2004
- Bands formed
- The King Blues
- The Loved Ones
- Towers of London
- The Ghost of a Thousand
- Pour Habit
- Albums
- The F-Ups - The Fups album
- 1208 - Turn of the Screw
- AFI - AFI
- Authority Zero - Andiamó
- Bad Religion - The Empire Strikes First
- The Briefs - Sex Objects
- The Casualties - On The Front Line
- The Cribs - The Cribs
- Descendents - Cool To Be You
- Descendents - 'Merican
- Dropkick Murphys - Tessie (EP)
- Dynamite Boy - Dynamite Boy
- Error - Error EP
- Green Day - American Idiot
- Guttermouth - Eat Your Face
- The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
- The Exit - Home for an Island
- Hazen Street - Hazen Street
- Hot Water Music - The New What Next
- Jello Biafra with The Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can't See
- Killradio - Raised on Whipped Cream
- Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards - Viking
- Leftöver Crack - Fuck World Trade
- Less Than Jake - B Is for B-sides
- Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Ruin Jonny's Bar Mitzvah
- Pepper - In With the Old
- Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
- Riverboat Gamblers - Backsides
- SNFU - In the Meantime and In Between Time
- Social Distortion - Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll
- Sum 41 - Chuck
- Toy Dolls - Our Last Album?
- A Wilhelm Scream - Mute Print
- Nirvana - With the Lights Out
- Disbandments
- Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
- The Movielife
- Events
- Richard Hell and the Voidoids guitarist Robert Quine dies on May 31 at 61.
- Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone dies on September 15 at 55 from cancer.
- The Nils guitarist Alex Soria dies on December 13 at 39.
- Social Distortion's bassist John Maurer leaves the band after his 20 years of serving and Matt Freeman from Rancid takes place for him.
- Dead Milkmen bassist Dave Schulthise takes his own life on March 10, 2004
- X-Ray Spex guitarist Jak Airport (Jack Stafford) dies of cancer on August 13, 2004
- Nirvana released the With the Lights Out boxset which contained 3 CDs and 1 DVD of demo's and live performances.
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