Timeline of alternative rock
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[edit] 1970s
[edit] 1979
- Newly formed bands
- 4* The Replacements
- Events
- Sub Pop is founded as the fanzine Subterranean Pop in Seattle, Washington.
- 4AD is founded in London, England by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent.
[edit] 1980s
[edit] 1980
- Newly formed bands
- Albums
- The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
- Events
- Dischord Records is founded in Washington D.C. by Ian MacKaye.
[edit] 1981
- Newly formed bands
[edit] 1982
- Newly formed bands
- Albums
- Bauhaus – The Sky's Gone Out
- Cocteau Twins – Garlands
- The Cure – Pornography
- Dream Syndicate – The Days of Wine and Roses
- The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
- Mission of Burma – Vs.
- R.E.M. – Chronic Town EP
- Siouxsie and the Banshees – A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
- Sonic Youth – Sonic Youth
- Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes
- Events
- The Haçienda nightclub opens in Manchester, England.
[edit] 1983
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Bauhaus
- Mission of Burma
- Albums
- Bauhaus – Burning from the Inside
- Big Black – Bulldozer EP
- Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heels
- Depeche Mode – Construction Time Again
- New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies
- R.E.M. – Murmur
- Sonic Youth – Confusion Is Sex
- Events
- R.E.M.'s album Murmur is named Rolling Stone's best album of 1983.
- Creation Records is founded by Alan McGee.
[edit] 1984
- Newly formed bands
- Albums
- Butthole Surfers – Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac
- Cocteau Twins – Treasure
- The Cure - The Top
- Depeche Mode – Some Great Reward
- Guadalcanal Diary – Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man
- Hüsker Dü – Zen Arcade
- Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets II
- Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
- R.E.M. – Reckoning
- The Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Red Hot Chili Peppers
- The Replacements – Let It Be
- Scratch Acid - Scratch Acid EP
- Siouxsie and the Banshees – Hyæna
- The Smiths – The Smiths
- Violent Femmes – Hallowed Ground
- Events
- Sonic Youth vocalist-guitarist Thurston Moore gets married to his bandmate, vocalist-bassist Kim Gordon.
[edit] 1985
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Minutemen
- Reunions
- The Feelies
- Albums
- Big Black – Atomizer
- Kate Bush – Hounds of Love
- Camper Van Beethoven – Telephone Free Landslide Victory
- The Cure – The Head on the Door
- Dinosaur Jr. – Dinosaur
- The Fall – This Nation's Saving Grace
- Green River – Come on Down
- Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising
- Hüsker Dü – Flip Your Wig
- The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
- Love and Rockets – Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
- Meat Puppets – Up on the Sun
- New Order – Low-Life
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Freaky Styley
- R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction
- The Replacements – Tim
- The Sisters of Mercy – First and Last and Always
- The Smiths – Meat Is Murder
- Sonic Youth – Bad Moon Rising
[edit] 1986
- Newly formed bands
- The Afghan Whigs
- Galaxie 500
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Inspiral Carpets
- The La's
- Manic Street Preachers (as Betty Blue)
- Nirvana (as Skid Row, later Pen Cap Chew, later Bliss, and later Ted Ed Fred)
- No Doubt
- Pixies
- The Posies
- Sebadoh
- The Sugarcubes
- Stone Temple Pilots (as Mighty Joe Young)
- Albums
- Butthole Surfers – Rembrandt Pussyhorse
- Depeche Mode – Black Celebration
- The Fall – Bend Sinister
- The Feelies – The Good Earths
- Guadalcanal Diary – Jamboree
- Hüsker Dü – Candy Apple Grey
- Love and Rockets – Express
- New Order – Brotherhood
- Public Image Ltd – Album
- R.E.M. – Lifes Rich Pageant
- Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating
- Siouxsie and the Banshees – Tinderbox
- The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
- Sonic Youth – Evol
- They Might Be Giants – They Might Be Giants
- Violent Femmes – The Blind Leading the Naked
- XTC – Skylarking
- Events
- MTV begins airing 120 Minutes, a program devoted to videos by alternative artists.
- NME magazine in the UK releases the C86 cassette compilation, which becomes a seminal release in British indie rock.
[edit] 1987
- Newly formed bands
- Alice in Chains
- Fugazi
- Gin Blossoms
- Green Day (as Sweet Children)
- The Jesus Lizard
- Local H
- Slint
- Uncle Tupelo
- Disbandments
- Hüsker Dü
- The Smiths
- Albums
- 10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe
- Big Black – Songs About Fucking
- Butthole Surfers – Locust Abortion Technician
- The Cure – Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
- Depeche Mode – Music for the Masses
- Dinosaur Jr. – You're Living All Over Me
- Echo & the Bunnymen – Echo & the Bunnymen
- Guadalcanal Diary – 2X4
- Guided By Voices – Devil Between My Toes
- Guided By Voices – Sandbox
- Hüsker Dü – Warehouse: Songs and Stories
- Jane's Addiction – Jane's Addiction
- The Jesus and Mary Chain – Darklands
- The Lemonheads – Hate Your Friends
- Love and Rockets – Earth, Sun, Moon
- Pixies – Come on Pilgrim
- Primal Scream – Sonic Flower Groove
- Public Image Ltd – Happy?
- R.E.M. – Document (breakthrough)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
- The Replacements – Pleased to Meet Me
- Scratch Acid - Berserker (Scratch Acid album)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees – Through the Looking Glass
- The Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
- The Smiths – Strangeways, Here We Come
- Sonic Youth – Sister
- Events
- R.E.M.'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's original lead singer John Spence commits suicide.
