Tidslinje för alternativ rock

Detta är en tidslinje för alternativ rock, från dess början på 1970-talet till nutid.

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 - 2010 - 2011

1970-talet

1976

• Nybildade grupper
  • The Cure
  • The Fall
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • U2
  • XTC
  • Joy Division

1977

• Nybildade grupper
  • The Feelies
  • X
  • Magazine

• Händelser
  • Twin/Tone Records bildas i Minneapolis.
  • Beggars Banquet Records bildas i London.

1978

• Nybildade grupper
  • Bauhaus
  • Echo & the Bunnymen
  • Public Image Ltd
  • Pulp (som Arabacus Pulp)
  • Social Distortion

• Händelser
  • Manchester-journalisten och nattklubbmanagern Tony Wilson grundar Factory Records.
  • Rough Trade Records bildas i London.
  • SST Records grundas i Long Beach av Greg Ginn.

1979

• Nybildade grupper
  • Cocteau Twins
  • Fastbacks
  • Felt
  • Fishbone
  • Hüsker Dü
  • The Replacements

• Händelser
  • Bauhaus ger ut sin singel för "Bela Lugosi's Dead", som anses vara den allra första gothic rock-låten.
  • Touch and Go Records grundas i Chicago.
  • Sub Pop grundas som fanzinet Subterranean Pop i Seattle.
  • 4AD grundas i London av Ivo Watts-Russell och Peter Kent.

1980-talet

1980

• Nybildade grupper
  • Depeche Mode
  • Malfunkshun
  • Meat Puppets
  • Minutemen
  • Mission of Burma
  • New Order
  • R.E.M.
  • The Sisters of Mercy
  • Violent Femmes
  • Modern Eon

• Album
  • Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
  • The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
  • The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

• Händelser
  • Dischord Records grundas i Washington D.C. av Ian MacKaye.
  • Joy Divisions fronfigur Ian Curtis hänger sig själv, och resten av bandet fortsätter som New Order.

1981

• Nybildade grupper
  • 10,000 Maniacs
  • Butthole Surfers
  • Dream Syndicate
  • James
  • Sonic Youth

• Upplösta grupper
  • Magazine

• Album
  • Bauhaus – Mask
  • The Cure - Faith
  • Mission of Burma – Signals, Calls, and Marches
  • New Order – Movement
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – Juju

1982

• Nybildade grupper
  • Beat Happening
  • Big Black
  • Faith No More
  • Guadalcanal Diary
  • The Pogues
  • The Smiths
  • Spacemen 3
  • Swans
  • They Might Be Giants

• Album
  • 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

• Händelser
  • Nattklubben The Haçienda öppnar i Manchester.

1983

• Nybildade grupper
  • American Music Club
  • Camper Van Beethoven
  • The Flaming Lips
  • Green River
  • The Housemartins
  • The Lemonheads
  • My Bloody Valentine
  • Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Soul Asylum
  • Throwing Muses
  • The Tragically Hip

• Upplösta grupper
  • Bauhaus
  • Mission of Burma

• Album
  • 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

• Händelser
  • R.E.M.:s album Murmur får utmärkelsen "Best album of 1983" av Rolling Stone.
  • Creation Records grundas av Alan McGee.

1984

• Nybildade grupper
  • Dinosaur Jr.
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • The Lemonheads
  • Melvins
  • Primal Scream
  • Soundgarden
  • The Wedding Present
  • Ween
  • Yo La Tengo

• Album
  • 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. – eckoning
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • The Replacements – Let It Be
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – Hyæna
  • The Smiths – The Smiths
  • Violent Femmes – Hallowed Ground

• Händelser
  • Sonic Youths sångare och gitarrist Thurston Moore gifter sig med sin bandkamrat, sångaren och basisten Kim Gordon.

1985

• Nybildade grupper
  • Guided by Voices
  • Happy Mondays
  • Jane's Addiction
  • Love and Rockets
  • Pussy Galore
  • Screaming Trees
  • The Stone Roses

• Upplösta grupper
  • Minutemen

• Återförenade grupper
  • The Feelies

• Album
  • 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

• Händelser
  • Minutemens D. Boon avlider i en bilolycka den 22 december.

