Frontman Bradley Nowell of Sublime dies of an overdose at the age of 28 on May 25th in just 2 weeks after the birth of his first child Jakob.
Green Day takes the year off after 2 years of hard work. But, they wrote some new songs for their next album Nimrod, which was released in the year after.
Bad Religion's founding guitarist Brett Gurewitz and vocalist Greg Graffin get back together in the studio to record the song "Believe It" for their new record The New America. This is the first time the songwriting team had collaborated since 1995.
The Flowers of Romance’s first show ever: New York, Estonian House (243 East 34th Street), 3 April 1999. (Note that this refers to a different band than the one formed in 1976.)
The guitarist Dennis Danell dies of brain aneurysm at the age of 38. They had to break up, but Social Distortion was resurrected in months later for new guitarist Johnny Wickersham .
