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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 pretty much focuses on Chicago punk before 1990. If you have content to add for the early-to-mid 90s feel free to contribute. All you have to do to add pages is create an account and start making pages. Click here for more info on how to edit pages.

There are 741 articles in the database, most of which are small and need more information. Some suggestions to get started - add a link to an unlisted band on left-hand side of this page, go to a band's page and add members/instruments, fix any spelling errors, or create new page about your favorite Chicago Punk record. Anything you can add will help tremendously, so please contribute today!

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Podcast on Big Black's Atomizer John Pierson (aka Jughead from Screeching Weasel) and Russ Forster do a fantastic podcast on Big Black's Atomizer record. It has interviews with Santiago Durango, Steve Albini, Camilo Gonzalez and Jeff Pezzati on the beginnings of Big Black and how that record came to be. The Jugheads Basement podcast previously focused on such groundbreaking 80s Chicago records as Naked Raygun's Throb Throb and Screeching Weasel's My Brain Hurts. Listen to it here

RIP Iain Burgess and Rick Ponce In early February 2010, Chicago long two vital and longtime contributors to their music scene. Engineer Iain Burgess is often credited with creating the "Chicago Sound" and recorded just about every Chicago band you can think of in the 1980s. Rick Ponce had been playing guitar and attending punk/metal shows consistently from the 1980s until his death. Both men died of issues related to cancer, R.I.P. Rick and Iain

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Bands 4xy, 11th Commandment, A Mason in Ur, Algebra Suicide, Alkaline Trio, Allister, Alpha Skool, Anti-Bodies, Apocalypse Hoboken, Arsenal, The Arrivals, Articles of Faith, Babes In Toyland, Barbie Army, BB Spin, Bhang Revival, Bhopal Stiffs, Big Black, The Black Sheep Band, Blatant Dissent, Bleach Battalion, Bloodsport, Bloody Nails, Blue Green God, Blue Meanies, Bobby Conn, Bohemia, Bollweevils, The Bomb, Bonemen of Barumba, Bottles Flying, Boulevard , Breaking Circus, The Broadways, Brownpeace, Burning Corvairs, Bucket #6, The Buzzards, Causey Way, Caustic Defiance, Certain Death, Chicago Toys, The Corrosives, The Coughs, Crashdog, The Crucified, The Cunts, Da, The Dadistics, The Dangling Units, David and the Happenings, Dead Fink, Deadscene, Dead Serious, Dead Steel Mill, Deals Gone Bad, Defoliants, Denied Remarks, Destructive Youth Patrol, Dog At Large, The Drats, The Drill, Drunken Catholics, DV8, The Effigies, Electric Cool-Aid, The End, End Result, Enema Resort, Epicycle, Evil Eye, The Exit, The Ferraris, Forced Allegiance, The Front Lines, Friends of Betty, Fudge Tunnel, Gary Jones, Gear, Generation Waste, Get Smart!, Gore Gore Girls, Grab Bag of Fathers, Gross National Product, Group of Individuals, happy hunting,Happy Toons, Hazardous Youth, Heavy Manners, The Honor System, Hot Stove Jimmy, Identity Crisis, ID Under, IMF, Immune System, The Imports, Impulse Manslaughter, Indecent Liberties, The Indicators, Industrialized Autocracy, Infections, Insane War Tomatoes, The Interceptors, Insolent Respect, Ivy League, Jack Scratch, Jesus Lizard, Johnny Vomit, Juvenile Delinquents, K.G.B., The Kind, The Kremlins, The Kruds, Landos 45, Lawrence Arms, The Lazerblades, The Leeches, Life Sentence, Lost Cause, Los Crudos, Lozenge, The Luchs Brothers, Mark O and Leslie, Mary Tyler Morphine, Men, The Mentally Ill, The Methadones, Mexican Cheerleader, Ministry, Mob Action, The Misled, Meaty Buys, M.O.S.H., My Big Beautiful, Nadsat Rebel, Naked Raygun, Navastrau, Negative Element, NGA JIWA, No Empathy, Nodes, Noise Monsters, Number Nine, Oblivion, The Odd, ONO, Out of Order, Painterband, Pegboy, Phil 'n the Blanks, Pistol Whip, Plywood, Poison Squirrel, Political Justice?, Popperz, Precious Wax Drippings, Problem Dogs, Product 19, Psi Bears, The Rabbits, Rainbow Girls, Rapeman, Razer, Repulse Kava, Ring 13, Rights of the Accused, The Riverdales, Sanitary Patrol, Savage Beliefs, Scarred For Life, Screaming Rachel and Remote, Screeching Weasel, Seismic Waves, The Sex Kittens, Sharon Tate's Baby, Shellac, Silent Language, Silly Carmichaels, Silver Abuse, Six Feet Under, Skafish, Skapone, Skullkrusher, Slaphappy, Slapstick, Slit and the Stiches, Slow Children Playing, Sludgeworth, Small Irregular Pieces of Aluminum, Smoking Popes, Snidely Whiplash Experience, Special Affect, Spiderz, Spongetunnel, Sport of Kings, Stations, straightjacketbazooka, Strike Under, The Subverts, The Swingers, Swingset, Target, The Tarts, Ten Year Old Surgeons, Terminal Beach, The Throbbers, Toothpaste, The Torpedos, The Tossers, Tuesday, The Trouble Boys, Tremors, Trial by Fire, Tub Ring, Tutu and the Pirates, Uncle Fester, The Untouchables, Unified Field, Urbn DK, Urethra Franklin, Urge Overkill, The Vaguelys, The Ventilators, Verboten, The Vicissitudes, Viktimz of Society, The Vindictives, Violent Feedback, Violent Tumor, Wardogs, The Watchmen, The Wayouts, Wesley Willis, The Wesley Willis Fiasco, Winepress, Wazmo Nariz, We Make The Nig Heist Look Like Saints, Zoetrope Records A Chicago Punk Rock Collaboration For The Kids, Vol 1, All Rise, Basement Screams, Busted at Oz, Dial-a-Trance, Flammable Solid, Home, Innocence, Jettison, Raygun...Naked Raygun, The Middle of America Compilation, Throb Throb, Understand?, Vanilla Blue Labels Aaugh! Records, Asian Man, Autumn Records, Dazit Records, Disturbing Records, Fever Records, Fiction Records, Go Deaf, H.I.D. Productions Ltd, Homestead Records, Johann's Face Records, Landmind Records, Little Farmer Music, National Trust, No Blow Records, Quarterstick Records, Pravda Records, Roadkill Records, Ruthless Records, Schwa Records, Sandpounder Records, Shakefork Records, Skinhead Records, Snat 5 Records, Suburban Home, Thermidor Records, Thick Records, Touch and Go, Tough Records, Underdog Records, Version Sound, VML Records, Walkthrufyre Records, Wasteland Records, Wax Trax Records