1986

• Nybildade grupper
  • The Afghan Whigs
  • Galaxie 500
  • Goo Goo Dolls
  • Inspiral Carpets
  • The La's
  • Manic Street Preachers (som Betty Blue)
  • No Doubt
  • Pixies
  • The Posies
  • Radiohead (som On a Friday)
  • Sebadoh
  • The Sugarcubes
  • Stone Temple Pilots (som Mighty Joe Young)

• Album
  • 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
  • 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

• Händelser
  • MTV börjar sända 120 Minutes, ett program riktat åt alternativa artister.
  • Tidskriften NME ger ut kassettbandssamlingen C86, som blev uppmärksammad inom brittisk indierock.

1987

• Nybildade grupper
  • Alice in Chains
  • Fugazi
  • Gin Blossoms
  • Green Day (som Sweet Children)
  • The Jesus Lizard
  • Local H
  • Nirvana (som Skid Row, därefter som Pen Cap Chew, Bliss och Ted Ed Fred)
  • Slint
  • Uncle Tupelo

• Upplösta grupper
  • Hüsker Dü
  • The Smiths

• Album
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
  • The Replacements – Pleased to Meet Me
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – Through the Looking Glass
  • The Sisters of Mercy – Floodland
  • The Smiths – Strangeways, Here We Come
  • Sonic Youth – Sister
  • U2 – The Joshua Tree

• Händelser
  • R.E.M.:s "The One I Love" blir en oväntad Top Ten-hit på den amerikanska poplistan, vilket bidrog till att öka den alternativa rockens mainstreamprofil och bandet fick även skivkontrakt med ett större bolag.
  • No Doubts originalsångare John Spence begår självmord.

1988

• Nybildade grupper
  • Barenaked Ladies
  • Better Than Ezra
  • The Boo Radleys
  • The Breeders
  • Live (som Public Affection)
  • Lush
  • Mother Love Bone
  • Mudhoney
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • Ride
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Sublime

• Upplösta grupper
  • Big Black
  • Green River
  • The Housemartins

• Album
  • 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
  • The Sugarcubes – Life's Too Good
  • They Might Be Giants – Lincoln

• Händelser
  • Mother Love Bone och Mudhoney bildas av medlemmar från Green River efter deras splittring.
  • Sub Pop påbörjar Sub Pop Singles Club.
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers-gitarristen Hillel Slovak avlider av en heroinöverdos.
  • Rolling Stone ger R.E.M. utmärkelsen "America's Best Rock 'n' Roll Band" och placerar dem på omslaget.
  • Gwen Stefani blir sångare i No Doubt.

1989

• Nybildade grupper
  • 311
  • Blind Melon
  • Blur (som Circus and later Seymour)
  • Hole
  • Hum
  • Mazzy Star
  • Neutral Milk Hotel
  • Pavement
  • Red House Painters
  • Spiritualized
  • Suede
  • Superchunk
  • Teenage Fanclub
  • Toadies

• Upplösta grupper
  • Guadalcanal Diary
  • Dream Syndicate

• Album
  • The Cure – Disintegration (Genombrott)
  • Faith No More – The Real Thing (Genombrott)
  • 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
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Violent Femmes – 3

• Händelser
  • New Order, Public Image Ltd och The Sugarcubes ger sig ut på "Monsters of Alternative Rock"-turnén.
  • Matador Records grundas.
  • Dokumentärfilmen 101 kommer ut, vilken berättar om hur Depeche Mode blev ett större band i USA utan några större radiospelningar samt fokuserar på deras berömda Rose Bowl-konsert i Pasadena.

1990-talet

1990

• Nybildade grupper
  • Catherine Wheel
  • The Cranberries
  • Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  • Kyuss
  • Pearl Jam (som Mookie Blaylock)
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • Travis
  • The Verve (som Verve)
  • Swervedriver

• Upplösta grupper
  • Camper Van Beethoven
  • Mother Love Bone

• Album
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • 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

• Händelser
  • Andrew Wood i Mother Love Bone hittas död.
  • Sonic Youth signeras av DGC Records.

1991

• Nybildade grupper
  • AFI
  • Cake
  • Candlebox
  • Dave Matthews Band
  • HIM
  • Luna
  • Luscious Jackson
  • Oasis
  • Primitive Radio Gods
  • Sponge
  • Stereolab

• Upplösta grupper
  • Galaxie 500
  • Jane's Addiction
  • The Replacements
  • Spacemen 3

• Album
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Pearl Jam – Ten (Genombrott)
  • Pixies – Trompe le Monde
  • Primal Scream – Screamadelica (Genombrott)
  • R.E.M. – Out of Time
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Genombrott)
  • Sebadoh – Sebadoh III
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – Superstition
  • Slint – Spiderland
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – Gish
  • Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger (Genombrott)
  • 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?

