Timeline of Punk Rock - 1988

1988

• Bands formed
  • Anti-Flag
  • Chain Of Strength
  • Deftones
  • Guttermouth
  • Inside Out
  • Jesus Jones
  • Jawbreaker
  • Jughead's Revenge
  • Leatherface
  • Pennywise
  • Samiam
  • She Did The Vet
  • Sublime
  • Swingin' Utters
  • Voodoo Glow Skulls

• Albums
  • The Adolescents - Balboa Fun Zone
  • Bad Religion - Suffer
  • Big Drill Car - Small Block (EP)
  • D.I. - What Good Is Grief to a God?
  • Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
  • Descendents - Two Things at Once
  • Die Ärzte - Das ist nicht die ganze Wahrheit...
  • Die Toten Hosen - Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau
  • The Exploited - Punk's Alive
  • Flipper - Sex Bomb Baby
  • Gorilla Biscuits - Gorilla Biscuits (EP)
  • Fugazi - Fugazi (EP)
  • NOFX - Liberal Animation (re-released on CD in 1991)
  • Screeching Weasel - Boogadaboogadaboogada!
  • Social Distortion - Prison Bound
  • Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
  • Soulside - Trigger
  • X - Live at the Whisky a Go-Go

• Disbandments
  • Big Black

• Events
  • Bad Religion's album Suffer was released on the restarted Epitaph Records and is credited by some as "saving" the American hardcore scene, inspiring the second wave of American hardcore, along with Youth Of Today's 1987 Break Down The Walls album.