1980 67 dated entries
What happened
- — Garry Bushell coins 'Oi!' A journalist names England's working-class punk, as opposed to its art-school punk.
Genres held to have emerged
- Doom metal metal
- Hardcore punk rock
- Jangle pop rock
- Neo-psychedelia rock
- Psychobilly rock
A genre's date is an approximation historians argue about, unlike the events above it — the same distinction the timeline draws.
Bands formed
- Blitz
- Exciter
- Flux of Pink Indians
- Jag Panzer
- Kas Product
- Manowar
- Minor Threat
- Pallas
- R.E.M.
- Saint Vitus
- Subhumans
- The Meteors
- The Sisters of Mercy
- Trisomie 21
Bands that ended
Scenes that began
- 1980 Washington DC hardcore Washington DC · 1980–1991