• Händelser
  • Nirvana ger ut Nevermind, som populariserade grungen till mainstream, i synnerhet tack vare singeln "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
  • Temple of the Dog, bildat av medlemmar från Soundgarden och nybildade Pearl Jam, ger ut deras enda album som en hyllning till Andrew Wood.
  • Den första Lollapalooza-festivalen äger rum.
  • Den första Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album utdelas.
  • Under en Manic Street Preachers-intervju med NME-journalisten Steve Lamacq ristar Richey Edwards in orden "4 Real" i sin arm med ett rakblad för att påvisa bandets uppriktighet till musiken.
  • Barenaked Ladies album The Yellow Tape säljer platina i Kanada. Det var den första indie-releasen i Kanada som någonsin gjorde så.

1992

• Nybildade grupper
  • Ash
  • Bush
  • The Cardigans
  • Elastica
  • Everclear
  • Grandaddy
  • Our Lady Peace
  • Porno for Pyros
  • Reel Big Fish
  • Seven Mary Three
  • Silverchair (som Innocent Criminals)
  • Soul Coughing
  • Stereophonics (som Tragic Love Company)
  • The Verve Pipe
  • Weezer

• Upplösta grupper
  • The Feelies
  • The Happy Mondays
  • Pixies
  • Public Image Ltd
  • The Sugarcubes

• Album
  • 311 – Hydroponic
  • Alice in Chains – Dirt (Genombrott)
  • Alice in Chains – Sap EP
  • Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes
  • Barenaked Ladies – Gordon
  • Blind Melon – Blind Melon (Genombrott)
  • Catherine Wheel – Ferment
  • The Cure – Wish
  • Faith No More – Angel Dust
  • Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience (Genombrott)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Ride – Going Blank Again
  • Screaming Trees – Sweet Oblivion
  • Sonic Youth – Dirty
  • Soul Asylum – Grave Dancer's Union (Genombrott)
  • Stone Temple Pilots – Core (Genombrott)
  • Sublime – 40oz. to Freedom
  • Sugar – Copper Blue
  • They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18
  • Ween – Pure Guava

• Händelser
  • Den alternativa rocken blir en fullständig amerikansk mainstreampopularitet, då album och singlar av band som Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice in Chains, R.E.M., Soul Asylum, The Cure och Nine Inch Nails uppnådde Top 40 på Billboard-listan.
  • Trent Reznor grundar Nothing Records.
  • Merge Records grundas av medlemmar från Superchunk.
  • Red Hot Chili Pepperss gitarrist John Frusciante hoppar av bandet; han återkommer sedan 1998.

1993

• Nybildade grupper
  • Black Grape
  • Collective Soul
  • Eraserheads
  • Filter
  • Folk Implosion
  • Garbage
  • Modest Mouse
  • Jimmy Eat World
  • The Presidents of the United States of America
  • Billy Talent (tidigare Pezz)
  • Soul Coughing
  • Super Furry Animals
  • Supergrass
  • Third Eye Blind
  • Veruca Salt

• Upplösta grupper
  • Echo & the Bunnymen

• Album
  • 311 – Music
  • Björk – Debut
  • Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish
  • The Breeders – Last Splash (Genombrott)
  • Butthole Surfers – Independent Worm Saloon
  • Catherine Wheel – Chrome
  • The Cranberries – Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (Genombrott)
  • Depeche Mode – Songs of Faith and Devotion
  • Dinosaur Jr. – Where You Been
  • Eraserheads – UltraElectroMagneticPop!
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Stereolab – Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcements
  • Suede – Suede
  • U2 – Zooropa
  • The Verve – A Storm in Heaven
  • The Verve Pipe – Pop Smear

• Händelser
  • Pearl Jams sångare Eddie Vedder syns på omslaget av Time från 25 oktober som en del av dess utvalda artikel om den ökande populariteten av alternativ rock.
  • Nirvana spelar på MTV Unplugged den 18 november.
  • Mazzy Star når framgångar med singeln "Fade into You", vilket blev den största succén för drömpop bland mainstream.
  • Tidigare Jane's Addiction-gitarristen Dave Navarro blir medlem i Red Hot Chili Peppers efter flera byten av gitarrist.

