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Alternative Rock

Alternative Rock Events

1999 Aug 24 Filter releases Title of Record
Title of Record is the second album by American industrial rock band Filter. It was released on August 24, 1999 and included the popular single "Take a Picture", a noted departure from th...
1999 Oct 19 Primus releases Antipop
Antipop is the sixth studio album by alternative rock band Primus, released on October 19, 1999 before their hiatus in 2000-2003. It is also the last album with drummer Bryan Mantia.
2000 Feb 22 Violent Femmes release Freak Magnet
Freak Magnet is the eighth and final studio album released by the Violent Femmes. It was released on February 22, 2000, and the featured single was "Sleepwalkin'." Originally scheduled fo...
2000 Feb 29 The Smashing Pumpkins release MACHINA/The Machines of God
MACHINA/The Machines of God is The Smashing Pumpkins' fifth studio album, released on February 29, 2000. A concept album, it marked the return of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and was intended...
2000 May 16 Pearl Jam releases Binaural
Binaural is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on May 16, 2000 through Epic Records. Following a full-scale tour in support of its previous a...
2000 Sep 5 The Smashing Pumpkins release MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music is the sixth studio album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released for free on the Internet on September 5...
2000 Nov 14 The Offspring release Conspiracy of One
Conspiracy of One is the sixth studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring. It was released on November 14, 2000 debuting at 9 on the US Billboard 200 with around 125,000 co...
2000 Dec 2 The Smashing Pumpkins break up
On May 23, 2000, in a live radio interview on KROQ (Los Angeles), The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan announced the band's decision to break up at the end of that year following a...
2001 May 15 Weezer release self-titled third album
Weezer, also known as "The Green Album" due to the lime-green cover, is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on May 15, 2001. Produced by Ric Ocasek, ...
2002 Apr 5 Layne Staley, lead singer of Alice in Chains, dies
On April 19, 2002, Staley's accountants contacted Staley's mother Nancy McCallum and informed her that no money had been withdrawn from the singer's bank account in two weeks. McCallum th...
2002 May 14 Weezer release Maladroit
Maladroit (pronounced /mælˌəˈdrɔɪt/, meaning either inept or an inept person) is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on May 14, 2002 on Geffen Recor...
2002 Jul 9 Red Hot Chili Peppers release By the Way
By the Way is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on July 9, 2002, on Warner Bros. Records. It sold over 282,000 copies in the first ...
2002 Jul 30 Filter releases The Amalgamut
The Amalgamut is the third album of industrial rock band Filter released in 2002 by Reprise Records. It includes the hit single "Where Do We Go from Here". Sales of the album stalled at 9...
2002 Oct 29 Nirvana Releases "Nirvana"
Nirvana was the third Nirvana album to be released following the death of singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in April 1994, and the first to feature studio material. It contains the previously ...
2002 Nov 12 Pearl Jam releases Riot Act
Riot Act is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released November 12, 2002 through Epic Records. Following a full-scale tour in support of its previous a...
2003 Oct 7 Living Colour release Collideøscope
Collideøscope is the fourth album by Living Colour. Released in 2003, it is the first studio album by the band in more than a decade. After they split in 1995, Living Colour returned in t...
2003 Oct 7 Primus releases Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People
Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People is a career-spanning retrospective DVD plus bonus EP by Primus, released on October 7, 2003. The title was inspired by a crayon-made story book w...
2003 Dec 9 The Offspring release Splinter
Splinter is the seventh studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, released on December 9, 2003. It was the first album the band released without drummer Ron Welty and also th...
2004 Sep 28 Social Distortion releases Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll
Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll is the sixth album by American punk rock band Social Distortion. It is their first studio album in eight years, since the release of White Light, White Heat, W...
2004 Nov 23 Nirvana Releases "With the Lights Out"
With the Lights Out is a box set, containing 3 CDs and 1 DVD, from the American grunge band Nirvana. It was released in November 2004. The title refers to the line "with the lights out, i...
2005 May 10 Weezer release Make Believe
Make Believe is the fifth studio album by Weezer, released on May 10, 2005, the eleventh anniversary of the release of their debut album. Bolstered by the Top 10 hit single "Beverly Hills...
2005 Nov 1 Nirvana Releases "Sliver: The Best of the Box"
Sliver: The Best of the Box was the fourth Nirvana album to be released following the death of lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain in April 1994. It contains 19 tracks pulled from the b...
2006 Feb 21 Alice in Chains announce reunion, hire William Duvall as Layne Staley's replacement
Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell's official web site administrator, who goes by the name of "ceojc", has confirmed that the band will be reuniting for an appearance at the Nova Ro...
