Timeline of alternative rock

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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

1980

• Newly formed bands
  • R.E.M.

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

1981

• Newly formed bands
  • Sonic Youth

1983

• Newly formed bands
  • Green River - considered to be the first ever grunge band
  • The Flaming Lips
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers

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

1984

• Newly formed bands
  • Jane's Addiction
  • Soundgarden

1986

• Newly formed bands
  • The Pixies

1987

• Newly formed bands
  • Alice in Chains
  • Local H
  • Nirvana

1988

• Newly formed bands
  • The Breeders
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • The Smashing Pumpkins

• Events
  • Mother Love Bone forms after the break up of Green River. Later that year, Andrew Wood is found dead.

1989

• Newly formed bands
  • Blind Melon
  • Hole

1990

• Newly formed bands
  • Letters to Cleo
  • The Stone Temple Pilots

• Disbandments
  • The Pixies

1991

• Newly formed bands
  • Bush
  • Sponge

• Albums
  • Pearl Jam - Ten
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (breakthrough album)

• 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.
  • The first ever Lollapalooza takes place.

1992

• Newly formed bands
  • Everclear

• Events
  • The grunge speak hoax appears in the November 15 issue of The New York Times.
  • The movie Singles is released.

1993

• Newly formed bands
  • Filter
  • Garbage
  • Porno for Pyros
  • Veruca Salt

• Events
  • 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
  • Bush releases - Sixteen Stone (breakthrough album)
  • Hole - Live Through This (breakthrough album)
  • Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (most commercially successful album)

• Events
  • Kurt Cobain of Nirvana dies on April 19.
  • Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun", off their album Superunknown, becomes a hit single; some cite it as the last major hit of the grunge era.

1995

• Albums
  • Garbage - Garbage (breakthrough album)

• Events
  • Ska becomes popular, with bands such as No Doubt, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and Sublime seeing commercial success.
  • Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon is found dead on October 21.

1996

• Albums
  • Local H - As Good as Dead (breakthrough album)

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

1998

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

1999

• Disbandments
  • Blind Melon - after years of struggling to continue on without Shannon Hoon.

2000

• Events
  • The Smashing Pumpkins have their last concert on December 2. The band breaks up shortly afterwards.

2002

• Disbandments
  • Hole

• Events
  • Layne Staley of Alice in Chains dies on April 19, the 8th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death.

2003

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

2004

• Events
  • The Pixies reunite.

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