
    Rotting Piñata
    Rotting Piñata is the debut album by American rock band Sponge, released in 1994 on Work Records. Hit singles from this album, such as "Molly" and "Plowed," helped launch the band's career and pushed the album to Gold. The name of the album came from a conversation the band had regarding shock punk...
    
    
  • Stereolab – Mars Audiac Quintet
    Mars Audiac Quintet
    Mars Audiac Quintet is an album by the band Stereolab, released in August 1994. Initial releases of the CD came with bonus two-track disk, the double vinyl album came with a 7'...
    
    
  • The Stone Roses – Second Coming
    Second Coming (album)
    Second Coming is the second studio album by The Stone Roses, released through Geffen Records on 5 December 1994 in the UK and in early 1995 in the US. It was recorded at Forge Studios in Oswestry, Shropshire and Rockfield Studios near Monmouth in Wales between 1992 and 1994...
    
    
  • Stone Temple Pilots – Purple
    Purple (album)
    -Notes:The opening of track 3, "Lounge Fly", was used as the theme for MTV News's short MTV News Break segments for several years in the mid-1990s....
    
    
  • Sublime – Robbin' the Hood
    Robbin' the Hood
    Robbin' the Hood is the second album by the Southern California ska punk band Sublime, which was released in 1994.- Context and production values :...
    
    
  • Suede – Dog Man Star
    Dog Man Star
    Dog Man Star is the second album by English alternative rock band Suede, released in October 1994 on Nude Records. It was the last Suede album to feature guitarist Bernard Butler, due to growing tensions between Butler and singer Brett Anderson ending with Butler leaving the band before the album...
    
    
  • They Might Be Giants – John Henry
    John Henry (album)
    John Henry is the name of They Might Be Giants' fifth original album, although it is the sixth disc in their discography. It was released in 1994. It is the first album in which John Linnell and John Flansburgh utilized a full band, as opposed to playing most or all of the instruments themselves....
    
    
  • Toadies – Rubberneck
  • Veruca Salt – American Thighs
    American Thighs
    American Thighs is the first album by alternative rock band Veruca Salt. It was released through Minty Fresh Records on September 27, 1994, and re-released through DGC Records on November 8, 1994 . The title is a reference to a line from the AC/DC song "You Shook Me All Night Long"...
    
    
  • Ween – Chocolate and Cheese
    Chocolate and Cheese
    Chocolate and Cheese is Ween's fourth studio album, originally released by Elektra Records in 1994. It was the first Ween album to eschew the crude four-track home recordings of their first three albums and utilize a professional recording studio...
    
    
  • Weezer – Weezer

• Events
  • Kurt Cobain
    Kurt Cobain
    Kurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...
    
     of Nirvana
    Nirvana (band)
    Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
    
     commits suicide on April 5; his body is found April 8.
  • Kristen Pfaff
    Kristen Pfaff
    Kristen Marie Pfaff was an American bass guitarist, best known for her work with Hole.-Early life and career:Pfaff was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, attending Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart. She spent a short time in Europe and briefly attended Boston College before ultimately...
    
     of Hole
    Hole (band)
    Hole is an American alternative rock band that originally formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The band is fronted by vocalist/songwriter and rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with former songwriter/lead guitarist Eric Erlandson...
    
     dies on June 16.
  • Soundgarden
    Soundgarden
    Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...
    
    's "Black Hole Sun
    Black Hole Sun
    "Black Hole Sun" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris finneran, "Black Hole Sun" was released in 1994 as the third single from the band's fourth studio album Superunknown . It is arguably the band's most recognizable and most popular song, and remains a well...
    
    " becomes a hit single; some cite it as the last major hit of the grunge era.
  • The term post-rock
    Post-rock
    Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...
    
     is coined by Simon Reynolds
    Simon Reynolds
    Simon Reynolds is an English music critic who is well-known for his writings on electronic dance music and for coining the term "post-rock". Besides electronic dance music, Reynolds has written about a wide range of artists and musical genres, and has written books on post-punk and rock...
    
     to describe the music of the likes of Stereolab
    Stereolab
    Stereolab are an alternative music band formed in 1990 in London, England. The band originally comprised songwriting team Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier , both of whom remained at the helm across many lineup changes...
    
     and Disco Inferno
    Disco Inferno (band)
    Disco Inferno was an English experimental rock band, formed in Essex in the late 1980s, by Ian Crause , Paul Wilmott , Rob Whatley and Daniel Gish .-History:...
    
    .
  • Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
    
    ' Richey Edwards is admitted to a psychiatric hospital around the release of The Holy Bible and misses some shows.
  • The Brett Anderson
    Brett Anderson
    Brett Lewis Anderson is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Suede. After Suede disbanded in 2003, he briefly fronted The Tears, and has released four solo albums...
    
    /Bernard Butler
    Bernard Butler
    Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician and record producer. He first emerged in the early Britpop era with Suede. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation, as well as one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists...
    
     songwriting partnership of Suede is ended when Butler walks out over musical differences.
  • Weezer
    Weezer
    Weezer is an American alternative rock band. The band currently consists of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Brian Bell , and Scott Shriner . The band has changed lineups three times since its formation in 1992...
    
     reaches number 30 on the U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 6 on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks with "Undone (The Sweater Song)" and 36 and 2 respectively with "Buddy Holly
    Buddy Holly (song)
    "Buddy Holly" is a song by the rock group Weezer, written by Rivers Cuomo. It was released as the second single from the band's debut album Weezer in 1994. The single was released on what would have been Buddy Holly's 58th birthday. The lyrics reference the song's 1950s namesake and actress Mary...
    
    ". The music video for "Buddy Holly" is included on the Windows 95
    Windows 95
    Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented graphical user interface-based operating system. It was released on August 24, 1995 by Microsoft, and was a significant progression from the company's previous Windows products...
    
     operating system disc.

1995

• Newly formed bands
  • Blue October
    Blue October
    Blue October is a rock band from Houston, Texas. The band was formed in 1995 and currently consists of Justin Furstenfeld , Jeremy Furstenfeld , Ryan Delahoussaye , Matt Noveskey , and Julian Mandrake .-History:Blue October was formed by lead...
    
    
  • Days of the New
    Days of the New
    Days of the New is an American alternative rock band from Louisville, Kentucky, formed in 1995. The band consists of vocalist/guitarist Travis Meeks and a variety of supporting musicians...
    
    
  • Kill Hannah
    Kill Hannah
    Kill Hannah is a rock band formed in 1993 in Chicago. The band has released six studio albums, seven EPs, and two compilation albums as well as three DVDs.-History:...
    
    
  • Kula Shaker
    Kula Shaker
    Kula Shaker are an English psychedelic rock band. Led by outspoken frontman Crispian Mills, the band came to prominence during the Post-Britpop era of the late 1990s. The band enjoyed great commercial success in the UK between 1996 and 1999, notching up a number of Top 10 hits on the UK Singles...
    
    
  • Mad Season
    Mad Season
    Mad Season was an American rock supergroup formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1994 by members of three popular Seattle-based bands: Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees. Mad Season only released one album, Above, and is best known for the single "River of Deceit"...
    
    
  • Mando Diao
    Mando Diao
    Mando Diao is an alternative rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The band got their breakthrough with the release of the album Hurricane Bar. Their main fan base is in Sweden, Germany, and Japan although their influence has recently spread to Western Europe, most notably the UK.-Origin:The roots of...
    
    
  • Mansun
    Mansun
    Mansun were an English alternative rock band formed in Chester in 1995. The band comprised vocalist/rhythm guitarist Paul Draper, bassist Stove King, lead guitarist/backing vocalist Dominic Chad, and drummer Andie Rathbone. The band broke up in May 2003....
    
    
  • Matthew Good
    Matthew Good
    Matthew Frederick Robert Good is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the band in 2002...
    
     Band
  • Mogwai
    Mogwai
    The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔怪 meaning "monster", "evil spirit", "devil" or "demon".-Mogwai/Mogui in Chinese culture:...
    
    
  • Mojave 3
    Mojave 3
    Mojave 3 are a British band, consisting of Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell, Simon Rowe, Alan Forrester, and Ian McCutcheon. Goswell, Halstead and McCutcheon previously played in Thames Valley shoegazing band Slowdive....
    
    
  • The Rentals
    The Rentals
    The Rentals are an American rock band fronted by vocalist Matt Sharp, best known as the former bass player for rock group Weezer. The band is best known for their mid-1990s hit single, "Friends of P.". The group has released two albums, Return of the Rentals and Seven More Minutes on Maverick...
    
    
  • Sparklehorse
    Sparklehorse
    Sparklehorse was an American indie rock band led by the singer and multi-instrumentalist Mark Linkous.-History:Sparklehorse's first album, Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot featuring Bob Rupe of the Silos and Cracker, was a modest college radio success...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • American Music Club
  • Kyuss
  • Meat Puppets
  • The Verve

• Albums
  • 311 – 311
    311 (album)
    311 is the third major-label album by American alternative rock band 311. The album, often referred to as "The Blue Album", was released July 25, 1995. The album contained three successful singles, "Don't Stay Home", "All Mixed Up", and "Down", resulting in the band's mainstream breakthrough. It...
    
    
  • Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains (album)
    Alice in Chains is the eponymous third studio album by the American rock band Alice in Chains. Released on November 7, 1995, it was the follow-up to the highly successful Dirt...
    
    
  • AFI – Answer That and Stay Fashionable
    Answer That and Stay Fashionable
    Answer That and Stay Fashionable is the debut studio album by American rock band AFI. It was originally released on August 1, 1995 through Wingnut Records. It was re-released on April 22, 1997 through Nitro Records.-Background:...
    
    
  • Better Than Ezra – Deluxe
  • Björk – Post 
  • Black Grape – It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah
    It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah
    It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah is the first album by British band Black Grape. It was released in 1995. The album was seen as something of a triumphant comeback for both Shaun Ryder and Bez...
    
    
  • Blind Melon – Soup
  • Blur – The Great Escape
  • Catherine Wheel – Happy Days
    Happy Days (album)
    Happy Days is the third full-length album by the English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel, released in 1995 . Like its predecessor, Chrome, it was produced by Gil Norton, and the influences of grunge and hard rock are prevalent on this album; however, the band does retain some elements of...
    
    
  • Collective Soul – Collective Soul
    Collective Soul
    Collective Soul is an American rock band originally formed in Stockbridge, Georgia. Collective Soul broke into mainstream popularity with their first hit single, "Shine", which came from their debut album Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid, released in 1993...
    
    
  • The Dandy Warhols – Dandys Rule OK
  • Elastica – Elastica
    Elastica (album)
    Elastica is the debut album by English alternative rock group Elastica, released in March 1995. At the time the fastest-selling debut album ever in the UK, Elastica was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. It hit #1 on the UK Albums Chart...
    
    
  • Eraserheads – Cutterpillow
    Cutterpillow
    Cutterpillow is the third studio album by Filipino alternative rock group The Eraserheads. It was released in the Philippines on December 8, 1995 by Sony BMG Music. The album became a highlight in Pinoy music as it introduced classic songs such as "Huwag Mo Nang Itanong", "Overdrive", and the...
    
    
  • Everclear – Sparkle and Fade
    Sparkle and Fade
    Sparkle and Fade is the second album by Everclear, released on May 23, 1995. It was their first album to be released exclusively on Capitol Records; their previous effort, World of Noise, was re-released on Capitol after its introduction through the Portland, Oregon based label, Tim/Kerr...
    
    
  • Faith No More – King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
    King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
    King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime is the fifth studio album by Faith No More, released in 1995. It was their first album recorded without longtime guitarist Jim Martin. The album showcased a greater variety than the band's usual heavy metal leanings, with Rolling Stone calling the end result a...
    
    
  • Filter - Short Bus
    Short Bus (album)
    Short Bus is the debut album from Filter. It was released in 1995 and has sold over 1 million copies in the United States. It's best known for their hit song "Hey Man Nice Shot".-Track listing:All songs were written by Richard Patrick....
    
    
  • The Flaming Lips – Clouds Taste Metallic
    Clouds Taste Metallic
    - Personnel :* Wayne Coyne - vocals, guitar* Steven Drozd - drums* Michael Ivins - bass* Ronald Jones - guitar- Cover versions :"Lightning Strikes the Postman" was covered by Scottish rock band Aereogramme on their album Seclusion....
    
    
  • Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters
    Foo Fighters (album)
    Foo Fighters is the debut album by the Foo Fighters. At the time, the only official member of the Foo Fighters was Dave Grohl, who wrote and recorded the entire album himself at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle, Washington in 1994, prior to organizing the band...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Fugazi – Red Medicine
    Red Medicine
    Red Medicine is the fourth full-length studio album by American post-hardcore band Fugazi, released on June 12th, 1995 through Dischord Records.-Background:...
    
    
  • Garbage – Garbage
    Garbage (album)
    Garbage is the debut album by Scottish/American alternative rock group Garbage. It was released in the late summer and autumn of 1995 worldwide, following critical acclaim and promising chart positions for their debut single "Vow", which entered the Billboard Hot 100.Garbage eventually spent over a...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Goo Goo Dolls – A Boy Named Goo
    A Boy Named Goo
    A Boy Named Goo, sometimes referred to as ABNG, is the fifth studio album by the Goo Goo Dolls, released in 1995 on Warner Brothers.-History:...
    
    
  • Green Day – Insomniac
  • Guided By Voices – Alien Lanes
    Alien Lanes
    Alien Lanes is a 1995 album by lo-fi band Guided by Voices, their eighth full length album.Pitchfork Media included Alien Lanes in their 'Top 100 Albums of the 90s' polls, at No. 27. Magnet named it the best album of 1995....
    
    
  • PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
    To Bring You My Love
    To Bring You My Love is the third studio album by British musician and singer-songwriter PJ Harvey. It was released by Island Records in February 1995. Recorded after the break-up of the PJ Harvey trio it stands as her first proper solo album...
    
    
  • Hum – You'd Prefer an Astronaut
    You'd Prefer an Astronaut
    You'd Prefer an Astronaut is the third studio album by the Champaign, Illinois post-hardcore band Hum. It was released in 1995 by RCA Records as their major label debut....
    
    
  • Incubus – Fungus Amongus
    Fungus Amongus
    -Personnel:* Brandon Boyd – Vocals, Percussion* Mike Einziger – Guitar, Keyboards, Samples* Dirk Lance – Bass, Vocals* Jose Pasillas – Drums...
    
    
  • Kyuss – ...And the Circus Leaves Town
    ...And the Circus Leaves Town
    ...And the Circus Leaves Town is the fourth studio album by American stoner rock/metal band Kyuss, released on July 11, 1995.Upon its release, the album was not as commercially or critically successful as the previous Blues for the Red Sun and Welcome to Sky Valley...
    
    (final album)
  • Local H – Ham Fisted
    Ham Fisted
    Ham Fisted is the first album by the alternative rock band Local H. It was released in 1995 on Polygram Records.-Track listing:All songs by Local H#"Feed" – 2:38#"Cynic" – 5:01#"Mayonnaise and Malaise" – 4:46#"User" – 2:50#"Manipulator" – 4:09...
    
    
  • Mad Season – Above
  • Matthew Good Band – Last of the Ghetto Astronauts
    Last of the Ghetto Astronauts
    Last of the Ghetto Astronauts was the debut album of the Matthew Good Band. It was released independently in 1995 on a budget of roughly $5,000 CAD. With the singles "Alabama Motel Room", "Symbolistic White Walls", the album achieved incredible popularity, particularly in western Canada...
    
    
  • Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
    Jagged Little Pill
    Jagged Little Pill is the third studio album by Canadian recording artist and songwriter Alanis Morissette. It was Morissette's first internationally released album, and her first studio album after the three year hiatus following her break with MCA Records. The album marked a shift from her style...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Morrissey – Southpaw Grammar
    Southpaw Grammar
    Southpaw Grammar is the fifth solo album by the British alternative rock singer Morrissey. It was released in August 1995 and charted at number 66 in the United States and at number 4 in the United Kingdom...
    
    
  • Mudhoney – My Brother the Cow
    My Brother the Cow
    My Brother the Cow is the fourth album by the grunge band Mudhoney. It was released on Reprise Records on March 28, 1995 . Of note is the CD version of the album's hidden 13th track, which consists of all of the album's preceding tracks played backwards."My Brother The Cow" is notable for its...
    
    
  • No Doubt – The Beacon Street Collection
    The Beacon Street Collection
    In 1994, before recording of the album had even begun, No Doubt released two seven-inch singles for their fans. The first was "Squeal", a song written by Eric Stefani, detailing a criminal's reaction to her partner's betrayal to the police. They had agreed to be "in this together" but, after he...
    
    
  • No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom
    Tragic Kingdom
    Tragic Kingdom is the third studio album by the American third wave ska band No Doubt. It was released on October 10, 1995, on Trauma Records, a division of Interscope Records. The album was produced by Matthew Wilder, mixed by Paul Palmer, and recorded in 11 studios in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
    (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
    Morning Glory? is the second studio album by the English rock band Oasis. It was released on 2 October 1995 through Creation Records. The album was Oasis' most enduring commercial success, charting at number one in the UK and number four in the U.S...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Our Lady Peace – Naveed
    Naveed (album)
    Naveed is the debut album by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace. It was produced by Arnold Lanni, and was released on March 22, 1994 by Sony Music Canada. Naveed became a success in Canada, selling over 100,000 copies by the end of the year. There were five singles released for the album,...
    
    
  • Pavement – Wowee Zowee
    Wowee Zowee
    Wowee Zowee is the third studio album by Pavement. The album showcased a more experimental and spontaneous side of the group, returning them to the clatter and unpredictability of their early recordings after the classic rock vibe of 1994's Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain...
    
    
  • Primus – Tales from the Punchbowl
    Tales from the Punchbowl
    -Critical reception:In his review for Allmusic, Daniel Gioffre describes the album as "unabashed prog rock... which even the thick dollops of irony that the band seeks to impart to its compositions are unable to mask completely." He also notes that "the high-energy angular rhythms that Primus is...
    
    
  • Pulp – Different Class
    Different Class
    Different Class is an album by English Britpop band Pulp. It was released in 1995 at the height of Britpop, and led to the band being regarded as part of that movement. Two of the singles on the album – "Common People" and "Disco 2000" – were especially notable, and helped propel Pulp to...
    
    
  • Radiohead – The Bends
    The Bends
    The Bends is the second studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on 13 March 1995 by Parlophone. The Bends was produced by John Leckie at EMI's studios in London, and engineered by Nigel Godrich, who would go on to produce all future albums by the band...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute
    One Hot Minute
    One Hot Minute is the sixth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on September 12, 1995, on Warner Bros. Records...
    
    
  • Red House Painters – Ocean Beach
    Ocean Beach (album)
    -Double 10" vinyl release:-Release history:-Notes:* Additional musicians: Dan Barbee and Carrie Bradley.* Recorded and mixed at Coast Recorders, San Francisco....
    
    
  • The Rentals – Return of the Rentals
  • Seven Mary Three – Churn
    Churn (Seven Mary Three album)
    Churn is the debut studio album by American post-grunge band Seven Mary Three. It was independently released and preceded the band's mainstream breakthrough, American Standard. Churn also included two songs that would go on to be among Seven Mary Three's biggest singles. The album was re-released...
    
    
  • Seven Mary Three – American Standard
    American Standard (album)
    American Standard is the second studio album by American post-grunge band Seven Mary Three. It was released on September 5, 1995 on Mammoth Records. The album would be Seven Mary Three's breakthrough success, rising to #24 on the Billboard 200 and going platinum...
    
    
  • Silverchair – Frogstomp
    Frogstomp
    Frogstomp is the debut album of Australian rock band Silverchair. It was released in Australia in early 1995, when the members were only 15 years of age, by a subsidiary of Sony Records and reached number one on the album charts. On 20 June 1995, Frogstomp was released by Epic Records in the U.S...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Rapture
    The Rapture (album)
    The Rapture is the eleventh and final studio album by Siouxsie and the Banshees. The songs with cello arrangements, including the title track plus "Fall from Grace" and "Not Forgotten", were produced by the band on their own in 1993...
    
    
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the third album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released October 24, 1995 on Virgin Records. Produced by frontman Billy Corgan with Flood and Alan Moulder, the twenty-eight-track album was released as a two-disc CD and triple LP...
    
    (most commercially successful album)
  • Sonic Youth – Washing Machine
  • Spacehog – Resident Alien
    Resident Alien
    Resident Alien is the debut album from the British glam rock band Spacehog. Released by Elektra Records on 24 October 1995, the album was certified as gold on 29 July 1996 and included the hit single "In the Meantime", which reached the top of the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the United States,...
    
    (breakthrought)
  • Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
    Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
    Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot is the 1995 debut album by Sparklehorse. The album was largely recorded with musicians from Cracker, for which Mark Linkous worked at the time as guitar tech, roadie, and sometimes collaborator...
    
    
  • Supergrass – I Should Coco
    I Should Coco
    I Should Coco is the debut studio album by English alternative rock band Supergrass, released through Parlophone in May 1995. Supergrass were formed in 1993 by Gaz Coombes, Mick Quinn and Danny Goffey and they released their debut single from the album, "Caught by the Fuzz", in May 1995 on the...
    
    
  • The Verve – A Northern Soul
    A Northern Soul
    A Northern Soul is the second studio album by English alternative rock band The Verve. The album was released in the United States on 20 June 1995 on the Hut label and in the United Kingdom on 3 July 1995 on Vernon Yard Records...
    
    
  • Wilco – A.M.
    A.M. (album)
    A.M. is the debut album of Chicago-based alternative rock band Wilco, released on March 28, 1995. The album was released only months after the breakup of Uncle Tupelo, an alternative country band that was the predecessor of Wilco...
    
    

• Events
  • Shannon Hoon
    Shannon Hoon
    Richard Shannon Hoon was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He was the frontman and lead singer of the band Blind Melon until his death from a cocaine overdose in 1995.-Early life:...
    
     of Blind Melon
    Blind Melon
    Blind Melon is an American rock band active from 1989 to 1999, and from 2006 onward.Best remembered for their 1993 single "No Rain", the group enjoyed critical and commercial success in the early 1990s with their neo-psychedelic take on alternative rock...
    
     is found dead on October 21.
  • Richard James Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
    
     disappears on February 1. He was presumed deceased in November 2008. The following year, the band released Journal for Plague Lovers
    Journal for Plague Lovers
    Journal for Plague Lovers is the ninth studio album by the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 18 May 2009, and features posthumous lyrics by Richey Edwards, who vanished on 1 February 1995, and was presumed deceased in 2008. It is the only Manic Street Preachers album...
    
    containing only songs penned by Edwards.
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan frontman and James Iha , the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin , D'arcy Wretzky , and currently includes Jeff Schroeder Mike Byrne , and Nicole Fiorentino The Smashing...
    
     release Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is the third album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released October 24, 1995 on Virgin Records. Produced by frontman Billy Corgan with Flood and Alan Moulder, the twenty-eight-track album was released as a two-disc CD and triple LP...
    
     debuting at number one on the Billboard 200
    Billboard 200
    The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
    
     and selling nearly 10 million copies becoming the most successful double album in alternative rock.
  • Third wave ska becomes popular, with bands such as No Doubt
    No Doubt
    No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...
    
    , The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
    The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
    The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1983. Since the band's inception, lead vocalist Dicky Barrett, bassist Joe Gittleman, tenor saxophonist Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton and dancer Ben Carr have remained constant members...
    
    , Reel Big Fish
    Reel Big Fish
    Reel Big Fish is an American ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out". The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the third wave of ska with the release of the gold certified album Turn the Radio Off. Soon after, the band...
    
    , and Sublime
    Sublime (band)
    Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band's line-up, unchanged until their breakup, consisted of Bradley Nowell , Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh . Michael "Miguel" Happoldt also contributed on a few Sublime songs, such as "New Thrash." Lou Dog, Nowell's...
    
     seeing commercial success.
  • The "Battle of Britpop
    Britpop
    Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...
    
    " occurs between Blur and Oasis when they release their "Country House" and "Roll With It" singles on the same day.
  • Alan Wilder
    Alan Wilder
    Alan Charles Wilder is a British musician, formerly of Depeche Mode. His current musical project is called Recoil, started as a side project to Depeche Mode. When he left the latter in 1995, it became Wilder's primary project...
    
     leaves Depeche Mode, claiming lack of credit for the band's work and Dave Gahan's battle with drugs as primary reasons for leaving. The band continues as a three-piece band.
  • The film Empire Records
    Empire Records
    Empire Records is a 1995 coming of age film that follows a group of record store employees over the course of one exceptional day. The employees of this independent music store try to fight off a large chain, all while learning about each other...
    
     is released, featuring a soundtrack of notable alternative rock acts as The Cranberries
    The Cranberries
    The Cranberries are an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989 under the name The Cranberry Saw Us, later changed by vocalist Dolores O'Riordan. The band currently consists of O'Riordan, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan and drummer Fergal Lawler...
    
    , Toad the Wet Sprocket
    Toad the Wet Sprocket
    Toad the Wet Sprocket is an American alternative rock band formed in 1986. The band consists of singer/guitarist Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning, and drummer Randy Guss. The band enjoyed chart success in the 1990s with the singles "Walk on the Ocean," "All I Want,"...
    
    , Better than Ezra
    Better Than Ezra
    Better Than Ezra is an American alternative rock trio based in New Orleans, Louisiana.-Formation and early success:Better Than Ezra was formed in 1988 by its four original members - vocalist and guitarist Kevin Griffin; Joel Rundell, the lead guitarist; bassist Tom Drummond; and drummer, Cary...
    
    , and the hit single "Til I Hear it From You" by the Gin Blossoms
    Gin Blossoms
    Gin Blossoms is an American pop rock band formed in 1987, in Tempe, Arizona. They took their name from a photo of W.C. Fields which bore the caption "W.C. Fields with gin blossoms", referring to what appeared to be the actor's gin-ravaged nose, but was actually a skin condition known as rosacea...
    
    .

1996

• Newly formed bands
  • A
    A (band)
    A are a British alternative rock band from Suffolk, England, that formed in 1993. They have released four albums, and two live mini-albums.In 2002, the band enjoyed a brief period of commercial success, in which "Nothing", the first single from Hi-Fi Serious , charted at #9 on the UK singles chart...
    
    
  • Belle & Sebastian
    Belle & Sebastian
    Belle and Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow in January 1996. Belle and Sebastian are often compared with influential indie bands such as The Smiths, as well as classic acts such as Love, Bob Dylan and Nick Drake. The name Belle & Sebastian comes from Belle et Sébastien, a 1965...
    
