1986
- Bands formed
- fIREHOSE
- The Gits
- Good Riddance
- J.M.K.E.
- Pixies
- Propagandhi
- Sick of It All
- Snuff
- Screeching Weasel
- Albums
- Agnostic Front - Cause for Alarm
- Bad Brains - I Against I
- Big Black - Atomizer
- Dead Kennedys - Bedtime for Democracy
- Dead Milkmen - Eat Your Paisley
- Descendents - Enjoy!
- Die Ärzte - Die Ärzte
- Die Toten Hosen - Damenwahl
- Discharge - Grave New World
- The Exploited - Totally Exploited
- The Exploited - Jesus Is Dead (EP)
- Gang Green - Drunk and Disorderly, Boston MA (EP)
- Gang Green - Another Wasted Night
- Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey
- The Lookouts - One Planet One People (Lookout! Records' first release)
- The Misfits - Misfits (aka Collection I)
- The Ramones - Animal Boy
- The Scientists - Weird Love
- 7 Seconds - New Wind
- Subhumans - EP-LP
- Disbandments
- Black Flag
- The Clash
- Elvis Costello and the Attractions
- Tales of Terror
- Events
- The Adolescents reunite.
- Lookout! Records is established, which will be the future home to artists such as Operation Ivy, The Donnas, Crimpshrine, Rancid and Green Day.
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