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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, BB Spin, Bhang Revival, Bhopal Stiffs, Big Black, Breaking Circus, Da, Defoliants, DV8, The Effigies, End Result, Evil Eye, Gross National Product, Happy Toons, Life Sentence, Nadsat Rebel, Naked Raygun, Negative Element, Out of Order, Phil 'n the Blanks, Rights of the Accused, Savage Beliefs, Seismic Waves, Silent Language, 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

• People - Steve Albini, Vic Bondi, Chris Bjorklund, Steve Bjorklund, Eric Cassell, Bob Damrau, Lorna Donley, Santiago Durango, Jed Fox, Bob Furem, Philip Galanter, Scott Harris AKA Mousetrap, John Kezdy, Pierre Kezdy, Jon Lundine, Doug McCombs, Jeff Pezzati, Dave Riley, Bobby Skafish, Jim Skafish, Geri Soriano, Dave Thomas

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

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

• History - Chicago Punk History at a Glance - Timeline Detailed History by Year - 1974 1975 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