    
  • Camera Obscura
    Camera Obscura (band)
    Camera Obscura are an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band formed in 1996 and have released four albums to date.-History:Camera Obscura were formed in 1996 by Tracyanne Campbell, John Henderson, and Gavin Dunbar. Several other members performed with the band before David Skirving joined...
    
    
  • Gomez
    Gomez (band)
    Gomez are an English indie rock band from Southport, comprising Ian Ball , Paul "Blackie" Blackburn , Tom Gray , Ben Ottewell and Olly Peacock . The band is distinguished for having three singers and four songwriters, employing traditional and electronic instruments...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • The Pogues
  • Ride
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • The Stone Roses
  • Sublime

• Reunions
  • Echo & the Bunnymen

• Albums
  • AFI – Very Proud of Ya
    Very Proud of Ya
    On iTunes, two songs were misspelled. "Fishbowl" was misspelled "Fishbool" and "Modern Epic" was mistakenly "Modern Epidemic" but those were later corrected.-Personnel:*Producer: Michael Rosen, AFI*Engineer: Michael Rosen*Recorded At: TML Studios, Hayward, CA...
    
    
  • Alice in Chains – Unplugged
    Unplugged (Alice in Chains album)
    *The DVD release shows another take of "Sludge Factory", in which Layne Staley mixes up the lyrics at the beginning of the song which is ended shortly after...
    
    
  • Asian kung-fu generation - Asian Kung-Fu Generation
    Asian Kung-fu Generation
    , typeset as ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, is a Japanese rock band formed in Yokohama, Japan in 1996. For nearly its entire career, the band has consisted of vocalist Masafumi Gotō, guitarist Kensuke Kita, bassist Takahiro Yamada, and drummer Kiyoshi Ijichi...
    
    

• • Barenaked Ladies – Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle
    Rock Spectacle is a live album by Barenaked Ladies and their first live release. This was the album that finally broke the American market for BNL, with the live version of "Brian Wilson" and a release of "The Old Apartment" from Born on a Pirate Ship featuring this live version becoming hits, and...
    
    
  • Beck – Odelay
    Odelay
    Odelay is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck, originally released on June 18, 1996, by DGC Records.After the mainstream success of "Loser", Odelay featured several hit singles, including "Where It's At", "Devils Haircut", and "The New Pollution"...
    
    
  • Belle & Sebastian – If You're Feeling Sinister
    If You're Feeling Sinister
    If You're Feeling Sinister is the second album by Scottish pop group Belle & Sebastian, released on the independent label Jeepster Records in the United Kingdom and Matador Records in the United States...
    
    
  • Belle & Sebastian – Tigermilk
    Tigermilk
    Tigermilk is the 1996 debut album from Scottish pop group Belle & Sebastian. Originally given a limited release by Electric Honey, the album was subsequently re-released in 1999 by Jeepster Records...
    
    
  • Better Than Ezra – Friction, Baby
    Friction, Baby
    Friction, Baby is Better Than Ezra's third album. It was released on August 13, 1996. After this album was released, they took the year off in 1997 after touring.The album's title comes from a television interview with Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones...
    
    
  • Blind Melon – Nico
    Nico (album)
    Nico is the third album by the band Blind Melon, released in 1996 by Capitol Records. The album was released after lead singer Shannon Hoon's cocaine overdose that resulted in his death in 1995. The album was named for his daughter, Nico Blue, and the proceeds arising from album sales were placed...
    
    
  • Bush – Razorblade Suitcase
    Razorblade Suitcase
    Razorblade Suitcase is the second album by the British grunge band Bush, released in November 1996 by Trauma Records. The album is widely believed to have signaled the demise of the "grunge" genre, as it was one of the last widely-known albums released bearing a grunge-sound.-Album title:The...
    
    
  • Butthole Surfers – Electriclarryland
    Electriclarryland
    Electriclarryland is the seventh studio album by the American alternative rock band Butthole Surfers, released in April 1996 . This album brought the Butthole Surfers their first Top 40 hit with "Pepper". The album was certified gold by the RIAA on August 20, 1996.The title of this album is a...
    
    
  • The Cranberries – To the Faithful Departed
    To the Faithful Departed
    To the Faithful Departed is the third studio album by Irish rock band The Cranberries, released in 1996. This album was made in memory of Denny Cordell who signed the band to Island Records and Joe , who had both died that year.In the U.S., the album has sold 1.7 million copies as of April 2007...
    
    
  • The Cure – Wild Mood Swings
    Wild Mood Swings
    Wild Mood Swings is the tenth studio album by British band The Cure, released in 1996 .-History:After Wish, it seemed The Cure was on the brink of being disbanded due to the departure of Porl Thompson and Boris Williams. Simon Gallup was also forced to take a vacation due to health problems, which...
    
    
  • Cake – Fashion Nugget
    Fashion Nugget
    Fashion Nugget is the second studio album by Cake, an alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. It was released in 1996, and contains 14 songs. "The Distance" became one of the band's biggest hits...
    
    
  • Dave Matthews Band – Crash
    Crash (Dave Matthews Band album)
    Crash is the second studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on April 30, 1996. It includes the band's most successful single, "Crash into Me".The album has been certified 7× platinum.-Track listing:All songs by David J...
    
    
  • Eraserheads – Fruitcake
    Fruitcake (Eraserheads album)
    Fruitcake is the fourth commercial album and the only concept album of the Eraserheads, released in 1996 by Sony BMG Music Philippines Inc. . It is also the official Christmas album and accompanied by a separate storybook, also called Fruitcake, and can be categorized as a musical itself...
    
    
  • Gin Blossoms – Congratulations… I'm Sorry
    Congratulations… I'm Sorry
    Congratulations I'm Sorry is the third studio album by American pop rock band Gin Blossoms, and the follow-up album to the successful 1992 release New Miserable Experience, released in 1996 by A&M records...
    
    
  • Guided By Voices – Under the Bushes, Under the Stars
  • Guided By Voices – Tonics and Twisted Chasers
    Tonics and Twisted Chasers
    Tonics and Twisted Chasers is a Guided by Voices album, initially released as a 19-track limited-edition fanclub-only vinyl LP in 1996. The following year, it was released in an unlimited CD edition, with five additional tracks...
    
    
  • Kula Shaker – K
  • The Lemonheads – Car Button Cloth
    Car Button Cloth
    Car Button Cloth was alternative rock band The Lemonheads' last album before the band's 8-year breakup from 1997 to 2005. The album, originally released in 1996, was also the band's last studio album until the 2006 release of The Lemonheads....
    
    
  • Local H – As Good as Dead
    As Good as Dead
    As Good as Dead is the second album released by Illinois-based alternative rock duo Local H. It was released in April 1996 on Island Records. This album is notable for including some of Local H's most recognizable songs, including "High-Fiving MF", "Fritz's Corner", "Eddie Vedder", and the hit...
    
    
  • Lush – Lovelife
    Lovelife (album)
    Lovelife is the third and final album by British shoegazing act Lush. On this album, the band left their dream pop/shoegazing-styled music and went for a more Britpop-styled sound...
    
    
  • Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
    Everything Must Go (Manic Street Preachers album)
    Everything Must Go is the fourth album by Manic Street Preachers, released in 1996. It contains five songs with lyrics by Richey James Edwards, who disappeared and presumed to have died circa 1 February 1995 and was the last album to feature his contributions until Journal for Plague Lovers...
    
    
  • Nirvana – From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
    From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
    From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah is a live album by the American grunge band, Nirvana. It was released on October 1, 1996 and features live performances recorded from 1989 to 1994...
    
    
  • Pearl Jam – No Code
    No Code
    No Code is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on August 27, 1996 through Epic Records. Following a troubled tour for its previous album, Vitalogy , in which Pearl Jam engaged in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster, the band went into the studio...
    
    
  • Phish – Billy Breathes
    Billy Breathes
    Billy Breathes is the sixth official studio album by American rock band Phish. It remains one of the most popular Phish albums, and is credited with connecting the band to a more mainstream audience beyond its strong cult following...
    
    
  • Placebo – Placebo
    Placebo (album)
    Placebo is the self-titled debut studio album by British alternative rock band Placebo, released on the Hut Records label on 16 July 1996.-Reception:In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the 87th greatest album of all time...
    
    
  • Porno for Pyros – Good God's Urge
    Good God's Urge
    Good God's Urge is the second and last album by Porno for Pyros. It was released on May 28, 1996. The band went on a brief hiatus shortly after this album's release because guitarist Peter DiStefano was diagnosed with cancer....
    
    
  • Primitive Radio Gods – Rocket
    Rocket
    A rocket is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle which obtains thrust from a rocket engine. In all rockets, the exhaust is formed entirely from propellants carried within the rocket before use. Rocket engines work by action and reaction...
    
    
  • The Rasmus – Peep
    Peep (album)
    Peep is the debut album by Finnish alternative rock band The Rasmus , released on 23 September 1996 on Warner Music Finland....
    
    
  • Rage Against the Machine – Evil Empire
    Evil Empire (album)
    -Track listing:All songs written and arranged by Rage Against the Machine and all lyrics by Zack de la Rocha.#"People of the Sun" – 2:30#"Bulls on Parade" – 3:49#"Vietnow" – 4:39#"Revolver" – 5:30#"Snakecharmer" – 3:56#"Tire Me" – 3:00#"Down Rodeo" – 5:20...
    
    
  • Red House Painters – Songs for a Blue Guitar
    Songs for a Blue Guitar
    -Release history:-Credits:* Performed and produced by Mark Kozelek.* Recorded at:** Record Two Studios, Mendocino County, Comptche, California.** Hyde Street Studios, San Francisco.** Polk Street Recording, San Francisco....
    
    
  • R.E.M. – New Adventures in Hi-Fi
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi
    New Adventures in Hi-Fi is the tenth studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was their fifth major label release for Warner Bros. Records, released on September 9, 1996, in Europe and Australia and the following day in the United States...
    
    
  • Ride – Tarantula
  • Sleater-Kinney – Call the Doctor
    Call the Doctor
    Call the Doctor is the second album by the punk band Sleater-Kinney. It was released on March 25, 1996 on Chainsaw.Allmusic praised the album, saying: "Forget the riot grrrl implications inherent in the trio's music — Call the Doctor is pure, undiluted punk, and it's brilliant." The album also...
    
    
  • Soundgarden – Down on the Upside
    Down on the Upside
    Down on the Upside is the fifth studio album by the American grunge band Soundgarden, released on May 21, 1996 through A&M Records. Following a worldwide tour in support of its previous album, Superunknown , Soundgarden commenced work on a new album...
    
    
  • Sponge – Wax Ecstatic
    Wax Ecstatic
    Wax Ecstatic is the second album by the band Sponge. It was released in 1996 on Columbia Records. Originally intended to be a concept album revolving around the death of a Memphis drag queen, that idea was aborted, though many of the tracks that ended up making the cut originated from this...
    
    
  • Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
  • Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
    Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
    -Album:-Singles:-References:...
    
    
  • Sublime – Sublime (album)
    Sublime (album)
    Sublime is the third and final album released by ska-punk band Sublime. Originally intended to be titled Killin' It, the band and record label agreed to substitute an eponymous title due to lead singer Bradley Nowell's death prior to the album's release...
    
    
  • Suede – Coming Up
  • Superdrag – Regretfully Yours
    Regretfully Yours
    Regretfully Yours is the thirteen-song major-label debut album released by Superdrag on Elektra Records in 1996. The first single off Regretfully Yours was "Sucked Out", which ironically expressed disdain for the major-label music industry....
    
    
  • They Might Be Giants – Factory Showroom
    Factory Showroom
    Factory Showroom is the sixth studio album by the band They Might Be Giants. It was released in 1996 through Elektra Records....
    
    
  • The Verve Pipe – Villains
  • Ween – 12 Golden Country Greats
    12 Golden Country Greats
    The original version of "Powder Blue" runs for 4:16 and ends with a sample from Muhammad Ali. Ween were denied permission to use the sample by the Ali lawyers, but Elektra pressed the album accidentally...
    
    
  • Weezer – Pinkerton
    Pinkerton (album)
    Pinkerton is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on September 24, 1996. After finishing tours in promotion of their 1994 album Weezer, the band originally planned to record a space-themed rock opera entitled Songs from the Black Hole...
    
    
  • Wilco – Being There
    Being There
    Being There is a 1979 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby. Adapted from the 1971 novella written by Jerzy Kosinski, the screenplay was coauthored by Kosinski and Robert C. Jones. The film stars Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard A...
    
    

• Events
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan frontman and James Iha , the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin , D'arcy Wretzky , and currently includes Jeff Schroeder Mike Byrne , and Nicole Fiorentino The Smashing...
    
    ' touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin
    Jonathan Melvoin
    Jonathan Melvoin was an American musician active in the 1980s and 1990s.He was the brother of Susannah and Wendy Melvoin of Prince and the Revolution. He first learned to play drums, and was cited by friends and relatives as one of those people who could play anything...
    
     dies of an overdose on July 12 while using heroin with drummer Jimmy Chamberlin
    Jimmy Chamberlin
    Jimmy Chamberlin is an American drummer, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the former drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. After a drug-related incident with touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin in 1996, Chamberlin was fired from the band and joined The Last...
    
    . Chamberlin is subsequently fired and the band continues as a three-piece until his return in 1999.
  • Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr...
    
     makes their last appearance on MTV Unplugged
    Unplugged (Alice in Chains album)
    *The DVD release shows another take of "Sludge Factory", in which Layne Staley mixes up the lyrics at the beginning of the song which is ended shortly after...
    
    .
  • Hype!
    Hype!
    Hype! is a documentary directed by Doug Pray about the popularity of grunge rock in the early to mid-1990s United States. It incorporates interviews and rare concert footage to trace the steps of grunge, from its subversive inception in neighborhood basements, to its explosion as a pop culture...
    
    , a documentary about the grunge scene of the early 1990s, is released.
  • R.E.M.
    R.E.M.
    R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
    
     sign a new deal with Warner Bros. worth million. At the time, it was the largest record contract in history.
  • Bradley Nowell
    Bradley Nowell
    Bradley James Nowell was an American musician who served as lead singer and guitarist of the Californian band Sublime. He died at the age of 28 from a heroin overdose shortly before the release of Sublime's self-titled major label debut.Raised in Long Beach, California, Nowell developed an...
    
     of the third-wave ska band Sublime
    Sublime (band)
    Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band's line-up, unchanged until their breakup, consisted of Bradley Nowell , Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh . Michael "Miguel" Happoldt also contributed on a few Sublime songs, such as "New Thrash." Lou Dog, Nowell's...
    
     dies of a heroin overdose. The band splits up soon after Nowell's death.
  • Beck
    Beck
    Beck Hansen is an American musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, known by the stage name Beck...
    
    's album Odelay
    Odelay
    Odelay is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck, originally released on June 18, 1996, by DGC Records.After the mainstream success of "Loser", Odelay featured several hit singles, including "Where It's At", "Devils Haircut", and "The New Pollution"...
    
     gains critical acclaim for heavy sampling by the Dust Brothers
    Dust Brothers
    The Dust Brothers are the Los Angeles, California based, Grammy Award winning producers, E.Z. Mike and King Gizmo , famous for their sample-based music in the 1980s and 1990s, and specifically for their work on the albums Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys, Odelay by Beck, and the soundtrack to...
    
     spearheading the electronica
    Electronica
    Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
    
     movement.

1997

• Newly formed bands
  • Coldplay
    Coldplay
    Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London. After they formed Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish. Will Champion joined as a...
    
    
  • Death Cab for Cutie
    Death Cab for Cutie
    Death Cab for Cutie is an American alternative rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Ben Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nick Harmer and Jason McGerr ....
    
    
  • Motion City Soundtrack
    Motion City Soundtrack
    Motion City Soundtrack is an American rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 1997. The band consists of founding members Justin Pierre and Joshua Cain , along with keyboardist and moog synthesist Jesse Johnson, bassist and backing vocalist Matthew Taylor, and drummer, percussionist and...
    
    
  • Queens of the Stone Age
    Queens of the Stone Age
    Queens of the Stone Age is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997. The band's line-up has always included founding member Josh Homme , with the current line-up including longtime members Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo , alongside Michael Shuman and...
    
    
  • The Shins
    The Shins
    The Shins are an American indie rock band comprising singer, songwriter, and guitarist James Mercer, guitarist/bassist Dave Hernandez, Eric Johnson of Fruit Bats, drummer Joe Plummer and bassist Ron Lewis. Their sound draws on several musical genres, including pop, alternative rock, indie rock,...
    
    
  • The White Stripes
    The White Stripes
    The White Stripes was an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of the songwriter Jack White and drummer Meg White . Jack and Meg White were previously married to each other, but are now divorced...
    
    
  • Zebrahead
    Zebrahead
    Zebrahead is an American punk rock band from Orange County, California, which fuses elements of Rapcore, Pop Punk, Alternative Rock, Alternative Metal, and Funk Metal.-1996–98: Formation:...
    
    
  • Lostprophets
    Lostprophets
    Lostprophets is a Welsh rock band from Pontypridd, formed in 1997. Founded by vocalist Ian Watkins, bassist Mike Lewis, drummer Mike Chiplin and guitarist Lee Gaze, they were originally a side-project to hardcore punk band Public Disturbance. To date, Lostprophets have released four studio...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Cocteau Twins
  • Gin Blossoms
  • Jane's Addiction
  • Porno for Pyros
  • Soundgarden – believed by many to signal the end of grunge's mainstream success
  • Throwing Muses

• Reunions
  • Jane's Addiction
  • The Verve

• Albums
  • 311 – Transistor
  • A – How Ace Are Buildings
    How Ace Are Buildings
    How Ace Are Buildings is the debut album by British alternative rock band A, released in 1997.The album was re-released in 1998, in the form of cassette and LTD Edition 12"...
    
    
  • AFI – Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
    Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
    Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes is the third studio album by American rock band AFI. It was released on November 11, 1997 through Nitro Records.-Background:...
    
    
  • Björk – Homogenic
    Homogenic
    Homogenic is the fourth studio album by Icelandic musician Björk, released in September 1997. Produced by Björk, Mark Bell, Guy Sigsworth, Howie B and Markus Dravs, it was released on One Little Indian Records...
    
    
  • Blur – Blur
  • Catherine Wheel – Adam and Eve
    Adam and Eve (album)
    Adam and Eve is the fourth full-length album by the English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel. Released in 1997 , the album peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers and number 178 on the Billboard 200...
    
    
  • Collective Soul – Disciplined Breakdown
    Disciplined Breakdown
    Disciplined Breakdown is the third studio album by Collective Soul, first released on March 11, 1997. The album was recorded during a difficult time in the band's career, when they were going through a long lawsuit with their former management, and they also recorded the album in Cabin-like studio...
    
    
  • The Dandy Warhols – ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
    ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
    …The Dandy Warhols Come Down is the second studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols, released in July 1997 on Capitol Records. The album features a change in style from the garage rock- and shoegaze-influenced sound of their previous album, Dandys Rule OK, to a more...
    
    
  • Dinosaur Jr. – Hand It Over
  • Echo & the Bunnymen – Evergreen
  • Eraserheads – Bananatype
  • Eraserheads – Sticker Happy
    Sticker Happy
    Sticker Happy is the Eraserheads' fifth album, released by Sony BMG Music Philippines Inc. in 1997. At the time, the album cover courted a healthy amount of controversy as to the identity of the nude woman playing an upright piano in the middle of a field .Musically, the album is heavier as the...
    
    
  • Everclear – So Much for the Afterglow
    So Much for the Afterglow
    -Personnel:* Art Alexakis - Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, Piano, Guitar , Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Vocal Arrangement, Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements, Cover Art Concept, Cover Design, Toy Piano...
    
    
  • Faith No More – Album of the Year
  • Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape
    The Colour and the Shape
    -Track information:DollGrohl stated that is "basically a song about being afraid to enter into something you're not prepared for."Monkey WrenchGrohl stated that it was "a song about realising that you are the source of all of the problems in a relationship and you love the other person so much, you...
    
    
  • Green Day – Nimrod
  • Guided By Voices – Mag Earwhig!
    Mag Earwhig!
    Mag Earwhig! is a 1997 album release by indie rock band Guided by Voices. Following the dissolution of the "classic lineup," band-leader Robert Pollard hired Cleveland rockers Cobra Verde and formed a new GBV unit. This move was somewhat controversial among GBV fans, especially those who were...
    
    
  • HIM – Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666
    Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666
    Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666 is the debut album by Finnish band, HIM. It was produced by Hiili Hiilesmaa and guest vocals were provided by Sanna-June Hyde and Asta Hannula on " The Reaper" and "For You", respectively. In keeping with the theme of 666, the album is 66 minutes and 6 seconds long,...
    
    
  • Hole – The First Session
    The First Session
    The First Session is an EP by American alternative rock band Hole, released on August 26, 1997 on Sympathy for the Record Industry. The EP features the entire recording of the band's first ever studio session on March 17, 1990 and also a twenty-page booklet focusing on the band's early career prior...
    
    
  • Incubus – Enjoy Incubus
    Enjoy Incubus
    Enjoy Incubus is an EP by Incubus released on January 7, 1997 on Epic Records. It was their debut major label release. It contained re-recordings of songs that featured on their previous, independent releases Let Me Tell Ya 'Bout Root Beer and Fungus Amongus, as well the previously unreleased song...
    
    
  • Incubus – S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
    S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
    S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is the second album by American rock band Incubus, released on September 9, 1997. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA. It has been mentioned by lead singer Brandon Boyd that the acronym S.C.I.E.N.C.E...
    
    
  • Live – Secret Samadhi
    Secret Samadhi
    -Album:-Singles:-Live:*Ed Kowalczyk: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar*Chad Taylor: Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals*Patrick Dahlheimer: Bass*Chad Gracey: Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals-Additional Musicians:*Jennifer Charles: Additional Vocals, Track 5...
    
    
  • Mansun – Attack of the Grey Lantern
    Attack of the Grey Lantern
    Attack of the Grey Lantern is the debut album by English rock band Mansun released in February 1997 via Parlophone. The album spent a total of 19 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at number one.-Background:...
    
    
  • Matthew Good Band – Underdogs
    Underdogs
    Underdogs is the second full-length album released by the Matthew Good Band in 1997, as a follow-up to the 1995 album Last of the Ghetto Astronauts...
    
    
  • Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
    The Lonesome Crowded West
    The Lonesome Crowded West is the second full-length album recorded by indie rock band Modest Mouse.The album was released on Up Records on November 18, 1997, on both compact disc and vinyl LP....
    
    
  • Morrissey – Maladjusted
    Maladjusted
    Maladjusted is an album by Morrissey, released on 11 August 1997. The album was praised at the time as a return to form for Morrissey, albeit one without the broad appeal of some of his earlier work....
    
    
  • Oasis – Be Here Now (breakthrough)
  • Our Lady Peace – Clumsy
  • Pavement – Brighten the Corners
    Brighten the Corners
    Brighten the Corners is the fourth studio album released by Pavement. All songs were written by lead singer Stephen Malkmus, apart from "Date with Ikea" and "Passat Dream". The title is likely a reference to Ella Fitzgerald's Brighten the Corner, or its title track "Brighten the Corner Where You...
    
    
  • Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
    Vanishing Point (album)
    Vanishing Point is a 1997 album by Primal Scream. It is named after and inspired by the 1971 film Vanishing Point, especially the song "Kowalski", which is meant to be an alternative soundtrack to the movie...
    
    
  • Primus – Brown Album
    Brown Album
    - Personnel :* Les Claypool – bass, vocals* Larry LaLonde – guitar* Bryan "Brain" Mantia – drums* Produced by Primus* Engineered by Les Claypool* Production coordinator: Jill "Galaxy Queen" Rose* Studio assistant: Tim "Soya" Soylan-Critical reception:...
    
    
  • Radiohead – OK Computer
    OK Computer
    OK Computer is the third studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on 16 June 1997 on Parlophone in the UK and 1 July 1997 by Capitol Records in the US. It marks a deliberate attempt by the band to move away from the introspective guitar-oriented sound of their previous...
    
    
  • Radiohead – Airbag / How Am I Driving? EP
  • The Rasmus – Playboys
  • Seven Mary Three – RockCrown
    RockCrown
    RockCrown is the third studio album by post-grunge band Seven Mary Three. It was released on June 3, 1997 on Atlantic Records. The album peaked at #75 on the Billboard 200 on June 21, 1997...
    
    
  • Silverchair – Freak Show
    Freak Show (album)
    Freak Show is the second studio album from Australian rock band Silverchair. Freak Show was released on 3 February 1997. The album also gives listeners a glimpse into the band's experimental side, as can be heard in "Petrol & Chlorine" and "Cemetery"...
    
    
  • Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out
    Dig Me Out
    Dig Me Out is the third album by punk group Sleater-Kinney. The album was released on April 8, 1997.Marlene Goldman, in Rolling Stone, has described it as the album that "defined the band's sound." In 2005 it was ranked #24 in Spin's "100 Greatest Albums, 1985-2005"...
    
    
  • Stereolab – Dots and Loops
    Dots and Loops
    Dots and Loops is the fifth studio album by the band Stereolab, released in September 1997. Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars contributes to several tracks...
    
    
  • Stereophonics – Word Gets Around
    Word Gets Around
    2-disc Deluxe EditionCD 1# Carrot Cake and Wine # Tie Me Up Tie Me Down # Poppy Day # Raymond's Shop # Chris Chambers...
    
    
  • Supergrass – In It for the Money
    In It for the Money
    In It for the Money is the second album by Supergrass, released in 1997. NME called it "more fun than watching a wombat in a washing machine" and named it the 10th best album of the year. In 1998, Q readers voted it the 68th greatest album of all time, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at...
    
    
  • Veruca Salt – Eight Arms to Hold You
    Eight Arms to Hold You
    Eight Arms to Hold You is an album by alternative rock band Veruca Salt. The album was released through Outpost/Geffen on February 11, 1997...
    
    
  • The Rasmus – Playboys
  • Third Eye Blind – Third Eye Blind
    Third Eye Blind (album)
    Third Eye Blind is the eponymous debut for the American alternative rock band Third Eye Blind, originally released on April 8, 1997. It spawned several singles, including top 10 charting "Semi-Charmed Life", "Jumper", and "How's It Going to Be"....
    