[edit] 1988
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Big Black
- Green River
- The Housemartins
- Albums
- Barenaked Ladies – Buck Naked
- Butthole Surfers – Hairway to Steven
- Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll
- Dinosaur Jr. – Bug
- The Feelies – Only Life
- Fishbone – Truth and Soul
- Fugazi – Fugazi EP
- Happy Mondays – Bummed
- Robyn Hitchcock – Globe of Frogs
- Jane's Addiction – Nothing's Shocking
- The Lemonheads – Creator
- Morrissey – Viva Hate
- Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff EP
- Peter Murphy – Love Hysteria
- My Bloody Valentine – Isn't Anything
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey
- Pixies – Surfer Rosa
- R.E.M. – Green
- Siouxsie and the Banshees – Peepshow
- Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (breakthrough)
- The Sugarcubes – Life's Too Good
- They Might Be Giants – Lincoln
- Events
- Mother Love Bone and Mudhoney form from members of Green River after they break up.
- Sub Pop begins the Sub Pop Singles Club.
- Hillel Slovak, guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers dies from a heroin overdose.
- Rolling Stone names R.E.M. "America's Best Rock 'n' Roll Band" and places them on the cover.
- Gwen Stefani becomes lead singer of No Doubt.
[edit] 1989
- Newly formed bands
- 311
- Blind Melon
- Blur (as Circus and later Seymour)
- Hole
- Hum
- Mazzy Star
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Pavement
- Red House Painters
- Spiritualized
- Suede
- Superchunk
- Swervedriver
- Teenage Fanclub
- Toadies
- Disbandments
- Guadalcanal Diary
- Dream Syndicate
- Albums
- The Cure – Disintegration
- Faith No More – The Real Thing
- Fugazi – Margin Walker EP
- Goo Goo Dolls – Jed
- Gin Blossoms – Dusted
- Guadalcanal Diary – Flip-Flop
- Guided By Voices – Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
- The Jesus and Mary Chain – Automatic
- The Lemonheads – Lick
- Love and Rockets – Love and Rockets
- Meat Puppets – Monsters
- Mudhoney – Mudhoney
- New Order – Technique
- Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine
- Nirvana – Bleach
- Pixies – Doolittle (breakthrough)
- Primal Scream – Primal Scream
- Primus – Suck on This
- Public Image Ltd – 9
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Mother's Milk
- Slint – Tweez
- Soundgarden – Louder Than Love
- The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses (breakthrough)
- Violent Femmes – 3
- Events
- New Order, Public Image Ltd, and The Sugarcubes embark on the "Monsters of Alternative Rock" tour.
- Matador Records is founded.
- The documentary film 101 is released, telling the story of how Depeche Mode became a major draw in the United States without any major radio airplay and climaxing with their famous Rose Bowl concert in Pasadena, California.
[edit] 1990s
[edit] 1990
- Newly formed bands
- Catherine Wheel
- The Cranberries
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
- Kyuss
- Pearl Jam (as Mookie Blaylock)
- Travis
- The Verve (as Verve)
- Swervedriver
- Disbandments
- Camper Van Beethoven
- Mother Love Bone
- Albums
- 311 – Dammit!
- 311 – Downstairs EP
- Barenaked Ladies – Barenaked Lunch EP
- Alice in Chains – Facelift
- The Breeders – Pod
- Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas
- Depeche Mode – Violator (Breakthrough)
- Echo & the Bunnymen – Reverberation
- Fugazi – Repeater
- Goo Goo Dolls – Hold Me Up
- Green Day – 39/Smooth
- Guided By Voices – Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
- The Happy Mondays – Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
- Jane's Addiction – Ritual de lo Habitual
- The La's – The La's
- Mother Love Bone – Apple
- Mudhoney – Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles
- Peter Murphy – Deep
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Good Son
- Pixies – Bossanova
- Primus – Frizzle Fry
- Ride – Nowhere
- The Sisters of Mercy – Vision Thing
- Social Distortion – Social Distortion
- Sonic Youth – Goo
- They Might Be Giants – Flood
- Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
- Ween – GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
- Events
- Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone is found dead.
- Sonic Youth signs with DGC records.
[edit] 1991
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Albums
- 311 – Unity
- Barenaked Ladies – The Yellow Tape
- Blur – Leisure
- Dinosaur Jr. – Green Mind
- Fishbone – The Reality of My Surroundings
- Fugazi – Steady Diet of Nothing
- Hole – Pretty On The Inside
- The Jesus Lizard – Goat
- Kyuss – Wretch
- Live – Mental Jewelry
- Morrissey – Kill Uncle
- Mudhoney – Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
- My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
- Nirvana – Nevermind (breakthrough)
- Pearl Jam – Ten (breakthrough)
- Pixies – Trompe le Monde
- Primal Scream – Screamadelica (breakthrough)
- Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
- R.E.M. – Out of Time
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik (breakthrough)
- Sebadoh – Sebadoh III
- Siouxsie and the Banshees – Superstition
- Slint – Spiderland
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Gish
- Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
- Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend
- Swrevedriver – Raise
- Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque
- Temple of the Dog – Temple of the Dog
- Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona
- U2 – Achtung Baby
- Violent Femmes – Why Do Birds Sing?
- Events
- Nirvana releases Nevermind, popularizing grunge in the mainstream, especially due to the hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
- The first ever Lollapalooza takes place.
- The first Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album is given out.
- During a Manic Street Preachers interview by NME journalist Steve Lamacq, Richey Edwards carved the words "4 Real" into his arm with a razor blade to prove the band's sincerity in music.
- Barenaked Ladies' 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 mayor June Rowlands banning the group from playing a show at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto because she thought the name "Barenaked Ladies" objectified women.
