Timeline of Punk Rock - 1997

1997

• Bands formed
  • 1208
  • Against Me!
  • Flogging Molly
  • Kid Dynamite
  • Motion City Soundtrack
  • Pistol Grip
  • Riverboat Gamblers
  • Thought Riot

• Albums
  • 311 - Transistor
  • AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
  • blink-182 - Dude Ranch
  • The Bouncing Souls - Bouncing Souls
  • Buck-O-Nine - 28 Teeth
  • F.Y.P. - My Man Grumpy
  • Green Day - Nimrod
  • Goldfinger - Hang-Ups
  • H₂O - Thicker Than Water
  • The Hives - Barely legal
  • Hot Water Music - Fuel For The Hate Game
  • Hot Water Music - Forever and Counting
  • Lagwagon - Double Plaidinum
  • Less Than Jake - Greased
  • Lifetime - Jersey's Best Dancers
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Let's Face It
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Have a Ball
  • Millencolin - For Monkeys
  • The Misfits - American Psycho
  • NOFX - So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
  • The Offspring - Ixnay On The Hombre
  • No Use for a Name - Making Friends
  • Pennywise - Full Circle
  • Reel Big Fish - Keep Your Receipt EP
  • Save Ferris - It Means Everything
  • Snuff - Potatoes and Melons at Wholesale Prices Straight from the Lockup
  • Toy Dolls - One More Megabyte

• Disbandments
  • Glue Gun

• Events
  • After a two year hiatus, Bad Brains reunite to remaster some very early studio recordings which were then released as the EP The Omega Sessions.
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Offspring, Reel Big Fish and Social Distortion all went to the 5th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast.
  • Green Day's singer Billie Joe Armstrong starts Adeline Records
  • The Misfits reunite for the first time since 1983 and release their new album American Psycho with a new lead singer, Michael Graves, as lead singer, songwriter and The Misfits band leader, Glenn Danzig, wanted nothing to do with the reunion.
  • Captain Sensible rejoins The Damned.