    
  • Travis – Good Feeling
    Good Feeling
    Good Feeling is the debut album from Scottish alternative rock band Travis. The album was originally released on September 26, 1997, on Independiente Records. In April 1998, the album was re-released, with the only differences being new album artwork and a slightly-tweaked version of "More Than Us"...
    
    
  • The Verve – Urban Hymns
    Urban Hymns
    Urban Hymns is the third album by English rock band The Verve, released on 29 September 1997 on Hut Recordings. It earned nearly unanimous critical praise upon its release, and went on to become the band's best-selling release and one of the biggest selling albums of the year...
    
    
  • Ween – The Mollusk
    The Mollusk
    * "She Wanted to Leave / " contains the main song, "She Wanted to Leave", as well as a reprise of "I'm Dancing in the Show Tonight".- Personnel :* Dean Ween - Guitar, Vocals, Engineer* Gene Ween - Vocals, Engineer* Kirk Miller - Sound Effects...
    
    

• Events
  • Solo artist Jeff Buckley
    Jeff Buckley
    Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...
    
     dies on 29 May as a result of accidental drowning in the Mississippi River.
  • Jane's Addiction
    Jane's Addiction
    Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell , Dave Navarro , Eric Avery and Stephen Perkins . After breaking up in 1991, Jane's Addiction briefly reunited in 1997 and again in 2001, both times...
    
     reunites; later that year, they disband again.
  • On hiatus while Scott Weiland
    Scott Weiland
    Scott Weiland is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland is also known for his five-year career with supergroup Velvet Revolver as well as his own solo career...
    
     is in rehab and working on a solo album, members of Stone Temple Pilots
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band from San Diego, California that consists of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz ....
    
     form Talk Show
    Talk Show (band)
    Talk Show was an American alternative/hard rock band consisting of Dave Coutts , Dean DeLeo , Robert DeLeo , and Eric Kretz...
    
    ; the new band lasts for only a short time.
  • R.E.M.
    R.E.M.
    R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
    
     drummer Bill Berry
    Bill Berry
    William "Bill" Thomas Berry is a retired American musician, multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. In addition to his drumming duties, Berry played many other instruments including guitar, bass guitar, and piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M....
    
     announces his retirement; the rest of the band continue as a three-piece.
  • Oasis
    Oasis (band)
    Oasis were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs , Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher...
    
    ' Be Here Now becomes the UK's fastest-selling album.
  • Eraserheads won the "1997 International Viewers Choice Award for Asia" at the MTV Music Awards.

1998

• Newly formed bands
  • 30 Seconds to Mars
    30 Seconds to Mars
    30 Seconds to Mars is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1998. Since 2007, the band has consisted of actor Jared Leto , Shannon Leto and Tomo Miličević...
    
    
  • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, now based in Los Angeles. BRMC is known for their garage rock, blues, folk revival, neo-psychedelia sound. They are influenced by bands such as: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Verve, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, T...
    
    
  • Breaking Benjamin
    Breaking Benjamin
    Breaking Benjamin is an American rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, currently consisting of Benjamin Burnley and Chad Szeliga. The band has released four studio albums to date and a greatest hits album that was released on August 16, 2011. The group initially went on indefinite hiatus due...
    
    
  • CKY
    CKY (band)
    CKY is an American alternative metal band that formed in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1998. Centred around core members Deron Miller , Chad I Ginsburg and Jess Margera , the band shares its name with a skateboarding and stunt video series produced by Bam Margera, brother of drummer Jess...
    
    
  • The Cooper Temple Clause
    The Cooper Temple Clause
    The Cooper Temple Clause were an English six-piece alternative rock band originating from Wokingham, Berkshire. Formed in 1998, the band quickly gained a following through their live concerts, and have produced three albums, the latest being Make This Your Own...
    
    
  • Doves
  • Gorillaz
    Gorillaz
    Gorillaz is an English musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. This project consists of Gorillaz music itself and an extensive fictional universe depicting a "virtual band" of cartoon characters...
    
    
  • Interpol
    Interpol (band)
    Interpol is an American indie rock and post-punk revival band from New York City. Formed in 1997, the band's original line-up consisted of Paul Banks , Daniel Kessler , Carlos Dengler and Greg Drudy . Drudy left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Sam Fogarino...
    
    
  • The Rapture
    The Rapture (band)
    The Rapture is an Indie rock band based in New York City. The band mixes influences from many genres including post-punk, acid house, disco, electronica and rock, pioneering the post-punk revival genre...
    
    
  • The Strokes
    The Strokes
    The Strokes are an American indie rock band formed in 1999 in New York City. Consisting of Julian Casablancas , Nick Valensi , Albert Hammond, Jr. , Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti ....
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Black Grape
  • Faith No More
  • The Lemonheads
  • Lush

• Reunions
  • Bauhaus

• Albums
  • Barenaked Ladies – Stunt
    Stunt
    A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat, or any act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes in TV, theatre, or cinema...
    
    
  • Beck – Mutations
  • Belle & Sebastian – The Boy with the Arab Strap
    The Boy with the Arab Strap
    The Boy with the Arab Strap is the third album from the Scottish band Belle & Sebastian. The inspiration for the album's name came from the band Arab Strap, who are also from Scotland and briefly toured with Belle & Sebastian. An Arab strap is a sexual device for retaining an erection.Arab Strap...
    
    
  • Better Than Ezra – How Does Your Garden Grow?
    How Does Your Garden Grow?
    How Does Your Garden Grow? is a 1998 album by American alternative rock trio Better Than Ezra. It was the band's fourth album, and their second with drummer Travis Aaron McNabb. It was released on August 25, 1998 by Elektra Records....
    
    
  • Cake – Prolonging The Magic
    Prolonging the Magic
    Prolonging the Magic is the third studio album by American band Cake. It was released on 6 October 1998. It was recorded after the departure of guitarist Greg Brown and features a rotating lineup of musicians to replace him. One of them, Xan McCurdy, became his full-time replacement.The album was...
    
    
  • Eels – Electro-Shock Blues
    Electro-Shock Blues
    Electro-Shock Blues is the second studio album by the band Eels, released on September 21, 1998 in the United Kingdom and October 20, 1998 in the United States.-Background and inspiration:...
    
    
  • Eraserheads – Aloha Milkyway
    Aloha Milkyway
    Aloha Milkyway is a compilation album from the Filipino pop-rock band Eraserheads in 1998. It was released under Sony BMG Music Philippines Inc. and contains 14 tracks, five of which were new songs recorded for this album, and the rest were remastered versions of songs from their previously...
    
    
  • Fugazi – End Hits
    End Hits
    End Hits is the fifth studio album by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi. It was recorded at Inner Ear Studios from March 1997 to September 1997 and produced by Don Zientara & Fugazi. It was released on April 28, 1998 through Dischord Records. The album saw the band continuing with and...
    
    
  • Jerry Cantrell
    Jerry Cantrell
    Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the grunge/metal band Alice in Chains, as lead guitarist, backing and co-lead vocalist, and co-lyricist. He performs lead vocals on his solo projects, and is part of Alice in Chains' harmonizing...
    
     – Boggy Depot
    Boggy Depot
    Boggy Depot is the debut solo album by Alice in Chains guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell. It was released on April 7, 1998 through Columbia Records.-Background:...
    
    
  • Garbage – Version 2.0
    Version 2.0
    Version 2.0 is the second album by alternative rock group Garbage. It was released worldwide in May 1998 by Mushroom Records UK and in North America by Almo Sounds. Version 2.0 was the follow-up to the band's multi-platinum debut album Garbage. Despite a slow start, Version 2.0 went on to equal its...
    
    
  • Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy Up the Girl
    Dizzy Up the Girl
    Dizzy Up the Girl is the sixth album by Goo Goo Dolls, released in 1998.-History:In most parts of the world, Dizzy Up the Girl is the Goo Goo Dolls' most successful album to date, selling over 3 million copies...
    
    
  • Hole – Celebrity Skin
    Celebrity Skin
    Celebrity Skin is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Hole, released worldwide by Geffen Records on September 7, 1998 and one day later in the United States...
    
    
  • Hum – Downward Is Heavenward
    Downward Is Heavenward
    Downward Is Heavenward is the fourth and last studio album by the Champaign, Illinois post-hardcore band Hum. It was released in 1998 by RCA Records.-Reception:...
    
    
  • James Iha
    James Iha
    James Yoshinobu Iha b. March 26, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Japanese American rock musician. He is best known as having been a guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins and for his eclectic musical projects of recent years, most notably being a permanent...
    
     – Let It Come Down
  • Local H – Pack Up The Cats
    Pack Up the Cats
    Pack Up the Cats is an album by the alternative rock band Local H. It was released on September 1, 1998, on Island Records. The album seemed that it had a chance at being successful, especially with its catchy single "All the Kids Are Right", but this changed when Polygram, the parent label of...
    
    
  • Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
    This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
    This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours is the fifth album by Welsh band Manic Street Preachers. It was released in September 1998 on Epic Records, and in the United States the following year, on Virgin Records.- Background :...
    
    
  • Mansun – Six
  • Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
    Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
    Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is the fourth album and second internationally released album by singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released by Maverick Records in the United States on November 3, 1998...
    
    
  • Mudhoney – Tomorrow Hit Today
    Tomorrow Hit Today
    Tomorrow Hit Today is the fifth album by the grunge band, Mudhoney. It was released by Reprise Records on September 22, 1998 . Although the band retains their grungy sound on the album, a noticeable garage and blues influence can be heard. The album title is a reference to a song, "When Tomorrow...
    
    
  • Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
    In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
    In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is the second studio album by American indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel, released in the United States on February 10, 1998 on Merge Records...
    
    
  • Oasis – The Masterplan
    The Masterplan
    The Masterplan is a compilation album by English rock band Oasis, comprising B-sides which never made it onto an album. The album was originally intended for release only in areas such as the United States and Japan, where the tracks were only available on expensive European import singles. It was...
    
    
  • Pearl Jam – Yield
    Yield (album)
    Yield is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on February 3, 1998. Following a short tour for its previous album, No Code , Pearl Jam went into the studio in 1997 to record its follow-up...
    
    
  • Liz Phair – Whitechocolatespaceegg
    Whitechocolatespaceegg
    Whitechocolatespaceegg is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Liz Phair, released in 1998...
    
    
  • Placebo – Without You I'm Nothing
    Without You I'm Nothing (Placebo album)
    Without You I'm Nothing is the second studio album by British alternative rock band Placebo, released in 1998 via Hut Records. The song "Pure Morning" was the first Placebo single to have moderate success in the United States.- Production :...
    
    
  • Pulp – This Is Hardcore
    This Is Hardcore
    This Is Hardcore is the sixth album by English band Pulp, first released in March 1998. It came three years after their breakthrough album, Different Class, and was eagerly anticipated. As with the previous album it reached number one in the charts, and was well received critically, earning Pulp a...
    
    
  • Queens of the Stone Age – Queens of the Stone Age
    Queens of the Stone Age (album)
    -Re-release track listing:All tracks written by Alfredo Hernández and Joshua Homme, except where noted.Tracks 6, 11 & 13 are tracks that were included in the re-release. "The Bronze" & "These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For" were included in the 1998 EP The Split CD with the band Beaver...
    
    
  • The Rasmus – Hell of a Tester
    Hell of a Tester
    Hell of a Tester is the third studio album by The Rasmus, then called Rasmus. It was released in 1998 by Warner Music and received Gold status in Finland. The most popular single was Liquid, which was released in September, getting into the Top 40 on MTV Nordic...
    
    
  • R.E.M. – Up
    Up (R.E.M. album)
    Up is the 11th album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M. It was the band's first album without original drummer Bill Berry, who left the group amicably in October 1997 to pursue his own interests. In his place, R.E.M...
    
    
  • The Rasmus – Hell of a Tester
    Hell of a Tester
    Hell of a Tester is the third studio album by The Rasmus, then called Rasmus. It was released in 1998 by Warner Music and received Gold status in Finland. The most popular single was Liquid, which was released in September, getting into the Top 40 on MTV Nordic...
    
    
  • Seven Mary Three – Orange Ave.
    Orange Ave.
    Orange Ave. is the fourth studio album by American post-grunge band Seven Mary Three. It was released on July 14, 1998 on Atlantic Records. The album peaked at #121 on the Billboard 200 on August 1, 1998...
    
    
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – Adore
  • Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves
    A Thousand Leaves
    A Thousand Leaves is an album by Sonic Youth. It was the group's first major album to be recorded in their private Manhattan studio, dubbed Echo Canyon....
    
    
  • Soul Coughing – El Oso
    El Oso
    El Oso , released in 1998 is the third and final album by the New York City band Soul Coughing. The disc is marked by a deep drum and bass influence...
    
    (final album)
  • Spacehog – The Chinese Album
    The Chinese Album
    The Chinese Album is the second album from the expatriate British alternative rock band Spacehog. It was released on Sire Records on March 10, 1998....
    
    
  • Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider
    Good Morning Spider
    -Track listing:All songs by Mark Linkous, except where stated.#"Pig" – 2:22#"Painbirds" – 3:50#"Saint Mary" – 3:59#"Good Morning Spider" – 1:09 #"Sick of Goodbyes" – 3:32...
    
    
  • Scott Weiland
    Scott Weiland
    Scott Weiland is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland is also known for his five-year career with supergroup Velvet Revolver as well as his own solo career...
    
     – 12 Bar Blues
    12 Bar Blues (album)
    12 Bar Blues is the debut solo album from Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland. Its sound and style differs greatly from his band's releases. The design concept of the cover is a homage to the cover design of John Coltrane's Blue Train album...
    
    

• Events
  • For the first year since it began, Lollapalooza does not take place, and goes on hiatus for six years.
  • John Frusciante
    John Frusciante
    John Anthony Frusciante is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record and film producer. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he had been for a number of years and recorded five studio albums...
    
     returns to the Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...
    
     after a six year hiatus.

1999

• Newly formed bands
  • A Perfect Circle
    A Perfect Circle
    A Perfect Circle is an American rock supergroup formed in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan. The original incarnation of the band also included Paz Lenchantin on bass, Troy Van Leeuwen on guitar, and Tim Alexander on drums...
    
    
  • Broken Social Scene
    Broken Social Scene
    Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Most of its members currently play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly based around the city of Toronto...
    
    
  • Electric Eel Shock
    Electric Eel Shock
    Electric Eel Shock are a three-piece garage metal band, formed in Tokyo in the late 1990s. They first toured the United States in 1999 and have been touring the world ever since.-Early years of EES:...
    
    
  • Enon
    Enon
    Enon was an indie rock band founded by John Schmersal, Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon. Currently, Enon is situated in Philadelphia, though the band is known for being part of the New York music scene.-Biography:...
    
    
  • The Vines
    The Vines
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• Disbandments
  • Blind Melon – after years of struggling to continue on without Shannon Hoon.
  • The Jesus Lizard
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • Kula Shaker
  • Love and Rockets
  • Luscious Jackson
  • Pavement
  • The Rentals
  • The Verve (second disbandment)

• Albums
  • 311 – Soundsystem
    Soundsystem
    Soundsystem is the fifth studio album by 311, released on October 12, 1999. Soundsystem, which was certified Gold by the RIAA, was the last 311 album on Capricorn Records before the band switched to Volcano Records in 2000...
    
    
  • AFI – Black Sails in the Sunset
    Black Sails in the Sunset
    Black Sails in the Sunset is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band AFI. It was released on May 18, 1999 through Nitro Records.-Release:Black Sails in the Sunset was released on May 18, 1999 through Nitro Records...
    
    
  • AFI – All Hallow's EP
    All Hallow's EP
    All Hallow's E.P. is an extended play by American rock band AFI. It was released on October 5, 1999 through Nitro Records. It contains three original songs and a cover of the Misfits song "Halloween".-Background:...
    
    
  • A – A vs. Monkey Kong
    A vs. Monkey Kong
    * Track 1 is an alternate version to the one which originally appeared as a b-side on the "Summer on the Underground" single.- Singles :A vs. Lake Tahoe * CD1:# "I Love Lake Tahoe"  – 3:26# "I Love Lake Tahoe" – 3:57...
    
    
  • Beck – Midnite Vultures
    Midnite Vultures
    Midnite Vultures is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck, released in November 1999 by Geffen Records...
    
    
  • Blur – 13
    13 (Blur album)
    13 is the sixth album by English band Blur, released in March 1999. The album reached number one in the UK Albums Chart and number 80 in the US Billboard 200. 13 spawned three hit singles: "Tender", "Coffee & TV" and "No Distance Left to Run"...
    
    
  • CKY – Volume 1
  • Collective Soul – Dosage
    Dosage (album)
    Dosage is the fourth studio album by Atlanta-based American alternative rock band Collective Soul. The album was released in February 1999 and peaked at #21 in Billboard's albums chart...
    
    
  • Chris Cornell
    Chris Cornell
    Chris Cornell is an American rock musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Soundgarden and as the former lead vocalist for Audioslave. He is also known for his numerous solo works and soundtrack contributions since 1998...
    
     – Euphoria Morning
    Euphoria Morning
    Euphoria Morning is the first solo studio album released by American musician Chris Cornell. It was released on September 21, 1999 through Interscope Records. Euphoria Morning sold over 75,000 copies in its first week of release and eventually sold 343,000 copies in the U.S. alone...
    
    
  • The Cranberries – Bury the Hatchet
    Bury the Hatchet (album)
    Bury the Hatchet is the fourth studio album by Irish rock band The Cranberries, released in 1999. In the US, the album has sold 377,000 copies as of April 2007 and received its Gold® RIAA certification on June 2, 1999....
    
    
  • Echo & the Bunnymen – What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
    What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
    What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? is the eighth studio album by the British rock band Echo & the Bunnymen. The album saw the departure of bassist Les Pattinson from the group, partly due to disagreements with vocalist Ian McCulloch; McCulloch and the remaining band member, guitarist Will...
    
    
  • Eraserheads – Natin99
    Natin99
    Natin99 is the Eraserheads' sixth album. It was released by Sony BMG Music Philippines Inc. in 1999 and the first Eraserheads album that came out of a non-linear recording approach...
    
    
  • Filter - Title of Record
    Title of Record
    Title of Record is the second album by American industrial rock band Filter. It was released on August 24, 1999 and included the popular single "Take a Picture", a noted departure from the dark sound of the band's 1995 hit "Hey Man, Nice Shot". The album has sold more than 1 million copies...
    
    
  • The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
    The Soft Bulletin
    -UK & Australian CD release:-Vinyl release:-The Soft Bulletin 5.1:On January 31, 2006, Warner Bros. re-released The Soft Bulletin in the US as a two-disc package titled The Soft Bulletin 5.1. It includes a remastered CD and a DVD-Audio disc that contains a 5.1-channel surround sound mix of the album...
    
    
  • Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left to Lose
    There Is Nothing Left to Lose
    Reviews for There Is Nothing Left to Lose have generally been positive. Rolling Stones Greg Kot rated the album three-and-a-half out of five stars. He started by explaining that "the first thirty seconds [...] are a bridge to singer Dave Grohl's past"...
    
    
  • Guided By Voices – Do the Collapse
    Do the Collapse
    Do the Collapse is the 11th album by Dayton, Ohio indie rock group Guided by Voices. In contrast with their lo-fi reputation, the album features glossy production work from Ric Ocasek, and found a mixed reception from critics and fans....
    
    
  • HIM – Razorblade Romance
    Razorblade Romance
    Razorblade Romance is the second studio album by HIM, released on 19 December 1999 in Finland and 24 January 2000 in the rest of Europe - except for the UK, where it was released 15 May 2000. It was produced by John Fryer and recorded at Rockfield recording studios in Wales by John Fryer and Paul...
    
    
  • Incubus – Make Yourself
    Make Yourself
    Make Yourself is the third album by American rock band Incubus, released through Epic Records on October 26, 1999. The album has been certified double platinum in the United States along with featuring three charting singles, "Pardon Me", "Stellar", and "Drive", all of which reached the top three...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Kula Shaker – Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts
    Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts
    Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts is the second album by the British indie and psychedelic rock band Kula Shaker. The album was released on 8 March 1999 and reached #9 in the UK Albums Chart, during a chart stay of 10 weeks. It was less successful in the U.S., however, where it failed to break into the...
    
    
  • Matthew Good Band – Beautiful Midnight
    Beautiful Midnight
    Beautiful Midnight is the third album released by the Matthew Good Band and the follow-up to the band's 1997 album, Underdogs.The album produced four successful singles and music videos, "Hello Time Bomb", "Load Me Up", "Strange Days", and "The Future is X-Rated"...
    
    
  • Muse – Showbiz (breakthrough)
  • Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
    The Fragile
    In terms of narrative, virtually no references are made to the aspects depicted in The Downward Spiral. Like The Downward Spiral, The Fragile is a concept album, but, as a double album, is nearly twice the length of its predecessor. Reznor's vocals, for the most part, are much more melodic and...
    
    
  • Our Lady Peace – Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
  • Pavement – Terror Twilight
    Terror Twilight
    Terror Twilight is the fifth and final studio album released by Pavement. It was produced by Nigel Godrich and featured Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead playing harmonica on the songs "Platform Blues" and "Billie"....
    
    
  • Primus – Antipop
    Antipop
    Antipop is the sixth studio album by alternative rock band Primus, released on October 19, 1999 before their hiatus in 2000-2003. It is also the last album with drummer Bryan Mantia....
    
    
  • Pezz (Billy Talent) – Watoosh!
    Watoosh!
    * Track 13 is an instrumental, while tracks 11, 12 and 14-16 are blank.* The track "M & M" is about a group of gothic kids that used to come into the HMV where Kowalewicz worked.-Personnel:*Benjamin Kowalewicz - lead vocals...
    
    
  • Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
    The Battle of Los Angeles (album)
    -Track listing:All songs written and arranged by Rage Against the Machine and all lyrics by Zack de la Rocha.#"Testify" – 3:30#"Guerrilla Radio" – 3:26#"Calm Like a Bomb" – 4:58#"Mic Check" – 3:33#"Sleep Now in the Fire" – 3:25#"Born of a Broken Man" – 4:41...
    
    
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
    Californication (album)
    Californication is the seventh studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on June 8, 1999 on Warner Bros. Records. Produced by Rick Rubin, Californication marked the return of John Frusciante, who had previously appeared on Mother's Milk and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, to replace...
    
    
  • The Rentals – Seven More Minutes
    Seven More Minutes
    Seven More Minutes, the second album by The Rentals, was released on April 13, 1999 and features numerous guests such as: Petra Haden , Donna Matthews , Miki Berenyi , Tim Wheeler , Kevin March, and Damon Albarn .-Theme:A good amount of Seven More Minutes was written by Matt Sharp...
    
    
  • Silverchair – Neon Ballroom
    Neon Ballroom
    Neon Ballroom is the third studio album by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair and was released on 8 March 1999. The album debuted at number-one on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified 4× platinum by ARIA. It was also certified Gold in the United States...
    
    
  • Sleater-Kinney – The Hot Rock
  • Sponge – New Pop Sunday
    New Pop Sunday
    New Pop Sunday is the third album by the band Sponge , released in 1999 on Beyond Records. The only single generated from this album was "Live Here Without You", which did not receive much airplay.-Track listing:...
    
    
  • Stone Temple Pilots – No. 4
    No. 4 (album)
    -Credits:Stone Temple Pilots* Scott Weiland - vocals, organ* Robert DeLeo - bass, percussion, guitars, fuzz bass, zither* Dean DeLeo - electric & acoustic guitars, lapsteel, 6-string bass* Eric Kretz - drums, percussionAdditional Personnel...
    
    
  • Suede – Head Music
    Head Music
    Head Music is the fourth album by English alternative rock band Suede, released by Nude Records in May 1999.Produced and mixed by Steve Osborne, Head Music features a more electronic sound, which was a new approach to their music...
    
    
  • Supergrass – Supergrass
    Supergrass (album)
    Supergrass is the third album by the English rock group Supergrass. It was released in the UK on 20 September 1999 and reached #3. It is often referred to as both "the X-ray" album, due to the picture on the sleeve, and self-titled...
    
    
  • They Might Be Giants – Long Tall Weekend
    Long Tall Weekend
    Long Tall Weekend is a downloadable album released by They Might Be Giants in 1999. It was released exclusively on-line through eMusic . It was the first major full-length album released exclusively on the Internet by an established major label band. Many of these songs were outtakes from the...
    
    
  • The Verve Pipe – The Verve Pipe
    The Verve Pipe
    The Verve Pipe is an American rock band from East Lansing, Michigan. It was formed in 1992 by Brian and Brad Vander Ark, Brian Stout and Donny Brown.-History:...
    
    
  • The White Stripes – The White Stripes
    The White Stripes
    The White Stripes was an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of the songwriter Jack White and drummer Meg White . Jack and Meg White were previously married to each other, but are now divorced...
    
    
  • Third Eye Blind – Blue
    Blue (Third Eye Blind album)
    * "Slow Motion" was originally released with only the chorus, due to concerns about its lyrical content. Soon thereafter, Elektra Records re-released Blue with an instrumental version. However, the full version of the song was released everywhere outside of the States and found its way around the...
    
    
  • Travis – The Man Who
    The Man Who
    The Man Who is the second studio album from the Scottish indie pop band Travis. The album was released on 24 May 1999, becoming the album that gave the band international recognition. The album peaked at #1 in the UK and #8 in Australia. It was later released in the United States in Early 2000...
    
    
  • Wilco – Summerteeth
    Summerteeth
    Summerteeth is the third studio album by Chicago alternative rock band Wilco. Released through Reprise Records on March 9, 1999, the album was heavily influenced lyrically by twentieth century literature, as well as singer Jeff Tweedy's marital problems. Unlike previous albums, Summerteeth was...
    
    

• Events
  • The No WTO Combo attempts to play at the WTO Meeting of 1999
    WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity
    Protest activity surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, which was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations, occurred on November 30, 1999 , when the World Trade Organization convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington,...
    
    , but are unable to do so due to conflicts with the police.
  • They Might Be Giants
    They Might Be Giants
    They Might Be Giants is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years Flansburgh and Linnell were frequently accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG became a full band. Currently, the members of TMBG are...
    
     release "Long Tall Weekend" which is the first major full-length album released exclusively on the Internet by an established band.

2000

• Newly formed bands
  • Kings of Leon
    Kings of Leon
    Kings of Leon is an American rock band that originated in Albion, Oklahoma but formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 1999. The band is composed of brothers Anthony Caleb Followill , Ivan Nathan Followill and Michael Jared Followill Kings of Leon is an American rock band that originated in Albion,...
    