1994

• Nybildade grupper
  • The Dandy Warhols
  • Evanescence
  • Foo Fighters
  • Goldfinger
  • Hoobastank (som Hoobustank)
  • Muse (som Gothic Plague, tidigare Fixed Penalty och därefter Rocket Baby Dolls)
  • Placebo
  • The Rasmus (som Rasmus)
  • Sleater-Kinney
  • Snow Patrol
  • Spacehog
  • Supergrass
  • Wilco

• Upplösta grupper
  • Nirvana
  • Uncle Tupelo

• Album
  • 311 – Grassroots
  • Alice in Chains – Jar of Flies EP
  • Barenaked Ladies – Maybe You Should Drive
  • Beck – Mellow Gold (breakthrough)
  • Blur – Parklife
  • Jeff Buckley – Grace (Genombrott)
  • Bush – Sixteen Stone (breakthrough)
  • 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 (Genombrott, popularisering av punkrock)
  • Guided by Voices – Bee Thousand
  • Hole – Live Through This (Genombrott)
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain – Stoned & Dethroned
  • Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley
  • Live – Throwing Copper (Genombrott)
  • Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible
  • Meat Puppets – Too High to Die
  • Morrissey – Vauxhall and I
  • Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral (Mest kommersiellt framgångsrika album)
  • Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York
  • The Nixons – Halo
  • Oasis – Definitely Maybe (breakthrough)
  • The Offspring – Smash (Genombrott)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • R.E.M – Monster
  • Ride – Carnival of Light
  • Sonic Youth – Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
  • Soundgarden – Superunknown
  • Sponge – Rotting Pinata (Genombrott)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Veruca Salt – American Thighs
  • Ween – Chocolate and Cheese
  • Weezer – Weezer (Genombrott)

• Händelser
  • Kurt Cobain i Nirvana begår självmord den 5 april; hans kropp hittas 8 april.
  • Kristen Pfaff i Hole avlider den 16 juni.
  • Soundgardens "Black Hole Sun" blir en hitsingel; vissa räknar den som grunge-erans sista hit.
  • Term postrock myntas av Simon Reynolds för att beskriva musik som liknar Stereolab och Disco Inferno.
  • Manic Street Preachers Richey Edwards läggs in på psykiatriskt sjukhus vid utgivningen av The Holy Bible och missar en del shower.

1995

• Nybildade grupper
  • Blue October
  • Days of the New
  • Kill Hannah
  • Kula Shaker
  • Mad Season
  • Mando Diao
  • Mansun
  • Matthew Good Band
  • Mogwai
  • Mojave 3
  • The Rentals
  • Sparklehorse

• Upplösta grupper
  • American Music Club
  • Kyuss
  • Meat Puppets
  • The Verve

• Album
  • 311 – 311 (Genombrott)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • 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 – Genombrott
  • Guided By Voices – Alien Lanes
  • PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
  • Hum – You'd Prefer an Astronaut (Genombrott)
  • Incubus – Fungus Amongus
  • Kyuss – ...And the Circus Leaves Town (sista album)
  • Local H – Ham Fisted
  • Mad Season – Above
  • Matthew Good Band – Last of the Ghetto Astronauts
  • Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill (Genombrott)
  • Morrissey – Southpaw Grammar
  • Mudhoney – My Brother the Cow
  • No Doubt – The Beacon Street Collection
  • No Doubt – Tragic Kingdom (Genombrott)
  • Oasis – (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (Genombrott)
  • Our Lady Peace – Naveed
  • Pavement – Wowee Zowee
  • Primus – Tales from the Punchbowl
  • Pulp – Different Class
  • Radiohead – The Bends (Genombrott)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Silverchair – Frogstomp (Genombrott)
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees – The Rapture
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Mest kommersiellt framgångsrika album)
  • Sonic Youth – Washing Machine
  • Spacehog – Resident Alien (Genombrott)
  • Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
  • Supergrass – I Should Coco
  • The Verve – A Northern Soul
  • Wilco – A.M.