[edit] 1992
- Newly formed bands
- Ash
- Bush
- The Cardigans
- Elastica
- Everclear
- Grandaddy
- Our Lady Peace
- Porno for Pyros
- Reel Big Fish
- Seven Mary Three
- Silverchair (as Innocent Criminals)
- Soul Coughing
- Stereophonics (as Tragic Love Company)
- The Verve Pipe
- Weezer
- Puddle of Mudd
- Disbandments
- The Feelies
- The Happy Mondays
- Pixies
- Public Image Ltd
- The Sugarcubes
- Albums
- 311 – Hydroponic
- Alice in Chains – Dirt (breakthrough)
- Alice in Chains – Sap EP
- Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes
- Barenaked Ladies – Gordon
- Blind Melon – Blind Melon
- Catherine Wheel – Ferment
- The Cure – Wish
- Faith No More – Angel Dust
- Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience
- Green Day – Kerplunk
- Guided By Voices – Propeller
- PJ Harvey – Dry
- The Jesus and Mary Chain – Honey's Dead
- The Jesus Lizard – Liar
- Kyuss – Blues for the Red Sun
- L7 – Bricks Are Heavy
- The Lemonheads – It's a Shame About Ray
- Manic Street Preachers – Generation Terrorists
- Morrissey – Your Arsenal
- Mudhoney – Piece of Cake
- Nine Inch Nails – Broken EP
- No Doubt – No Doubt
- Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
- Public Image Ltd – That What Is Not
- R.E.M. – Automatic for the People
- Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the Machine (breakthrough)
- Ride – Going Blank Again
- Screaming Trees – Sweet Oblivion
- Sonic Youth – Dirty
- Soul Asylum – Grave Dancer's Union
- Stone Temple Pilots – Core (breakthrough)
- Sublime – 40oz. to Freedom
- Sugar – Copper Blue
- They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18
- Ween – Pure Guava
- Events
- Alternative rock fully breaks into the American mainstream consciousness, as albums and singles by bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice in Chains, R.E.M., Soul Asylum, The Cure, and Nine Inch Nails reach the Top 40 of the Billboard charts.
- The grunge speak hoax appears in the November 15 issue of The New York Times.
- Trent Reznor founds Nothing Records.
- Merge Records is founded by members of Superchunk.
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist John Frusciante quits the band; he returns in 1998.
[edit] 1993
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Echo & the Bunnymen
- Albums
- 311 – Music
- Björk – Debut
- Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish
- The Breeders – Last Splash
- Butthole Surfers – Independent Worm Saloon
- Catherine Wheel – Chrome
- The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
- Depeche Mode – Songs of Faith and Devotion
- Dinosaur Jr. – Where You Been
- The Fall – The Infotainment Scan
- The Flaming Lips – Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
- Fugazi – In on the Kill Taker
- Goo Goo Dolls – Superstar Car Wash
- Guided By Voices – Vampire on Titus
- PJ Harvey – Rid of Me
- Hum – Electra 2000
- The Juliana Hatfield Three – Become What You Are
- The Lemonheads – Come on Feel the Lemonheads
- Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul
- Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See
- Mudhoney – Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew
- New Order – Republic
- Nirvana – In Utero
- Pearl Jam – Vs.
- Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
- Porno for Pyros – Porno for Pyros
- Primus – Pork Soda
- Radiohead – Pablo Honey
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream (breakthrough)
- Stereolab – Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements
- Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
- Suede – Suede
- U2 – Zooropa
- The Verve – A Storm in Heaven
- The Verve Pipe – Pop Smear
- Events
- Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder 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 plays MTV Unplugged on November 18.
- Mazzy Star has some success with the single "Fade into You", becoming the biggest hit for dream pop in the mainstream.
- Former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro joins the Red Hot Chili Peppers after numerous guitarist changes.
[edit] 1994
- Newly formed bands
- The Dandy Warhols
- Evanescence
- Foo Fighters
- Hoobastank
- Muse (as Gothic Plague, later Fixed Penalty, and later Rocket Baby Dolls)
- Placebo
- The Rasmus
- Sleater-Kinney
- Snow Patrol
- Spacehog
- Supergrass
- Wilco
- Disbandments
- Nirvana
- Uncle Tupelo
- Albums
- 311 – Grassroots
- Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies EP
- Barenaked Ladies – Maybe You Should Drive
- Beck – Mellow Gold
- Blur – Parklife
- Jeff Buckley – Grace (breakthrough)
- Bush – Sixteen Stone
- Cake – Motorcade of Generosity
- Collective Soul – Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid
- The Cranberries – No Need to Argue
- Dinosaur Jr. – Without a Sound
- Eraserheads – Circus
- Green Day – Dookie (breakthrough poplurizing of Punk Rock)
- Guided by Voices – Bee Thousand
- Hole – Live Through This
- The Jesus and Mary Chain – Stoned & Dethroned
- Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley
- Live – Throwing Copper
- Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible
- Meat Puppets – Too High to Die
- Morrissey – Vauxhall and I
- Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (Most commercially successful album)
- Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
- The Nixons – Halo
- Oasis – Definitely Maybe
- The Offspring – Smash
- Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
- Pearl Jam – Vitalogy
- Liz Phair – Whip-Smart
- Portishead – Dummy
- Primal Scream – Give Out But Don't Give Up
- Pulp – His 'n' Hers
- R.E.M – Monster
- Ride – Carnival of Light
- Sonic Youth – Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
- Soundgarden – Superunknown (breakthrough)
- Sponge – Rotting Pinata
- Stereolab – Mars Audiac Quintet
- The Stone Roses – Second Coming
- Stone Temple Pilots – Purple
- Sublime – Robbin' the Hood
- Suede – Dog Man Star
- They Might Be Giants – John Henry
- Toadies – Rubberneck
- Veruca Salt – American Thighs
- Ween – Chocolate and Cheese
- Weezer – Weezer (breakthrough)
- Events
- Kurt Cobain of Nirvana commits suicide on April 5; his body is found April 8.
- Kristen Pfaff of Hole dies on June 16.
- Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" becomes a hit single; some cite it as the last major hit of the grunge era.
- The term post-rock is coined by Simon Reynolds to describe the music of the likes of Stereolab and Disco Inferno.
- Manic Street Preachers' Richey Edwards is admitted to a psychiatric hospital around the release of The Holy Bible and misses some shows.
- The Brett Anderson/Bernard Butler songwriting partnership of Suede is ended when Butler walks out over musical differences.
- The music video for Weezer's "Buddy Holly" is included on the Windows 95 operating system disc.