    
  • The Stills
    The Stills
    The Stills were a Canadian rock band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 2000. The band consists of Tim Fletcher , Dave Hamelin , Olivier Corbeil , and Liam O'Neil , Gregory Paquet .-History:The band members have known each other since the age of...
    
    
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs are an American indie rock band formed in New York City in 2000. The group is composed of vocalist and pianist Karen O, guitarist and keyboardist Nick Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. They are complemented in live performances by second guitarist David Pajo, who joined as a touring...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • At the Drive-In
  • Catherine Wheel
  • Hum
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • The Rentals
  • Screaming Trees
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Soul Coughing

• Reunions
  • Meat Puppets

• Albums
  • A Perfect Circle – Mer de Noms
    Mer de Noms
    - Symbols :Inside the insert the track names appear to be randomly spelled out in symbols. One way to decipher the symbols is to match the song titles using the normal alphabet with the song titles inside the insert....
    
    
  • At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
    Relationship of Command
    Relationship of Command is the third and final studio album by the post-hardcore band At the Drive-In, and was released in September 2000. The band reached mainstream success through the album, if only for a short time before their indefinite break-up....
    
    
  • Barenaked Ladies – Maroon
  • Catherine Wheel – Wishville
    Wishville
    Wishville is the English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel's fifth and final album. Released in 2000, it is the band's only album not to feature bassist Dave Hawes, who was fired prior to its recording; without a permanent bassist, the band focuses on guitar-centered hard rock arrangements...
    
    
  • Coldplay – Parachutes
    Parachutes
    Parachutes is the debut album by English alternative rock band Coldplay, released by the record label Parlophone on 10 July 2000 in the United Kingdom. The album was produced by the band and British record producer Ken Nelson, excluding one track which was produced by Chris Allison...
    
    
  • Collective Soul – Blender
  • The Cure – Bloodflowers
    Bloodflowers
    Bloodflowers is the eleventh album by English band The Cure, released in 2000. The album is seen as a sombre return to form by critics and fans alike...
    
    
  • The Dandy Warhols – Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
    Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
    Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia is the third album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released on 1 August 2000 on Capital Records...
    
    
  • Elastica – The Menace
    The Menace
    The Menace is the second album by English alternative rock group Elastica, released via Deceptive Records in April 2000.-Background:After the release of their eponymous debut record in 1995, the band started touring and in the process started partying ferociously and dabbling in drugs...
    
    
  • Everclear – Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile
    Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile
    Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile is an album by Everclear, released on July 11, 2000. The album is a loose concept album based around lead singer Art Alexakis' second divorce...
    
    
  • Everclear – Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude
    Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude
    Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude is an album by Everclear, released on November 21, 2000. They recorded Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 in the same year and released them only a few months apart. Both albums are loose concept albums based around Art Alexakis' second divorce...
    
    
  • Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump
    The Sophtware Slump
    The Sophtware Slump is the second studio album by American indie rock band Grandaddy, released in 2000. The album received strong reviews from most critics. It is seen by some as a concept album about problems concerning modern technology in society. The title is a reference to the sophomore slump,...
    
    
  • Green Day – Warning
    Warning (Green Day album)
    Warning is the sixth studio album by American punk rock band Green Day. It was released on October 3, 2000 through Reprise Records. Building upon its predecessor, Nimrod , the album eschewed the band's trademark punk rock sound and incorporated acoustic and pop rock elements...
    
    
  • Mansun – Little Kix
    Little Kix
    Little Kix is the third album by English rock band Mansun. It marked a departure from their previous style, employing a more commercial sound.-Overview:...
    
    
  • Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica
    The Moon and Antarctica
    -2004 re-release bonus tracks:Isaac Brock was dissatisfied with the final mix and the album artwork for The Moon & Antarctica following its original 2000 release....
    
    
  • No Doubt – Return of Saturn
    Return of Saturn
    Return of Saturn is the fourth studio album by the American rock band No Doubt, released on April 11, 2000 by Interscope Records. After touring for two and a half years to promote their breakthrough third studio album, Tragic Kingdom, No Doubt wrote several dozen songs for its follow-up and...
    
    
  • Oasis – Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
    Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
    Standing on the Shoulder of Giants is the fourth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 28 February 2000. The album is the 16th fastest selling album in UK chart history, selling over 310,000 copies in its first week...
    
    
  • Pearl Jam – Binaural
    Binaural (album)
    Binaural is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on May 16, 2000 through Epic Records. Following a full-scale tour in support of its previous album, Yield , Pearl Jam took a short break before reconvening toward the end of 1999 to commence work on a new...
    
    
  • Placebo – Black Market Music
    Black Market Music
    Black Market Music is the third studio album by British alternative rock band Placebo, released in 2000 by Hut Records.- Background :Black Market Music took nine months to record, the longest that the band have ever spent recording an album to date, and is dedicated to the memory of Scott...
    
    
  • Primal Scream – XTRMNTR
    XTRMNTR
    XTRMNTR is a 2000 album by Primal Scream. In a departure from Primal Scream's earlier hedonistic recordings, the band took a more political stance, attacking government, police, and multinational corporations...
    
    
  • Primitive Radio Gods – White Hot Peach
    White Hot Peach
    White Hot Peach is the Primitive Radio Gods' follow-up to Rocket, and was released on October 24, 2000. Quite different in sound from the debut album, White Hot Peach features much less of the sampling that made the band famous...
    
    
  • Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
    Rated R (Queens of the Stone Age album)
    Rated R is the second studio album by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age. It was released on June 6, 2000 through Interscope Records. Rated R was a critical and commercial success and became the band's breakthrough album. It peaked at number 16 on the Top Heatseekers and reached high...
    
    
  • Radiohead – Kid A
    Kid A
    Kid A is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released in October 2000 by the Parlophone label. A commercial success worldwide, Kid A went platinum in its first week of release in the United Kingdom. Despite the lack of an official single or music video as publicity, Kid A...
    
    
  • Rage Against the Machine – Renegades
  • Sleater-Kinney – All Hands on the Bad One
    All Hands on the Bad One
    All Hands on the Bad One is the fifth studio album by the American indie rock band Sleater-Kinney. It was released on May 2, 2000, on Kill Rock Stars.- Track listing :All songs written by Sleater-Kinney....
    
    
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/The Machines of God
    MACHINA/The Machines of God
    Machina/The Machines of God is the fifth album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on February 29, 2000 by Virgin Records. A concept album, it marked the return of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and was intended to be the band's final official LP release prior to their first...
    
    
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
    MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
    Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music is the sixth album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released for free on the Internet on September 5, 2000...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – NYC Ghosts & Flowers
    NYC Ghosts & Flowers
    NYC Ghosts & Flowers is a 2000 album by Sonic Youth. The album was a slight departure, mainly as a creative reaction to the theft of their instruments in July 1999. Irreplaceable guitars and effects pedals with numerous modifications were stolen...
    
    
  • U2 – All That You Can't Leave Behind
    All That You Can't Leave Behind
    All That You Can't Leave Behind is the tenth studio album by rock band U2. It was released on 30 October 2000 by Island Records in the United Kingdom and Interscope Records in the United States...
    
    
  • Ween – White Pepper
    White Pepper
    -Singles:* "Even If You Don't" was released as a single on Mushroom Records with the B-side "Cornbread Red".* "Stay Forever" was released as a single on Mushroom Records with "The Grobe" and "Who Dat?"-Musicians featured on the record:* Dean Ween* Gene Ween...
    
    
  • The White Stripes – De Stiji
    De Stijl (album)
    De Stijl is the second studio album by the American garage rock band The White Stripes, released on June 20, 2000 on Sympathy for the Record Industry. The album reached number thirty-eight on Billboards Independent Albums chart in 2002, when The White Stripes' popularity began to grow...
    
    

• Events
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan frontman and James Iha , the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin , D'arcy Wretzky , and currently includes Jeff Schroeder Mike Byrne , and Nicole Fiorentino The Smashing...
    
     announce their breakup, indicating that "Machina" was intended as their final album during production, and play a farewell concert on December 2. They release Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music for free to music downloaders on the internet after feuds between Billy Corgan and Virgin Music emerged.
  • Soul Coughing
    Soul Coughing
    Soul Coughing was a popular New York-based alternative rock band. The band found modest mainstream success during the mid-to-late 1990s. Soul Coughing developed a devout fanbase and have garnered largely positive response from critics. Steve Huey describes the band as "one of the most unusual cult...
    
     split up in 2000 after longstand arguments over royalties following their biggest releases Irresistable Bliss and El Oso.

2001

• Newly formed bands
  • Audioslave
    Audioslave
    Audioslave was an American rock supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2001. It consisted of former Soundgarden lead singer/rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell and the former instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello , Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk...
    
    
  • Franz Ferdinand
    Franz Ferdinand (band)
    Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish post-punk revival band formed in Glasgow in 2002. The band is composed of Alex Kapranos , Bob Hardy , Nick McCarthy , and Paul Thomson .The band first experienced chart success when their second single, "Take Me Out", reached #3 in...
    
    
  • The Kooks
    The Kooks
    The Kooks are an English indie rock band formed in Brighton, East Sussex, in 2001. Formed by Luke Pritchard , Hugh Harris , Paul Garred , and Max Rafferty , the lineup of the band remained constant until 2008 and the departure of Rafferty...
    
    
  • The Libertines
    The Libertines
    The Libertines were an English rock band, formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty . The band, centred on the song-writing partnership of Barat and Doherty, also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career...
    
    
  • TV on the Radio
    TV on the Radio
    TV on the Radio is an American art rock band formed in 2001 in Brooklyn, New York, whose music spans numerous diverse genres, from post-punk to electro and free jazz to soul music....
    
    
  • The Zutons
    The Zutons
    The Zutons are an English indie rock band from Liverpool. They were formed in 2001 but did not release their first album, Who Killed...... The Zutons?, until May 2004. They achieved their biggest hits with "Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?" and "Valerie", both taken from their second studio album...
    
    
  • Zwan
    Zwan
    Zwan was an American alternative rock band that was formed by members of The Smashing Pumpkins, Slint, Tortoise, Chavez, and A Perfect Circle. Zwan was started in late 2001 by Billy Corgan, lead singer and guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins, after the Pumpkins disbanded in December 2000. The band...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • The Afghan Whigs
  • At The Drive-In
  • Elastica
  • Fastbacks
  • Toadies

• Albums
  • 311 – From Chaos
    From Chaos
    From Chaos is the sixth studio album by 311, released on June 19, 2001.In 2000, before this album was recorded and released they left Capricorn Records and switched to Volcano Entertainment as their permanent label....
    
    
  • AFI – The Art of Drowning
  • Better Than Ezra – Closer
    Closer (Better Than Ezra album)
    Closer is the fifth studio album by the New Orleans-based rock trio Better Than Ezra. It was released on August 7, 2001 by Beyond Records. Closer initially performed better than its predecessor, How Does Your Garden Grow?, peaking at #110 on the Billboard charts...
    
    
  • Björk – Vespertine
    Vespertine
    Vespertine, is the fifth studio album by the Icelandic recording artist Björk, released on 27 August 2001. On this album, Björk creates a quiet, introverted world of microbeats and personal lyrics...
    
    
  • Butthole Surfers – Weird Revolution
    Weird Revolution
    Weird Revolution is the eighth studio album by the alternative rock band Butthole Surfers, released in 2001 on Surfdog Records and Hollywood Records....
    
    
  • Cake – Comfort Eagle
    Comfort Eagle
    Comfort Eagle is the fourth studio album by American band Cake. It was released on 24 July 2001. Comfort Eagle was Cake's first release on Columbia Records....
    
    
  • Camera Obscura – Biggest Bluest Hi Fi
    Biggest Bluest Hi Fi
    Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi is the debut LP from the indie pop band Camera Obscura. It was released in 2001 by Andmoresound and in 2002 by Elefant, then re-released in 2004 by Merge.-Reception:...
    
    
  • The Cranberries – Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
    Wake up and Smell the Coffee
    Wake Up and Smell the Coffee is the fifth studio album by The Cranberries. Released in 2001, the album has sold 170,000 copies in the US as of April 2007. Worldwide, the album has sold 1,300,000 copies by 2002....
    
    
  • Dave Matthews Band – Everyday
    Everyday (Dave Matthews Band album)
    Everyday is the fourth studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on February 27, 2001.-Sales:The album did very well in the United States. It opened at #1 with 755,000 copies sold its first week, and stayed at #1 for two weeks. After 25 weeks of sales, it sold over 2.5 million copies. To date,...
    
    
  • Echo & the Bunnymmen – Flowers
    Flowers (Echo & the Bunnymen album)
    Flowers is the ninth studio album released by the British band Echo & the Bunnymen on 16 February 2001. It reached number 56 on the UK Albums Chart. The album was recorded at the Elevator Studios in Liverpool and the Bryn Derwyn Studios in Wales and produced by Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant, with...
    
    
  • Eraserheads – Carbon Stereoxide
    Carbon Stereoxide
    Carbon Stereoxide is the Eraserheads' seventh and final studio album. It featured a theme darker than previous albums. Released in March 2001 by Sony BMG Music Philippines, Inc. , it was to be the last album featuring Ely Buendia as the band's lead singer...
    
    
  • Fugazi – The Argument
    The Argument
    The Argument was released by Dischord Records on October 16, 2001, along with their EP, Furniture + 2, almost 4 years after the release of End Hits. The album was met with critical and commercial success entering the Billboard charts and selling 174,000 copies in its first week of release...
    
    
  • Gorillaz – Gorillaz
    Gorillaz (album)
    Gorillaz is the debut album by the British virtual band Gorillaz, released in March 2001. It includes the singles "Clint Eastwood", "19-2000", "Rock the House" and "Tomorrow Comes Today"...
    
    
  • Guided By Voices – Isolation Drills
    Isolation Drills
    Isolation Drills is the twelfth album by Dayton, Ohio indie rock group Guided by Voices. It was their second and final LP released under TVT Records and their second to feature a major rock producer in Rob Schnapf. The album was also their first to chart on the Billboard Top 200, peaking at #168...
    
    
  • HIM – Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
    Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
    Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights is the third album by HIM, which was released on 27 August 2001. This is the first album that new keyboardist Janne Puurtinen took part in, thus making it the first album with HIM's current line-up...
    
    
  • Hoobastank – Hoobastank
    Hoobastank (album)
    Hoobastank is the first major studio release by rock band Hoobastank. It was released on November 20, 2001 by Island Records. Three singles were released, "Crawling in the Dark", "Running Away", and "Remember Me"...
    
    
  • Incubus – Morning View
    Morning View
    Morning View is the fourth studio album by American rock band Incubus, released October 23, 2001 through Epic Records. A companion DVD, Morning View Sessions, was released on May 29, 2002...
    
    
  • Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
    Bleed American
    -Personnel:Jimmy Eat World*Jim Adkins – vocals, guitar, percussion, bass guitar on "Your House", piano, organ on "My Sundown", bells, art direction*Rick Burch – bass guitar, vocals*Zach Lind – drums, percussion on "Your House" and "My Sundown"...
    
    
  • Manic Street Preachers – Know Your Enemy
    Know Your Enemy (Manic Street Preachers album)
    Know Your Enemy is the sixth album by the Manic Street Preachers. It was released in March 2001 on Virgin Records. The album has songs ranging from energetic lo-fi rock songs reminiscent of their earlier material to highly produced, more melodic pop songs as well as a disco song...
    
    
  • Matthew Good Band – The Audio of Being
    The Audio of Being
    The Audio Of Being was the fourth album released by the Canadian rock group Matthew Good Band in 2001. It was the last release from MGB and included the two singles "Carmelina" and "Anti-Pop". The album was certified Gold on March 14, 2003....
    
    
  • Muse – Origin of Symmetry
    Origin of Symmetry
    Origin of Symmetry is the second studio album by English alternative rock band Muse, released on 17 July 2001 by Taste Records. In the UK it reached #3 and was certified platinum. The title for the album comes from a concept put forward by Michio Kaku in his book Hyperspace.On Origin of Symmetry,...
    
    
  • New Order – Get Ready
    Get Ready (New Order album)
    Get Ready is the seventh studio album by the English rock band New Order. Released in August 2001 by London Records, this was the group's first album in eight years, following 1993's Republic....
    
    
  • No Doubt – Rock Steady
  • Our Lady Peace – Spiritual Machines
    Spiritual Machines
    Spiritual Machines is the fourth studio album by the Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace, released by Columbia Records in December 2000. Although not initially intended, the project evolved into a conceptual interpretation of futurist and inventor Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book The Age of...
    
    
  • Radiohead – Amnesiac
    Amnesiac
    Amnesiac was generally well-received by critics. It was also ranked as one of the best albums of the year by several publications. The Village Voice Pazz and Jop poll ranked it number 6 on their top 10 albums of the year. Alternative Press declared it the #1 album of the year...
    
    
  • The Rasmus – Into
    Into (album)
    Into is the fourth studio album by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus , and the first studio album to be released under the name "The Rasmus". It was originally released on October 29, 2001 by Playground Music.It is the band's first studio album with their new drummer Aki Hakala, who replaced Janne...
    
    
  • R.E.M. – Reveal
  • Seven Mary Three – The Economy of Sound
    The Economy of Sound
    The Economy of Sound is the fifth studio album by American post-grunge band Seven Mary Three. It was released on , 2001 on Mammoth Records...
    
    
  • The Shins – Oh, Inverted World
    Oh, Inverted World
    Oh, Inverted World is the first album by The Shins, released on June 19, 2001 to critical acclaim. Omnibus Records put out an initial run of vinyl distributed by Darla...
    
    
  • Spacehog – The Hogyssey
    The Hogyssey
    The Hogyssey is the third and final album from the rock band Spacehog.The album was released on Artemis Records on April 10, 2001 on compact disc. It included as the title track a rock arrangement of Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra...
    
    
  • Sparklehorse – It's a Wonderful Life
    It's a Wonderful Life (album)
    It's a Wonderful Life is the third album by Virginian indie rock group Sparklehorse, released in 2001. The album features appearances by Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, John Parish, Nina Persson, Vic Chesnutt, and Dave Fridmann.-Track listing:...
    
    
  • Stone Temple Pilots – Shangri-La Dee Da
    Shangri-La Dee Da
    -Personnel:*Scott Weiland - vocals, keyboards *Dean DeLeo - guitars*Robert DeLeo - bass, percussion , guitar , acoustic guitar , keyboards , piano , autoharp , electric sitar *Eric Kretz - drums, percussion , keyboards , banjo -Additional personnel:*Brendan...
    
    
  • The Strokes – Is This It
    Is This It
    Is This It is the debut studio album by American indie rock band The Strokes. Recorded at Transporterraum in New York City with producer Gordon Raphael, after meeting at an early show at Luna Lounge, a former venue on the Lower East Side in NYC, the album was first released on July 30, 2001 in...
    
    
  • They Might Be Giants – Mink Car
    Mink Car
    Mink Car is the eighth studio album by They Might Be Giants, released in 2001 on Restless Records, on the same morning as the September 11 attacks....
    
    
  • Toadies – Hell Below/Stars Above
  • Travis – The Invisible Band
    The Invisible Band
    The Invisible Band is the third studio album from Scottish indie pop band Travis. The album was released on June 11, 2001. The title of the album makes reference to the band's feelings regarding 'music being more important than the band making it'...
    
    
  • The Verve Pipe – Underneath
    Underneath (The Verve Pipe album)
    Underneath is a studio album by The Verve Pipe, released on September 25, 2001. Produced by Fountains of Wayne and Ivy band member Adam Schlesinger, the album's power-pop sound was a departure from the darker, textured sonics of The Verve Pipe and Villains...
    
    
  • Weezer – Weezer
  • The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
    White Blood Cells (album)
    White Blood Cells is the third studio album by American alternative rock duo The White Stripes, released on July 3, 2001. Recorded in less than one week at Easley-McCain Recording in Memphis, Tennessee, and produced by frontman and guitarist Jack White, it was the band's final record released...
    
    
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – "Yeah Yeah Yeahs (EP)
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs (EP)
    The track "Our Time" interpolates the Tommy James and the Shondells song "Crimson and Clover"; when Karen O sings "It's the year to be hated / So glad that we made it," the melody is taken from the hit song, which reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1969....
    
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• Events
  • The Matthew Good Band
    Matthew Good Band
    Matthew Good Band was a Canadian alternative rock band formed by Matthew Good that existed from 1993 to 2002. The band consisted of Good , Dave Genn , Ian Browne and Geoff Lloyd from 1995 to 1999...
    
     breaks up. Good continues as a solo artist.
  • Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
    
     become first major modern band to play a gig in Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
    
    . The gig is attended by Fidel Castro
    Fidel Castro
    Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...
    
    .
  • At the Drive-In
    At the Drive-In
    At the Drive-In was an American rock band from El Paso, Texas, considered part of the post-hardcore genre and active from 1993 to 2001. They were known for their extremely energetic stage shows which hearkened back to the 1980s hardcore scene...
    
     split down the middle, one half becoming an emo-focused rock group, Sparta
    Sparta (band)
    Sparta is an American band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 2001. Founding members Jim Ward and Tony Hajjar are former members of post-hardcore group At the Drive-In...
    
    , the other half continuing in the progressive rock vein as The Mars Volta
    The Mars Volta
    The Mars Volta is a Grammy award winning American progressive rock band from El Paso, Texas. Founded in 2001 by guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the band incorporates various influences including progressive rock, krautrock, jazz fusion, Latin American music, and...
    
    .

2002

• Newly formed bands
  • Arctic Monkeys
    Arctic Monkeys
    Arctic Monkeys are an English indie rock band. Formed in 2002 in High Green, a suburb of Sheffield, the band currently consists of Alex Turner , Jamie Cook , Nick O'Malley and Matt Helders...
    
    
  • Bloc Party
    Bloc Party
    Bloc Party are a British Indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes , and Matt Tong...
    
    
  • The Fray
    The Fray (band)
    The Fray is an American rock band from Denver, Colorado. Formed in 2002 by schoolmates Isaac Slade and Joe King, they achieved success with the release of their debut album, How to Save a Life in 2005, which was certified double platinum by the RIAA and platinum in Australia, Canada, New Zealand...
    
    
  • The Killers
  • LCD Soundsystem
    LCD Soundsystem
    LCD Soundsystem was a prominent American dance-punk band from New York City. It was fronted by American singer-songwriter and producer James Murphy, co-founder of record label DFA Records...
    
    
  • My Chemical Romance
    My Chemical Romance
    My Chemical Romance is an American alternative rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001. The band consists of lead vocalist Gerard Way, guitarists Ray Toro and Frank Iero, and bassist Mikey Way and have a diverse sound incorporating elements of punk, emo, glam metal, and progressive rock...
    
    
  • Silversun Pickups
    Silversun Pickups
    Silversun Pickups is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2002. The band comprises Brian Aubert, Nikki Monninger, Christopher Guanlao, and Joe Lester....
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Bush
  • Hole
  • Eraserheads

• Reunions
  • Gin Blossoms
  • Jane's Addiction (second reunion)
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

• Albums
  • 30 Seconds to Mars – 30 Seconds to Mars
    30 Seconds to Mars (album)
    30 Seconds to Mars is the debut studio album by American rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, released on August 21, 2002. The album was produced by Bob Ezrin, Brian Virtue and 30 Seconds to Mars, and was recorded in Los Angeles during 2001 and early 2002...
    
    
  • A – Hi-Fi Serious
    Hi-Fi Serious
    Hi-Fi Serious is the third studio album by British band A, released in 2002.The name "Hi-Fi Serious" was derived from the name of the hi-fi electronics store Alan Partridge buys a Bang & Olufsen stereo from in the last episode of I'm Alan Partridge series 1...
    
    
  • Audioslave – Audioslave
    Audioslave (album)
    Audioslave is the eponymous debut studio album by the American rock supergroup Audioslave and was released on November 19, 2002 . The album's music features Chris Cornell providing his familiar classic rock-esque wails and croons to the songs. It features the hit singles "Cochise", "Show Me How to...
    
    
  • Beck – Sea Change
  • Breaking Benjamin – Saturate
  • The Breeders – Title TK
    Title TK
    Title TK is the third album from the American alternative rock band The Breeders. The album was released on May 20, 2002 by 4AD in the United Kingdom and distributed by Elektra records in the United States. Title TK was engineered by Steve Albini, who also engineered The Breeders' debut album Pod...
    
    
  • Jerry Cantrell – Degradation Trip
    Degradation Trip
    Degradation Trip is the second solo album by Alice in Chains guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell, released on June 18, 2002. It marks his difficult transition from Columbia Records to Roadrunner and was dedicated to Alice in Chains lead singer Layne Staley, who died two months before the album's...
    
    
  • CKY – Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild
    Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild
    -The Video Album:Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild: The Video Album was released in 2003, and contained the following features:*Music videos for all ten songs from Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild*'Making-of' videos for all ten music videos...
    
    
  • Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head
    A Rush of Blood to the Head
    A Rush of Blood to the Head is the second studio album by English rock band Coldplay. Released on 26 August 2002 in the UK through the label Parlophone, the album was produced by the band and British record producer Ken Nelson...
    
    
  • Filter - The Amalgamut
    The Amalgamut
    The Amalgamut is the third album of industrial rock band Filter released in 2002 by Reprise Records. It includes the hit single "Where Do We Go from Here"...
    
    
  • The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
    Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
    -Special edition DVD-Audio:-The Flaming Lips:* Wayne Coyne - guitar, vocals, artwork, mixing, production* Michael Ivins - bass guitar, keyboards, vocals, mixing, production, additional engineering...
    
    
  • Foo Fighters – One by One
  • Goo Goo Dolls – Gutterflower
    Gutterflower
    Gutterflower is the seventh studio album by Goo Goo Dolls, released in 2002.-Track listing:All songs by Johnny Rzeznik except when noted.# "Big Machine" – 3:10# "Think About Me" – 3:59# "Here Is Gone" – 3:58# "You Never Know" – 3:07...
    
    
  • Guided By Voices – Universal Truths and Cycles
    Universal Truths and Cycles
    Universal Truths and Cycles is the thirteenth album by Dayton, Ohio indie rock group Guided by Voices. After releasing their previous two albums on TVT Records, Guided by Voices returned to Matador Records....
    
    
  • Hot Hot Heat – Make Up the Breakdown
    Make Up the Breakdown
    Make Up the Breakdown is the debut mass-produced album by Hot Hot Heat, following the release of the Knock Knock Knock EP. It was released on October 8, 2002...
    
