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The Chicago Punk Database

This site intends to be a collections of bands, members, labels etc. for the Chicago punk scene. This page specifically focuses on the earlier Chicago scene - though there is no formal cutoff date, the information on this page should focus on Chicago punk before 1990.

All you have to do to add pages is create and account and start making pages. Here are a few of the pages I've been working on:

• Bands - Anti-Bodies, Articles of Faith, Big Black, DV8, The Effigies, Life Sentence, Nadsat Rebel, Naked Raygun, Negative Element, Out of Order, Rights of the Accused, Savage Beliefs, Silver Abuse, Six Feet Under, Special Affect, Stations, Strike Under, The Subverts, Terminal Beach, Toothpaste, Trial by Fire, The Wayouts, Tutu and the Pirates, Skafish, End Result

• Labels - Autumn Records, Fever Records, H.I.D. Productions Ltd, Little Farmer Music, National Trust, Quarterstick Records, Ruthless Records, Schwa Records, Wasteland Records, Wax Trax Records

• Records - Basement Screams, Busted at Oz, Innocence, The Middle of America Compilation

• Venues - 950 Lucky Number, COD, Cubby Bear, La Mere Vipere, Metro, Misfits, O'Banion's, Oz, Space Place, Stages, Tuts, Waves, West End, Gaspars, Artful Dodger, Exit, Head's Pub

• Fanzines - Gabba Gabba Gazette, Coolest Retard, Your Country Needs You/YOU, Bullshit Detector, Last Rites, Les Ponques Rockeurs, Raveup, Matter, Primitive Noise, Disorderly Conduct

• Timeline - Chicago Punk History at a Glance