Jawbreaker was an American punk band Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. They created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, from San Francisco, California San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely, from 1988 to 1996. The band also had roots in Los Angeles Los Angeles is the largest city in the state of California and the second largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over 498.3 square miles (1,290.6 km2) in Southern California. Additionally, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area is home to, where members Blake Schwarzenbach Alexander Blake Schwarzenbach is an American musician. He was the singer and left-handed guitarist of Jawbreaker (1988–1996), Jets to Brazil (1997–2003), The Thorns of Life (2008-2009), and forgetters (2009- ) and Adam Pfahler attended Crossroads High School together, and New York City New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment. As host of the United Nations headquarters, it is, where Schwarzenbach and Pfahler met bass player Chris Bauermeister at New York University New York University is a private, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan. Founded in 1831, NYU is the largest private, nonprofit institution of higher education in the United States, with an enrollment of more than 50,000 students in 1988. The band put its DIY ethos into practice by managing themselves.[citation needed]
Jawbreaker released four full-length studio albums between 1990 and 1995 as well as a number of EPs, 7 inches and splits. Even though they were signed to a major record label for their final album Dear You, Jawbreaker failed to achieve much commercial success during their years of recording and performing. The band split up in 1996 and members of Jawbreaker went on to form or feature in several bands since then. In January 2008, Pfahler announced that the band had recently reunited for an upcoming documentary.[1][2]
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