1994
- Bands formed
- Name Taken
- Bodyjar
- Bowling for Soup
- Dillinger Four
- Goldfinger
- Gob
- At the Drive-In
- Albums
- Avail - Dixie
- At the Drive-In - Hell Paso
- Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
- Big Drill Car - No Worse for the Wear (final album)
- Blink-182 - Cheshire Cat
- The Bouncing Souls - The Good, The Bad & The Argyle
- Buck-O-Nine - Songs in the Key of Bree
- Down By Law - Punkrockacademyfightsong
- D.I. - State of Shock
- Gas Huffer - One Inch Masters
- Glü Gun - Just Glü It
- Green Day - Dookie (breakthrough)
- Jughead's Revenge - Elimination
- Lagwagon - Trashed
- Less Than Jake - Losers, Kings, and Things We Don't Understand
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Question the Answers
- Home Grown - "Smoking is a Cool 7-Inch"
- MxPx - Pokinatcha
- Millencolin - Tiny Tunes (re-released under the title Same Old Tunes in 1998)
- NOFX - Punk in Drublic
- The Offspring - Smash (breakthrough)
- R.K.L. - Riches to Rags
- Rancid - Let's Go
- Screeching Weasel - How to Make Enemies and Irritate People
- Sublime - Robbin' the Hood
- Turbonegro - Never Is Forever
- Unwritten Law - Blue Room (re-released in 1995 under the same name)
- Weezer - The Blue Album
- Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
- Disbandments
- Nirvana
- Events
- With the release of Green Day's Dookie, The Offspring's Smash, Bad Religion's Stranger Than Fiction, NOFX's Punk in Drublic, and Rancid's Let's Go, punk rock goes mainstream, and 1994 becomes one of the biggest years for punk rock artists in terms of album sales.
- Kurt Cobain is found dead in his home on April 8, 1994, Police rule it a suicide.
- After Kurt Cobain's death MTV Unplugged in New York is released as a CD
- During the Stranger Than Fiction tour, Brett Gurewitz leaves Bad Religion to concentrate on the fast growing Epitaph Records. Former Minor Threat/Dag Nasty guitarist Brian Baker replaces him.
- Bad Brains reunite with original members H.R. and Earl Hudson.
- The Circle Jerks reunite to record a new album for Mercury Records.
- Glü Gun changes their name to Glue Gun after releasing their first album.
- Green Day perform at Woodstock '94.
- The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland along with bassist Grek K start Nitro Records
- Snuff reform.
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