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Timeline of alternative rock

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Alternative rock is generally understood to have begun in the late 1970s and early 1980s, primarily in the United Kingdom, starting with proto-punk, punk, post-punk, and new wave. Reaching a commercial and critical peak in the 1990s, alternative rock acts are still popular today and AAA radio is a common format.

1966

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1967

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1968

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1969

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1970s

1970

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1971

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1972

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1973

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1974

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1975

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1976

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1977

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1978

Bands formed

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1979

Bands formed

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1980s

1980

Bands formed

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Disbandments

  • Wire
  • Joy Division

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1981

Bands formed

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1982

Bands formed

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1983

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Bauhaus
  • Mission of Burma

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Events

1984

Bands formed

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Events

1985

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Minutemen

Reunions

  • The Feelies
  • Wire

Albums

Events

  • The Minutemen's D. Boon dies in a car crash on December 22.

1986

Bands formed

Albums

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.

1987

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Hรผsker Dรผ
  • The Smiths

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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.
  • MTV introduces the Buzz Bin in the fall of 1987, which put various alternative videos into special rotation for a period of time. Many of these videos would become breakout hits and enter normal heavy rotation as well as the top 40, especially during the alternative boom of the following decade.

1988

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Big Black
  • Green River
  • The Housemartins

Albums

Events

  • Billboard introduces the Modern Rock chart which lists the most played songs on alternative rock radio stations. "Peek-a-Boo" from Siouxsie and the Banshees is the very first song to top the chart in September.
  • Alternative rock finds additional exposure in the mainstream, as The Cure, Midnight Oil, and The Church all break into the top 40 with "Just Like Heaven" (#40), "Beds Are Burning" (#17) and "Under the Milky Way" (#26) respectively.
  • 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. Jack Irons leaves the band. They are replaced by John Frusciante and Chad Smith.
  • 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.
  • Talk Talk leave Parlophone/EMI after poor management revolving the release and promotion of Spirit of Eden and how this might affect the recording of what later became Laughing Stock.
  • Chuck Mosley leaves Faith No More.

1989

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Guadalcanal Diary
  • Dream Syndicate
  • Felt

Albums

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.
  • Mike Patton becomes the new frontman of Faith No More.
  • Love and Rockets scores a surprise smash with So Alive, which peaks at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and tops the Modern Rock chart for 5 weeks.
  • The Cure also scores a major hit with "Lovesong", peaking at #2 on the Billboard singles charts. The album Disintegration is their most critically and commercially successful album.
  • Soundgarden signs a major label deal with A&M Records, the first Seattle act to do so.

1990s

1990

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Camper Van Beethoven
  • Mother Love Bone

Albums

Events

  • Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone is found dead.
  • Sonic Youth signs with DGC records. Upon recommendations from Kim Gordon, Nirvana follows suit.

1991

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Galaxie 500
  • Jane's Addiction
  • The Replacements
  • Spacemen 3
  • Talk Talk
  • Talking Heads

Albums

Events

  • Nirvana releases Nevermind, popularizing grunge in the mainstream, especially due to the hit single "Smells Like Teen Spirit". The album reaches the top 5 of the Billboard album charts a month and a half after release.
  • Alternative rock finds additional exposure in the mainstream as Siouxsie and the Banshees break into the US Top 25 of the Billboard Hot 100, with "Kiss Them for Me" (at number 23).
  • The first ever Lollapalooza takes place with Jane's Addiction as the top of the bill and Siouxsie and the Banshees as second headliners.
  • 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.

1992

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • The Feelies
  • The Happy Mondays
  • Pixies
  • Public Image Ltd
  • The Sugarcubes
  • Wire (second disbandment)

Albums

Events

  • Alternative rock fully breaks into the American mainstream consciousness, as albums and singles by bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Toad the Wet Sprocket, R.E.M., Soul Asylum, The Cure, and Nine Inch Nails reach the Top 40 of the Billboard charts. Most notable: Nirvana's Nevermind dethrones Michael Jackson's Dangerous from the top of the Billboard 200 chart
  • Pearl Jam's Ten breaks into the top 10 after nine months of release, helped by months of heavy touring and MTV exposure, eventually peaking at #2, and remaining near the top for many weeks thereafter.
  • 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.
  • Factory Records declares bankruptcy. The label had been placed in dire financial straits due to Happy Mondays' album Yes Please! going significantly over-budgetโ€”to the point of burning through most of Factory's fundsโ€”and failing to turn a profit, and because of delays suffered by New Order in releasing a follow-up album to 1989's Technique. London Records attempted to buy out Factory, but backed out of the deal due to the latter's lack of contracts giving their artists full rights to their backlogs; many of these artists would sign on to London Records following Factory's closure.