• Händelser

1996

• Nybildade grupper
  • A
  • Belle & Sebastian
  • Camera Obscura
  • Gomez

• Upplösta grupper
  • The Pogues
  • Ride
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • The Stone Roses
  • Sublime

• Återförenade grupper
  • Echo & the Bunnymen

• Album
  • AFI – Very Proud of Ya
  • Alice in Chains – Unplugged
  • Asian kung-fu generation - Asian Kung-Fu Generation
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • The Cranberries – To the Faithful Departed
  • The Cure – Wild Mood Swings
  • Cake – Fashion Nugget (Genombrott)
  • 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 (breakthrough)
  • Lush – Lovelife
  • Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go (första album som en trio)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • They Might Be Giants – Factory Showroom
  • The Verve Pipe – Villains (Genombrott)
  • Ween – 12 Golden Country Greats
  • Weezer – Pinkerton
  • Wilco – Being There

• Händelser

1997

• Nybildade grupper
  • Coldplay
  • Death Cab for Cutie
  • Motion City Soundtrack
  • Queens of the Stone Age
  • The Shins
  • The White Stripes
  • Zebrahead
  • Lostprophets

• Upplösta grupper
  • Cocteau Twins
  • Gin Blossoms
  • Jane's Addiction
  • Porno for Pyros
  • Soundgarden – anses av många signalisera slutet av grungens mainstreamframgång
  • Throwing Muses

• Återförenade grupper
  • Jane's Addiction
  • The Verve

• Album
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Our Lady Peace – Clumsy
  • Pavement – Brighten the Corners
  • Primal Scream – Vanishing Point
  • Primus – Brown Album
  • Radiohead – OK Computer (Genombrott)
  • 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
  • Veruca Salt – Eight Arms to Hold You
  • Third Eye Blind – Third Eye Blind
  • Travis – Good Feeling
  • The Verve – Urban Hymns (Genombrott)
  • Ween – The Mollusk

• Händelser

1998

• Nybildade grupper
  • 30 Seconds to Mars
  • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • Breaking Benjamin
  • CKY
  • The Cooper Temple Clause
  • Doves
  • Gorillaz
  • Interpol
  • The Rapture
  • The Strokes

• Upplösta grupper
  • Black Grape
  • Faith No More
  • The Lemonheads
  • Lush

• Återförenade grupper
  • Bauhaus

• Album
  • Barenaked Ladies – Stunt (Genombrott)
  • 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 – Hellofatester
  • R.E.M. – Up
  • Seven Mary Three – Orange Ave.
  • The Smashing Pumpkins – Adore
  • Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves
  • Soul Coughing – El Oso (sista album)
  • Spacehog – The Chinese Album
  • Sparklehorse – Good Morning Spider
  • Scott Weiland – 12 Bar Blues

• Händelser

1999

• Nybildade grupper
  • A Perfect Circle
  • Broken Social Scene
  • Electric Eel Shock
  • Enon
  • The Vines

• Upplösta grupper
  • Blind Melon
  • The Jesus Lizard
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • Kula Shaker
  • Love and Rockets
  • Luscious Jackson
  • Pavement
  • The Rentals
  • The Verve (andra upplösningen)

• Album
  • 311 – Soundsystem
  • AFI – Black Sails in the Sunset
  • AFI – All Hallow's EP
  • A – A vs. Monkey Kong
  • Beck – Midnite Vultures
  • Blur – 13
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Wilco – Summerteeth

• Händelser

2000-talet

2000

• Nybildade grupper
  • Kings of Leon
  • The Stills
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

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

• Återförenade grupper
  • Meat Puppets

• Album
  • 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
  • U2 – All That You Can't Leave Behind
  • Ween – White Pepper
  • The White Stripes – De Stiji

• Händelser

2001

• Nybildade grupper
  • Audioslave
  • Franz Ferdinand
  • The Kooks
  • The Libertines
  • TV on the Radio
  • The Zutons
  • Zwan

• Upplösta grupper
  • The Afghan Whigs
  • At The Drive-In
  • Elastica
  • Fastbacks
  • Toadies

• Album
  • 311 – From Chaos
  • AFI – The Art of Drowning
  • Better Than Ezra – Closer
  • Björk – Vespertine
  • Butthole Surfers – Weird Revolution
  • Cake – Comfort Eagle (Genombrott)
  • Camera Obscura – Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
  • The Cranberries – Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
  • Dave Matthews Band – Everyday
  • Echo & the Bunnymmen – Flowers
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs – "Yeah Yeah Yeahs (EP)'

• Händelser

2002

• Nybildade grupper
  • Arctic Monkeys
  • Bloc Party
  • The Fray
  • The Killers
  • LCD Soundsystem
  • My Chemical Romance
  • Silversun Pickups

• Upplösta grupper
  • Bush
  • Hole
  • Eraserheads

• Återförenade grupper
  • Gin Blossoms
  • Jane's Addiction (second reunion)
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

• Album
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 (Genombrott)

• Händelser

2003

• Nybildade grupper
  • Arcade Fire
  • Babyshambles
  • Glasvegas
  • Kaiser Chiefs
  • The Academy Is...