[edit] 1995
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- American Music Club
- Kyuss
- Meat Puppets
- The Verve
- Albums
- 311 – 311
- Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains
- AFI – Answer That and Stay Fashionable
- Better Than Ezra – Deluxe
- Björk – Post
- Black Grape – It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah
- Blind Melon – Soup
- Blur – The Great Escape
- Catherine Wheel – Happy Days
- Collective Soul – Collective Soul
- The Dandy Warhols – Dandys Rule OK
- Elastica – Elastica
- Eraserheads – Cutterpillow
- Everclear – Sparkle and Fade
- Faith No More – King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
- Filter - Short Bus
- The Flaming Lips – Clouds Taste Metallic
- Foo Fighters – Foo Fighters
- Fugazi – Red Medicine
- Garbage – Garbage
- Goo Goo Dolls – A Boy Named Goo
- Green Day – Insomniac
- Guided By Voices – Alien Lanes
- PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
- Hum – You'd Prefer an Astronaut
- Incubus – Fungus Amongus
- Kyuss – ...And the Circus Leaves Town
- Local H – Ham Fisted
- Mad Season – Above
- Matthew Good Band – Last of the Ghetto Astronauts
- Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill
- Morrissey – Southpaw Grammar
- Mudhoney – My Brother the Cow
- No Doubt – The Beacon Street Collection
- No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom
- Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (breakthrough)
- Our Lady Peace – Naveed
- Pavement – Wowee Zowee
- Primus – Tales from the Punchbowl
- Pulp – Different Class
- Radiohead – The Bends (breakthrough)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute
- Red House Painters – Ocean Beach
- The Rentals – Return of the Rentals
- Seven Mary Three – Churn
- Seven Mary Three – American Standard
- Silverchair – Frogstomp (breakthrough)
- Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Rapture
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Most commercially successful album)
- Sonic Youth – Washing Machine
- Spacehog – Resident Alien
- Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
- Supergrass – I Should Coco
- Swervedriver - Ejector Seat Reservation
- The Verve – A Northern Soul
- Wilco – A.M.
- Events
- Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon is found dead on October 21.
- Richard James Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers disappears on February 1. He was presumed deceased in November 2008. The following year, the band released Journal for Plague Lovers containing only songs penned by Edwards.
- The Smashing Pumpkins release Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 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, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, and Sublime seeing commercial success.
- The "Battle of Britpop" occurs between Blur and Oasis when they release their "Country House" and "Roll With It" singles on the same day.
- Alan Wilder 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.
[edit] 1996
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- The Pogues
- Ride
- Siouxsie and the Banshees
- The Stone Roses
- Sublime
- Reunions
- Echo & the Bunnymen
- Albums
- AFI – Very Proud of Ya
- Alice in Chains – Unplugged
- Barenaked Ladies – Rock Spectacle
- Beck – Odelay
- Belle & Sebastian – If You're Feeling Sinister
- Belle & Sebastian – Tigermilk
- Better Than Ezra – Friction, Baby
- Blind Melon – Nico
- Bush – Razorblade Suitcase
- Butthole Surfers – Electriclarryland
- The Cranberries – To the Faithful Departed
- The Cure – Wild Mood Swings
- Cake – Fashion Nugget
- Dave Matthews Band – Crash
- Eraserheads – Fruitcake
- Gin Blossoms – Congratulations… I'm Sorry
- Guided By Voices – Under the Bushes, Under the Stars
- Guided By Voices – Tonics and Twisted Chasers
- Kula Shaker – K
- The Lemonheads – Car Button Cloth
- Local H – As Good as Dead
- Lush – Lovelife
- Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
- Nirvana – From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
- Pearl Jam – No Code
- Phish – Billy Breathes
- Placebo – Placebo
- Porno for Pyros – Good God's Urge
- Primitive Radio Gods – Rocket
- The Rasmus – Peep
- Rage Against the Machine – Evil Empire
- Red House Painters – Songs for a Blue Guitar
- R.E.M. – New Adventures in Hi-Fi
- Ride – Tarantula
- Sleater-Kinney – Call the Doctor
- Soundgarden – Down on the Upside
- Sponge – Wax Ecstatic
- Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
- Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
- Sublime – Sublime
- Suede – Coming Up
- Superdrag – Regretfully Yours
- They Might Be Giants – Factory Showroom
- The Verve Pipe – Villains
- Ween – 12 Golden Country Greats
- Weezer – Pinkerton
- Wilco – Being There
- Events
- The Smashing Pumpkins' touring keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin dies of an overdose on July 12 while using heroin with drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Chamberlin is subsequently fired and the band continues as a three-piece until his return in 1999.
- Alice in Chains makes their last appearance with singer Layne Staley on MTV Unplugged.
- Hype!, a documentary about the grunge scene of the early 1990s, is released.
- R.E.M. sign a new deal with Warner Bros. worth $80 million. At the time, it was the largest record contract in history.
- Bradley Nowell of the third-wave ska band Sublime dies of a heroin overdose. The band splits up soon after Nowell's death.
[edit] 1997
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Cocteau Twins
- Gin Blossoms
- Jane's Addiction
- Porno for Pyros
- Soundgarden – believed by many to signal the end of grunge's mainstream success[1]
- Throwing Muses
- Reunions
- Jane's Addiction
- The Verve
- Albums
- 311 – Transistor
- A – How Ace Are Buildings
- AFI – Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
- Björk – Homogenic
- Blur – Blur
- Catherine Wheel – Adam and Eve
- Collective Soul – Disciplined Breakdown
- The Dandy Warhols – ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
- Dinosaur Jr. – Hand It Over
- Echo & the Bunnymen – Evergreen
- Eraserheads – Bananatype
- Eraserheads – Sticker Happy
- Everclear – So Much for the Afterglow
- Faith No More – Album of the Year
- Foo Fighters – The Colour and the Shape
- Green Day – Nimrod
- Guided By Voices – Mag Earwhig!