    
  • Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
    Turn on the Bright Lights
    Turn On the Bright Lights is the debut studio album by American post-punk revival band Interpol, released in August 2002. The album was recorded in November 2001 at Tarquin Studios in Connecticut, and was co-produced, mixed and engineered by Peter Katis and Gareth Jones...
    
    
  • The Libertines – Up the Bracket
    Up the Bracket
    Up the Bracket is the debut album by British rock band The Libertines, released in October 2002. It reached #35 in the UK Albums Chart.The album was re-released on 8 September 2003 with an additional track, "What a Waster" and DVD featuring the promotional videos for the singles: "Up the Bracket",...
    
    
  • Local H – Here Comes the Zoo
    Here Comes the Zoo
    Here Comes the Zoo is an album by the band Local H. It was released on March 5, 2002 on Palm Pictures. This was their first album not released on Island Records. Starting with this album, every release so far has been on a different label....
    
    
  • Motion City Soundtrack – I Am the Movie
    I Am the Movie
    I Am the Movie is the first full-length album of American power pop band Motion City Soundtrack. It was released independently in 2002, and was remastered and re-released with four new tracks by Epitaph Records in June 2003.-Unsigned release:...
    
    
  • Muse – Hullabaloo
  • My Chemical Romance – I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
    I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
    -Track listing:-Music videos on re-release editions:-Charts:-Release history:-Credits:My Chemical Romance* Gerard Way — lead vocals* Mikey Way — bass guitar* Ray Toro — lead guitar, rhythm guitar , backing vocals...
    
    
  • Oasis – Heathen Chemistry
    Heathen Chemistry
    Heathen Chemistry is the fifth studio album by the English rock band Oasis, released in 2002.The album was written and recorded with a back-to-basics sound with a more rock feel to it; the more crude and simple sound differs from the musical grandiosity of their previous records, Be Here Now and...
    
    
  • Our Lady Peace – Gravity
  • Pearl Jam – Riot Act
    Riot Act (album)
    Riot Act is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released November 12, 2002 through Epic Records. Following a full-scale tour in support of its previous album, Binaural , Pearl Jam took a year-long break. The band then reconvened in the beginning of 2002 and...
    
    
  • Primal Scream – Evil Heat
    Evil Heat
    Evil Heat is a 2002 album by Primal Scream.The track "Rise" was originally titled "Bomb the Pentagon", and debuted as part of the band's live set in summer 2001. In light of the September 11, 2001 attacks, both the lyrics and title of the song were reworked, and the revised version appears on the...
    
    
  • Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
    Songs for the Deaf
    -Production and release:In September 2002, Josh Homme explained the band's goals with the release of the album:In the same month, Nick Oliveri explained the band's aims in an interview with retail company HMV:...
    
    
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
    By the Way
    By the Way is the eighth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. The album was released on July 9, 2002 on Warner Bros. Records. It sold over 286,000 copies in the first week, and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200. The singles from the album included "By the Way", "The...
    
    
  • Silverchair – Diorama
    Diorama (album)
    Diorama is the fourth studio album by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair. Released on 31 March 2002 by record label Eleven, the album was co-produced by Daniel Johns and David Bottrill...
    
    
  • Sleater-Kinney – One Beat
    One Beat
    One Beat is the sixth studio album by American rock band Sleater-Kinney. Produced by John Goodmanson, the album was recorded between March and April 2002 at Jackpot! Studio in Portland, Oregon. It was released on 20 August 2002 on Kill Rock Stars...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Murray Street
    Murray Street (album)
    Murray Street is the twelfth album by Sonic Youth. It was released in 2002. It was the first album by the group to feature Jim O'Rourke as an official fifth member.Members of noise improv group Borbetomagus appear on "Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style"...
    
    
  • Suede – A New Morning
    A New Morning
    A New Morning is the fifth studio album by English alternative rock band Suede, released in September 2002. By the time the album was released, public interest in the band had waned, as shown by the poor charting of both the album and singles...
    
    
  • Supergrass – Life on Other Planets
    Life on Other Planets
    Life On Other Planets, or L.O.O.P as it is often abbreviated to, is the fourth album from English rock band Supergrass. It is the first album that includes Rob Coombes as an official member of the band, and originally went under the working title of 'Get Lost'...
    
    
  • The Vines – Highly Evolved
    Highly Evolved
    Highly Evolved is the debut album by Australian alternative rock band The Vines, released in July 2002. Produced by Rob Schnapf, Highly Evolved was an immensely popular debut, part of a trend towards garage rock revival bands known as much for the relentless hype from the UK music press as for...
    
    
  • Weezer – Maladroit
    Maladroit
    Maladroit is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on May 14, 2002 on Geffen Records. The album is the band's first to feature bassist Scott Shriner, following the departure of former bassist Mikey Welsh in 2001...
    
    
  • Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the fourth album by Chicago-based rock band Wilco. The album was completed in 2001, but Reprise Records, a Warner Music Group label, refused to release it. Wilco acquired the rights to the album when they left the label. In September 2001, Wilco streamed the entire album...
    
    

• Events
  • Eraserheads vocalist Ely Buendia
    Ely Buendía
    Eleandre Basiño Buendia, popularly known as Ely Buendia, and also once adopting the stage name, Jesus "Dizzy" Ventura, is a Filipino writer and musician who gained fame as guitarist, songwriter, and lead vocalist in the popular Pinoy rock band The Eraserheads...
    
     and Lead guitarist Marcus Adoro
    Marcus Adoro
    Marcus Antonius Corpuz Adoro is the former lead guitarist of the Eraserheads, one of the most popular bands in the Philippines during the 90's alternative rock explosion....
    
     left the band.
  • Layne Staley
    Layne Staley
    Layne Thomas Staley was an American musician who served as the lead singer and co-lyricist of the rock group Alice in Chains, which was formed in Seattle, Washington in 1987 by Staley and guitarist Jerry Cantrell. Alice in Chains rose to international fame as part of the grunge movement of the...
    
     of Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr...
    
     dies on April 5; his body is found days later.
  • Nirvana
    Nirvana (band)
    Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
    
    's "You Know You're Right
    You Know You're Right
    "You Know You're Right" is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. It is the first song on its compilation album, Nirvana , and one of the last songs recorded by the band.-History:...
    
    ", a previously unreleased song, becomes a hit single.
  • Graham Coxon
    Graham Coxon
    Graham Leslie Coxon is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter. He came to prominence as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of rock band Blur, and is also a critically acclaimed solo artist, having recorded seven solo albums...
    
    , the guitarist of Blur
    Blur (band)
    Blur is an English alternative rock band. Formed in London in 1989 as Seymour, the group consists of singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree. Blur's debut album Leisure incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegazing...
    
    , quits the band.

2003

• Newly formed bands
  • Arcade Fire
  • Babyshambles
    Babyshambles
    Babyshambles are an English indie rock band established in London. The band was formed by Pete Doherty during a hiatus from his former band The Libertines, but Babyshambles has since become his main project . Babyshambles has released two albums, three EPs and a number of singles...
    
    
  • Glasvegas
    Glasvegas
    Glasvegas are a Scottish indie rock band from Glasgow. The band consists of James Allan , Rab Allan , Paul Donoghue and Jonna Löfgren . The band received critical acclaim for their debut album Glasvegas which was released in September 2008, reaching No...
    
    
  • Kaiser Chiefs
    Kaiser Chiefs
    Kaiser Chiefs are an English indie rock band from Leeds who formed in 1996. They were named after the South African football club Kaizer Chiefs....
    
    
  • The Academy Is...
    The Academy Is...
    The Academy Is... was an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2003. Before dispersing, they were signed by the Decaydance imprint of the Fueled by Ramen label. They were originally known as "The Academy", but added the "Is..." in 2004 to avoid legal complications with other...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • The Cranberries
  • Mansun
  • Stone Temple Pilots
  • Zwan

• Albums
  • 311 – Evolver
  • AFI – Sing The Sorrow
    Sing the Sorrow
    Sing the Sorrow is the sixth studio album by American rock band AFI. It was released on March 11, 2003 through DreamWorks Records. It debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200. It was certified Platinum in December 2004 by the RIAA. The album was supported by three singles, "Girl's Not Grey", "The Leaving...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
    Thirteenth Step
    Thirteenth Step is the second studio album by American rock band A Perfect Circle, released under Compact Disc format on September 16, 2003. It was a major success reaching the #2 position on the Billboard 200 in its premiere week, selling over 231,000 copies and staying on the charts for 78 weeks....
    
    
  • Barenaked Ladies – Everything To Everyone
    Everything to Everyone
    Everything to Everyone is the sixth full-length original-material studio album by Barenaked Ladies. It was released in 2003 and was produced by Ron Aniello. Singles from the album include "Another Postcard", "Testing 1, 2, 3", "For You", "Celebrity" and "Maybe Katie"...
    
    
  • Billy Talent – Billy Talent
    Billy Talent (album)
    - Chart positions :- Personnel :* Benjamin Kowalewicz - Lead vocals* Ian D'Sa - Guitar, vocals, art direction, package design* Jonathan Gallant - Bass guitar, vocals* Aaron Solowoniuk - Drums- Appearances :...
    
    
  • Blur – Think Tank
  • Camera Obscura – Underachievers Please Try Harder
    Underachievers Please Try Harder
    Underachievers Please Try Harder is the second LP from the indie band Camera Obscura, released in 2004. The album was released in Australia by Popfrenzy.-Reception:...
    
    
  • Cat Power
    Cat Power
    Charlyn Marie Marshall , also known as Chan Marshall or by her stage name Cat Power, is an American singer/songwriter and occasional actress and model. Cat Power was originally the name of Marshall's first band, but has come to refer to her musical projects with various backing bands...
    
     – You Are Free
    You Are Free
    You Are Free is the sixth album by American singer/songwriter Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power. It was released in 2003 on Matador Records. Dave Grohl of Nirvana and The Foo Fighters plays the drums and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam provides backing vocals on two tracks...
    
    
  • The Cooper Temple Clause – Kick Up the Fire, and Let the Flames Break Loose
    Kick Up the Fire, and Let the Flames Break Loose
    Kick Up the Fire, and Let the Flames Break Loose is the second album from the British based band, The Cooper Temple Clause.It was released on CD and vinyl, including a limited edition with bonus DVD, a Japanese edition and an album sampler...
    
    
  • The Dandy Warhols – Welcome to the Monkey House
    Welcome to the Monkey House (album)
    Welcome to the Monkey House is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. "We Used to Be Friends" was a popular single from the album, which later went on to be the theme song for the cult TV show Veronica Mars....
    
    
  • Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism
    Transatlanticism
    Transatlanticism is the fourth studio album by Death Cab for Cutie, released October 7, 2003 on Barsuk Records. Prior to the album's release, Ben Gibbard stated: "...unlike The Photo Album, I feel like this record is definitely more like a proper album...
    
    
  • Evanescence – Fallen
    Fallen
    Fallen could refer to:* Fallen angel* Fallen Footwear, the footwear brand that sponsors skateboarder Jamie Thomas* Fallen , a 2004 crime novel by Kathleen George* Fallen , a young adult fantasy novel by Lauren KateBooks...
    
    
  • The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
    The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
    The Real New Fall LP is an album by The Fall. It was released on Action Records in the United Kingdom in 2003, and then on Narnack Records in the United States, with a slightly altered tracklisting, in 2004....
    
    
  • Guided by Voices – Earthquake Glue
    Earthquake Glue
    Earthquake Glue is the 14th record by Dayton, Ohio rock group Guided by Voices. Working titles for the album included "Model Prisoners of the 5 Sense Realm", "Live Like Kings Forever", and "All Sinners Welcome". The first 25,000 copies were packaged in a numbered limited-edition digipak...
    
    
  • HIM – Love Metal
  • Hoobastank – The Reason (breakthrough)
  • Jane's Addiction – Strays
  • Kings of Leon – Youth and Young Manhood
    Youth and Young Manhood
    -Personnel:* Caleb Followill – vocals, rhythm guitar* Matthew Followill – lead guitar, piano on "Talihina Sky"* Jared Followill – bass guitar, piano on "Trani"* Nathan Followill – drums, percussion, vocals-Singles:*"Red Morning Light"...
    
    
  • The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
    De-Loused in the Comatorium
    De-Loused in the Comatorium is the debut studio album of the progressive rock band The Mars Volta. Released on June 24, 2003 on Gold Standard Laboratories and Universal Records, De-loused is based on a short story written by lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and sound manipulation artist Jeremy...
    
    
  • Matthew Good – Avalanche
  • Muse – Absolution
  • No Doubt – The Singles 1992-2003
    The Singles 1992-2003
    The only single from The Singles 1992–2003 was a cover of the song "It's My Life", originally released in 1984 by the synthpop band Talk Talk. Because the band were taking a break while lead singer Gwen Stefani recorded her solo debut album Love. Angel. Music. Baby., they decided to do a cover...
    
    
  • Placebo – Sleeping with Ghosts
    Sleeping with Ghosts
    Sleeping with Ghosts is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Placebo, released in 2003 through Astralwerks and Hut Records...
    
    
  • Primitive Radio Gods – Mellotron On!
    Mellotron On!
    Mellotron On! was intended to be the Primitive Radio Gods' second album, following Rocket. However, the record company that was to release the album, Sire Records, went bankrupt shortly before its release. Most of the songs on Mellotron On! ended up on the band's true second album, White Hot Peach;...
    
    
  • Primitive Radio Gods – Still Electric
    Still Electric
    Still Electric is the Primitive Radio Gods' third album, released independently through in early 2003. Still Electric once again shifts the general sound of the band, this time towards more shoegazing-esque alternative, laden with heavily layered guitars.Still Electric was released in two...
    
    
  • Primus – Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People
    Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People
    Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People is a career-spanning retrospective DVD plus bonus EP by Primus, released on October 7, 2003. The title was inspired by a crayon-made story book written by guitarist Larry LaLonde's son, and the cover depicts a sculpture made by long-time Primus collaborator...
    
    
  • Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
    Hail to the Thief
    Hail to the Thief is the sixth studio album by the English rock band Radiohead, released in June 2003 through Parlophone Records. After two Radiohead albums that featured heavily processed vocals, less guitar, and strong influence from experimental electronica and jazz, Hail to the Thief was seen...
    
    
  • The Rasmus – Dead Letters
    Dead Letters
    Dead Letters is the 2003 album by Finnish alternative rock band The Rasmus. It was released in 2004 in the US, UK and Australia. Their previous album, Into, had been a success in some parts of Europe, particularly Scandinavia and Germany, but Dead Letters signified the band's major break-through...
    
    
  • The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
    Chutes Too Narrow
    Chutes Too Narrow is The Shins' 2003 follow-up to their debut album, Oh, Inverted World. The album title comes from a lyric in the song "Young Pilgrims." The album was well-received by critics, garnering an overall score of 88/100 on Metacritic...
    
    
  • Sponge – For All the Drugs in the World
    For All the Drugs in the World
    -Band members:* Vinnie Dombroski - vocals* Joe Mazzola - guitar* Billy Adams - drums* Tim Krukowski - bass* Kurt Marschke - guitar-Additional personnel:* John Mathiason - management* Mike Rand - Booking agent...
    
    
  • Streetlight Manifesto – Everything Goes Numb
    Everything Goes Numb
    Everything Goes Numb is the debut album by American ska punk band Streetlight Manifesto.-Track listing:All songs written by Tomas Kalnoky-Personnel:*Josh Ansley - Bass Guitar*Jim Conti - Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone...
    
    
  • The Strokes – Room on Fire
    Room on Fire
    Room on Fire is the second studio album by American indie rock band The Strokes. Released in October 2003, it follows 2001's Is This It and includes three singles: "12:51", "Reptilia", and "The End Has No End." Grammy-winning producer Nigel Godrich was initially in charge of production, but The...
    
    
  • Supergrass – Road to Rouen
    Road to Rouen
    Road to Rouen is the fifth studio album by English rock band Supergrass. The album was released in the UK on 15 August 2005 by Parlophone, and in the US on 27 September 2005 by Capitol Records...
    
    
  • Third Eye Blind – Out of the Vein
    Out of the Vein
    Out of the Vein is the third album by American alternative rock band Third Eye Blind. Released on May 13, 2003, it would be the group's first album with guitarist Tony Fredianelli, who replaced long time guitarist Kevin Cadogan in 2000...
    
    
  • Travis – 12 Memories
    12 Memories
    12 Memories is the fourth studio album from Scottish indie rock band Travis. The album was released on October 11, 2003. In comparison, the album is a much more mature and lyrically darker album, focusing on issues such as the 2003 Iraq invasion, politicians, psychological crisis and domestic abuse...
    
    
  • TV on the Radio – Young Liars
    Young Liars
    Young Liars was the first major release by the New York City band TV on the Radio. Released in 2003 on Touch & Go Records, the EP helped establish the band's distinctive blending of electronica, doo wop, post-rock, and avant-garde styles...
    
    
  • The White Stripes – Elephant
    Elephant (album)
    Elephant is the Grammy winning fourth album by the American alternative rock band The White Stripes. Released on April 1, 2003 on V2 Records, the album marks the band's major label debut...
    
    
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
    Fever to Tell
    Fever to Tell is the debut album by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on April 29, 2003, through Interscope. It was produced by David Andrew Sitek and mixed by Alan Moulder....
    
    
  • Yellowcard
    Yellowcard
    Yellowcard is an American pop punk/alternative rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1997, and based in Los Angeles, California since 2000. Their music features the use of a violin, unusual for the genre...
    
     - Ocean Avenue
  • Zwan – Mary Star of the Sea

• Events
  • The first Lollapalooza in 6 years takes place.
  • Elliott Smith
    Elliott Smith
    Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity...
    
     commits suicide at age 34.
  • The advent of "The" titled acts began in earnest from 2003 onward, including The White Stripes
    The White Stripes
    The White Stripes was an American rock band, formed in 1997 in Detroit, Michigan. The group consisted of the songwriter Jack White and drummer Meg White . Jack and Meg White were previously married to each other, but are now divorced...
    
    , The Vines
    The Vines
    https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:LandingCheck?landing_page=L11_1121_WMUK_Jimmy_DDOptimised&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1121_WMUK_DDvOneOff&utm_source=B11_1121_WMUK_Jimmy&language=en&country=GB...
    
    , The Strokes
    The Strokes
    The Strokes are an American indie rock band formed in 1999 in New York City. Consisting of Julian Casablancas , Nick Valensi , Albert Hammond, Jr. , Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti ....
    
    , The Bravery
    The Bravery
    The Bravery is an American rock band from New York City that consists of Sam Endicott , Michael Zakarin , John Conway , Mike Hindert , and Anthony Burulcich...
    
    , and The Hives
    The Hives
    The Hives are a Swedish garage rock band that first garnered attention in the early 2000s as a prominent group of the garage rock revival. Their mainstream success came with the release of the "greatest hits" album Your New Favourite Band, featuring their most well-known song "Hate to Say I Told...
    
     among others in the coming years.

2004

• Newly formed bands
  • The Dead 60s
    The Dead 60s
    The Dead 60s were an English ska punk band from Liverpool. The band's sound is a mixture of punk rock, ska, dub and reggae. They have taken influences from artists such as King Tubby, Jackie Mittoo, Gang of Four and A Certain Ratio.-Band members:...
    
    
  • Jack's Mannequin
    Jack's Mannequin
    Jack's Mannequin is an American rock band formed in 2004, originally hailing from Orange County, California. The band began as a side project of Andrew McMahon, the frontman for Something Corporate, and is composed of guitarist Bobby Anderson, bassist Mikey "The Kid" Wagner, and drummer Jay...
    
    
  • Louis XIV
    Louis XIV (band)
    Louis XIV was an American rock band from San Diego, California.-Beginnings: :Lead singer/guitarist Jason Hill, guitarist Brian Karscig, and drummer Mark Maigaard formed the group in April 2003 while living in Paris, France. Bassist James Armbrust soon joined after.Louis XIV, the band's first album,...
    
    
  • The Tears
    The Tears
    The Tears were an English rock band, formed in 2004 by ex-Suede bandmates Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler. The band was a much anticipated reunion of an acclaimed songwriting couple, and music critics praised their first concerts and their debut album, Here Come The Tears...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • The Libertines
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  • Suede

• Reunions
  • Kula Shaker
  • Pixies

• Albums
  • A Perfect Circle – eMOTIVe
  • Arcade Fire – Funeral
    Funeral (album)
    Funeral is the debut full-length album by the Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released on September 14, 2004 in North America by Merge Records and on February 28, 2005 in Europe by Rough Trade Records...
    
    
  • Ash – Meltdown
  • Melissa Auf der Maur
    Melissa Auf der Maur
    Melissa Auf der Maur is a Canadian rock musician from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as bassist with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour. Her second solo album, Out of Our Minds, was released on March 30, 2010. She is also a...
    
     – Auf der Maur
    Auf der Maur (album)
    Auf der Maur is the debut album from former Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur.Formed following her successful stints as bassist for both Hole and The Smashing Pumpkins, Melissa Auf der Maur's solo project Auf der Maur released their self-titled debut album after Melissa's...
    
    
  • Björk – Medúlla
    Medúlla
    Medúlla is the sixth studio album by Icelandic singer, songwriter, and musician Björk, released on August 30, 2004 by Warner Bros. Records and One Little Indian. The title derives from the Latin word for "marrow". The album is almost entirely a cappella and constructed with human vocals...
    
     
  • Cake – Pressure Chief
    Pressure Chief
    Pressure Chief is the fifth studio album by American band Cake. It was released on October 5, 2004, pushed back from its original August release date. It was produced by the band and recorded in a converted house in Sacramento. It reached #17 on the Billboard 200 but fell to #55 the following week....
    
    
  • Collective Soul – Youth
    Youth
    Youth is the time of life between childhood and adulthood . Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual's actual maturity may not correspond to their chronological age, as immature individuals could exist at all ages.-Usage:Around the world, the terms "youth",...
    
    
  • The Cure – The Cure
  • Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
    Franz Ferdinand (album)
    Franz Ferdinand is the debut album by Scottish indie rock band Franz Ferdinand, released in early 2004. It entered the United Kingdom album charts at number three in February 2004 and contains three UK top ten singles: "Take Me Out", "This Fire" and "The Dark of the Matinée"...
    
    
  • Green Day – American Idiot
    American Idiot (album)
    American Idiot is the seventh studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day. It was released on September 21, 2004 through Reprise Records and was produced by longtime collaborator Rob Cavallo. In mid-2003, the band began recording songs for an album entitled Cigarettes and Valentines...
    
    
  • Guided By Voices – Half-Smiles of the Decomposed
  • Hawthorne Heights
    Hawthorne Heights
    Hawthorne Heights is an American rock band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2001. Their line-up currently consists of lead-singer and rhythm guitarist JT Woodruff, lead-guitarist and vocalist Micah Carli, bassist and backing vocalist Matt Ridenour, and drummer Eron Bucciarelli...
    
     – The Silence in Black and White
    The Silence in Black and White
    The Silence in Black and White is the debut studio album by American rock band Hawthorne Heights. It was released on June 1, 2004 through Victory Records. The album was the label's highest selling debut at the time of its release...
    
    
  • Incubus – A Crow Left of the Murder
  • Interpol – Antics
  • Jimmy Eat World – Futures
    Futures (album)
    Futures is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock/emo band Jimmy Eat World, released on October 19, 2004. Futures was led by the successful single "Pain", followed by "Work" and "Futures"...
    
    
  • Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
    Aha Shake Heartbreak
    Aha Shake Heartbreak is the second studio album by American rock band Kings of Leon. It was released in November 2004 in the UK and February 2005 in the United States...
    
    
  • The Killers – Hot Fuss
    Hot Fuss
    Hot Fuss is the debut studio album by Las Vegas based American rock band The Killers, released on June 7, 2004 in the United Kingdom and on June 15, 2004 in the United States.-Background:...
    
    
  • The Libertines – The Libertines
    The Libertines (album)
    The Libertines is the second album by the British indie rock band The Libertines. Released on 30 August 2004, it is particularly biographical of the relationship between frontmen Carl Barât and Pete Doherty. The album instantly reached #1 in the UK and is on its way to achieving platinum...
    
    
  • Local H – Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?
    Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?
    Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles is an album by the alternative rock band Local H. It was released on April 6, 2004 on Studio E Records. On July 16th, 2007 it received an Australian release doubled with Alive '05. "Hey Rita" and "California Songs" have become staples at many of Local H's live...
    
    
  • Manic Street Preachers – Lifeblood
    Lifeblood
    - Personnel :Manic Street Preachers*James Dean Bradfield – lead vocals, guitar*Sean Moore – drums, drum programming*Nicky Wire – bassAdditional personnel*Patrick Jones - additional lyrics on "Fragments"*Nick Nasmyth - keyboards*Jeremy Shaw - keyboards...
    
    
  • Mansun – Kleptomania
    Kleptomania (album)
    -Disc two:-Disc three:-Personnel:Disc One Credits* All songs written by Paul Draper* Produced by Richard Rainey and Paul Draper* Engineered by Cenzo Townshend, except tracks 9 and 10 engineered by Barney Chase.Disc Two Credits...
    
    
  • Matthew Good – White Light Rock & Roll Review
    White Light Rock & Roll Review
    White Light Rock & Roll Review is Matthew Good's second album as a solo artist, and was released on June 15, 2004. Though it was not as well-received as his previous solo effort, Avalanche, it quickly achieved Gold certification in Canada....
    
    
  • Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
    Good News for People Who Love Bad News
    Good News for People Who Love Bad News is the fourth full-length album recorded by indie rock band Modest Mouse.The album was released by Epic Records on April 6, 2004 on both CD and 180g/m² vinyl record. It was rereleased on DualDisc on October 11, 2005...
    
    
  • Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
    You Are the Quarry
    -CD:-DVD:# "Irish Blood, English Heart" # "First of the Gang to Die" # "First of the Gang to Die" # "I Have Forgiven Jesus"...
    
    
  • My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
    Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
    * Track 11 is commonly censored as "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish"-Charts:-Singles:-Release history:-Personnel:Band*Frank Iero – rhythm guitar, backing vocals*Matt Pelissier – drums*Ray Toro – lead guitar, backing vocals...
    
    
  • R.E.M. – Around the Sun
    Around the Sun
    Around the Sun is the 13th studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 2004.-Description:"The Outsiders" features a guest appearance by rapper Q-Tip. When performed live, Michael Stipe carries out the rap, as he does on a later b-side release of the song."Final Straw" is...
    