• Upplösta grupper
  • The Cranberries
  • Mansun
  • Stone Temple Pilots
  • Zwan

• Album
  • 311 – Evolver
  • AFI – Sing The Sorrow (Genombrott)
  • 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
  • Evanescence – Fallen
  • The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country on the Click)
  • Guided by Voices – Earthquake Glue
  • HIM – Love Metal (Genombrott)
  • Hoobastank – The Reason (Genombrott)
  • Jane's Addiction – Strays
  • Kings of Leon – Youth and Young Manhood
  • The Mars Volta – De-Loused in the Comatorium
  • Matthew Good – Avalanche
  • Muse – Absolution (Genombrott)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • 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
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
  • Zwan – Mary Star of the Sea

• Händelser

2004

• Nybildade grupper
  • The Dead 60s
  • Jack's Mannequin
  • Louis XIV
  • The Tears

• Upplösta grupper
  • The Libertines
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  • Suede

• Återförenade grupper
  • Kula Shaker
  • Pixies

• Album
  • 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 – FFutures
  • Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak (Brittisk utgivning)
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Morrissey – You Are the Quarry
  • My Chemical Romance – Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge (Genombrott)
  • 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

• Händelser

2005

• Nybildade grupper
  • Dirty Pretty Things
  • The Horrors
  • The View
  • The Raconteurs
  • The xx

• Upplösta grupper
  • Guided by Voices
  • Luna

• Återförenade grupper
  • The Lemonheads

• Album
  • 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
  • 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 (Genombrott)
  • Depeche Mode – Playing the Angel
  • Echo & the Bunnymen – Siberia
  • 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 (Amerikansk utgivning)
  • 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

• Händelser

2006

• Nybildade grupper
  • Los Campesinos!
  • Cage the Elephant

• Upplösta grupper
  • Sleater-Kinney
  • Grandaddy

• Återförenade grupper
  • The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Toadies

• Album
  • AFI – Decemberunderground
  • Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Genombrott)
  • 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
  • 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

• Händelser

2007

• Nybildade grupper
  • Coldrain
  • Everything Everything
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  • Two Door Cinema Club
  • White Lies

• Upplösta grupper
  • Audioslave
  • The Cooper Temple Clause

• Återförenade grupper
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • My Bloody Valentine
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • The Verve (second reunion)

• Album
  • Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
  • 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
  • Björk – Volta
  • Bloc Party – A Weekend in the City
  • 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

• Händelser

2008

• Nybildade grupper
  • Passion Pit

• Upplösta grupper
  • Bauhaus

• Återförenade grupper
  • Eraserheads
  • Love and Rockets
  • No Doubt
  • Stone Temple Pilots

• Album
  • 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
  • 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

• Händelser

2009

• Nybildade grupper
  • Beady Eye
  • Them Crooked Vultures
  • The Dead Weather
  • Jolly

• Upplösta grupper
  • Dirty Pretty Things
  • Oasis
  • Silver Jews
  • The Verve (tredje upplösning)
  • Violent Femmes

• Återförenade grupper
  • Blur
  • Hole

• Album
  • 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
  • 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 (med Danger Mouse)
  • 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!

• Händelser

2010-talet

2010

• Upplösta grupper
  • Supergrass
  • Sparklehorse

• Återförenade grupper
  • Bush
  • Faith No More
  • The Libertines
  • Pavement
  • Soundgarden
  • Suede

• Album
  • 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 – Hurley

• Händelser

2011

• Upplösta grupper
  • The White Stripes
  • LCD Soundsystem
  • REM
  • Silverchair
  • Guided By Voices

• Återförenade grupper
  • Archers of Loaf
  • Pulp
  • Guided By Voices

• Album
  • Arctic Monkeys – Suck It and See
  • Beady Eye – Different Gear, Still Speeding
  • Bright Eyes – The People's Key
  • 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
  • Gorillaz – The Fall
  • Incubus – If Not Now, When?
  • Kaiser Chiefs – The Future is Medieval
  • Opeth - Heritage
  • Panic! at the Disco –Vices & Virtues
  • PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
  • Primus – Green Naugahyde
  • Radiohead – The King of Limbs
  • R.E.M. – Collapse into Now
  • Social Distortion – Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
  • The Strokes – Angles
  • TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
  • The Vines – Future Primitive
  • White Lies – Ritual
  • Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes

• Händelser

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