- HIM – Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666
- Hole – The First Session
- Incubus – Enjoy Incubus
- Incubus – S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
- Live – Secret Samadhi
- Mansun – Attack of the Grey Lantern
- Matthew Good Band – Underdogs
- Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
- Morrissey – Maladjusted
- Oasis – Be Here Now
- Our Lady Peace – Clumsy
- Pavement – Brighten the Corners
- Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
- Primus – Brown Album
- Radiohead – OK Computer (Most commercially successful album)
- Radiohead – Airbag / How Am I Driving? EP
- The Rasmus – Playboys
- Seven Mary Three – RockCrown
- Silverchair – Freak Show
- Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out
- Stereolab – Dots and Loops
- Stereophonics – Word Gets Around
- Supergrass – In It for the Money
- Swervedriver – 99th Dream
- Switchfoot – The Legend of Chin
- Veruca Salt – Eight Arms to Hold You
- The Rasmus – Playboys
- Third Eye Blind – Third Eye Blind
- Travis – Good Feeling
- The Verve – Urban Hymns
- Ween – The Mollusk
- Events
- Solo artist Jeff Buckley dies on 29 May as a result of accidental drowning in the Mississippi River.
- Jane's Addiction reunites; later that year, they disband again.
- On hiatus while Scott Weiland is in rehab and working on a solo album, members of Stone Temple Pilots form Talk Show; the new band lasts for only a short time.
- R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry announces his retirement; the rest of the band continue as a three-piece.
- Oasis' Be Here Now becomes the UK's fastest-selling album.
- Radiohead release album OK Computer which hits in over 1000 charts.[2]
[edit] 1998
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Black Grape
- Faith No More
- The Lemonheads
- Lush
- Reunions
- Bauhaus
- Albums
- Barenaked Ladies – Stunt
- Beck – Mutations
- Belle & Sebastian – The Boy with the Arab Strap
- Better Than Ezra – How Does Your Garden Grow?
- Cake – Prolonging The Magic
- Eels – Electro-Shock Blues
- Eraserheads – Aloha Milkyway
- Fugazi – End Hits
- Jerry Cantrell – Boggy Depot
- Garbage – Version 2.0
- Goo Goo Dolls – Dizzy Up the Girl
- Hole – Celebrity Skin
- Hum – Downward Is Heavenward
- James Iha – Let It Come Down
- Local H – Pack Up The Cats
- Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
- Mansun – Six
- Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
- Mudhoney – Tomorrow Hit Today
- Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
- Oasis – The Masterplan
- Pearl Jam – Yield
- Liz Phair – Whitechocolatespaceegg
- Placebo – Without You I'm Nothing
- Pulp – This Is Hardcore
- Queens of the Stone Age – Queens of the Stone Age
- The Rasmus – Hell of a Tester
- R.E.M. – Up
- The Rasmus – Hell of a Tester
- Seven Mary Three – Orange Ave.
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Adore
- Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves
- Soul Coughing – El Oso (final album)
- Spacehog – The Chinese Album
- Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider
- Scott Weiland – 12 Bar Blues
- Events
- For the first year since it began, Lollapalooza does not take place, and goes on hiatus for six years.
- John Frusciante returns to the Red Hot Chili Peppers after a six year hiatus.
[edit] 1999
- Newly formed bands
- 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
- AFI – Black Sails in the Sunset
- AFI – All Hallow's EP
- A – A vs. Monkey Kong
- Beck – Midnite Vultures
- Blur – 13
- Bush – The Science of Things
- CKY – Volume 1
- Collective Soul – Dosage
- Chris Cornell – Euphoria Morning
- The Cranberries – Bury the Hatchet
- Echo & the Bunnymen – What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?
- Eraserheads – Natin99
- Filter - Title of Record
- The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
- Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left to Lose
- Guided By Voices – Do the Collapse
- HIM – Razorblade Romance
- Incubus – Make Yourself
- Kula Shaker – Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts
- Matthew Good Band – Beautiful Midnight
- Muse – Showbiz (breakthrough)
- Nine Inch Nails – The Fragile
- Our Lady Peace – Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch
- Pavement – Terror Twilight
- Primus – Antipop
- Pezz (Billy Talent) – Watoosh!
- Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
- The Rentals – Seven More Minutes
- Silverchair – Neon Ballroom
- Sleater-Kinney – The Hot Rock
- Sponge – New Pop Sunday
- Stone Temple Pilots – No. 4
- Suede – Head Music
- Supergrass – Supergrass
- Switchfoot – New Way to Be Human
- They Might Be Giants – Long Tall Weekend
- The Verve Pipe – The Verve Pipe
- The White Stripes – The White Stripes
- Third Eye Blind – Blue
- Travis – The Man Who
- Wilco – Summerteeth
- Events
- The No WTO Combo attempts to play at the WTO Meeting of 1999, but are unable to do so due to conflicts with the police.
- They Might Be Giants release "Long Tall Weekend" which is the first major full-length album released exclusively on the Internet by an established band.
[edit] 2000s
[edit] 2000
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandmen
- 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
- At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
- Barenaked Ladies – Maroon
- Catherine Wheel – Wishville
- Coldplay – Parachutes
- Collective Soul – Blender
- The Cure – Bloodflowers
- The Dandy Warhols – Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
- Elastica – The Menace
- Everclear – Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile
- Everclear – Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude
- Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump
- Green Day – Warning
- Mansun – Little Kix
- Modest Mouse – The Moon and Antarctica
- No Doubt – Return of Saturn
- Oasis – Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
- Pearl Jam – Binaural
- Placebo – Black Market Music
- Primal Scream – XTRMNTR
- Primitive Radio Gods – White Hot Peach
- Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
- Radiohead – Kid A
- Rage Against the Machine – Renegades
- Sleater-Kinney – All Hands on the Bad One
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina/The Machines of God
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
- Sonic Youth – NYC Ghosts & Flowers
- Switchfoot – Learning to Breathe
- U2 – All That You Can't Leave Behind
- Ween – White Pepper
- The White Stripes – De Stiji
- Events
- The Smashing Pumpkins 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 split up in 2000 after longstand arguments over royalties following their biggest releases Irresistable Bliss and El Oso.
