2001
- Bands formed
- The Briggs
- Killradio
- None More Black
- Par-T-One
- Albums
- 311 - From Chaos
- Agnostic Front - Dead Yuppies
- Alkaline Trio - From Here To Infirmary
- ALL/Descendents - Live Plus One
- Anti-Flag - Their System Doesn't Work For You
- Anti-Flag - Underground Network
- Blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
- Bouncing Souls - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
- The Business - No Mercy for You
- The Damned - Grave Disorder
- Death By Stereo - Day of the Death
- Dropkick Murphys - Sing Loud Sing Proud
- Dynamite Boy - Somewhere in America
- F-Minus - Suburban Blight
- Face to Face - Standards & Practices
- Face to Face - We Love Gas
- Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards - Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
- Fugazi - "The Argument
- Good Riddance - Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit
- Green Day - International Superhits
- Guttermouth - Covered With Ants
- H2O - Go
- Hot Water Music - A Flight and a Crash
- Ignite - Still Screaming For Change
- The (International) Noise Conspiracy - A New Morning, Changing Weather
- Leftöver Crack - Mediocre Generica
- Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Blow in the Wind
- Mest - Destination Unknown
- Misfits - Cuts from the Crypt
- Millencolin - The Melancholy Collection
- Millencolin - No Cigar
- Par-T-One - I'm So Crazy (EP)
- Pennywise - Land of the Free?
- Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
- Reel Big Fish - Viva La Internet
- Rise Against - The Unraveling
- Riverboat Gamblers - The Riverboat Gamblers
- Rufio- Perhaps, I Suppose...
- Rx Bandits - Progress
- Son of Sam - "Songs from the Earth"
- The Strokes - Is This It
- Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
- Strike Anywhere - Change is a Sound
- Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Global a Go-Go
- Tiger Army - II: Power of Moonlite
- Tilt - Been Where? Did What?
- The Unseen - The Anger & The Truth
- Useless ID - Bad Story, Happy Ending
- Vendetta Red - White Knuckled Substance
- Vennaskond - News from Nowhere
- Disbandments
- 22 Jacks
- At the Drive-In
- Jughead's Revenge
- Events
- In April, a year after the lawsuit with Archie Comics, Jughead's Revenge officially calls it quits.
- After seven years on major label Atlantic Records, Bad Religion returns to their former indie label Epitaph Records and their original guitarist Brett Gurewitz rejoins the band. At the same time, longtime drummer Bobby Schayer leaves Bad Religion and is replaced by former Suicidal Tendencies drummer Brooks Wackerman.
- The UK's Bus Station Loonies create a new world record, playing 25 separate concerts in 12 hours. The event raises funds to buy equipment for music therapy at a special school.
- Jism, frontman of Ism, is sentenced to 5–10 years in a New York State Prison.
- Ramones frontman Joey Ramone dies on April 15 at 49 of lymphoma.
- Green Day and Blink-182 team up to play in The Pop Disaster tour.
- The Adolescents reunite for the second time.
- At the Drive-In disbands to form The Mars Volta and Sparta
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