1974 46 dated entries
What happened
- — CBGB becomes the room where American punk assembles A failing Bowery country bar starts booking bands on condition they play their own songs.
Genres held to have emerged
- Punk rock rock
A genre's date is an approximation historians argue about, unlike the events above it — the same distinction the timeline draws.
Bands formed
Scenes that began
- 1974 CBGB, New York New York · 1974–1978
Scenes that ended
- 1974 Detroit Detroit · 1967–1974