    
  • Seven Mary Three – Dis/Location
    Dis/Location
    Dis/Location is the sixth studio album by American post-grunge band Seven Mary Three. It was released on May 11, 2004 on DRT Entertainment...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
    Sonic Nurse
    Sonic Nurse is the 13th album by Sonic Youth, released on June 7, 2004. The cover art was made by renowned artist Richard Prince from his Nurse Paintings series...
    
    
  • Stereolab – Margerine Eclipse
    Margerine Eclipse
    is an album by the band Stereolab, released in early 2004. The album is in large part a eulogy to Mary Hansen.-Track listing:# "Vonal Declosion" – 3:34# "Need to Be" – 4:50# "...Sudden Stars" – 4:41# "Cosmic Country Noir" – 4:47# "La Demeure" – 4:36...
    
    
  • They Might Be Giants – The Spine
    The Spine
    The Spine is the tenth full-length studio album by They Might Be Giants. The album was released on July 5, 2004 in the UK, and July 13 in the U.S.....
    
    
  • TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
    Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
    Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes is a 2004 album by the American art rock band, TV on the Radio. The album, recorded at Headgear Studio in Brooklyn, was awarded the Shortlist Music Prize for 2004. It was released on CD, 12" vinyl and MP3 download formats. The CD is enhanced with two different...
    
    
  • U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
    How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
    How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is the eleventh studio album by Irish rock band U2, released in November 2004. Much like their previous album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb was commercially successful and critically acclaimed and maintains a more traditional rock...
    
    
  • The Used – In Love and Death
    In Love and Death
    In Love and Death is the second studio album by American rock band The Used. It was released on September 28, 2004 and has since been certified gold. It is their most well-received and successful album to date. This was the first album for which Alex Pardee did the artwork, and he has done all...
    
    
  • The Vines – Winning Days
    Winning Days
    Winning Days is the second studio album by Australian alternative rock band The Vines, following their debut, Highly Evolved, and was released on 23 March 2004. The enhanced CD has the music video for "Ride". Winning Days was recorded in the summer of 2003 at Bearsville Studios in New York and was...
    
    
  • Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
    A Ghost Is Born
    A Ghost Is Born is the fifth studio album by Chicago-based alternative rock band Wilco. Released on June 22, 2004, it features singer Jeff Tweedy on lead guitar more than any previous Wilco album...
    
    

• Events
  • Influential British DJ John Peel
    John Peel
    John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
    
    , whose advocacy helped increase the profiles of many punk and alternative acts, dies on October 25.
  • Pixies reunite and release a new single entitled "Bam Thwok
    Bam Thwok
    "Bam Thwok" is a 2004 download-only single by the American alternative rock band Pixies. The song was written and sung by bassist Kim Deal, and released exclusively through the iTunes Store on June 15, 2004. Upon its release, "Bam Thwok" was a commercial success, debuting at number one on the very...
    
    ".
  • Lollapalooza is cancelled due to low ticket sales.
  • Brett Anderson
    Brett Anderson
    Brett Lewis Anderson is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Suede. After Suede disbanded in 2003, he briefly fronted The Tears, and has released four solo albums...
    
     quits Suede
    Suede (band)
    Suede are an English alternative rock band from London, formed in 1989. The group's most prominent early line-up featured singer Brett Anderson, guitarist Bernard Butler, bass player Mat Osman and drummer Simon Gilbert. By 1992, Suede were hailed as "The Best New Band in Britain", and attracted...
    
     and reunites with former Suede bandmate Bernard Butler
    Bernard Butler
    Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician and record producer. He first emerged in the early Britpop era with Suede. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation, as well as one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists...
    
     to form The Tears
    The Tears
    The Tears were an English rock band, formed in 2004 by ex-Suede bandmates Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler. The band was a much anticipated reunion of an acclaimed songwriting couple, and music critics praised their first concerts and their debut album, Here Come The Tears...
    
    .
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...
    
     release their first ever live album Live in Hyde Park
    Live in Hyde Park
    Live in Hyde Park is a live album released by the Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded over three record-breaking nights at Hyde Park, in London on June 19, 20 and 25, 2004 during the band's Roll On The Red tour. These three concerts became the highest grossing concerts at a single venue in history...
    
    . The album was recorded during the three record breaking shows performed in Hyde Park, London
    Hyde Park, London
    Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, United Kingdom, and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.The park is divided in two by the Serpentine...
    
    . The shows broke the record for the most money made at a live show (a record previously held by The Beatles
    The Beatles
    The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
    
    ).
  • No Doubt
    No Doubt
    No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...
    
     goes on hiatus while frontwoman Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer-songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani is the lead vocalist for the rock and ska band No Doubt. Stefani recorded her first solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004. The album was inspired by music of the 1980s, and was a success with sales of over...
    
     pursues solo career.

2005

• Newly formed bands
  • Dirty Pretty Things
    Dirty Pretty Things (band)
    Dirty Pretty Things were an English band fronted by Carl Barât, a member of The Libertines. The formation of the band was announced in September 2005, after a dispute between Barât and Pete Doherty led to the breakup of The Libertines in 2004. Barât had worked with Vertigo Records and had...
    
    
  • The Horrors
    The Horrors
    The Horrors are an English band from Southend on Sea, formed in 2005. Their debut Strange House, was released in 2007 and reached number thirty-seven on the UK Albums Chart, their second album Primary Colours was released in 2009 and peaked at number 25 in the UK...
    
    
  • The View
    The View (band)
    The View are a Scottish indie rock band. They incorporate various styles such as punk, pop, alternative rock, pop punk, powerpop, folk, and acoustic in their music....
    
    
  • The Raconteurs
    The Raconteurs
    The Raconteurs is an American rock band that was formed in Detroit, Michigan, featuring four members known for other musical projects: Jack White , Brendan Benson , Jack Lawrence , and Patrick Keeler .-Formation:The...
    
    
  • The xx
    The xx
    The xx are an English indie pop band, formed in London in 2005. The band's members met while studying at Elliott School, the same school that produced Hot Chip, Burial and Four Tet. They became a trio when their second guitarist and keyboardist, Baria Qureshi, departed in late 2009. In September...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Guided by Voices
  • Luna

• Reunions
  • The Lemonheads

• Albums
  • 30 Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie
    A Beautiful Lie
    A Beautiful Lie is the second album by American rock band 30 Seconds to Mars. It was released on August 30, 2005 through Virgin Records and was produced by Josh Abraham. The album produced four singles, "Attack," "The Kill," "From Yesterday," and "A Beautiful Lie"; of which three of those four...
    
    
  • 311 – Don't Tread on Me
    Don't Tread on Me (album)
    -Bonus tracks:-Outtakes & Demos:#Into the Flame#Take My Money#Wandering Around#Stealing My Girl#Go#Mase - Early demo for "It's Getting OK Now"#Hotness - Early demo for "Into the Flame"- Personnel :*Shepard Fairey – artwork, design...
    
    
  • A – Teen Dance Ordinance
    Teen Dance Ordinance (album)
    Teen Dance Ordinance is the fourth album by the Alternative rock group A. It was released on 25 June 2005 in the United Kingdom and later in the United States. The title refers to a law passed in 1985 by Seattle City Council and repealed in 2002 which prohibited minors and adults from attending the...
    
    
  • Audioslave – Out of Exile
    Out of Exile
    Out of Exile is the second studio album by the American rock supergroup Audioslave, first released on May 23, 2005 internationally and a day later in the United States. It is the band's only number one album on the Billboard 200. Four singles were released: "Be Yourself", "Your Time Has Come",...
    
    
  • Beck – Guero
    Guero
    Guero is the ninth studio album by American alternative rock artist Beck, first released in March 2005 on Interscope Records. It debuted on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart at #2 , and in the UK at #15 . To date, this is Beck's highest charting CD...
    
    
  • Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
    Silent Alarm (album)
    Silent Alarm is the debut studio album by British indie rock band Bloc Party. Recorded in Copenhagen and London in mid-2004 with producer Paul Epworth, it was released in February 2005 on Wichita Recordings. The record peaked at number three on the United Kingdom Albums Chart...
    
    
  • Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
    Jimmy Chamberlin
    Jimmy Chamberlin is an American drummer, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the former drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. After a drug-related incident with touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin in 1996, Chamberlin was fired from the band and joined The Last...
    
     – Life Begins Again
    Life Begins Again
    Life Begins Again is the debut album by the Jimmy Chamberlin Complex . It was released on January 25, 2005 and as an Enhanced CD...
    
    
  • CKY – An Answer Can Be Found
    An Ånswer Can Be Found
    -Personnel:Musicians*Deron Miller – Vocals, Guitar, Bass*Chad Ginsburg – Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Production, Mixing*Jess Margera – Drums*Jena Kraus - Backing Vocals on "The Way You Lived"Production personnel...
    
    
  • Coldplay – X&Y
    X&Y
    X&Y is the third studio album by English rock band Coldplay, released 6 June 2005 in the United Kingdom via the record label Parlophone. The album, which features influences of electronic music, was produced by the band and British record producer Danton Supple...
    
    
  • Billy Corgan
    Billy Corgan
    William Patrick "Billy" Corgan, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet best known as the frontman and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois in 1987, the band quickly gained steam with the...
    
     – TheFutureEmbrace
    TheFutureEmbrace
    TheFutureEmbrace is the only solo album by Billy Corgan, frontman of the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Released in June 2005, the album's sound was markedly different than most of Corgan's earlier work, eschewing his characteristic "drums, bass, big-guitars sound" in favor of an...
    
    
  • The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium or Warlords of Mars
    Odditorium or Warlords of Mars
    Odditorium or Warlords of Mars is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released on 13 September 2005 on Capitol Records...
    
    
  • Dave Matthews Band – Stand Up
    Stand Up (Dave Matthews Band album)
    Stand Up is the sixth album by Dave Matthews Band, released on May 10, 2005. It shares the same name as Jethro Tull's second album and was produced by Mark Batson. It was their fourth straight number one album on the Billboard 200...
    
    
  • The Dead 60s – The Dead 60s
    The Dead 60s (album)
    The Dead 60s is the eponymous debut album by British rock band The Dead 60s. It was first released in the United States on 31 May 2005. The office building on the album cover is Concourse House, which currently stands next to Liverpool Lime Street railway station...
    
    
  • Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
    Plans (album)
    Plans has received positive reviews. On the review aggregate site Metacritic, the album has a score of 66 out of 100, indicating "Generally favorable reviews."-Track listing:-Personnel:*Ben Gibbard – vocals, guitars...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Depeche Mode – Playing the Angel
    Playing the Angel
    Playing the Angel is the eleventh studio album by English electronic band Depeche Mode, released in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2005 by Mute Records and in the United States and Canada on 18 October by Sire Records and Reprise Records. It was supported by the Touring the Angel...
    
    
  • Echo & the Bunnymen – Siberia
    Siberia (album)
    Siberia is the tenth studio album by Echo & the Bunnymen. The album garnered generally positive reviews, with some commentators calling it their best work since Ocean Rain, despite it being the first to not reach the UK Top 75....
    
    
  • Foo Fighters – In Your Honor
    In Your Honor
    In Your Honor is the fifth studio album by Foo Fighters, released on June 14, 2005 on BMG. It consists of two discs. The first contains up beat rock songs and the second disc contains mellower acoustic songs.-Development:...
    
    
  • Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better
    You Could Have It So Much Better
    You Could Have It So Much Better is the second studio album by Glaswegian indie rock band Franz Ferdinand that was first released 3 October 2005 in the United Kingdom. Recorded in both the United States and their own studio in Glasgow with producer Rich Costey, the album gave birth to the release...
    
    
  • The Fray – How to Save a Life
    How to Save a Life
    How to Save a Life is the debut album by The Fray. Released on September 13, 2005 through Epic Records, the record charted in the top 15 on the Billboard 200 and was a top ten hit in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK...
    
    
  • Garbage – Bleed Like Me
    Bleed Like Me
    Bleed Like Me is the fourth studio album recorded and produced by alternative rock group Garbage. It was released in April 2005 by Warner Bros...
    
    
  • Gorillaz – Demon Days
    Demon Days
    Demon Days is the second studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz, released in May 2005. The album features contributions from De La Soul, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley-Bird, Roots Manuva, MF DOOM, Ike Turner, Bootie Brown of the Pharcyde, Shaun Ryder, Dennis Hopper, the London Community Gospel...
    
    
  • HIM – Dark Light
  • Hot Hot Heat – Elevator
  • Jack's Mannequin – Everything in Transit
    Everything in Transit
    Everything in Transit is the debut album of Jack's Mannequin. It was released on August 23, 2005 on Maverick Records.-Overview:Everything In Transit may be considered a concept album, that tells the story of Andrew McMahon finally coming home after years of nonstop touring with his band Something...
    
    
  • Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
    Employment (album)
    Employment is the debut album by English indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs, released in March 2005 on B-Unique Records. Employment takes its inspirations from the Britpop and New Wave movements, 70s'-era punk rock and Beach Boys-esque West Coast music...
    
    
  • Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
    Aha Shake Heartbreak
    Aha Shake Heartbreak is the second studio album by American rock band Kings of Leon. It was released in November 2004 in the UK and February 2005 in the United States...
    
    (US release)
  • LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
    LCD Soundsystem (album)
    LCD Soundsystem is the debut album by American dance-punk act LCD Soundsystem, released in January 2005 by DFA Records. It contains 2 discs: the LP itself with new, unreleased songs and a second disc featuring singles released since 2002...
    
    
  • Motion City Soundtrack – Commit This to Memory
    Commit This to Memory
    -Re-issue:The band released a deluxe edition of the album in mid-2006. The new version featured a bonus track originally featured on the Japanese edition and a bonus DVD featuring previously unreleased material, including a Documentary directed by and a live performance from the 7th Street Entry...
    
    
  • New Order – Waiting for the Sirens' Call
    Waiting for the Sirens' Call
    -Singles:* "Krafty" * "Jetstream" * "Waiting for the Sirens' Call" * "Guilt Is a Useless Emotion" -Personnel:* Bernard Sumner – vocals, guitars, synthesisers and programming...
    
    
  • Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
    With Teeth
    With Teeth is the fourth studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on May 3, 2005, by Interscope Records. The album was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and long-time collaborator Alan Moulder. It was Reznor's first original studio album since The...
    
    
  • Oasis – Don't Believe the Truth
    Don't Believe the Truth
    Don't Believe the Truth is the sixth studio album by English rock band Oasis, released on 30 May 2005. It reached number 1 in the UK Albums Chart with first week sales of just under 238,000, and is the 32nd fastest selling album ever in the UK. The album entered the U.S...
    
    
  • Our Lady Peace – Healthy in Paranoid Times
    Healthy in Paranoid Times
    Healthy in Paranoid Times is the sixth studio album by Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace, released on August 30, 2005 by Columbia Records. The disc was released on a standard CD as well as a DualDisc, with the reverse side containing a documentary on the making of the album...
    
    
  • Panic! at the Disco – A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
    A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
    A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Panic! at the Disco. Recorded primarily at SOMD! Studios in College Park, Maryland with producer Matt Squire, the album was released September 27, 2005 on Decaydance and Fueled by Ramen Records.Written and...
    
    
  • Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze
    Lullabies to Paralyze
    Lullabies to Paralyze is the fourth studio album by hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released on March 21, 2005. The album debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200, and sold 97,000 copies in America during its first week of release, eventually topping over 342,000 copies as of March, 2007...
    
    
  • The Rasmus – Hide From the Sun
    Hide from the Sun
    Hide from the Sun is the sixth studio album by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus, originally released in mainland Europe, the UK, Scandinavia and Japan on 12 September 2005. It received Platinum status in Finland and sold more than 15,000 in the UK alone. All in all Hide from the Sun sold 400,000...
    
    
  • Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
    The Woods (album)
    The Woods is the seventh and final studio album by the punk rock trio Sleater-Kinney. Released in 2005, the album was released to widespread critical acclaim. The album was produced by Dave Fridmann, whose earlier work includes collaborations with The Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev...
    
    
  • Sponge – The Man
    The Man
    "The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise....
    
    
  • Supergrass – Road to Rouen
    Road to Rouen
    Road to Rouen is the fifth studio album by English rock band Supergrass. The album was released in the UK on 15 August 2005 by Parlophone, and in the US on 27 September 2005 by Capitol Records...
    
    
  • Switchfoot – Nothing Is Sound
    Nothing Is Sound
    Nothing Is Sound is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Switchfoot. It was released on September 13, 2005, and début at number three on the Billboard 200. The first single from this album was "Stars," which was the number one most-added song on Modern Rock Radio, and received...
    
    
  • Weezer – Make Believe
  • The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
    Get Behind Me Satan
    Get Behind Me Satan is the fifth album by American alternative rock band The White Stripes, released on June 7, 2005 on V2 Records. Though still basic in production style, the album marked a distinct change from its guitar-heavy 2003 predecessor, Elephant...
    
    

• Events
  • U2
    U2
    U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
    
     are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is dedicated to archiving the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and others who have, in some major way,...
    
    .
  • Billy Corgan
    Billy Corgan
    William Patrick "Billy" Corgan, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional poet best known as the frontman and sole permanent member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois in 1987, the band quickly gained steam with the...
    
     announces his intention to reform The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan frontman and James Iha , the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin , D'arcy Wretzky , and currently includes Jeff Schroeder Mike Byrne , and Nicole Fiorentino The Smashing...
    
     after five years of disbandment.
  • Audioslave
    Audioslave
    Audioslave was an American rock supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2001. It consisted of former Soundgarden lead singer/rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell and the former instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello , Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk...
    
     become only the second major rock band to play a gig in Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
    
    , following Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
    
     in 2001.
  • Garbage
    Garbage (band)
    Garbage are an alternative rock band formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 1994. The group consists of Scottish singer Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson , Steve Marker and Butch Vig . All four members are involved in songwriting and production...
    
     announce a long hiatus after their final show supporting Bleed Like Me.
  • The surviving members of Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr...
    
     reform to play their first concert in nine years at a Tsunami benefit concert with former Damageplan vocalist Pat Lachman. The band launches a world tour with William Duvall
    William DuVall
    thumb|200px|right|William DuVall performing with [[Alice In Chains]] at Roskilde Festival 2010William DuVall is an American musician, best known as current lead singer for Alice In Chains, following the death of the band's original lead singer Layne Staley.DuVall is also co-founder, lead singer,...
    
     taking the vocal spot, while many guests vocalists perform at various shows, including Maynard James Keenan
    Maynard James Keenan
    Maynard James Keenan is an American rock singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor. Originally from Ohio, Keenan spent his high school and college years in Michigan. After serving in the Army in the early 1980s, he attended Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids...
    
    , Billy Corgan and Phil Anselmo
    Phil Anselmo
    Philip Hansen "Phil" Anselmo is an American musician who is best known as the lead singer for the heavy metal band Pantera. He is currently the frontman for the Louisiana-based metal act Down. He is also the owner of Housecore Records....
    
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2006

• Newly formed bands
  • Los Campesinos!
    Los Campesinos!
    Los Campesinos! are a seven piece indie pop band from Cardiff, Wales, formed in early 2006 at Cardiff University. Although the band formed in Wales, none of its members are Welsh. They released their debut album, Hold on Now, Youngster..., in February 2008 and followed this up by releasing a record...
    
    
  • Cage the Elephant
    Cage the Elephant
    Cage the Elephant is an American rock band from Bowling Green, Kentucky, that formed in mid-2006. Since their formation, the band has gained a large following in the US as well as the UK and Canada for their sound and their high-energy live performances. The band released their self-titled debut...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Sleater-Kinney
  • Grandaddy

• Reunions
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Toadies

• Albums
  • AFI – Decemberunderground
    Decemberunderground
    Decemberunderground is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band AFI. The album was released on June 6, 2006 through Interscope Records. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, selling 182,000 in its first week. The album certified Gold by the RIAA on August 30, 2006 and has sold...
    
    
  • Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
    Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is the debut album by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, released on 23 January 2006. The album became the UK's fastest selling debut album, shifting over 360,000 copies in its first week, and remains the fastest selling debut album by a band. It...
    
    
  • Audioslave – Revelations
  • Barenaked Ladies – Barenaked Ladies Are Me
    Barenaked Ladies Are Me
    Barenaked Ladies Are Me is the seventh full-length original-material studio album by Barenaked Ladies. It was their first original-material album since 2003's Everything to Everyone. It was released in September 2006 internationally...
    
    
  • Beck – The Information
    The Information
    The Information is the tenth studio album by American alternative rock musician Beck, released in October 2006 on Interscope Records. It was produced and mixed by longtime Beck collaborator Nigel Godrich. Recording began in 2003 concurrently with Guero, but the album was not completed until 2006...
    
    
  • Billy Talent – Billy Talent II
    Billy Talent II
    -Themes:The album has less anger and language than their previous self-titled album, as they had mellowed out and matured as men and as a band. More of the songs dealt with real-life issues, to the praise of fans and critics.-Personnel:Billy Talent...
    
    
  • Blue October – Foiled
    Foiled
    Foiled is the fourth album by Blue October. The album was certified gold in the United States on August 9, 2006, and on February 22, 2007, was certified platinum. The album is also popular in Canada where it has also achieved platinum status....
    
    
  • Camera Obscura – Let's Get Out of This Country
    Let's Get Out of This Country
    Let's Get Out of This Country is the third LP from the indie pop band Camera Obscura.It was produced by Jari Haapalainen of The Bear Quartet. "Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken" was played over the opening credits of the film P.S...
    
    
  • The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
    The Crane Wife
    The Crane Wife is an album by The Decemberists, released in 2006. It was produced by Tucker Martine and Chris Walla, and is the band's first album on the Capitol Records label. The album was inspired by a Japanese folk tale, and centers on two song cycles, The Crane Wife and The Island, the latter...
    
    
  • Evanescence – The Open Door
    The Open Door
    The Open Door is the second studio album by the American rock band Evanescence. It was first released in Poland on September 25, 2006, through Wind-up Records and subsequently in more than 20 other countries worldwide...
    
    
  • Goo Goo Dolls – Let Love In
    Let Love In (Goo Goo Dolls album)
    Let Love In is the Goo Goo Dolls' eighth studio album. "Better Days", which was released as a single late in 2005, appears on the album, along with a cover of the Supertramp song, "Give a Little Bit".-Track listing:...
    
    
  • Hoobastank – Every Man for Himself
  • Incubus – Light Grenades
    Light Grenades
    -Singles:*"Anna Molly" - was briefly available online on September 20. It was slated for release on October 16, and debuted at #19 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. Anna Molly peaked at #1 on the Modern Rock Chart, at #4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart and at #66 on the Billboard Hot 100...
    
    
  • The Killers – Sam's Town
    Sam's Town
    -Band:*Brandon Flowers – lead vocals, keyboards, bass *Dave Keuning – guitar, background vocals*Mark Stoermer – bass, background vocals, guitar *Ronnie Vannucci – drums, percussion-Additional musicians:...
    
    
  • The Kooks – Inside In/Inside Out
    Inside In/Inside Out
    Inside In / Inside Out is the debut album by English indie rock band The Kooks, released on 23 January 2006 on Virgin Records. It contains the singles, "Eddie's Gun", "Sofa Song", "You Don't Love Me", "Naïve", "She Moves in Her Own Way" and "Ooh La". The album was produced by Tony Hoffer of record...
    
    
  • The Lemonheads – The Lemonheads
    The Lemonheads
    The Lemonheads are an American alternative rock band first formed in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily and Jesse Peretz. Dando has remained the band's only constant member....
    
    
  • The Mars Volta – Amputechture
    Amputechture
    -Notes:#"Vicarious Atonement" is the theory that the atonement of Jesus Christ was legal in God's eyes and that Jesus died in the place of the humans that sinned....
    
    
  • Morrissey – Ringleader of the Tormentors
    Ringleader of the Tormentors
    -The Band:* Morrissey – vocals* Alain Whyte – guitars and backing vocals* Boz Boorer – guitars* Jesse Tobias – guitars* Gary Day – bass guitar* Matt Chamberlain – drums* Michael Farrell – piano, organ, keyboards, trumpet, trombone and percussion...
    
    
  • Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
    Black Holes and Revelations
    Black Holes and Revelations is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Muse, released on 3 July 2006. Recording was split between New York and France, and it was the first time Muse had taken a more active role in the album's production...
    
    
  • My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
    The Black Parade
    The Black Parade is the third studio album by American rock band My Chemical Romance. Released on October 23, 2006 through Reprise Records, it was produced by Rob Cavallo, who has also produced albums for Green Day. The album is the first on which Bob Bryar plays drums. It is a rock opera centering...
    
    
  • Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam (album)
    Pearl Jam is the eighth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam and its debut and only release for J Records...
    
    
  • Placebo – Meds
    Meds
    Meds is the fifth studio album by British alternative rock band Placebo, released in 2006 on Virgin Records. It was released in most countries on 13 March 2006, although it was released three days earlier in Australia and New Zealand...
    
    
  • Primal Scream – Riot City Blues
    Riot City Blues
    Riot City Blues is the eighth studio album by Primal Scream, released on June 5, 2006. On this album, Primal Scream leaves its electronic element behind and returns to more traditional rock and roll...
    
    
  • Primitive Radio Gods – Sweet Venus
    Sweet Venus
    Sweet Venus is the Primitive Radio Gods' fourth album, released independently through their official site as a full-album download on May 4, 2006...
    
    
  • The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
    Broken Boy Soldiers
    Broken Boy Soldiers is the debut album of The Raconteurs, released on May 15, 2006 in the United Kingdom and May 16, 2006 in the United States. The album was generally favored among critics and spawned the #1 hit single "Steady, As She Goes"...
    
    
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
    Stadium Arcadium
    Stadium Arcadium is the ninth studio album by American rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. The album was released on May 9, 2006, on Warner Bros. Records. The album produced five singles: "Dani California", "Tell Me Baby", "Snow ", "Desecration Smile", and "Hump de Bump"...
    
    
  • The Shins – Wincing The Night Away
    Wincing the Night Away
    Wincing the Night Away is a Grammy-nominated album by indie rock group The Shins. It was released by Sub Pop Records on January 23, 2007. It is the band's third album, and the final under their contract with Sub Pop...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
    Rather Ripped
    Rather Ripped is the fifteenth studio album by Sonic Youth, which was released on June 13, 2006. It was their first album without guitarist Jim O'Rourke since 2000's NYC Ghosts & Flowers. The album was described by Thurston Moore as "a super song record" containing "rockers and ballads". The name...
    
