Timeline of alternative rock Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

This is a timeline of alternative rock, from its beginnings in the 1980s to the present.

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

1977

• Newly formed bands
  • The Feelies

1978

• Newly formed bands
  • Echo and the Bunnymen

1979

• Newly formed bands
  • Cocteau Twins
  • The Replacements

• Albums
  • Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles

1980

• Newly formed bands
  • Meat Puppets
  • R.E.M

• Events
  • Sub Pop is founded as the fanzine Subterranean Pop.

• Albums
  • The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

1981

• Newly formed bands
  • 10,000 Maniacs
  • Sonic Youth

1982

• Newly formed bands
  • Butthole Surfers

• Albums
  • R.E.M. - Chronic Town

1983

• Newly formed bands
  • Dinosaur Jr
  • Green River - considered to be the first ever grunge band
  • The Flaming Lips
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Soul Asylum
  • They Might Be Giants
  • Throwing Muses

• Albums
  • R.E.M. - Murmur
  • Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

• Events
  • WFNX, one of the first commercial stations to play alternative rock, begins broadcasting.

1984

• Newly formed bands
  • Jane's Addiction
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • The Melvins
  • My Bloody Valentine
  • Soundgarden
  • Ween
  • Yo La Tengo

• Albums
  • Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
  • R.E.M. - Reckoning
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • The Replacements - Let It Be

1985

• Newly formed bands
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  • The Screaming Trees
  • The Stone Roses

• Albums
  • Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac
  • Dinosaur Jr. - Dinosaur
  • Green River - Come on Down
  • Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
  • R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
  • Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground

• Events
  • The Feelies reunite.

1986

• Newly formed bands
  • The Afghan Whigs
  • Galaxie 500
  • The La's
  • The Pixies
  • Primus

• Albums
  • Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse
  • The Feelies - ''The Good Earths
  • R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
  • Sonic Youth - EVOL
  • Violent Femmes - Blind Leading the Naked

1987

• Newly formed bands
  • Alice in Chains
  • Fugazi
  • The Jesus Lizard
  • Local H
  • Nirvana

• Albums
  • Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
  • Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
  • Pixies Come on Pilgrim
  • Primal Scream - Sonic Flower Groove
  • R.E.M. - Document
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
  • Sonic Youth - Sister
  • Soundgarden - Ultramega OK

1988

• Newly formed bands
  • The Breeders
  • Live
  • Mother Love Bone
  • Mudhoney
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • Ride
  • The Smashing Pumpkins

• Disbandments
  • Green River

• Albums
  • Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven
  • Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
  • The Feelies - Only Life
  • My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
  • R.E.M. - Green
  • Jane's Addiction Nothing's Shocking
  • Pixies - Surfer Rosa
  • Sonic Youth Daydream Nation

• Events
  • Mother Love Bone and Mudhoney form from members of Green River after they break up.

1989

• Newly formed bands
  • Blind Melon
  • Hole
  • Mazzy Star
  • Pavement
  • Radiohead
  • Suede
  • Superchunk
  • Toadies

• Albums
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic
  • Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
  • Nirvana - Bleach
  • Pixies - Doolittle
  • Primal Scream - Primal Scream
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
  • Violent Femmes - 3

1990

• Newly formed bands
  • Letters to Cleo
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • School of Fish
  • The Stone Temple Pilots

• Disbandments
  • Mother Love Bone

• Albums
  • Alice in Chains - Facelift
  • The Breeders - Pod
  • Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
  • Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
  • The La's - The La's
  • Mother Love Bone - Apple
  • Pixies - Bossanova
  • Sonic Youth - Goo
  • Soundgarden - Louder Than Love

• Events
  • Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone is found dead.

1991

• Newly formed bands
  • Bush
  • Candlebox
  • Luna
  • Luscious Jackson
  • Pearl Jam
  • Sponge

• Disbandments
  • Jane's Addiction
  • The Replacements

• Albums
  • Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
  • The Feelies - Time for a Witness
  • The Jesus Lizard - Goat
  • My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  • Nirvana - Nevermind
  • Pearl Jam - Ten
  • Pixies - Trompe le Monde
  • Primal Scream - Screamadelica
  • Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
  • R.E.M. - Out of Time
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (breakthrough album)
  • School of Fish - ''School of Fish
  • The Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
  • Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
  • Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
  • The 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 thier first and only album as a tribute to Andrew Wood.
  • The first ever Lollapalooza takes place.
  • The term riot grrl is coined by Alison Wolfe of Bratmobile.

1992

• Newly formed bands
  • Everclear
  • Our Lady Peace
  • Silverchair

• Disbandments
  • The Feelies
  • The Pixies

• Albums
  • Alice in Chains - Dirt
  • Alice in Chains - Sap
  • Blind Melon - Blind Melon
  • PJ Harvey - Dry
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
  • The Jesus Lizard - Liar
  • Nine Inch Nails - Broken
  • Nirvana - Incesticide
  • Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted;
  • R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
  • Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
  • Sonic Youth - Dirty
  • Soul Asylum - Grave Dancer's Union
  • Stone Temple Pilots Core
  • Ween - Pure Guava

• Events
  • 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.

