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- This is a timeline of alternative rock, from its beginnings in the 1970s to the present. 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979 - 1980 - 1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - See also Newly formed bands The Cure The Fall Siouxsie & the Banshees U2 XTC Newly formed bands The Feelies X Events Twin/Tone Records is founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota Newly formed bands Bauhaus Echo & the Bunnymen Public Image Ltd. Pulp (as Arabacus Pulp) Events Manchester journalist and nightclub manager Tony Wilson founds Factory Records Rough Trade Records is founded in London. SST Records is founded in Long Beach, California by Greg Ginn. Newly formed bands Cocteau Twins Fastbacks Felt Hüsker Dü The Replacements Social Distortion Events Bauhaus release their single for "Bela Lugosi's Dead", which is generally viewed as the first ever gothic rock song Touch and Go is founded in Chicago, Illinois Sub Pop is founded as the fanzine Subterranean Pop in Seattle, Washington. Newly formed bands Depeche Mode Minutemen Mission of Burma Meat Puppets New Order R.E.M. The Sisters of Mercy Violent Femmes Albums Bauhaus - In the Flat Field The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms Events Dischord Records is founded in Washington D.C. by Ian MacKaye Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis hangs himself, the rest of the band continue as New Order. Newly formed bands 10,000 Maniacs Butthole Surfers Dream Syndicate James Ministry Sonic Youth Albums Bauhaus - Mask The Cure - Faith Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches New Order - Movement Siouxsie & the Banshees - Juju Newly formed bands Beat Happening Big Black Faith No More Guadalcanal Diary The Pogues The Smiths Spacemen 3 Swans Albums Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out 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 & the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes Events The Haçienda nightclub opens in Manchester, England. Newly formed bands American Music Club Camper Van Beethoven The Flaming Lips Green River The Housemartins Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Phish Red Hot Chili Peppers Soul Asylum They Might Be Giants Throwing Muses The Tragically Hip 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. Newly formed bands Dinosaur Jr Jane's Addiction The Jesus and Mary Chain The Lemonheads Melvins My Bloody Valentine The Offspring Primal Scream Soundgarden The Wedding Present Ween Yo La Tengo Albums Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac Cocteau Twins - Treasure 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 Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Red Hot Chili Peppers The Replacements - Let It Be Siouxsie & 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. Newly formed bands Guided by Voices Happy Mondays Love and Rockets Mr. Bungle Pixies Pussy Galore Screaming Trees The Stone Roses Disbandments Minutemen 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 Faith No More - We Care a Lot 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 R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley The Replacements - Tim The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always The Smiths - Meat Is Murder Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising Events The Minutemen's D. Boon dies in a car crash on December 22. The Feelies reunite. Newly formed bands The Afghan Whigs Galaxie 500 Goo Goo Dolls Inspiral Carpets The La's Manic Street Preachers (as Betty Blue) No Doubt The Posies Primus Radiohead (as On a Friday) Sebadoh The Sugarcubes Stone Temple Pilots 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 R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead Siouxsie & the Banshees - Tinderbox 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. Newly formed bands Alice in Chains Fugazi Green Day (as Sweet Children) The Jesus Lizard Local H Nirvana 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 Faith No More - Introduce Yourself Guadalcanal Diary - 2X4 Guided By Voices - Devil Between My Toes Guided By Voices - Sandbox Hüsker Dü - ' Jane's Addiction - Jane's Addiction The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands Love and Rockets - Earth, Sun, Moon Pixies - Come on Pilgrim Primal Scream - Sonic Flower Groove R.E.M. - Document (breakthrough) The Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come Sonic Youth - Sister U2 - The Joshua Tree 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. Newly formed bands Barenaked Ladies Better Than Ezra The Boo Radleys The Breeders Live Lush Mother Love Bone Mudhoney Nine Inch Nails Ride The Smashing Pumpkins Sublime 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 Fugazi - Fugazi EP The Happy Mondays - Bummed Robyn Hitchcock - Globe of Frogs Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking 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 R.E.M. - Green Pixies - Surfer Rosa Siouxsie & the Banshees - Peepshow Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Soundgarden - Ultramega OK 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. Newly formed bands 311 Blind Melon Blur Hole Mazzy Star Neutral Milk Hotel Pavement Red House Painters Spiritualized Suede Superchunk Teenage Fanclub Toadies The Verve Disbandments Guadalcanal Diary Dream Syndicate Albums The Cure - Disintegration Faith No More - The Real Thing (breakthrough) Fugazi - Margin Walker EP Goo Goo Dolls - Jed Guadalcanal Diary - Flip-Flop Guided By Voices - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic Love and Rockets - Love and Rockets Meat Puppets - Monsters Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste Mudhoney - Mudhoney Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine Nirvana - Bleach Pixies - Doolittle Primal Scream - Primal Scream Primus - Suck on This The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk Slint - Tweez Soundgarden - Louder Than Love The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 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. Newly formed bands Catherine Wheel The Cranberries Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Kyuss Pearl Jam Rage Against the Machine 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 Fugazi - Repeater Goo Goo Dolls - Hold Me Up 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 Morrissey - Bona Drag 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 They Might Be Giants - Flood Social Distortion - Social Distortion Sonic Youth - Goo Uncle Tupelo - No Depression Ween - ' Events Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone is found dead. Sonic Youth signs with DGC records. Newly formed bands AFI Candlebox Dave Matthews Band HIM Luna Luscious Jackson Oasis Sponge Stereolab Disbandments Galaxie 500 Jane's Addiction The Replacements Spacemen 3 Albums 311 - Unity Barenaked Ladies - The Yellow Tape Blur - Leisure Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing The Jesus Lizard - Goat Kyuss - Wretch Live - Mental Jewelry Morrissey - Kill Uncle Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Nirvana - Nevermind (breakthrough) Pearl Jam - Ten (breakthrough) Pixies - Trompe le Monde Primal Scream - Screamadelica 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 & the Banshees - Superstition Slint - Spiderland The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (breakthrough) Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend 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". Temple of the Dog, 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 takes place. The first Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album is given out. In a legendary Manic Street Preachers interview by NME journalist Steve Lamacq, Richey James 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. Newly formed bands Ash Bush The Cardigans Elastica Everclear Our Lady Peace Porno for Pyros Reel Big Fish Silverchair Soul Coughing Stereophonics (as Tragic Love Company) Weezer Disbandments The Feelies The Happy Mondays Pixies 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 (breakthrough) Catherine Wheel - Ferment The Cure - Wish Faith No More - Angel Dust Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience (breakthrough) Guided By Voices - Propellor 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 Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs Morrissey - Your Arsenal Mudhoney - Piece of Cake Nine Inch Nails - Broken EP Nirvana - Incesticide Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted R.E.M. - Automatic for the People Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine (breakthrough) Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion Sonic Youth - Dirty Soul Asylum - Grave Dancer's Union (breakthrough) Stone Temple Pilots - Core (breakthrough) 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. The movie Singles is released. The movie 1991 - The Year Punk Broke is released. Merge Records is founded by members of Superchunk Red Hot Chili Peppers' guitarist John Frusciante quits the band; he returns in 1998. Newly formed bands Black Grape Collective Soul Filter Folk Implosion Garbage Modest Mouse Jimmy Eat World Presidents of the United States of America Soul Coughing Super Furry Animals Veruca Salt Disbandments Public Image Ltd. Albums 311 - Music (breakthrough) Bjork - Debut Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish The Breeders - Last Splash (breakthrough) Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (breakthrough) 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 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 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 Suede - Suede U2 - Zooropa 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. Newly formed bands Foo Fighters Godspeed You! Black Emperor Muse (as Rocket Baby Dolls) Placebo The Rasmus Sigur Rós Sleater-Kinney Snow Patrol Supergrass Disbandments Nirvana Uncle Tupelo Albums 311 - Grassroots Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies EP Barenaked Ladies - Maybe You Should Drive Beck - Mellow Gold (breakthrough) Blur - Parklife Jeff Buckley - Grace (breakthrough) Bush - Sixteen Stone Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid The Cranberries - No Need to Argue Dinosaur Jr. - Without a Sound Green Day - Dookie (breakthrough) Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand Hole - Live Through This (breakthrough) The Jesus and Mary Chain - Stoned & Dethroned Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley Live - Throwing Copper (breakthrough) 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 Oasis - Definitely Maybe (breakthrough) Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Pearl Jam - Vitalogy Liz Phair - Whip-Smart Primal Scream - Give Out But Don't Give Up Pulp - His 'n' Hers (breakthrough) R.E. M - Monster Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star Soundgarden - Superunknown Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet The Stone Roses - Second Coming Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Suede - Dog Man Star They Might Be Giants - John Henry Toadies - Rubberneck (breakthrough) Veruca Salt - American Thighs Ween - Chocolate and Cheese Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album) (breakthrough) Events Kurt Cobain of Nirvana dies 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 Offspring releases Smash, becoming one of the best selling albums from an independent record label of all time. Along with the release of Green Day's Dookie, it repopularizes punk rock in the mainstream. 