    
  • Silversun Pickups – Carnavas
    Carnavas
    Carnavas is Silversun Pickups' first full-length studio album. It was released on July 26, 2006. The title is an homage to lead guitarist and vocalist Brian Aubert's Greek heritage. Some suppliers were also given copies of The Tripwire Session: Live In Chicago, a four track EP.The album generated...
    
    
  • Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
    Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
    Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain is the fourth and final album by Sparklehorse before Mark Linkous' death in 2010. It was released September 25, 2006 on Astralwerks Records.-Recording:...
    
    
  • Stereolab – Fab Four Suture
    Fab Four Suture
    Fab Four Suture is a compilation album by Stereolab, released in March 2006. It collects six singles and their B-sides originally released on 7-inch vinyl in 2005 and 2006.-Singles collected on Fab Four Suture:...
    
    
  • The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth
    First Impressions of Earth
    First Impressions of Earth is the third album by the American indie rock band The Strokes. It was released in January 2006 , having been preceded by lead single "Juicebox" some weeks earlier...
    
    
  • TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
    Return to Cookie Mountain
    Return to Cookie Mountain is the second studio album by American art rock group TV on the Radio. It was released July 6, 2006 worldwide by 4AD, and issued in the U.S. and Canada on September 12, 2006 by Interscope Records and Touch and Go Recordings. However, an unmastered version of the album...
    
    
  • The Vines – Vision Valley
    Vision Valley
    Vision Valley is the third studio album by Australian alternative rock band The Vines. It was released on 1 April 2006 in Australia and on 3 April 2006 everywhere else except in the USA, where it was released on 4 April 2006...
    
    
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
    Show Your Bones
    Show Your Bones is the second full-length album by new New York indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It was released on March 27, 2006 . The album was nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award for "Best Alternative Music Album"....
    
    
  • Yellowcard - Lights and Sounds
    Lights and Sounds
    Lights and Sounds is the fifth studio album by American pop punk band Yellowcard, released on January 24, 2006 in the United States through Capitol Records. Lights and Sounds is Yellowcard's first concept album, which was inspired to reflect what the band was feeling at the time of production and...
    
    
  • Thom Yorke – The Eraser
    The Eraser
    The Eraser is the debut solo album by Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke, released on 10 July 2006. The album debuted at #3 on the UK Albums Chart and at #2 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, selling over 90,000 copies in its first week. Critical reception to the album was generally positive...
    
    

• Events
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins
    The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan frontman and James Iha , the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin , D'arcy Wretzky , and currently includes Jeff Schroeder Mike Byrne , and Nicole Fiorentino The Smashing...
    
     officially reunite, issuing an announcement on their website in April.
  • Grant McLennan
    Grant McLennan
    Grant William McLennan was an Australian singer-songwriter with the alternative rock band The Go-Betweens, which he co-founded with Robert Forster in Brisbane, Australia in 1977...
    
     of The Go-Betweens
    The Go-Betweens
    The Go-Betweens were an indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Australia in 1977 by singer-songwriters and guitarists, Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. They were later joined by Lindy Morrison on drums, Robert Vickers on bass guitar and Amanda Brown on violin, oboe, guitar, and backing vocals,...
    
     dies.
  • Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr...
    
     reforms, featuring Comes With the Fall
    Comes With The Fall
    Comes with the Fall is an American rock band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 1999. Since 2001, the line-up has been composed of William DuVall , Adam Stanger and Bevan Davies . Nico Constantine was the band's second guitarist before departing in 2001...
    
     singer William DuVall
    William DuVall
    thumb|200px|right|William DuVall performing with [[Alice In Chains]] at Roskilde Festival 2010William DuVall is an American musician, best known as current lead singer for Alice In Chains, following the death of the band's original lead singer Layne Staley.DuVall is also co-founder, lead singer,...
    
     replacing Layne Staley
    Layne Staley
    Layne Thomas Staley was an American musician who served as the lead singer and co-lyricist of the rock group Alice in Chains, which was formed in Seattle, Washington in 1987 by Staley and guitarist Jerry Cantrell. Alice in Chains rose to international fame as part of the grunge movement of the...
    
     who died in 2002.

2007

• Newly formed bands
  • Everything Everything
    Everything Everything
    Everything Everything are a British indie band that formed in late 2007, originate from Newcastle, Kent and Guernsey, and reside in Manchester. The band rose to fame when they were revealed as part of the BBC's Sound of 2010 poll on 7 December 2009...
    
    
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
    The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
    The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are an indie pop band from New York City. Their first album was a self-released EP which came out in 2007 through the Painbow label. Their debut self-titled full length album was released on February 3, 2009 via Slumberland Records. The band name comes from an...
    
    
  • Two Door Cinema Club
    Two Door Cinema Club
    Two Door Cinema Club are an indie rock band from Bangor and Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland. Formed in 2007, the band is composed of band members: Sam Halliday , Alex Trimble and Kevin Baird...
    
    
  • White Lies
    White Lies (band)
    White Lies is an English indie rock band from Ealing, London. Formerly known as Fear of Flying, the band consists primarily of Harry McVeigh , Charles Cave , and Jack Lawrence-Brown...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Audioslave
  • The Cooper Temple Clause

• Reunions
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • My Bloody Valentine
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • The Verve (second reunion)

• Albums
  • Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
    Strawberry Jam
    Strawberry Jam is the seventh studio album by American indie rock band Animal Collective. It was released in September 2007, the band's first on Domino Records. The title and track listing were revealed by band member Geologist on the Collected Animals message board on May 16, 2007...
    
    
  • Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
    Neon Bible
    Neon Bible is the second album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released in March 2007 on Merge Records. Originally announced on December 16, 2006 through the band's website, the majority of the album was recorded in a church that the band bought and renovated.Neon Bible became Arcade...
    
    (breakthrough)
  • Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
    Favourite Worst Nightmare
    Favourite Worst Nightmare is the second studio album by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys that was first released in Japan on 18 April 2007 before being released around the world. Recorded in east London's Miloco Studios with producers James Ford and Mike Crossey, the album was preceded by the...
    
    
  • Ash – Twilight of the Innocents
    Twilight of the Innocents
    Twilight of the Innocents is the fifth and final studio album by Ash, released on June 29, 2007 in the Republic of Ireland and July 2, 2007 in the United States and the United Kingdom...
    
    
  • Babyshambles – Shotter's Nation
    Shotter's Nation
    Shotter's Nation is the second album by English rock band Babyshambles and was released in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2007 by Parlophone to generally favourable reviews. In the United States the album was released on October 23, 2007 by Astralwerks...
    
    
  • Barenaked Ladies – Barenaked Ladies Are Men
    Barenaked Ladies Are Men
    Barenaked Ladies Are Men is the eighth full-length original-material studio album by Barenaked Ladies, and the second release of material from the 29-song session that bore the companion album Barenaked Ladies Are Me...
    
    
  • Björk – Volta
    Volta (album)
    Volta is the seventh studio album by Icelandic musician Björk, released in May 2007. It was produced by Björk, Mark Bell, Timbaland and Danja. The music of Volta was a new style for Björk, focusing on similar sounding music combining African beats and other instruments with songs in tribute to Africa...
    
    
  • Bloc Party – A Weekend in the City
    A Weekend In The City
    A Weekend in the City is the second studio album by British indie rock band Bloc Party. It was recorded at Grouse Lodge Studios in Westmeath, Ireland, in mid-2006 and was produced by Jacknife Lee. The record was refined and mixed at several locations in London at the end of 2006...
    
    
  • Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
    Cassadaga (album)
    Cassadaga is the seventh studio album by Bright Eyes, released on April 10, 2007. Around 25 to 30 songs were recorded in 2006, with 13 of these appearing on the final track list...
    
    
  • Chris Cornell – Carry On
    Carry On (Chris Cornell album)
    Carry On is the second solo studio album released by American musician Chris Cornell. It was released on May 28, 2007 in the United Kingdom and June 5, 2007 in the United States. This album is Cornell's second after Euphoria Morning in 1999, and his first since leaving his former band Audioslave...
    
    
  • Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
    Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
    The album debuted at the top of the UK album chart, selling 135,685 albums in its first week. The album also went platinum in its first week in both Australia and New Zealand. In the U.S., it entered the Billboard 200 album chart at #3, selling 168,000 copies in its first week, and has since been...
    
    
  • HIM – Venus Doom
    Venus Doom
    Venus Doom is the sixth studio album by Finnish rock band HIM, released on 14 September 2007 , 17 September 2007 internationally and 18 September 2007 in the United States...
    
    
  • The Horrors – Strange House
    Strange House
    Strange House is the debut album by The Horrors. It entered the UK album charts at #37. The band announced the title via a MySpace bulletin on 11 January 2007. It was released on 5 March 2007 on Loog Records. Several alternative titles for the album were considered, including Through Wax Seals and...
    
    
  • Interpol – Our Love to Admire
    Our Love to Admire
    Our Love to Admire is the third studio album by the American post-punk revival band Interpol, released July 10, 2007 on Capitol Records. Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village and The Magic Shop Studios in New York City, the album is the group's first to be released on a major label...
    
    
  • Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light
    Chase This Light
    -Bonus tracks:* "Be Sensible" – 5:04* "Distraction" – 2:58* "Open Bar Reception" – 3:55...
    
    
  • Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob
  • Kings of Leon – Because of the Times
    Because of the Times
    -Charts:-Certifications:...
    
    
  • Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future
    Myths of the Near Future (album)
    Klaxons' French label Because released "As Above, So Below" as a limited edition clear vinyl 12" in November 2007. The 12" features two versions of the track, a French language version and a remix by Justice....
    
    
  • Kula Shaker – Strangefolk
    Strangefolk (album)
    Strangefolk is the third album by Kula Shaker, the first album since the band reformed. The album has received mixed reviews since its release...
    
    
  • LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
    Sound of Silver
    Sound of Silver is the second album from LCD Soundsystem. The album was released in the UK on March 12, 2007 and in the U.S. on March 20, 2007.-History:...
    
    
  • Manic Street Preachers – Send Away the Tigers
    Send Away the Tigers
    - Album Charts :- Personnel :Manic Street Preachers*James Dean Bradfield – lead vocals, guitar, backing vocals*Sean Moore – drums, percussion*Nicky Wire – bass, backing vocalsAdditional personnel...
    
    
  • Maxïmo Park – Our Earthly Pleasures
    Our Earthly Pleasures
    Our Earthly Pleasures is the second album by Newcastle-based Alternative rock band Maxïmo Park. It was released on 2 April 2007 in the UK , being preceded by the single "Our Velocity", released two weeks previously, on 19 March 2007.-Album information:Album details, including track listing, were...
    
    
  • Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
    We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
    We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Modest Mouse, released in 2007. The album is the first studio album by the band since their 2004 album, Good News for People Who Love Bad News and is also the first album with former Smiths guitarist Johnny...
    
    
  • Motion City Soundtrack – Even If It Kills Me
    Even If It Kills Me
    Even if It Kills Me is the third studio album by American pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack, released on September 18, 2007. The album was a follow up to their 2005 album, Commit This to Memory and was co-produced by Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne and Eli Janney of Girls Against Boys,...
    
    
  • Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
    Year Zero (album)
    Year Zero is the fifth studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on April 17, 2007, by Interscope Records. Frontman Trent Reznor wrote the album's music and lyrics while touring in support of the group's previous release, With Teeth...
    
    
  • Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris
    Era Vulgaris (album)
    Era Vulgaris is the fifth full length studio album by American hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age. The album was completed in early April 2007 and released on June 8, 2007 in some countries, June 11, 2007 in the United Kingdom and June 12, 2007 in the United States...
    
    
  • Radiohead – In Rainbows
    In Rainbows
    In Rainbows is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Radiohead. It was first released on 10 October 2007 as a digital download self-released, that customers could order for whatever price they saw fit, followed by a standard CD release in most countries during the last week of 2007. The...
    
    
  • Silverchair – Young Modern
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – Zeitgeist
    Zeitgeist (The Smashing Pumpkins album)
    Zeitgeist is the seventh album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, released on July 10, 2007 in the United States and Canada. It was the first album The Smashing Pumpkins released after their 2000 disbandment and 2005 reunion. The album was produced by Roy Thomas Baker, Billy...
    
    
  • The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
    Wincing the Night Away
    Wincing the Night Away is a Grammy-nominated album by indie rock group The Shins. It was released by Sub Pop Records on January 23, 2007. It is the band's third album, and the final under their contract with Sub Pop...
    
    
  • Sponge – Galore Galore
    Galore Galore
    Galore Galore is the sixth studio album by alternative rock band Sponge.-Track listing:-Band members:* Vinnie Dombroski - vocals* Billy Adams - drums* Tim Krukowski - bass/back-up vocals* Kyle Neely - guitar/back-up vocals...
    
    
  • Travis – The Boy with No Name
    The Boy with No Name
    The Boy with No Name is the fifth studio album from Scottish Indie pop band Travis. The album was released on May 7, 2007. The album sold over 442,900 copies worldwide.-Background:...
    
    
  • The White Stripes – Icky Thump
    Icky Thump
    Icky Thump is the sixth and final studio album by US alternative rock band The White Stripes. It was released June 15, 2007 in Germany, June 18, 2007 in the rest of Europe, and June 19, 2007 in the rest of the world. It was the band's first album on Warner Bros...
    
    
  • Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
    Sky Blue Sky
    Sky Blue Sky is the sixth studio album by Chicago rock band Wilco, released on May 15, 2007 by Nonesuch Records. Originally announced on January 17, 2007 at a show in Nashville, Tennessee, it was the band's first studio album with guitarist Nels Cline and multi-instrumentalist Pat Sansone...
    
    
  • Yellowcard - Paper Walls
    Paper Walls
    Paper Walls is the third major-label album from American pop punk band Yellowcard, released on July 17, 2007, but their fourth full-length studio album with Ryan Key and sixth including those recorded before him. This is also the first Yellowcard album with Ryan Mendez, the last with Peter Mosely,...
    
    

• Events
  • R.E.M.
    R.E.M.
    R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
    
     are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
    The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is dedicated to archiving the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers and others who have, in some major way,...
    
    .
  • Audioslave
    Audioslave
    Audioslave was an American rock supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2001. It consisted of former Soundgarden lead singer/rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell and the former instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello , Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk...
    
     disbands after third album: Cornell returned to a solo career for the time being; Commerford, Wilk and Morello performed with Zach De La Rocha as Rage Against The Machine
    Rage Against the Machine
    Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, the group's line-up consists of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello and drummer Brad Wilk...
    
     at Coachella Music Festival playing together for the first time since 2001.
  • The Smashing Pumpkins perform their first concerts since 2000.
  • Conflicting reports are released about the status of New Order, with bassist Peter Hook
    Peter Hook
    Peter Hook is an English bass player, musician and author.He was a co-founder of the post-punk band Joy Division along with Bernard Sumner in the mid-1970s. Following the death of lead singer Ian Curtis, the band reformed as New Order, and Hook played bass with them throughout their career until...
    
     insisting that band has broken up, while Bernard Sumner
    Bernard Sumner
    Bernard Sumner , also known as Bernard Dickin, Bernard Dicken and Bernard Albrecht is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboard player and producer....
    
     and Stephen Morris issued a statement denying Hook's statements.
  • Factory Records founder Tony Wilson dies.
  • My Bloody Valentine reunite, and announce plans to release a third album that they have been working on since 1996.
  • Radiohead
    Radiohead
    Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...
    
     releases In Rainbows
    In Rainbows
    In Rainbows is the seventh studio album by the English rock band Radiohead. It was first released on 10 October 2007 as a digital download self-released, that customers could order for whatever price they saw fit, followed by a standard CD release in most countries during the last week of 2007. The...
    
    over the Internet and allows fans to set their own purchase price.

2008

• Newly formed bands
  • Passion Pit
    Passion Pit
    Passion Pit is an American electropop band from Cambridge, Massachusetts. The group, which formed in 2007, consists of Michael Angelakos , Ian Hultquist , Ayad Al Adhamy , Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Bauhaus

• Reunions
  • Eraserheads
  • Love and Rockets
  • No Doubt
  • Stone Temple Pilots

• Albums
  • Bauhaus – Go Away White
    Go Away White
    Go Away White is the fifth and final studio album by British gothic rock band Bauhaus. Released on 3 March 2008, it is the band's first album of new material since 1983...
    
    
  • Beck – Modern Guilt
    Modern Guilt
    Modern Guilt is the eleventh studio album by American alternative musician Beck. It was released on July 8, 2008. The album fulfills Beck's recording contract with Interscope Records...
    
    
  • Bloc Party – Intimacy
    Intimacy (Bloc Party album)
    Intimacy is the third studio album by British indie rock band Bloc Party. It was recorded in two weeks at several locations in London and Kent during 2008 and was produced by Paul Epworth and Jacknife Lee. Inspired by the release options available in the Internet age, the band members made the...
    
    
  • The Breeders – Mountain Battles
    Mountain Battles
    Mountain Battles is the fourth album from the American alternative rock band The Breeders. The album was released on April 7, 2008 by 4AD in the United Kingdom and April 8, 2008 in the United States....
    
    
  • British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
    Do You Like Rock Music?
    Do You Like Rock Music? is the third album from the Brighton-based English band, British Sea Power. It was released on 14 January 2008 in the UK and 12 February 2008 in the US...
    
    
  • Cage the Elephant – Cage the Elephant
    Cage the Elephant (album)
    - Cage the Elephant :* Matt Shultz – vocals* Brad Shultz – guitar* Jared Champion – drums, percussion* Daniel Tichenor – bass, vocals* Lincoln Parish – lead guitar- Technical personnel :* Jay Joyce – producer* Jason Hall – engineer...
    
    
  • Cat Power – Jukebox
    Jukebox
    A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media...
    
    
  • Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
    Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
    Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, often referred to as simply Viva la Vida is the fourth studio album by British rock band Coldplay, released on 11 June 2008 on Parlophone. The album was named after a Spanish phrase that translates in English as "long live life"...
    
    
  • The Cure – 4:13 Dream
  • Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
    Narrow Stairs
    Narrow Stairs is the sixth studio album by indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie. It was released on May 12, 2008, in the United Kingdom and on May 13, 2008, in the United States. The first single of the album was "I Will Possess Your Heart", released on March 18, 2008. The second single was...
    
    
  • Filter - Anthems for the Damned
    Anthems for the Damned
    -Bonus tracks:The download version of the album included alternative mixes of tracks from the standard version as bonus tracks. Three additional tracks were included in the UK release of the album, which was retitled Soldiers of Misfortune, whereas only one extra track was included...
    
    
  • Glasvegas – Glasvegas
    Glasvegas (album)
    Glasvegas is the debut studio album by the Scottish Indie rock band Glasvegas, first released in the UK on 8 September 2008 by Columbia Records . The album was produced by lead singer James Allan and Rich Costey . The album sold copies in its first week of release and reached number 2 on the UK...
    
    
  • Jack's Mannequin – The Glass Passenger
    The Glass Passenger
    The Glass Passenger is the second studio album by American rock band Jack's Mannequin, released through Sire Records on September 30, 2008 in the United States. It is the band's first studio album on Sire Records after Everything in Transit was released through Maverick Records...
    
    
  • The Killers – Day & Age
  • Kings of Leon – Only by the Night
    Only by the Night
    -Critics:The album was met with mixed reviews. Metacritic's average rating settled on a 63/100, counting a drastic range of ratings between North America and UK press. The U.S. online publications Pitchfork Media, PopMatters and JustPressPlay gave the album a 3.8/10, 2/10 and 4/10 respectively,...
    
    
  • The Kooks – Konk
    Konk (album)
    -Technical information on songs:-Release history:-Charts:...
    
    
  • Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of the Understatement
    The Age of the Understatement
    Different versions of the album list the last two tracks in a different manner. Catalog number WIGCD208 lists track #11 and #12 as "The Meeting Place" and "Time Has Come Again" respectively while catalog number WIGCD208S lists them as "Meeting Place" and "The Time Has Come...
    
    
  • Local H – Twelve Angry Months
    Twelve Angry Months
    Twelve Angry Months is a concept album by the alternative rock band Local H. It was released on May 13, 2008 on Shout! Factory. The album is about experiences surrounding a relationship breakup, with each track corresponding to a month in the year after the break-up...
    
    
  • MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
    Oracular Spectacular
    Oracular Spectacular is the first major label studio album by American psychedelic rock band MGMT, released digitally October 2, 2007 on Columbia Records, available in CD & LP formats from January 22, 2008 by Red Ink Records. The album, which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide, was nominated...
    
    
  • Muse – HAARP
  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
  • Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I – IV
  • Nine Inch Nails – The Slip
    The Slip (album)
    The Slip is the seventh studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on July 22, 2008. It was the fourth consecutive Nine Inch Nails release to be produced by frontman Trent Reznor with collaborators Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder...
    
    
  • Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
    Dig Out Your Soul
    Dig Out Your Soul is the seventh and final studio album by English rock band Oasis. It was released in October 2008. The first single, "The Shock of the Lightning", was released on 29 September 2008. In promotion of the album, the band embarked on a world tour, debuting in Seattle, Washington at...
    
    
  • Panic! at the Disco –Pretty. Odd.
    Pretty. Odd.
    Pretty. Odd. is the second studio album by the American rock band Panic! at the Disco. Recorded at the Studio at the Palms in Las Vegas with additional production at Abbey Road Studios in London with producer Rob Mathes, the album was released March 21, 2008 on Decaydance and Fueled by Ramen Records...
    
    
  • Primal Scream – Beautiful Future
    Beautiful Future
    Beautiful Future is the ninth studio album by British rock band Primal Scream, released on on B-Unique Records/Atlantic Records. The album was promoted by the single "Can't Go Back", which was released on , and it was produced by Björn Yttling and Paul Epworth.According to the press release, "the...
    
    
  • The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
    Consolers of the Lonely
    Consolers of the Lonely is the second album of The Raconteurs. It was released on March 25, 2008 on Warner Bros. Records in most parts of the world, and a day earlier on XL Recordings in the UK....
    
    
  • The Rasmus – Black Roses
    Black Roses (The Rasmus album)
    Black Roses is the seventh studio album by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus, which was released on 29 September 2008 in the UK. In Germany the album was released on 26 September and in the Nordic countries two days before...
    
    
  • R.E.M. – Accelerate
    Accelerate (R.E.M. album)
    Accelerate is the 14th studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 31, 2008 in Europe, and on April 1 in North America. Produced with Jacknife Lee, Accelerate was intended as a departure from the 2004 album Around the Sun. R.E.M...
    
    
  • Seven Mary Three – Day & Nightdriving
  • Supergrass – Diamond Hoo Ha
    Diamond Hoo Ha
    Diamond Hoo Ha is the sixth and final studio album by British rock band Supergrass, released in the UK on 24 March 2008, and offers a return to punchier Supergrass songs, in comparison to the more mellow Road To Rouen, their previous album released in 2005. Several songs appearing on the album were...
    
    
  • Toadies – No Deliverance
    No Deliverance
    No Deliverance is the third studio album by Toadies. It was released August 19, 2008 on Kirtland Records. No Deliverance was released eight years after the band's previous album, Hell Below/Stars Above....
    
    
  • Travis – Ode to J. Smith
    Ode to J. Smith
    Ode to J. Smith is the sixth studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Travis, released on 29 September 2008 in the United Kingdom and received generally positive reviews. The album was released in the United States on 4 November 2008...
    
    
  • TV on the Radio – Dear Science
    Dear Science
    Dear Science is the third album by American art rock band TV on the Radio. It was released via Interscope Records in the United States, Touch and Go Records on iTunes and was licensed through 4AD in Europe and all remaining territories. Despite the marketed release date of September 22–23, the...
    
    
  • Seven Mary Three – Day & Nightdriving
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – American Gothic
    American Gothic (EP)
    American Gothic is an EP by The Smashing Pumpkins. The EP was announced on the band's website on December 19, 2007 with songwriter Billy Corgan describing it as a continuation of their 2007 album Zeitgeist...
    
    EP
  • Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
    Vampire Weekend (album)
    -Japanese Bonus Tracks:-Personnel:*Ezra Koenig – lead vocals, guitar, piano, hand drum*Rostam Batmanglij – organ, chamberlin, piano, harpsichord, guitar, vocal harmonies, drum and synth programming, shaker, producer, string arrangements, engineering, mixing...
    
    
  • The Verve – Forth
  • The Vines – Melodia
    Melodia (album)
    Initial critical response to Melodia was average. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 43, based on 9 reviews.-Track listing:-B-Sides and Bonus Tracks:...
    
    
  • Weezer – Weezer
    Weezer (2008 album)
    Weezer, also known as "The Red Album", is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Weezer, released on June 3, 2008. Rick Rubin and Jacknife Lee both helped to produce the album...
    
    

• Events
  • After thirteen years of disappearance, Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers
    Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
    
    ' Richard James Edwards is officially declared presumed deceased in November.
  • After two solo albums, Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Renée Stefani is an American singer-songwriter and fashion designer. Stefani is the lead vocalist for the rock and ska band No Doubt. Stefani recorded her first solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. in 2004. The album was inspired by music of the 1980s, and was a success with sales of over...
    
     reunites with No Doubt
    No Doubt
    No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...
    
     to begin songwriting and subsequent tour in 2009.
  • Scott Weiland
    Scott Weiland
    Scott Weiland is an American musician, lyricist, and vocalist, most notable for his work with Grammy Award-winning rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Weiland is also known for his five-year career with supergroup Velvet Revolver as well as his own solo career...
    
     leaves Velvet Revolver
    Velvet Revolver
    Velvet Revolver is an American hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth. Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland was Velvet Revolver's lead singer from their formation until...
    
     to reunite with Stone Temple Pilots
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band from San Diego, California that consists of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz ....
    
     for a reunion tour starting in 2008, and a new album in 2010.
  • John Frusciante
    John Frusciante
    John Anthony Frusciante is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record and film producer. He is best known as the former lead guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he had been for a number of years and recorded five studio albums...
    
     leaves Red Hot Chili Peppers a second time.

2009

• Newly formed bands
  • Beady Eye
    Beady Eye
    Beady Eye are an English rock band formed in 2009. The band consists of vocalist Liam Gallagher, guitarist Gem Archer and guitarist Andy Bell, all former members of Oasis, rounded by drummer and percussionist Chris Sharrock who substituted for Oasis during their last tour in 2008/2009, before Oasis...
    
    
  • Foster the People
    Foster the People
    Foster the People is an American indie pop band formed in Los Angeles, California in 2009. The group is composed of Mark Foster , Mark Pontius , and Cubbie Fink...
    