[edit] 2001
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- The Afghan Whigs
- At The Drive-In
- Elastica
- Fastbacks
- Toadies
- Albums
- 311 – From Chaos
- AFI – The Art of Drowning
- Better Than Ezra – Closer
- Björk – Vespertine
- Bush – Golden State
- Butthole Surfers – Weird Revolution
- Cake – Comfort Eagle
- Camera Obscura – Biggest Bluest Hi Fi
- The Cranberries – Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
- Dave Matthews Band – Everyday
- Echo & the Bunnymmen – Flowers
- Elbow – Asleep in the Back
- Eraserheads – Carbon Stereoxide
- Fugazi – The Argument
- Gorillaz – Gorillaz
- Guided By Voices – Isolation Drills
- HIM – Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
- Hoobastank – Hoobastank
- Incubus – Morning View
- Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
- Manic Street Preachers – Know Your Enemy
- Matthew Good Band – The Audio of Being
- Muse – Origin of Symmetry
- New Order – Get Ready
- No Doubt – Rock Steady
- Our Lady Peace – Spiritual Machines
- Radiohead – Amnesiac
- The Rasmus – Into
- R.E.M. – Reveal
- Seven Mary Three – The Economy of Sound
- The Shins – Oh, Inverted World
- Spacehog – The Hogyssey
- Sparklehorse – It's a Wonderful Life
- Stone Temple Pilots – Shangri-La Dee Da
- The Strokes – Is This It
- They Might Be Giants – Mink Car
- Toadies – Hell Below/Stars Above
- Travis – The Invisible Band
- The Verve Pipe – Underneath
- Weezer – Weezer
- The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – "Yeah Yeah Yeahs (EP)'
- Events
- The Matthew Good Band breaks up. Good continues as a solo artist.
- Manic Street Preachers become first major modern band to play a gig in Cuba. The gig is attended by Fidel Castro.
- At the Drive-In split down the middle, one half becoming an emo-focused rock group, Sparta, the other half continuing in the progressive rock vein as The Mars Volta.
[edit] 2002
- Newly formed bands
- 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
- A – Hi-Fi Serious
- Audioslave – Audioslave
- Beck – Sea Change
- Breaking Benjamin – Saturate
- The Breeders – Title TK
- Jerry Cantrell – Degradation Trip
- CKY – Infiltrate•Destroy•Rebuild
- Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head (breakthrough)
- Filter - The Amalgamut
- The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- Foo Fighters – One by One
- Goo Goo Dolls – Gutterflower
- Guided By Voices – Universal Truths and Cycles
- Hot Hot Heat – Make Up the Breakdown
- Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
- The Libertines – Up the Bracket
- Local H – Here Comes the Zoo
- Motion City Soundtrack – I Am the Movie
- Muse – Hullabaloo
- My Chemical Romance – I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
- Oasis – Heathen Chemistry
- Our Lady Peace – Gravity
- Pearl Jam – Riot Act
- Primal Scream – Evil Heat
- Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (breakthrough)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way
- Silverchair – Diorama
- Sleater-Kinney – One Beat
- Sonic Youth – Murray Street
- Suede – A New Morning
- Supergrass – Life on Other Planets
- The Vines – Highly Evolved
- Weezer – Maladroit
- Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (breakthrough)
- Events
- Eraserheads vocalist Ely Buendia and Lead guitarist Marcus Adoro left the band.
- Layne Staley of Alice in Chains dies on April 5; his body is found days later.
- Nirvana's "You Know You're Right", a previously unreleased song, becomes a hit single.
- Graham Coxon, the guitarist of Blur, quits the band.
[edit] 2003
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- The Cranberries
- Mansun
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Zwan
- Albums
- 311 – Evolver
- AFI – Sing The Sorrow (breakthrough)
- A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
- Barenaked Ladies – Everything To Everyone
- Billy Talent – Billy Talent
- Blur – Think Tank
- Camera Obscura – Underachievers Please Try Harder
- Cat Power – You Are Free
- The Cooper Temple Clause – Kick Up the Fire, and Let the Flames Break Loose
- The Dandy Warhols – Welcome to the Monkey House
- Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism
- Elbow – Cast of Thousands
- Evanescence – Fallen
- The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
- Guided by Voices – Earthquake Glue
- HIM – Love Metal
- Hoobastank – The Reason
- Jane's Addiction – Strays
- Kings of Leon – Youth and Young Manhood
- The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
- Matthew Good – Avalanche
- Muse – Absolution
- No Doubt – The Singles 1992-2003
- Placebo – Sleeping with Ghosts
- Primitive Radio Gods – Mellotron On!
- Primitive Radio Gods – Still Electric
- Primus – Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People
- Radiohead – Hail to the Thief
- The Rasmus – Dead Letters
- The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
- Sponge – For All the Drugs in the World
- Streetlight Manifesto – Everything Goes Numb
- The Strokes – Room on Fire
- Supergrass – Road to Rouen
- Switchfoot - The Beautiful Letdown
- Third Eye Blind – Out of the Vein
- Travis – 12 Memories
- TV on the Radio – Young Liars
- The White Stripes – Elephant
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever to Tell
- Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
- Zwan – Mary Star of the Sea
- Events
- The first Lollapalooza in six years takes place.
- Elliott Smith commits suicide at age 34.
[edit] 2004
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- The Libertines
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- Suede
- Reunions
- Kula Shaker
- Pixies
- Albums
- A Perfect Circle – eMOTIVe
- Arcade Fire – Funeral
- Ash – Meltdown
- Melissa Auf der Maur – Auf der Maur
- Björk – Medúlla
- Cake – Pressure Chief
- Collective Soul – Youth
- The Cure – The Cure
- Franz Ferdinand – Franz Ferdinand
- Green Day – American Idiot
- Guided By Voices – Half-Smiles of the Decomposed
- Hawthorne Heights – The Silence in Black and White
- Incubus – A Crow Left of the Murder
- Interpol – Antics
- Jimmy Eat World – Futures
- Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
- The Killers – Hot Fuss
- The Libertines – The Libertines
- Local H – Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles?