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 James 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 is fired from the band by Anderson. Weezer hits it big with "Undone (The Sweater Song)" and "Buddy Holly". The music video for Buddy Holly is included on the Windows 95 operating system disc. Beck's debut single Loser (Beck song) becomes the 1st alternative track to reach number one on the Billboard magazine charts. Newly formed bands Blue October Days of the New Kill Hannah Mad Season Matthew Good Band Mogwai Mojave 3 The Rentals Wilco Disbandments American Music Club Kyuss Meat Puppets Albums 311 - 311 (breakthrough) Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains AFI - Answer That and Stay Fashionable Better Than Ezra - Deluxe Bjork - Post Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah Blind Melon - Soup Blur - The Great Escape Collective Soul - Collective Soul Elastica - Elastica Everclear - Sparkle and Fade Faith No More - King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters Fugazi - Red Medicine Garbage - Garbage Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo (breakthrough) Green Day - Insomniac Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes Incubus - Fungus Amongus PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love Kyuss - ... And the Circus Leaves Town (final album) Lush - Lovelife Mad Season - Above Matthew Good Band - Last of the Ghetto Astronauts Ministry - Filth Pig Alanis Morissette -Jagged Little Pill (breakthrough) Morrissey - Southpaw Grammar Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante Mudhoney - My Brother the Cow No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (breakthrough) Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory Our Lady Peace - Naveed Pavement - Wowee Zowee Primus - Tales from the Punchbowl Pulp - Different Class Radiohead - The Bends Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute Red House Painters - Ocean Beach The Rentals - Return Of (The Rentals) Silverchair - Frogstomp (breakthrough) Siouxsie & the Banshees - The Rapture The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (most commercially successful album) Sonic Youth - Washing Machine Wilco - A.M. Events Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon is found dead on October 21. Third wave ska becomes popular, with bands such as No Doubt, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, and Sublime seeing commercial success. Richey James Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers disappears on February 1. 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. The film Empire Records is released, featuring a soundtrack of notable alternative rock acts as The Cranberries, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Better than Ezra and the hit single "Til I Hear it From You" by the Gin Blossoms. Newly formed bands A Belle & Sebastian Camera Obscura Matchbox Twenty Disbandments The Pogues Siouxsie & the Banshees The Stone Roses Sublime 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 (breakthrough) The Cure - Wild Mood Swings The Cranberries - To the Faithful Departed Dave Matthews Band - Crash 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 Local H - As Good as Dead Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go (first album as a three-piece) Matchbox Twenty - "Yourself or Someone Like You" Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah Pearl Jam - No Code Phish - Billy Breathes Placebo - Placebo Porno for Pyros - Good God's Urge Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire Red House Painters - Songs for a Blue Guitar R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor Soundgarden - Down on the Upside Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop Superdrag - Regretfully Yours (breakthrough) They Might Be Giants - Factory Showroom 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 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. Beck's album Odelay gains critical acclaim for heavy sampling by the Dust Brothers spearheading the electronica movement. Newly formed bands Coldplay Death Cab for Cutie Queens of the Stone Age The Shins The White Stripes Disbandments Cocteau Twins Gin Blossoms Porno for Pyros Soundgarden - believed by many to signal the end of grunge's mainstream success Throwing Muses Albums 311 - Transistor A - How Ace Are Buildings AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes Bjork - Homogenic Blur - Blur Collective Soul - Disciplined Breakdown Dinosaur Jr. - Hand It Over 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 Incubus - Enjoy Incubus Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Live - Secret Samadhi 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 Radiohead - Airbag/How Am I Driving? Silverchair - Freak Show Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out Stereolab - Dots and Loops Stereophonics - Word Gets Around Suede - Coming Up Veruca Salt - Eight Arms to Hold You The Verve - Urban Hymns Ween - The Mollusk Events Jane's Addiction reunites; later that year, they disband again. On hiatus while Scott Weiland is in rehab, members of Stone Temple Pilots form Talkshow; the new band lasts for only a short time. Solo artist Jeff Buckley dies on 29 May as a result of accidental drowning in the Mississippi River. 