2002
- Bands formed
- Paint it Black
- Defiance, Ohio
- Albums
- 1208 - Feedback Is Payback
- Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
- Agnostic Front - Working Class Heroes
- Anti-Flag - Mobilize
- Authority Zero - Passage In Time
- Bad Brains - I & I Survived
- Bad Religion - The Process of Belief
- Bouncing Souls - Bad, The Worse, And The Out-Of-Print
- Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer
- D.I. - Caseyology
- The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
- The Exit - New Beat
- Face to Face - How to Ruin Everything
- Gas Huffer - The Rest of Us
- Green Day - Shenanigans
- Guttermouth - Gusto!
- Home Grown - Kings of Pop
- Hot Water Music - Caution
- Less Than Jake - Goodbye Blue & White
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - A Jackknife to a Swan
- Millencolin - Home from Home
- MxPx - Ten Years and Running
- Nerf Herder - American Cheese
- NOFX - 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records
- No Use for a Name - Hard Rock Bottom
- Joey Ramone - Don't Worry About Me
- Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up!
- Roger Miret and the Disasters - Roger Miret and the Disasters
- Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?
- Taking Back Sunday - Tell All Your Friends
- The Transplants - The Transplants
- Unwritten Law - Elva
- Nirvana - Nirvana (album)
- Disbandments
- Fenix*TX
- Events
- D.I. reunites.
- The Descendents reunite again during an ALL hiatus.
- The Clash vocalist/guitarist Joe Strummer dies on December 22 at the age of 50.
- Ramones bassist Dee Dee Ramone dies on June 5 at 49 from heroin toxicity.
- The Ramones and the Talking Heads become the first punk bands to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Nirvana (album) was the fourth Nirvana album is released following the death of singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain in April 1994 and the album has featured on it the unreleased song You Know You're Right.
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