- Manic Street Preachers – Lifeblood
- Mansun – Kleptomania
- Matthew Good – White Light Rock & Roll Review
- Modest Mouse – Good News for People Who Love Bad News
- Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
- My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
- R.E.M. – Around the Sun
- Seven Mary Three – Dis/Location
- Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse
- Stereolab – Margerine Eclipse
- They Might Be Giants – The Spine
- TV on the Radio – Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
- U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
- The Used – In Love and Death
- The Vines – Winning Days
- Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
- Events
- Influential British DJ John Peel, 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".
- Lollapalooza is cancelled due to low ticket sales.
- Brett Anderson quits Suede and reunites with former Suede bandmate Bernard Butler to form The Tears.
- Red Hot Chili Peppers release their first ever live album Live in Hyde Park. The album was recorded during the three record breaking shows performed in Hyde Park, London. The shows broke the record for the most money made at a live show (a record previously held by The Beatles).
- No Doubt goes on hiatus while frontwoman Gwen Stefani pursues a solo career.
[edit] 2005
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Guided by Voices
- Luna
- Reunions
- The Lemonheads
- Albums
- 30 Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie
- 311 – Don't Tread on Me
- A – Teen Dance Ordinance
- Audioslave – Out of Exile
- Beck – Guero
- Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
- The Bravery – The Bravery
- Jimmy Chamberlin Complex – Life Begins Again
- CKY – An Answer Can Be Found
- Coldplay – X&Y
- Billy Corgan – TheFutureEmbrace
- The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium or Warlords of Mars
- Dave Matthews Band – Stand Up
- The Dead 60s – The Dead 60s
- Death Cab for Cutie – Plans
- Depeche Mode – Playing the Angel
- Echo & the Bunnymen – Siberia
- Elbow – Leaders of the Free World
- Foo Fighters – In Your Honor
- Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better
- The Fray – How to Save a Life
- Garbage – Bleed Like Me
- Gorillaz – Demon Days
- HIM – Dark Light
- Hot Hot Heat – Elevator
- Jack's Mannequin – Everything in Transit
- Kaiser Chiefs – Employment
- Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak (US release)
- LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
- Motion City Soundtrack – Commit This to Memory
- New Order – Waiting for the Sirens' Call
- Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth
- Oasis – Don't Believe the Truth
- Our Lady Peace – Healthy in Paranoid Times
- Panic! at the Disco – A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
- Queens of the Stone Age – Lullabies to Paralyze
- The Rasmus – Hide From the Sun
- Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
- Sponge – The Man
- Supergrass – Road to Rouen
- Switchfoot – Nothing Is Sound
- Weezer – Make Believe
- The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
- Events
- U2 are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Billy Corgan announces his intention to reform The Smashing Pumpkins after five years of disbandment.
- Audioslave become only the second major rock band to play a gig in Cuba, following Manic Street Preachers in 2001.
- Garbage announce a long hiatus after their final show supporting Bleed Like Me.
- The surviving members of Alice in Chains 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 taking the vocal spot, while many guests vocalists perform at various shows, including Maynard James Keenan, Billy Corgan and Phil Anselmo.
[edit] 2006
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Sleater-Kinney
- Grandaddy
- Reunions
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Toadies
- Albums
- AFI – Decemberunderground
- Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
- Audioslave – Revelations
- Barenaked Ladies – Barenaked Ladies Are Me
- Beck – The Information
- Billy Talent – Billy Talent II
- Blue October – Foiled
- Camera Obscura – Let's Get Out of This Country
- The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
- Evanescence – The Open Door
- Goo Goo Dolls – Let Love In
- Hoobastank – Every Man for Himself
- Incubus – Light Grenades
- The Killers – Sam's Town
- The Kooks – Inside In/Inside Out
- The Lemonheads – The Lemonheads
- The Mars Volta – Amputechture
- Morrissey – Ringleader of the Tormentors
- Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
- My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade
- Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
- Placebo – Meds
- Primal Scream – Riot City Blues
- Primitive Radio Gods – Sweet Venus
- The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
- Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
- The Shins – Wincing The Night Away
- Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
- Silversun Pickups – Carnavas
- Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
- Stereolab – Fab Four Suture
- The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth
- Switchfoot - Oh! Gravity.
- TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
- The Vines – Vision Valley
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
- Yellowcard - Lights and Sounds
- Thom Yorke – The Eraser
- Events
- The Smashing Pumpkins officially reunite, issuing an announcement on their website in April.
- Grant McLennan of The Go-Betweens dies.
- Alice in Chains reforms, featuring Comes With the Fall singer William DuVall replacing Layne Staley.
[edit] 2007
- Newly formed bands
- 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
- Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
- Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
- Ash – Twilight of the Innocents
- Babyshambles – Shotter's Nation
- Barenaked Ladies – Barenaked Ladies Are Men
- Björk – Volta
- Bloc Party – A Weekend in the City
- The Bravery – The Sun and the Moon
- Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
- Chris Cornell – Carry On
- Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
- HIM – Venus Doom
- The Horrors – Strange House
- Interpol – Our Love to Admire
- Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light
- Kaiser Chiefs – Yours Truly, Angry Mob
- Kings of Leon – Because of the Times
- Klaxons – Myths of the Near Future
- Kula Shaker – Strangefolk
- LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
- Manic Street Preachers – Send Away the Tigers
- Maxïmo Park – Our Earthly Pleasures
- Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
- Motion City Soundtrack – Even If It Kills Me
- Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
- Queens of the Stone Age – Era Vulgaris
- Radiohead – In Rainbows
- Silverchair – Young Modern
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Zeitgeist
- The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
- Sponge – Galore Galore
- Travis – The Boy with No Name
- The White Stripes – Icky Thump
- Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
- Yellowcard - Paper Walls
- Events
- R.E.M. are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Audioslave 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 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 insisting that band has broken up, while Bernard Sumner 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 releases In Rainbows over the Internet and allows fans to set their own purchase price.
