Timeline of Punk Rock - 1990

1990

• Bands formed
  • Ash
  • Bikini Kill
  • The Casualties
  • Chino Horde
  • Down By Law
  • Drive Like Jehu
  • Lagwagon
  • Lifetime
  • Converge
• Albums
  • Bad Religion - Against the Grain
  • Die Toten Hosen - 125 Jahre auf dem Kreuzzug ins Glück
  • Fuel - Monuments to Excess
  • Fugazi - 13 Songs (compilation of the two EPs)
  • Fugazi - Repeater
  • Green Day - Sweet Children (EP)
  • Green Day - Slappy (EP)
  • Green Day - 39/Smooth
  • Jawbreaker - Unfun
  • Jughead's Revenge - Unstuck in Time
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Devil's Night Out
  • No Use for a Name - Incognito
  • Peter and the Test Tube Babies - The $Hit Factory
  • Poison Idea - Feel The Darkness
  • Social Distortion - Social Distortion
  • Snuff - Flibbiddydibbiddydob

• Disbandments
  • Youth of Today

• Events
  • Dead Boys frontman Stiv Bators dies on June 4 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
  • Fat Mike of NOFX starts Fat Wreck Chords.
  • H.R. leaves Bad Brains to concentrate on his solo career. He was briefly replaced by former Faith No More singer Chuck Mosley.
  • Social Distortion gain mainstream success with their self-titled third album, featuring the songs "Story of My Life" and "Ball and Chain".