1993

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Echo & the Bunnymen
  • The House of Love

Reunions

  • The Buzzcocks

Albums

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. The band's massive night at the year's Video Music Awards with Jeremy leads to a disillusionment with creating music videos, which they stop doing for five years. Even so, their second album, Vs., sells approximately 950,000 copies in its opening week, setting a record for opening week sales.
  • Nirvana plays MTV Unplugged on November 18.
  • 1991: The Year Punk Broke, a documentary chronicling the Summer 1991 European tour of Sonic Youth, is released. The film also features Courtney Love of Hole, Dinosaur Jr., Ramones, and most notably, Nirvana, a month shy of the release of their breakthrough Nevermind.
  • Former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro joins the Red Hot Chili Peppers after numerous guitarist changes.
  • New Order goes on a 5-year hiatus following the release of Republic.

1994

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Adorable
  • Codeine
  • Nirvana
  • Uncle Tupelo

Albums

Events

  • Kurt Cobain of Nirvana commits suicide on April 5; his body is found three days later. Cobain's suicide sends shockwaves though the music community, serving as a catalyst for the decline of the grunge movement.
  • Kristen Pfaff of Hole dies on June 16.
  • Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" becomes a hit single; the album Superunknown debuts at #1 on the album charts. 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.
  • Mazzy Star has some success with the single "Fade into You", becoming the biggest hit for dream pop in the mainstream.
  • Pearl Jam confronts Ticketmaster when they add service charges to concert tickets.

1995

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • American Music Club
  • Drive Like Jehu
  • Kyuss
  • Meat Puppets
  • Slowdive
  • Sunny Day Real Estate
  • The Verve (reform in 1996)

Albums

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 is presumed deceased thirteen years later. 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.

1996

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Pale Saints
  • The Pogues
  • Ride
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • The Stone Roses
  • Sublime

Reunions

  • Echo & the Bunnymen

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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 genre-crossing band Sublime dies of a heroin overdose. The band splits up soon after Nowell's death.
  • Oasis performs for 225,000 in two nights at Knebworth. Ticket applications for the show were in excess of 1 million.
  • A studio fire destroys the master tapes for Sub Sub's second album, but the band decide to start from scratch on a third album, renaming themselves Doves.
  • Chris Acland drummer of Lush is found dead from suicide at his parentsโ€™ house. Thus ending Lush. Lush officially announced their breakup in 1998

1997

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Cocteau Twins
  • Failure
  • Gin Blossoms
  • Jane's Addiction
  • Porno for Pyros
  • Soundgarden โ€“ believed by many to signal the end of grunge's mainstream success[3]
  • Throwing Muses
  • The Wedding Present
  • Weezer

Reunions

  • Jane's Addiction
  • Sunny Day Real Estate
  • The Verve

Albums

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.[4]

1998

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Black Grape
  • Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
  • Faith No More
  • Goats Don't Shave
  • Helmet
  • Kerbdog
  • The Lemonheads
  • Lush
  • Shudder to Think

Reunions

  • Bauhaus

Albums

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.
  • New Order returns to performing after an 8-year hiatus.

1999

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Blind Melon โ€“ after years of struggling to continue on without Shannon Hoon.
  • The Boo Radleys
  • Far
  • The Jesus Lizard
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • Kula Shaker
  • Love and Rockets
  • Luscious Jackson
  • Pavement
  • The Rentals
  • The Verve (second disbandment)

Reunions

  • Wire (second reunion)
  • Weezer

Albums

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.

2000s

2000

Bands formed

Disbandments

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

Reunions

  • Meat Puppets

Albums

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 Irresistible Bliss and El Oso.

2001

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • The Afghan Whigs
  • At The Drive-In
  • Elastica
  • Fastbacks
  • Sunny Day Real Estate (second disbandment)
  • Toadies

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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.

2002

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Bush
  • Hole
  • Eraserheads
  • Spacehog

Reunions

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

Albums

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.

2003

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Blur
  • The Cranberries
  • Mansun
  • Shed Seven
  • Stone Temple Pilots
  • Zwan

Albums

Events

  • The first Lollapalooza in six years takes place.
  • Elliott Smith dies at age 34.

2004

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Guided by Voices
  • The Libertines
  • Sixpence None the Richer
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  • Suede

Reunions

  • Kula Shaker
  • Helmet
  • Pixies
  • The Wedding Present

Albums

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 live album Red Hot Chili Peppers 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.

2005

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Curve
  • Guided by Voices
  • Luna
  • blink-182
  • The Calling

Reunions

  • The House of Love
  • The Lemonheads

Albums

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.

2006

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Clor
  • Sleater-Kinney
  • Grandaddy

Reunions

  • The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Toadies

Albums

Events

2007

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Audioslave
  • The Beautiful South
  • The Cooper Temple Clause

Reunions

  • Garbage
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • My Bloody Valentine
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • Shed Seven
  • Shudder to Think
  • The Verve (second reunion)

Albums

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. Regardless, the band proceeds to remain inactive for four years.
  • Factory Records founder Tony Wilson dies; his casket is assigned the final Factory catalog number to date, FAC-501.
  • 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.

