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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 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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Listen to Toothpaste Bob Damrau of Toothpaste was kind enough to send punkdatabase.com audio files of their self-titled 1983 EP. It's all available for download and sharing on the Toothpaste page, please listen and enjoy! Hopefully this will start a trend of downloadable, out-of-print songs here, assuming I can get permission from the bands first. Stay tuned...

New Chicago Punk Documentary Joe Losurdo of Life Sentence is making a documentary of the Chicago Punk scene from 1977-1984, called You Weren't There. There isn't a large amount of information on it yet, but it's slated for release in 2007 and there is a trailer on their website. Watch it now at RegressiveFilms.com

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Bands Anti-Bodies, Arsenal, Articles of Faith, BB Spin, Bhang Revival, Bhopal Stiffs, Big Black, Blatant Dissent, Bloodsport, Bohemia, Bonemen of Barumba, Breaking Circus, The Corrosives, The Cunts, Da, The Dadistics, Dead Fink, Defoliants, Denied Remarks, DV8, The Effigies, End Result, Epicycle, Evil Eye, The Front Lines, Friends of Betty, Gary Jones, Gross National Product, Happy Toons, Hazardous Youth, Identity Crisis, ID Under, The Imports, Impulse Manslaughter, Industrialized Autocracy, The Interceptors, Immune System, Jack Scratch, Juvenile Deliquents, Life Sentence, The Luchs Brothers, Men, The Mentally Ill, Ministry, Meaty Buys, Nadsat Rebel, Naked Raygun, Navastrau, Negative Element, NGA JIWA, Out of Order, Painter Band, Pegboy, Phil 'n the Blanks, Poison Squirrel, Political Justice, Popperz, Product 19, Psi Bears, Rapeman, Ring 13, Rights of the Accused, Savage Beliefs, Seismic Waves, Silent Language, Silly Carmichaels, Silver Abuse, Six Feet Under, Skafish, Special Affect, Sport of Kings, Stations, Strike Under, The Subverts, The Swingers, Terminal Beach, Toothpaste, Trial by Fire, Urbn DK, The Wayouts, Tutu and the Pirates, Viktimz of Society, Violent Tumor, Wazmo Nariz, Zoetrope People Steve Albini, Al Scum, Rodney Anderson, Jon Babbin, Vic Bondi, Chris Bjorklund, Steve Bjorklund, Eric Brockman, Iain Burgess, Robert Byrne, Mick Calhoun, Eric Cassell, Tom Clark, Larry Damore, Bob Damrau, Lorna Donley, Santiago Durango, Jed Fox, Bob Furem, Philip Galanter, Camilo Gonzalez, Joe Haggerty, John Haggerty, Scott Harris, Dem Hopkins, Anthony Illarde, Al Jourgensen, Marie Kanger-Born, John Kezdy, Pierre Kezdy, Joe Losurdo, Jon Lundin, Keith Lyons, Art MacQuilkin, Bill Meehan, Ken Mierzwa, John Mohr, Terry Nelson, Dave Riley, Dan Schneider, Doug McCombs, Jeff Pezzati, Marko Pezzati, Dave Riley, Corey Rusk, Bobby Skafish, Jim Skafish, Jim Sludge, Brooks Smith, Geri Soriano, Eric Spicer, Bill Stephens, Chopper Steppe, Steve Steppe, Dave Thomas, Rob Warmowski, Paul Zamost, Bryn Zellers

Labels Autumn Records, Dazit Records, Disturbing Records, Fever Records, H.I.D. Productions Ltd, Homestead Records, Landmind Records, Little Farmer Music, National Trust, No Blow Records, Quarterstick Records, Ruthless Records, Schwa Records, Sandpounder Records, Snat 5 Records, Touch and Go, Tough Records, Wasteland Records, Wax Trax Records Records 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 Venues 950 Lucky Number, Artful Dodger, B'Ginnings, Club Foot, COD, Cubby Bear, Dreamerz, Exit, Gaspars, Harry Hopes, Head's Pub, Keith Garage, La Mere Vipere, Lounge Ax, Metro, Misfits, Neo, O'Banion's, Oz, Park West, 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, THIS, 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 Websites Chicago Punk Pix, WindyCityPunk, The Punk Vault, Pit of Punkiness, Ephemeral Creation