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 Newly formed bands 30 Seconds to Mars Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Doves Gorillaz Interpol The Strokes The Cooper Temple Clause The Rapture Disbandments Black Grape Faith No More Lush Albums 311 - Live 311 - Omaha Sessions Barenaked Ladies - Stunt (breakthrough) Beck - Mutations Belle & Sebastian - The Boy with the Arab Strap Better Than Ezra - How Does Your Garden Grow? Fugazi - End Hits Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot Garbage - Version 2.0 Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up the Girl Hole - Celebrity Skin James Iha - Let It Come Down Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 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 Pulp - This Is Hardcore Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age R.E.M. - Up The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves Soul Coughing - El Oso (final album) 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. Bauhaus reunite. John Frusciante returns to the Red Hot Chili Peppers after a six year hiatus. Newly formed bands A Perfect Circle Broken Social Scene Enon The Vines Disbandments Blind Melon - after years of struggling to continue on without Shannon Hoon. The Jesus Lizard The Jesus and Mary Chain Love and Rockets Luscious Jackson Pavement The Verve Albums 311 - Soundsystem AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset AFI - All Hallow's EP A - A vs. Monkey Kong Beck - Midnite Vultures Blur - 13 Collective Soul - Dosage Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning The Cranberries - Bury the Hatchet 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 Matthew Good Band - Beautiful Midnight Mr. Bungle - California Muse - Showbiz Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile Our Lady Peace - Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch Pavement - Terror Twilight Primus - Antipop 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 Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4 Suede - Head Music The White Stripes - The White Stripes 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. Newly formed bands Kings of Leon The Stills Yeah Yeah Yeahs Disbandments At the Drive-In Rage Against the Machine The Rentals Screaming Trees The Smashing Pumpkins Soul Coughing Albums A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command Barenaked Ladies - Maroon Coldplay - Parachutes Collective Soul - Blender The Cure - Bloodflowers 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 Green Day - Warning 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 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 U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind Ween - White Pepper The White Stripes - De Stijl (album) Events The Smashing Pumpkins announce their breakup, and play a farewell concert on December 2. The Smashing Pumpkins release Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music for free to music downloaders on the internet. The Meat Puppets reunite. Newly formed bands Audioslave Franz Ferdinand The Libertines My Chemical Romance TV on the Radio Zwan The Zutons Disbandments The Afghan Whigs Elastica Fastbacks Toadies Albums 311 - From Chaos AFI - The Art of Drowning Better Than Ezra - Closer Bjork - Vespertine Butthole Surfers - Weird Revolution Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi The Cranberries - Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Dave Matthews Band - Everyday Fugazi - The Argument Gorillaz - Gorillaz Guided By Voices - Isolation Drills HIM Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights Incubus - Morning View Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American (breakthrough) 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 R.E.M. - Reveal Radiohead - Amnesiac The Shins - Oh, Inverted World Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri-La Dee Da The Strokes - Is This It They Might Be Giants - Mink Car Weezer - Weezer (The Green Album) The White Stripes - White Blood Cells (breakthrough) 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 Newly formed bands Arctic Monkeys Bloc Party The Fray The Killers Razorlight Disbandments Bush Hole Alice in Chains Albums A - Hi-Fi Serious Audioslave - Audioslave Beck - Sea Change The Breeders - Title TK Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head 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 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 Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way Silverchair - Diorama Sleater-Kinney - One Beat Sonic Youth - Murray Street The Vines - Highly Evolved Weezer - Maladroit Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (breakthrough) Events Layne Staley of Alice in Chains dies on April 5; his body is found days later. Jane's Addiction reunite again. Nirvana's "You Know You're Right", a previously unreleased song, becomes a hit single. Gin Blossoms reunite. Newly formed bands Arcade Fire Babyshambles Glasvegas Kaiser Chiefs Disbandments The Cranberries Stone Temple Pilots Zwan Albums 311 - Evolver AFI - Sing The Sorrow (breakthrough) A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step Barenaked Ladies - Everything To Everyone 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 Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism The Fall - The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click) Guided by Voices - Earthquake Glue HIM - Love Metal (breakthrough) Jane's Addiction - Strays Kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium Matthew Good - Avalanche Muse - Absolution (breakthrough) Placebo - Sleeping with Ghosts Primus - Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People Radiohead - Hail to the Thief The Rasmus - Dead Letters The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb The Strokes - Room on Fire TV on the Radio - Young Liars The White Stripes - Elephant Zwan - Mary Star of the Sea Events The first Lollapalooza in 6 years takes place. Elliott Smith dies Newly formed bands The Dead 60s Louis XIV The Tears Disbandments The Libertines The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Phish