1993

• Newly formed bands
  • Filter
  • Folk Implosion
  • Garbage
  • Porno for Pyros
  • Soul Coughing
  • Veruca Salt

• Albums
  • Beck - Mellow Gold
  • The Breeders - Last Splash
  • Butthole Surfers - Independant Worm Saloon
  • Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
  • The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
  • Green Day - Dookie
  • PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
  • Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
  • Nirvana - In Utero
  • The Offspring - Smash
  • Pearl Jam - ''Vs
  • Porno for Pyros - Porno for Pyros
  • Primus - Pork Soda
  • Radiohead - Pablo Honey
  • The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
  • Suede - Suede

• Events
  • Nirvana plays MTV Unplugged in New York on November 18.
  • Beck's "Loser" becomes a hit single.
  • 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.
  • Mazzy Star has some success with the single "Fade Into You", becoming the biggest hit for dream pop in the mainstream.

1994

• Newly formed bands
  • The Foo Fighters

• Disbandments
  • Nirvana

• Albums
  • Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
  • Bush - Sixteen Stone (breakthrough album)
  • Dinosaur Jr. - Withour a Second
  • Hole - Live Through This (breakthrough album)
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain - Stoned & Dethroned;
  • Live - Throwing Copper
  • Meat Puppets - Too High to Die
  • Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (most commercially successful album)
  • Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
  • Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
  • Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
  • Primal Scream - Give Out But Don't Give up
  • R.E.M - Monster
  • Soundgarden - Superunknown
  • Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
  • Suede - Dog Man Star
  • Ween - Chocolate and Cheese

• Events
  • Kurt Cobain of Nirvana dies on April 19.
  • 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.

1995

• Newly formed bands
  • Days of the New
  • Mad Season

• Disbandments
  • Meat Puppets

• Albums
  • Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains
  • Dishwalla - Pet Your Friends
  • The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
  • Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
  • Garbage - Garbage (breakthrough album)
  • P. J. Harvey - To Bring You My Love
  • Mad Season - Above
  • Pavement - Wowee Zowee
  • Primus - Tales From the Punchbowl
  • Radiohead - ''The Bends
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
  • Silverchair - Frogstomp
  • The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
  • Sonic Youth - Washing Machine

• Events
  • Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon is found dead on October 21.
  • Ska becomes popular, with bands such as No Doubt, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and Sublime seeing commercial success.
  • Folk Implosion has a hit single with "Natural One".
  • Mad Season, a band made up of members of Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and the Screaming Trees, forms and breaks up in the same year.

1996

• Disbandments
  • Screaming Trees

• Albums
  • Beck - Odelay
  • Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland
  • Local H - As Good as Dead (breakthrough album)
  • Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
  • Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
  • Pearl Jam - No Code
  • Porno for Pyros Good God's Urge
  • R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
  • Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
  • Soundgarden - Down on the Upside

• Events
  • Jonathan Melvoin of The Smashing Pumpkins dies on July 12.
  • Alice in Chains makes their last appearance on MTV Unplugged.
  • Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar is released, becoming industrial music's most successful album.
  • Hype, a documentary about the grunge scene of the early 1990s, is released.

1997

• Disbandments
  • Porno for Pyros
  • Soundgarden - believed by many to signal the end of grunge's mainstream success.

• Albums
  • Dinosaur Jr. - Hand It Over
  • Everclear - So Much for the Afterglow
  • Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
  • Pavement - Brighten the Corners
  • Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
  • Primus - The Brown Album
  • Radiohead - OK Computer
  • Suede - Coming Up

• Events
  • Jane's Addiction reunites; later that year, they disband again.
  • On haitus while Scott Weiland is in rehab, members of The Stone Temple Pilots form Talkshow; the new band lasts for only a short time.

1998

• Albums
  • Beck - Mutations
  • Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
  • Pearl Jam - Yield
  • R.E.M. - Up
  • The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
  • Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves
  • Soul Coughing - El Oso

• Events
  • For the first year since it began, Lollapalooza does not take place, and goes on hiatus for 6 years.

1999

• Newly formed bands
  • A Perfect Circle

• Disbandments
  • Blind Melon - after years of struggling to continue on without Shannon Hoon.
  • The Jesus Lizard
  • Luscious Jackson
  • Pavement

• Albums
  • Beck - Midnite Vultures
  • The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
  • Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose
  • Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
  • Pavement - Terror Twilight
  • Primus - Antipop
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
  • Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles
  • The Stone Temple Pilots - No. 4
  • Suede - Head Music

• Events
  • John Baker Saunders of Mad Season dies.
  • Despite rumors of disbanding, The Stone Temple Pilots return to recording.

2000

• Disbandments
  • Letters to Cleo
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Soul Coughing

• Albums
  • Pearl Jam - Binaural
  • A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
  • Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
  • Radiohead - Kid A
  • The Smashing Pumpkins - MACHINA/The Machines of God
  • The Smashing Pumpkins - MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music;

• Events
  • The Smashing Pumpkins have their last 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.

2001

• Newly formed bands
  • Audioslave

• Disbandments
  • Toadies

2002

• Disbandments
  • Hole

• Albums
  • Audioslave - Audioslave
  • Beck - Sea Change
  • The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
  • Nirvana - Nirvana
  • Primal Scream - Evil Heat
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers - By the Way
  • Sonic Youth - Murray Street

• Events
  • Layne Staley of Alice in Chains dies on April 19, the 8th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death.
  • Jane's Addiction reunites again.
  • Nirvana's "You Know You're Right", a previously unreleased song, becomes a hit single.

2003

• Albums
  • A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

• Events
  • The first Lollapalooza in 6 years takes place.

2004

• Disbandments
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

• Albums
  • A Perfect Circle - eMOTIVe
  • The Pixies -

• Events
  • The Pixies reunite.

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