[edit] 2008
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Bauhaus
- Reunions
- Eraserheads
- Love and Rockets
- No Doubt
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Albums
- Bauhaus – Go Away White
- Beck – Modern Guilt
- Bloc Party – Intimacy
- The Breeders – Mountain Battles
- British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
- Cage the Elephant – Cage the Elephant
- Cat Power – Jukebox
- Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
- The Cure – 4:13 Dream
- Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
- Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
- Filter - Anthems for the Damned
- Glasvegas – Glasvegas
- Jack's Mannequin – The Glass Passenger
- The Killers – Day & Age
- Kings of Leon – Only by the Night
- The Kooks – Konk
- Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of the Understatement
- Local H – Twelve Angry Months
- MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
- Muse – HAARP
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
- Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I – IV
- Nine Inch Nails – The Slip
- Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
- Panic! at the Disco –Pretty. Odd.
- Primal Scream – Beautiful Future
- The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
- The Rasmus – Black Roses
- R.E.M. – Accelerate
- Seven Mary Three – Day & Nightdriving
- Supergrass – Diamond Hoo Ha
- Toadies – No Deliverance
- Travis – Ode to J. Smith
- TV on the Radio – Dear Science
- Seven Mary Three – Day & Nightdriving
- The Smashing Pumpkins – American Gothic EP
- Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
- The Verve – Forth
- The Vines – Melodia
- Weezer – Weezer
- Events
- After thirteen years of disappearance, Manic Street Preachers' Richard James Edwards is officially declared presumed deceased in November.
- After two solo albums, Gwen Stefani reunites with No Doubt to begin songwriting and subsequent tour in 2009.
- Scott Weiland leaves Velvet Revolver to reunite with Stone Temple Pilots for a reunion tour starting in 2008, and a new album in 2010.
- John Frusciante leaves Red Hot Chili Peppers a second time.
[edit] 2009
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Dirty Pretty Things
- Oasis
- Silver Jews
- The Verve (third disbandment)
- Violent Femmes
- Reunions
- Blur
- Hole
- Albums
- 30 Seconds to Mars – This Is War
- 311 – Uplifter
- Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
- Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
- Billy Talent – Billy Talent III
- The Bravery – Stir the Blood
- CKY – Carver City
- The Dead Weather – Horehound
- Default – Comes and Goes
- Depeche Mode – Sounds of the Universe
- Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
- Echo & the Bunnymen – The Fountain
- Franz Ferdinand – Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
- Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
- The Horrors – Primary Colours
- Julian Casablancas – Phrazes for the Young
- The Lemonheads – Varshons
- Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers
- Meat Puppets – Sewn Together
- Morrissey – Years of Refusal
- Muse – The Resistance
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- Paramore – Brand New Eyes
- Passion Pit – Manners
- Pearl Jam – Backspacer
- Placebo – Battle for the Sun
- Silversun Pickups – Swoon
- Sonic Youth – The Eternal
- Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul (With Danger Mouse)
- Switchfoot – Hello Hurricane
- Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
- Three Days Grace – Life Starts Now
- U2 – No Line on the Horizon
- The Verve Pipe – A Family Album
- Weezer – Raditude
- White Lies – To Lose My Life...
- Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
- The xx - xx
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz!
- Events
- Alice in Chains releases their first studio album in 14 years with new lead singer William DuVall.
[edit] 2010s
[edit] 2010
- Newly formed bands
- Disbandments
- Supergrass
- Sparklehorse
- Reunions
- Bush
- Faith No More
- The Libertines
- Pavement
- Soundgarden
- Suede
- Hole
- Albums
- Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
- The Black Keys – Brothers
- Feeder – Renegades
- Filter - The Trouble with Angels
- Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
- Hole – Nobody's Daughter
- Interpol – Interpol
- Jimmy Eat World – Invented
- Kings of Leon – Come Around Sundown
- Klaxons – Surfing the Void
- Kula Shaker – Pilgrims Progress
- LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
- Manic Street Preachers – Postcards from a Young Man
- MGMT – Congratulations
- Motion City Soundtrack – My Dinosaur Life
- My Chemical Romance – Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
- The National – High Violet
- Neon Trees – Habits
- Stone Temple Pilots – Stone Temple Pilots
- Toadies – Feeler
- Two Door Cinema Club – Tourist History
- Vampire Weekend – Contra
- Weezer – Death to False Metal
- Weezer – Hurley
- Events
- Stone Temple Pilots release their first album in nine years after reuniting.
- Soundgarden reforms and is one of the headliners at Lollapalooza.
[edit] 2011
- Disbandments
- The White Stripes
- LCD Soundsystem
- R.E.M.
- Silverchair
- Guided By Voices
- Reunions
- Archers of Loaf
- Pulp
- Guided By Voices
- The Stone Roses
- Albums
- Arctic Monkeys – Suck It And See
- Beady Eye – Different Gear, Still Speeding
- Bright Eyes – The People's Key
- Bush – The Sea of Memories
- Cake – Showroom of Compassion
- Cage the Elephant – Thank You, Happy Birthday
- Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
- The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
- Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys!
- Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
- Foster the People - Torches
- Gorillaz – The Fall
- The Horrors - Skying
- Incubus – If Not Now, When?
- Jane's Addiction – The Great Escape Artist
- Kaiser Chiefs – The Future is Medieval
- Kasabian - Velociraptor!
- Nickleback - Here and Now
- Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
- Panic! at the Disco –Vices & Virtues
- PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
- Primus – Green Naugahyde
- Radiohead – The King of Limbs
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm with You
- R.E.M. – Collapse into Now
- Social Distortion – Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
- The Kooks - Junk of the Heart
- The Strokes – Angles
- Switchfoot – Vice Verses
- TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
- The Vines – Future Primitive
- White Lies – Ritual
- Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes
- Events
- Mike Starr, former bassist of Alice in Chains, dies of an overdose on March 8.
- Arcade Fire win the Album of the Year award at the Grammy Awards.
- 30 Seconds to Mars set a Guinness World Record for the most shows played during a single album cycle.
[edit] 2012
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ St. Peter Times staff writer (1997). "Soundgarden's End Called the End of Grunge" Stargate.net . Retrieved September 27, 2006.
- ^ http://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?a=227
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