Suede Albums A Perfect Circle - eMOTIVe Arcade Fire - Funeral Ash - Meltdown Melissa Auf der Maur - Auf der Maur Bjork - Medúlla Collective Soul - Youth The Cure - The Cure Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand Green Day - American Idiot Guided By Voices - Half-Smiles of the Decomposed Incubus - A Crow Left of the Murder Interpol - Antics Jimmy Eat World - Futures Kaiser Chiefs Employment Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (UK release) The Killers - Hot Fuss The Libertines - The Libertines Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood Matthew Good - White Light Rock & Roll Review Ministry - Houses of the Molé Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News (breakthrough) Morrissey - You Are the Quarry My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (breakthrough) R.E.M. - Around the Sun 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. The 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). Newly formed bands Dirty Pretty Things The Horrors The View The Raconteurs Disbandments Guided by Voices Luna Albums 311 - Don't Tread on Me A - Teen Dance Ordinance Audioslave - Out of Exile Beck - Guero Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - Life Begins Again Coldplay - X&Y Billy Corgan - TheFutureEmbrace Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up The Dead 60s - The Dead 60s Death Cab for Cutie - Plans (breakthrough) Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel 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 Kaiser Chiefs - Employment Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak (US release) 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 Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze The Rasmus - Hide From The Sun Sleater-Kinney - The Woods Supergrass - Road to Rouen 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 5 years of disbanding. 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. Newly formed bands Los Campesinos These Are Powers Disbandments Sleater-Kinney Grandaddy 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 Blue October - Foiled Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Incubus - Light Grenades The Killers - Sam's Town The Mars Volta - Amputechture Ministry - Rio Grande Blood Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors Muse - Black Holes and Revelations My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam Placebo - Meds The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope (breakthrough) Stereolab - Fab Four Suture The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain The Vines - Vision Valley Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones 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. In an interview, A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan announces that there are no firm intentions to continue with the band, and that the band is most likely over. Alice in Chains reforms, featuring Comes With The Fall singer William DuVall replacing Layne Staley who died in 2002 Disbandments Audioslave The Cooper Temple Clause Albums Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (breakthrough) Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare Ash - Twilight of the Innocents Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Men Bjork - Volta Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City Bright Eyes - Cassadaga Chris Cornell - Carry On Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace HIM - Venus Doom 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 Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers Maxïmo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris Radiohead - In Rainbows The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist The Shins - Wincing the Night Away White Stripes - Icky Thump Wilco - Sky Blue Sky Events R.E.M. are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Jesus and Mary Chain reunite Rage Against the Machine reunite 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 have issued a statement denying Hook's statements. Factory Records founder Tony Wilson dies. The Verve reunite 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 allow fans to set their own price gaining major acclaim. Disbandments Bauhaus Albums Bauhaus - Go Away White Beck - Modern Guilt Bloc Party - Intimacy The Breeders - Mountain Battles British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? Cat Power - Jukebox Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends The Cure - ' Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs Glasvegas - Glasvegas The Killers - Day & Age Kings of Leon - Only by the Night Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement MGMT - Oracular Spectacular Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I–IV Nine Inch Nails - The Slip Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely R.E.M. - Accelerate TV on the Radio - Dear Science The Smashing Pumpkins - American Gothic EP Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend The Vines - Melodia Weezer - Weezer Events Love & Rockets reunite Stone Temple Pilots reunite Newly formed bands Black & White Radio/The Battlefiled Assasination Disbandments Dirty Pretty Things Silver Jews Albums Arctic Monkeys - Humbug Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe Dinosaur Jr. - Farm Franz Ferdinand - ' The Fray- The Fray Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers Meat Puppets - Sewn Together Morrissey - Years of Refusal Muse - The Resistance Placebo - Battle for the Sun Sonic Youth - The Eternal U2 - No Line on the Horizon Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! White Lies - To Lose My Life... Events Creed reunites. Noel Gallagher quits Oasis.
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