2008

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Bauhaus

Reunions

  • Eraserheads
  • Far
  • Love and Rockets
  • No Doubt
  • Spacehog
  • Stone Temple Pilots
  • Sixpence None the Richer

Albums

Events

  • Thirteen years after his disappearance, Manic Street Preachers' Richard James Edwards is officially declared dead in absentia in November.
  • After two solo albums, Gwen Stefani reunites with No Doubt to begin songwriting and subsequent tour in 2009.
  • After six years since they disbanded, Eraserheads performs again in one stage in their Reunion Concert held in The Fort, Taguig City Metro Manila. But after 15 songs, the concert was cut short when Lead Vocalist Ely Buendia was rushed to the hospital for medical attention.
  • 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.
  • Nine Inch Nails releases Ghosts I-IV and The Slip under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license.

2009

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Dirty Pretty Things
  • Fall Out Boy
  • Oasis
  • Shudder to Think (second disbandment)
  • Silver Jews
  • The Verve (third disbandment)
  • Violent Femmes

Reunions

  • blink-182
  • Blur
  • Guano Apes
  • Hole
  • Skunk Anansie
  • Sunny Day Real Estate (second reunion)

Albums

Events

  • Alice in Chains releases their first studio album in 14 years with new lead singer William DuVall.
  • Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor declares that the band is done with touring for the foreseeable future.
  • American Idiot, the musical featuring songs by Green Day, premiers at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California on September 4, 2009. The story was written by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and director Michael Mayer.[1]

2010s

2010

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Far (second disbandment)
  • Supergrass
  • Sparklehorse

Reunions

  • Bush
  • Faith No More
  • Guided by Voices
  • The Libertines
  • Pavement
  • Soundgarden
  • Suede

Albums

Events

  • Stone Temple Pilots release their first album in nine years after reuniting.
  • Soundgarden reforms and is one of the headliners at Lollapalooza.
  • American Idiot, the musical featuring songs by Green Day, opens in New York on Broadway at the St. James Theatre.[2]

2011

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • R.E.M.
  • The White Stripes
  • Thursday

Reunions

  • Archers of Loaf
  • Pulp
  • The Stone Roses
  • Endless Bob Brown

Albums

Events

  • Mike Starr, former bassist of Alice in Chains, dies of an overdose on March 8.
  • Arcade Fire wins the Album of the Year award at the Grammy Awards.
  • Thirty Seconds to Mars set a Guinness World Record for the most shows played during a single album cycle.
  • Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth separate after 27 years of marriage. Consequently, the band itself goes on hiatus.

2012

Bands formed

Disbandments

  • Jet

Reunions

  • Codeine

Deaths

  • Mitch Lucker, lead singer of metal band Suicide Silence, after a motorcycle accident at Huntington Beach, California

Albums

2013

Bands formed

Events

  • On February 3, 2013, My Bloody Valentine releases "m b v", their third title, and first album since their 22-year-long hiatus began in 1991.[5]
  • Sonic Youth disbands, with the separation of Moore and Gordon's marriage.
  • Nine Inch Nails returns on tour in February, supporting the new album "Hesitation Marks".

Disbandments

  • My Chemical Romance
  • Elektric Orbit
  • Lostprophets
  • Sonic Youth

Deaths

  • Lou Reed, founder of Velvet Underground, and frequent collaborator with Alt Rock acts.
  • Chi Cheng, Deftones bassist after nearly 5 years of medical complications from an automotive collision.

Reunions

  • Elektric Orbit
  • Fall Out Boy

Albums

2014

Bands formed

Reunions

  • Slowdive
  • The Libertines
  • Ride

Albums

2015

Disbandments

  • Klaxons

Events

  • In November 2015, Foo Fighters announce an open-ended hiatus after releasing the EP, Saint Cecilia.

Reunions

  • The Bluetones

Deaths

  • Scott Weiland, former vocalist of Stone Temple Pilots dies on December 3.

Albums

2016

Reunions

  • At the Drive-In
  • Thursday
  • The Number Twelve Looks Like You

Deaths

  • David Bowie dies on January 10 due to liver cancer, just two days after the release of his final album, โ˜….

Albums

2017

Deaths

  • Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and Audioslave hangs himself on May 18.
  • Chester Bennington of Linkin Park hangs himself on July 20.

Albums

2018

Deaths

  • Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries dies by accidental drowning on January 15.

Albums

2019

Albums

References

  1. โ†‘ OMFUG, CBGB &. "CBGB History". CBGB & OMFUG. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  2. โ†‘ Cap'n Jazz
  3. โ†‘ St. Peter Times staff writer (1997). "Soundgarden's End Called the End of Grunge" Stargate.net . Retrieved September 27, 2006.
  4. โ†‘ OK Computer (album) by Radiohead : Best Ever Albums
  5. โ†‘ Ratliff, Chinen, Caramanica. "New Albums by My Bloody Valentine, Josh Groban, and Tim McGraw". New York Times. Retrieved 7 February 2013.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)


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