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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!

Recent News

La Mere Vipere Reunion November 23rd In celebration of its 30th birthday, there will be a gathering for La Mere Vipere on Friday November 23rd, at Club Foot. It starts at 8:30pm and will feature original La Mere DJs (such as Rick Faust) spinning vinyl throughout the night. You do not have to have been an attendee of La Mere to attend, so come on out and celebrate the anniversary of the United States first punk disco. Drink some beers, dance to good music and hang out with the very first wave of Chicago punk rockers. Should be a night to remember...

You Weren't There Debut Joe Losurdo of Life Sentence made a documentary of the Chicago Punk scene from 1977-1984, called You Weren't There. It premieres Saturday, November 24th at the Portage Theatre, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago. There will also be an after-film show at a location to be announced. So far they have confirmation from the Mentally Ill (the Gacy's Place lineup that have never played live EVER) and Negative Element who have not played since 1983. Do not miss this!

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Bands 4xy, 11th Commandment, Algebra Suicide, Anti-Bodies, Apocalypse Hoboken, Arsenal, Articles of Faith, Babes In Toyland, Barbie Army, BB Spin, Bhang Revival, Bhopal Stiffs, Big Black, Blatant Dissent, Bloodsport, Blue Green God, Bohemia, Bonemen of Barumba, Bottles Flying, Boulevard , Breaking Circus, Burning Corvairs, The Buzzards, Certain Death, The Corrosives, The Crucified, The Cunts, Da, The Dadistics, The Dangling Units, Dead Fink, Dead Serious, Dead Steel Mill, Defoliants, Denied Remarks, Destructive Youth Patrol, The Drats, The Drill, DV8, The Effigies, The End, End Result, Epicycle, Evil Eye, The Exit, The Ferraris, The Front Lines, Friends of Betty, Fudge Tunnel, Gary Jones, Gear, Generation Waste, Grab Bag of Fathers, Gross National Product, Happy Toons, Hazardous Youth, Heavy Manners, Identity Crisis, ID Under, The Imports, Impulse Manslaughter, Industrialized Autocracy, Insane War Tomatoes, The Interceptors, Immune System, Insolent Respect, Ivy League, Jack Scratch, Johnny Vomit, Juvenile Delinquents, The Kremlins, The Kruds, The Lazerblades, Life Sentence, Lost Cause, Los Crudos, The Luchs Brothers, Mark O and Leslie, Men, The Mentally Ill, Ministry, Meaty Buys, M.O.S.H., Nadsat Rebel, Naked Raygun, Navastrau, Negative Element, NGA JIWA, No Empathy, Nodes Number Nine, ONO, Out of Order, Painter Band, Pegboy, Phil 'n the Blanks, Pistol Whip, Poison Squirrel, Political Justice?, Popperz, Product 19, Psi Bears, Rainbow Girls, Rapeman, Razer, Ring 13, Rights of the Accused, Sanitary Patrol, Savage Beliefs, Scarred For Life, Screaming Rachel and Remote, Screeching Weasel, Seismic Waves, The Sex Kittens, Sharon Tate's Baby, Silent Language, Silly Carmichaels, Silver Abuse, Six Feet Under, Skafish, Slit and the Stiches, Slow Children Playing, Sludgeworth, Special Affect, Spiderz, Sport of Kings, Stations, Strike Under, The Rabbits, The Subverts, The Swingers, Ten Year Old Surgeons, Terminal Beach, The Throbbers, Toothpaste, Uncle Fester, The Trouble Boys, Tremors, Trial by Fire, Tutu and the Pirates, The Untouchables, Urbn DK, Urge Overkill, The Vaguelys, The Ventilators, Verboten, Viktimz of Society, Violent Tumor, The Wayouts, Wazmo Nariz, We Make The Nig Heist Look Like Saints, Zoetrope 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 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, Pravda Records, Roadkill Records, Ruthless Records, Schwa Records, Sandpounder Records, Snat 5 Records, Touch and Go, Tough Records, Underdog Records, Version Sound, Walkthrufyre Records, Wasteland Records, Wax Trax Records

People Steve Albini, Al Scum, Rodney Anderson, Jon Babbin, 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, 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, Dave Thomas, Chuck Uchida, Douglas Ward, Rob Warmowski, Ben Weasel, Paul Zamost, Bryn Zellers Venues 950 Lucky Number, Anarchies, Aragon Ballroom, Artful Dodger, The Avalon, B'Ginnings, Batteries Not Included, Centro-American Social Club, Circuits, Club Foot, COD, Cubby Bear, Dreamerz, Exit, Gaspars, Harry Hopes, Head's Pub, Hell House, Iron Rail, Ivanhoe Theater, Katz and Jammer Kids, Keith Garage, La Mere Vipere, Lounge Ax, McGreevys, McGregors, Medusas, Metro, Mexican Patriotic Club, Misfits, Neo, O'Banion's, Old Chicago, Oz, Park West, The Riviera, Ruts, Space Place, Stages, Tuts, The Warehouse, Waves, West End 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 Websites Chicago Punk Pix Ephemeral Creation Pit of Punkiness The Punk Vault Chicago Hardcore WindyCityPunk