People Steve Albini, Al Scum, Rodney Anderson, Jon Babbin, Billy Blastoff, Vic Bondi, Chris Bjorklund, Steve Bjorklund, Eric Brockman, Iain Burgess, Robert Byrne, Mick Calhoun, Joe Camarillo, Eric Cassell, Jeremy Cowan, Steve Cheese, Tom Clark, Larry Damore, Bob Damrau, Troy Dixler, Ted Domurat, Lorna Donley, Sean Duffy, Santiago Durango, Jed Fox, Bob Furem, Philip Galanter, Camilo Gonzalez, Ken Goodman, P. Michael Grego, Joe Haggerty, John Haggerty, Scott Harris, Dem Hopkins, Anthony Illarde, Al Jourgensen, Jughead, Marie Kanger-Born, John Kezdy, Pierre Kezdy, Joe Losurdo, John Lundin, Keith Lyons, Art MacQuilkin, Doug McCombs, Bill Meehan, Ken Mierzwa, John Mohr, Terry Nelson, Marko Pezzati, Mary Alice Ramel, Dave Riley, Corey Rusk,Bobby Scarpelli, Dan Schafer, Dan Schneider, Audrey Shaw, Bobby Skafish, Jim Skafish, Jim Sludge, Brooks Smith, Geri Soriano, Eric Spicer, Bill Stephens, Chopper Steppe, Steve Steppe, Barry Stern, Dan Sullivan, Travis, Dave Thomas, Chuck Uchida, Joey Vindictive, Douglas Ward, Rob Warmowski, Ben Weasel, Paul Zamost, Bryn Zellers Venues 3rd Floor, 950 Lucky Number, A-Zone, Ann Arkees, Aragon Ballroom, Artful Dodger, The Avalon, B'Ginnings, The Bank, Batteries Not Included, Bop Shop, Bottom Lounge, Centro-American Social Club, Circuits, Club Foot, COD, The Congress Theatre, The Crypt, Cubby Bear, Delilah's, Dreamerz, Durty Nellies, El Rancho Orphanage, Exit, Fireside Bowl, Fotch's, Gaspars, Harry Hopes, Head's Pub, Hell House, Hueys, The Igloo, Iron Rail, Isabelle's Grand Finale, Ivanhoe Theater, Jamies Elsewhere Lounge, Katz and Jammer Kids, Keith Garage, La Mere Vipere, Lounge Ax, McGreevys, McGregor's, Medusas, Metro, Mexican Patriotic Club, Misfits, The Mutiny, Neo, The Nervous Center, No Palace, O'Banion's, Oak Theatre, Odum, Off the Alley, Old Chicago, Off the Alley, Oz, Park West, The Piss Factory, Prodigal Son, Quiet Knight, The Riviera, Ruts, Space Place, Stages, Tuts, The Warehouse, Waves, West End, Wrigley Side Fanzines Bullshit Detector, Coolest Retard, Disorderly Conduct, Gabba Gabba Gazette, Last Rites, Les Ponques Rockeurs, Matter, Primitive Noise, Raveup, Submission, THIS, Wholesome, 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 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 MP3s Bloodsport, DV8, Seismic Waves, Toothpaste Films You Weren't There Websites Ephemeral Creation Pit of Punkiness The Punk Vault Chicago Hardcore WindyCityPunk