    
  • Them Crooked Vultures
    Them Crooked Vultures
    Them Crooked Vultures is a rock supergroup formed in Los Angeles in 2009 by John Paul Jones , Dave Grohl , and Josh Homme . The group also includes guitarist Alain Johannes during live performances...
    
    
  • The Dead Weather
    The Dead Weather
    The Dead Weather is an American alternative rock supergroup, formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009. Composed of Alison Mosshart , Jack White , Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence , The Dead Weather debuted at the opening of Third Man Records' Nashville...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Dirty Pretty Things
  • Oasis
  • Silver Jews
  • The Verve (third disbandment)
  • Violent Femmes

• Reunions
  • Blur
  • Hole

• Albums
  • 30 Seconds to Mars – This Is War
    This Is War
    This Is War is the third studio album by American rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, released through Virgin Records and EMI on December 8, 2009. It peaked at number 18 on the Billboard 200.- Background and development :...
    
    
  • 311 – Uplifter
  • Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
    Black Gives Way to Blue
    Black Gives Way to Blue is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Alice in Chains, released in September 2009. The first Alice in Chains album in nearly fourteen years, Black Gives Way to Blue is their first release with new vocalist/guitarist William DuVall, who took over from the late...
    
    
  • Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
    Merriweather Post Pavilion
    Merriweather Post Pavilion is an outdoor concert venue located within Symphony Woods, a 40-acre lot of preserved land in the heart of the planned community of Columbia, Maryland. It was named for the American Post Foods heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post...
    
    
  • Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
    Humbug (album)
    Humbug has received major critical acclaim, with many praising the band's newfound maturity. Billboard stated that the band "justif[ies] the hype by shifting its best qualities into different, equally dazzling shapes," while The Record Review noted that with Humbug, the Arctic Monkeys proved...
    
    
  • Billy Talent – Billy Talent III
    Billy Talent III
    -Special Guitar Villain edition second CD:In addition to having the entire album featured without guitars plus a Guitar Tab of the whole album, the Guitar Villain second disc also features four demo tracks:...
    
    
  • CKY – Carver City
    Carver City
    Carver City is the fourth studio album by American alternative metal band CKY. Recorded at guitarist and producer Chad I Ginsburg's Studio CIG, the album was released on May 19, 2009 and charted at number 46 on the American Billboard 200 albums chart...
    
    
  • The Dead Weather – Horehound
    Horehound (album)
    -Bonus Tracks:-Charts:-Personnel:*Alison Mosshart – vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion*Jack White – drums, vocals, guitar, production*Dean Fertita – lead guitar, organ, piano, synthesizer, bass, backing vocals...
    
    
  • Default – Comes and Goes
    Comes and Goes
    Comes and Goes is Default's fourth album. It was released on September 29, 2009 in Canada. It was finally released worldwide on October 26, 2010. So far the band has released three singles from the album: "All Over Me", "Little Too Late" and "Turn It On", all three released exclusively in Canada....
    
    
  • Depeche Mode – Sounds of the Universe
    Sounds of the Universe
    Sounds of the Universe is the twelfth studio album by English electronic band Depeche Mode, released in Europe on 20 April 2009 and in the United States and Canada on 21 April 2009...
    
    
  • Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
    Farm (album)
    -Track listing:All songs written by J Mascis except as noted.-Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks:-External links:* at Pitchfork Media* at Pitchfork Media...
    
    
  • Echo & the Bunnymen – The Fountain
    The Fountain (album)
    The Fountain is the eleventh studio album by British band Echo & the Bunnymen. The album was released on 12 October 2009 and was produced by John McLaughlin, Ian McCulloch and Simon Perry...
    
    
  • Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
    Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
    Tonight: Franz Ferdinand is the third album by Scottish rock group Franz Ferdinand. It was released through Domino Records on 26 January 2009 in the UK. "Ulysses" was released on the 19 January 2009 as the first single and is available for streaming on the band's Myspace page. It is a concept album...
    
    
  • Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
    21st Century Breakdown
    21st Century Breakdown is the eighth studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day. It is the band's second rock opera, following American Idiot, and their first album to be produced by Butch Vig. Green Day commenced work on the record in January 2006...
    
    
  • The Horrors – Primary Colours
    Primary Colours (album)
    Primary Colours is the second studio album by British post-punk revival band The Horrors. It was released in the US on 21 April 2009, and in the UK on 4 May 2009 by XL Recordings. The album charted on the UK Albums Chart at #25. According to aggregating website Metacritic, the record was met with...
    
    
  • Julian Casablancas
    Julian Casablancas
    Julian Fernando Casablancas is an American singer-songwriter and musician of The Strokes. Casablancas pursued a solo career during The Strokes' hiatus, releasing the album Phrazes for the Young on November 3, 2009....
    
     – Phrazes for the Young
    Phrazes for the Young
    Phrazes for the Young is the debut solo album by American songwriter Julian Casablancas, released on November 2, 2009 in the UK and November 3 in the US. Casablancas, who is best known for being the front man of New York rock band The Strokes, recorded the eight-song album in 2009 in New York, Los...
    
    
  • The Lemonheads – Varshons
    Varshons
    Varshons is an album of covers by alternative rock band The Lemonheads. On 27 March 2009, it was announced that Varshons would be released in the US on 23 June on The End Records....
    
    
  • Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
    Journal for Plague Lovers
    Journal for Plague Lovers is the ninth studio album by the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 18 May 2009, and features posthumous lyrics by Richey Edwards, who vanished on 1 February 1995, and was presumed deceased in 2008. It is the only Manic Street Preachers album...
    
    
  • Meat Puppets – Sewn Together
    Sewn Together
    Sewn Together is the Meat Puppets' twelfth full-length studio album. It was released on May 12, 2009, both on CD and vinyl. It was the follow-up to their 2007 reunion album Rise to Your Knees.-Album information:...
    
    
  • Morrissey – Years of Refusal
    Years of Refusal
    Years of Refusal is the ninth solo album by Morrissey. Distributed by Decca in the UK and Lost Highway in the US, it was released on 16 February 2009 in the UK and on 17 February 2009 in the US...
    
    
  • Muse – The Resistance
    The Resistance (album)
    The Resistance is the fifth studio album by English alternative rock band Muse, released in Europe on 14 September 2009, and in North America on 15 September 2009....
    
    
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
    The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (album)
    The Pains of Being Pure at Heart is the self-titled debut album by the New York indie band The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, released on February 3, 2009. The album was recorded at Honeyland Studios in Brooklyn, New York, and was mixed by Archie Moore. The album was released to generally warm...
    
    
  • Paramore – Brand New Eyes
    Brand New Eyes
    Brand New Eyes is the third album by North American rock band Paramore, released September 29, 2009 through Fueled by Ramen in the United States and Canada. It debuted at number two on Billboard 200....
    
    
  • Passion Pit – Manners
    Manners (album)
    Manners is the debut studio album by American electropop band Passion Pit. It was released in the United States on May 19, 2009 by Frenchkiss Records and Columbia Records. "The Reeling" was released as the album's lead single on May 11, 2009, and its music video premiered on YouTube on April 21, 2009...
    
    
  • Pearl Jam – Backspacer
    Backspacer
    Backspacer is the ninth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on September 20, 2009. Pearl Jam began work for the follow-up to its previous album—2006's Pearl Jam—in early 2008. In 2009, the band began to build on instrumental and demo tracks written...
    
    
  • Placebo – Battle for the Sun
    Battle for the Sun
    Battle for the Sun is the sixth studio album by British alternative rock band Placebo, released in 2009 on Solitary Man Records, Vagrant Records, Universal Records, and PIAS Recordings.-Production and recording:...
    
    
  • Silversun Pickups – Swoon
    Swoon (Silversun Pickups album)
    Swoon is the second full-length studio album by Los Angeles alternative rock band Silversun Pickups, released through Dangerbird Records on 14 April 2009...
    
    
  • Sonic Youth – The Eternal
    The Eternal (album)
    The Eternal is the sixteenth studio album by Sonic Youth, released by Matador Records on June 9, 2009, their first on that label. It is their first studio album in three years , making it the band's longest delay between studio albums...
    
    
  • Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul (With Danger Mouse
    Danger Mouse
    Brian Joseph Burton , better known by his stage name Danger Mouse, is an American musician, songwriter and producer. He came to prominence in 2004 when he released The Grey Album, which combined vocal performances from Jay-Z's The Black Album with instrumentals from The Beatles' White Album.He...
    
    )
  • Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
    Them Crooked Vultures (album)
    -Reception:The album has received a 75 Metascore rating from aggregrator Metacritic, based on 23 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews. Rhapsody deemed it the 19th best album of 2009. Chicago Tribune reviewer Greg Kot was particularly complimentary of the album, giving it a rating of...
    
    
  • Three Days Grace – Life Starts Now
    Life Starts Now
    Life Starts Now is the third studio album by Canadian rock band Three Days Grace. The album was released on September 22, 2009. The album was produced by Howard Benson. This is the second time in a row the band has worked with him, after the commercially successful One-X...
    
    
  • U2 – No Line on the Horizon
  • The Verve Pipe – A Family Album
    A Family Album
    A Family Album is a children's album by The Verve Pipe, released in 2009.-Track listing:All songs produced by Donny Brown.-The Verve Pipe:Band members Brian Vander Ark, Donny Brown and John Connors play throughout...
    
    
  • Weezer – Raditude
    Raditude
    Raditude is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on November 3, 2009 and is their final album on DGC Records, Geffen Records and Interscope Records...
    
    
  • White Lies – To Lose My Life...
    To Lose My Life...
    To Lose My Life... is the debut album by the British Indie rock band White Lies. It was released on 19 January 2009, through Fiction Records...
    
    
  • Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
    Wilco (The Album)
    Wilco is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock group Wilco which was released June 30, 2009. Prior to release, Wilco streamed the album on their website...
    
    
  • The xx - xx
    Xx (album)
    xx is the debut studio album by English indie pop group The xx, released on 17 August 2009 by Young Turks. The self-produced album was recorded at XL Studios in West London between December 2008 and April 2009. The album was awarded the 2010 Mercury Prize...
    
    
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz!
    It's Blitz!
    It's Blitz! is the third studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released March 9, 2009 on Interscope Records. It was originally set for release on April 13, 2009, however after being leaked to the internet on February 22, the release date was pushed forward to March 9 for the...
    
    

• Events
  • Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr...
    
     releases their first studio album in 14 years with new lead singer William DuVall
    William DuVall
    thumb|200px|right|William DuVall performing with [[Alice In Chains]] at Roskilde Festival 2010William DuVall is an American musician, best known as current lead singer for Alice In Chains, following the death of the band's original lead singer Layne Staley.DuVall is also co-founder, lead singer,...
    
    .

2010

• Newly formed bands
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
    Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
    Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are an English rock band formed in 2010 as the solo moniker of former Oasis lead guitarist/songwriter Noel Gallagher. The band originates from Manchester and includes former Oasis session pianist Mike Rowe, drummer Jeremy Stacey of The Lemon Trees, The Zutons...
    
    

• Disbandments
  • Supergrass
  • Sparklehorse

• Reunions
  • Bush
  • Faith No More
  • The Libertines
  • Pavement
  • Soundgarden
  • Suede

• Albums
  • Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
    The Suburbs (Arcade Fire album)
    The Suburbs is the third studio album by Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released in August 2010. Coinciding with the announcement the band released a limited edition 12-inch single containing two tracks from the album, “The Suburbs” and “Month of May”. The album debuted at #1 on the Irish...
    
    
  • The Black Keys – Brothers
    Brothers (The Black Keys album)
    Brothers is the sixth album and Grammy Award-winner of Best Alternative Music Album by American blues-rock duo, The Black Keys. The album was announced on March 2, 2010 by Pitchfork Media and became the band's third release from Nonesuch Records on May 18, 2010...
    
    
  • Feeder – Renegades
    Renegades (Feeder album)
    Renegades is the seventh studio album by the British rock band Feeder. It was released on July 5, 2010. It was due to be the first in a series of two albums released in 2010 by the band, before its follow-up was delayed for 2012...
    
    
  • Filter - The Trouble with Angels
    The Trouble with Angels
    The Trouble with Angels is a comedy film about the adventures of two girls in an all girls school run by nuns. The movie was directed by Ida Lupino and stars Rosalind Russell and Hayley Mills...
    
    
  • Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
    Plastic Beach
    Plastic Beach is the third studio album by British virtual band and alternative hip hop supergroup Gorillaz, released 3 March 2010 on Parlophone and Virgin Records. Conceived from an unfinished Gorillaz project called Carousel, the album was recorded during June 2008 to November 2009 and produced...
    
    
  • Hole – Nobody's Daughter
    Nobody's Daughter
    Nobody's Daughter is the fourth studio album by alternative rock band Hole, released worldwide on April 27, 2010 through Mercury Records. The album was originally conceived by Hole frontwoman Courtney Love as a solo project titled How Dirty Girls Get Clean, following her poorly-received solo debut...
    
    
  • Interpol – Interpol
    Interpol (album)
    Interpol is the fourth studio album by the American post-punk revival band Interpol, released on September 7, 2010 on Matador Records. The album was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village. "Lights" was released as a free download through the band's website, originally in May 2010...
    
    
  • Jimmy Eat World – Invented
    Invented (album)
    Invented is the seventh studio album by American rock band Jimmy Eat World, released on September 28, 2010 through Interscope Records. Recorded primarily at the band's home-based studio, the album was co-produced by Mark Trombino, who had previously worked on the band's earlier material; Static...
    
    
  • Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown
    Come Around Sundown
    Come Around Sundown is the fifth studio album by American rock band Kings of Leon, released in Ireland, Australia and Germany on October 15, 2010, followed by releases in the UK on October 18 and North America on October 19. The official album covers and tracklist were revealed on 3 September...
    
    
  • Klaxons – Surfing the Void
    Surfing the Void
    Surfing the Void is the second studio album by British indie rock band Klaxons, released on 23 August 2010 through Polydor Records. The album was produced by Ross Robinson, and was recorded in Los Angeles, California...
    
    
  • Kula Shaker – Pilgrims Progress
  • LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
    This Is Happening
    -Personnel:*James Murphy – synthesizer, guitar, bass guitar, claps, wurlitzer piano, piano, tambourine, drums, vocals, glockenspiel, cowbell, electronic drums, omnichord, vocoder, keyboards, programming*Gavin Russom – synthesizer, vocals...
    
    
  • Manic Street Preachers – Postcards from a Young Man
    Postcards From a Young Man
    Postcards from a Young Man is the tenth studio album by the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, which reached the number 3 spot on the UK Charts. The Manics began recording the album in October 2009 at their Faster Studio in Cardiff...
    
    
  • MGMT – Congratulations
    Congratulations (album)
    The album received mostly positive reviews upon its release, and a 72/100 metascore at Metacritic, based upon 39 reviews. Pitchfork Media deemed the album "audacious, ambitious, and a little fried." NME got a first listen of the album and described it as a mix of "frenetic, brief psych nuggets......
    
    
  • Motion City Soundtrack – My Dinosaur Life
    My Dinosaur Life
    My Dinosaur Life is the fourth studio album by American pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack, released through Columbia Records on January 19, 2010. It is the band's first album on a major label, after they moved from Epitaph Records in June 2008...
    
    
  • My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
    Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
    Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band My Chemical Romance. The album was produced by Rob Cavallo and was released by Warner Music and Reprise Records on 19 November 2010...
    
    
  • The National – High Violet
    High Violet
    High Violet is the fifth studio album by The National, which was released on May 10, 2010 in Europe and on May 11, 2010 in North America via 4AD. The band produced the album themselves assisted by Peter Katis with whom they worked on their previous albums Alligator and Boxer at their own studio in...
    
    
  • Neon Trees – Habits
    Habits (album)
    Habits is the debut full-length album by rock group Neon Trees, released on March 16, 2010. The album's lead single, "Animal" was featured in several commercials, including those for Camp Vegas, and has reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Alternative Rock chart...
    
    
  • Stone Temple Pilots – Stone Temple Pilots
    Stone Temple Pilots (album)
    Stone Temple Pilots is the sixth studio album by American rock band Stone Temple Pilots. The album was released worldwide from May 21 through May 27, 2010, and is the band's first album since Shangri-La Dee Da . The album is the result of the band's reunion, which occurred in April 2008...
    
    
  • Toadies – Feeler
  • Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History
    Tourist History
    -Reception:The album received mostly positive reviews, with the album being praised for its short, sharp songs and catchy melodies, but criticized for its repetitive song structure and lack of depth...
    
    
  • Vampire Weekend – Contra
    Contra (album)
    Contra is the second album by American indie rock band Vampire Weekend, released in January 2010 on XL Recordings. It debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 200...
    
    
  • Weezer – Hurley
    Hurley (album)
    Hurley is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on September 10, 2010 on Epitaph Records. The album was produced by Rivers Cuomo and Shawn Everett, and, similar to the band's previous studio album, Raditude, features songs co-written with songwriters outside of...
    
    

• Events
  • Stone Temple Pilots
    Stone Temple Pilots
    Stone Temple Pilots is an American rock band from San Diego, California that consists of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz ....
    
     release their first album in nine years after reuniting.
  • Soundgarden
    Soundgarden
    Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...
    
     reforms and is one of the headliners at Lollapalooza
    Lollapalooza
    Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. The music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a...
    
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  • The highly influential band Pavement
    Pavement (band)
    Pavement is an American alternative rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989. In their career, they achieved a significant cult following, and they were called the best band of the 1990s by prominent music critics Robert Christgau and Stephen Thomas Erlewine...
    
     reforms and releases a compilation titled Quarantine the Past.

2011

• Reunions
  • Archers of Loaf
  • Pulp
  • Guided By Voices
  • The Stone Roses

• Disbandments
  • The White Stripes
  • LCD Soundsystem
  • REM
  • Silverchair
  • Guided By Voices

• Albums
  • Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See
    Suck It and See
    Suck It and See is the fourth studio album by English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, released 6 June 2011 in the UK and 7 June in the US, following their 2011 North American tour. The band worked with producer James Ford on this album and promised a more "vintage" style. The music video for "Brick...
    
    
  • Beady Eye – Different Gear, Still Speeding
    Different Gear, Still Speeding
    Different Gear, Still Speeding is the debut album by the English rock band Beady Eye, released on 28 February 2011. It debuted at #3 in the UK albums chart selling 66,817 in the first week, and had sold approximately 157,000 copies in the UK as of November 2011...
    
    
  • Bright Eyes – The People's Key
    The People's Key
    A limited edition deluxe packaging edition contains mp3 file samples of various Saddle Creek artists.-Reception:The People's Key has received mixed to positive critical reception. Allmusic praised its smaller scale and gave the album 3 and a 1/2 out of 5 stars. Pitchfork gave the album 5 out of 10...
    
    
  • Cake – Showroom of Compassion
    Showroom of Compassion
    Showroom of Compassion has so far been generally well received by music critics. Metacritic, a review aggregator website, gave the album an average score of 73% from fourteen reviews, which indicates "generally favourable reviews". Many critics complimented the band for sticking to their unique style...
    
    
  • Cage the Elephant – Thank You, Happy Birthday
    Thank You, Happy Birthday
    Thank You, Happy Birthday is the second studio album by American rock band Cage the Elephant. It was released on January 11, 2011 to positive critical reception...
    
    
  • Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
  • The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
    The King Is Dead (album)
    The King Is Dead is the sixth studio album by The Decemberists, released on Capitol Records on January 14, 2011. Described as the "most pastoral, rustic record they've ever made," by Douglas Wolk of Rolling Stone, the album reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart for the week ending February...
    
    
  • Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys!
    Build a Rocket Boys!
    Build a Rocket Boys! is the fifth studio album by the indie rock/alternative rock band Elbow, released on 4 March 2011 in the UK. Coinciding with the UK release, the album was available digitally in the United States on 8 March and released in the physical format on 12 April...
    
    
  • Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
    Wasting Light
    Wasting Light is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, released April 12, 2011, on RCA Records. It was produced by Butch Vig and described by the band's lead vocalist and guitarist Dave Grohl as their "heaviest album yet." The title is taken from the lyrics of the...
    
    
  • Foster the People - Torches
  • Gorillaz – The Fall
    The Fall (Gorillaz album)
    -Additional personnel:* Guitar on track 3 by Mick Jones* Additional keyboards on track 6 by Jesse Hackett* Bass on track 12 by Paul Simonon* Qanun on track 12 by James R Grippo* Vocals, guitar and additional songwriting on track 13 by Bobby Womack...
    
    
  • The Horrors - Skying
    Skying
    Skying is the third studio album by British band The Horrors. The album was released on 11 July 2011 in the UK and on 9 August 2011 in the US on XL recordings. Recorded by the band in their self-built London studio, it is the first record the band has produced themselves...
    
    
  • Incubus – If Not Now, When?
    If Not Now, When? (album)
    If Not Now, When? is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band Incubus, released on July 12, 2011 on Epic Records. Preceded by the singles, "Adolescents" and "Promises, Promises", the album marks the band's longest gap between studio albums, to date...
    
    
  • Jane's Addiction – The Great Escape Artist
    The Great Escape Artist
    The Great Escape Artist is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, released on October 18, 2011, on Capitol Records. The album is their first since their 2008 reunion, and features multi-instrumentalist Dave Sitek on bass guitar, alongside Chris Chaney who...
    
    
  • Kaiser Chiefs – The Future is Medieval
    The Future Is Medieval
    The Future Is Medieval is the fourth studio album by English rock band Kaiser Chiefs, originally released through their website on 3 June 2011, a physical release was released on 27 June 2011.-Album information:...
    
    
  • Kasabian - Velociraptor!
    Velociraptor!
    Velociraptor! is the fourth album by the British indie rock group Kasabian, released on 16 September 2011.-History:"La Fée Verte" originally called "The Green Fairy" appeared on the soundtrack for London Boulevard, the 2010 film directed by William Monahan...
    
    
  • Nickleback - Here and Now
    Here and Now (Nickelback album)
    Here and Now is the seventh studio album by Canadian rock band Nickelback. The album was released on November 21, 2011. It is the follow-up to their multi-platinum selling Dark Horse in 2008. On September 26, the band officially released two singles, "When We Stand Together" and "Bottoms Up". Both...
    
    
  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
  • Panic! at the Disco –Vices & Virtues
    Vices & Virtues
    Vices & Virtues is the third studio album by American rock band Panic! at the Disco, released on March 22, 2011 on Fueled by Ramen. Produced by John Feldmann and Butch Walker, the album marks the debut of the band's two-man lineup, featuring vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Brendon Urie and...
    
    
  • PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
    Let England Shake
    Let England Shake is the tenth studio album by PJ Harvey, released on 11 February 2011 in the UK. Work on it began around the time of White Chalks release in 2007, though it is a departure from the piano-driven introspection of that album. The album was written over a period of two-and-a-half...
    
    
  • Primus – Green Naugahyde
    Green Naugahyde
    Green Naugahyde is the seventh studio album by alternative rock group Primus, released by ATO Records and Prawn Song on September 12, 2011 in Europe, and on September 13, 2011 in the United States...
    
    
  • Radiohead – The King of Limbs
    The King of Limbs
    The King of Limbs is the eighth studio album by English rock band Radiohead, produced by Nigel Godrich. It was self-released on 18 February 2011 as a download in MP3 and WAV formats, followed by physical CD and 12" vinyl releases on 28 March, a wider digital release via AWAL, and a special...
    
    
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm with you
    I'm with You
    "I'm with You" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne for her debut album, Let Go. It was released on November 19, 2002 by Arista Records as the album's third single. The song was Lavigne's first ballad released as a single...
    
    
  • R.E.M. – Collapse into Now
    Collapse into Now
    Collapse into Now is the fifteenth and final studio album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on March 7, 2011 on Warner Bros...
    
    
  • Social Distortion – Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
    Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
    Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes is the seventh studio album by the American punk rock band Social Distortion, released on January 18, 2011. It is the band's first album recorded with bassist Brent Harding, their first album of new material since 2004's Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll, and their first...
    
    
  • The Kooks - Junk of the Heart
    Junk of the Heart
    Junk of the Heart is the third album from british Indie band The Kooks. It was released in Europe on September 9, 2011, and in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2011 by Virgin Records...
    
    
  • The Strokes – Angles
    Angles (The Strokes album)
    Angles is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band The Strokes, released on March 18, 2011 in Australia; March 21, 2011 in the UK; and March 22, 2011 worldwide...
    
    
  • TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
    Nine Types of Light
    Nine Types of Light is the fourth studio album by American art rock band TV on the Radio, released on April 11, 2011. The band released "Will Do", a song from the album, on February 23. Another song, "Caffeinated Consciousness", was made available for free download on March 10, 2011...
    
    
  • The Vines – Future Primitive
    Future Primitive (album)
    Future Primitive is the fifth studio album by Australian alternative rock band The Vines.-Background:The majority of the album was recorded at Studios 301, Sydney during February and March 2010 with producer Chris Colonna of Bumblebeez...
    
    
  • White Lies – Ritual
    Ritual (White Lies album)
    Ritual is the second studio album by the British Indie rock band White Lies. It was released on 17 January 2011, through Fiction Records. The album was produced by Alan Moulder and Max Dingel, at the Assault & Battery Studios in London. The art direction and design was done by Tom hingston Studio...
    
    
  • Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes
    When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes
    When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes is the seventh studio album released by American rock band Yellowcard on March 22, 2011 under Hopeless Records. The album has received strong critical acclaim...
    
    

• Events
  • Mike Starr
    Mike Starr (musician)
    Michael Christopher "Mike" Starr was an American musician, best known as the original bassist in Alice in Chains, with whom he played from the band's formation in 1987 until 1993.- Career :...
    
    , former bassist of Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1987 by guitarist and songwriter Jerry Cantrell and original lead vocalist Layne Staley. The initial lineup was rounded out by drummer Sean Kinney, and bassist Mike Starr...
    
    , dies of an overdose on March 8.
  • Arcade Fire win the Album of the Year
    Grammy Award for Album of the Year
    The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys. It has been awarded since 1959 and though it was originally presented to the artist alone, the award is now presented to the artist, the producer, the engineer and/or mixer and the mastering engineer...
    
     award at the Grammy Awards.
  • 30 Seconds to Mars
    30 Seconds to Mars
    30 Seconds to Mars is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1998. Since 2007, the band has consisted of actor Jared Leto , Shannon Leto and Tomo Miličević...
    
     set a Guinness World Record for the most shows played during a single album cycle.