2006 May 2 Pearl Jam releases self-titled album
Pearl Jam is the eighth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam and its debut and only release for J Records (it was also their last album for what was then called So...
2006 May 5 Red Hot Chili Peppers release Stadium Arcadium
Stadium Arcadium is the ninth studio album by alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, released on May 5, 2006, on Warner Bros. Records in Europe and May 9 in the United States. It so...
2006 Aug 4
to 2006 Aug 7
Lollapalooza 2006
Day 1 Recap It's in the mid-80's, not a cloud in the sky, a backdrop of some of the world's most inspiring big-city architecture, and music in styles ranging from the gorgeous, "rainin...
2007 Jun 26 Social Distortion releases Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Social Distortion. It was released on June 26, 2007. It includes hit singles from Mommy's Little Monster to Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll - as well a...
2007 Jul 10 The Smashing Pumpkins release Zeitgeist
Zeitgeist is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. Zeitgeist was released on July 6, 2007 in certain countries and on July 10, 2007 in the Unit...
2008 May 13 Filter releases Anthems for the Damned
Anthems for the Damned is the fourth studio album by American industrial rock band Filter. It was released to the public on May 13, 2008 through Pulse Records. It sold 13,000 copies its f...
2008 Jun 3 Weezer release self-titled sixth album
Weezer, also known as "The Red Album", is the sixth studio album by the American alternative rock band Weezer, released on June 3, 2008. Rick Rubin and Jacknife Lee both helped to produce...
2008 Jun 17 The Offspring release Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace is the eighth studio album by American punk rock band The Offspring, released on June 17, 2008 in the United States and a week earlier in Japan. It was their...
2009 Feb 24 Faith No More announce reunion
On February 18, 2009, it was announced that Jim Martin would not be participating in the rumored Faith No More reunion tour. On February 24, 2009, Faith No More announced they would refor...
2009 Sep 15 Living Colour release The Chair in the Doorway
The Chair in the Doorway is the fifth studio album by Living Colour, which was released on September 15, 2009. It is their first studio album since the release of Collideøscope in 2003, a...
2009 Sep 22 Pearl Jam releases Backspacer
Backspacer is the ninth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released on September 20, 2009. Pearl Jam began work for the follow-up to its previous album—2006's P...
2009 Sep 29 Alice in Chains release Black Gives Way to Blue
Black Gives Way to Blue is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Alice in Chains, released in September 2009. The first Alice in Chains album in nearly fourteen years, Black G...
2009 Nov 3 Nirvana Releases "Live at Reading"
Live at Reading is the live/video album released by the American grunge band Nirvana on November 2, 2009, chronicling its 1992 performance at the Reading Festival. Bootlegged for years fo...
2009 Nov 3 Weezer release Raditude
Raditude is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer, released on November 3, 2009. The title of the album was suggested to Weezer vocalist Rivers Cuomo by actor ...
2010 Aug 17 Filter releases The Trouble with Angels
The Trouble with Angels is American band Filter's fifth studio album. It was released on August 17, 2010 through Rocket Science Ventures in North America and Nuclear Blast in Europe. The ...
2010 Sep 10 Weezer release Hurley
Hurley is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band Weezer. It was released on September 10, 2010 by Epitaph Records. The album was produced by Rivers Cuomo and Shawn Ever...
2010 Sep 28 Soundgarden release Telephantasm
Telephantasm is a compilation album by the American grunge band Soundgarden. Featuring songs spanning the band's 14-year career, it was released on September 28, 2010 through A&M Records....
2010 Nov 2 Weezer release Death to False Metal
Death to False Metal is the ninth studio album by alternative rock band Weezer, released on November 2, 2010 by Geffen. The album comprises several previously unreleased tracks from throu...
2011 Jan 18 Social Distortion releases Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes is the seventh studio album by the American punk rock band Social Distortion, released on January 18, 2011. It is the band's first album recorded with bassis...
2011 Aug 26
to 2011 Aug 30
Red Hot Chili Peppers release I'm with You
I'm with You is the tenth studio album by Red Hot Chili Peppers. The album was released by Warner Bros. Records on August 26, 2011 in several countries and on August 29 in the US, a day e...
2011 Sep 12
to 2011 Sep 13
Primus releases Green Naugahyde
Green Naugahyde is the seventh studio album by alternative rock group Primus, released by ATO Records and Prawn Song on September 12, 2011 in Europe, and on September 13, 2011 in the Unit...