2002

Formed

• 3F Innovasion
• All That Was Left
• Beautiful Wasteland
• Black Amber
• Comarcracy
• Divided
• IGBC
• Joshanra
• Ladies Intra Series
• Lives Of Misery
• Noriah
• Red Devil
• Running In Circlez
• Sooth (an early incarnation of Jean-Paul De Roover's solo act)
• The Exiled
• Three Ways From Sanity
• Two Drummers No Waiting
• Viewer Discretion
• Watching You Die

Formed, played, and broke up

• A-440
• End Of Time
• HammerHead
• Oak
• The Tony Danza Extravaganza
• The Wedding Singers

Broke up

• 3 Point 1 (became The Late Corvaire)
• Bankloan
• Brave New World
• Chameleon
• Eleventh Hour
• Facecard
• Falsity
• Freebooter
• Fusion Faction
• Plan B
• Some Like It Hot
• Star 69

Membership changes

• Julian Dolce joined Facecard
• Scott Mackay joined Adverse Vital Signs
• Julian Dolce joined Facecard
• Kyle Wark joined The Rots and Travis left
• Larry Breiland joined the Fabulous Rocker Brothers Band
• Ian Monteith joined iiikings
• George Ward left the Susie Campbell Band
• Bert Cantin joined Wind Dancer

Albums

• Ari Lahdekorpi - EuroJazz Connection
• AVS - Self Titled (July 28)
• Black Amber - At Mass
• Cheepshot - This World
• Diskust - Self Titled
• Doug Gorrie - Bleeding Heart
• Kob Nobler
• Mourn - And So You Should
• Not At Fault - A Better Place
• Not At Fault - For What Its Worth
• Revolution Music - Ignorance I (Compilation)
• Steve Zodiac And The Fireballs - Chrome Forehead Meets Goldenheart (November 4)
• The Beyond - The Blind Lead The Blind (April)
• The Kickaz - Break the Mould
• The Late Corvaire - Original Soundtrack (June 29)
• The Resinators - Johnny Mars/Hometown Bands (November 8)
• The Resinators - Johnny Mars (single) (November)
• The Resinators - The Adventures Of Johnny Mars (November 16)
• The Rubber Dinosaurs - CDEP #1 (May 3)
• The Rubber Dinosaurs - CDEP #2 (September 30)
• The Rubber Dinosaurs - Dinosaur Toe Jam (October)
• The Rubber Dinosaurs - Rebel Without A Porsche (July 4)
• The Rubber Dinosaurs - Self Titled (November 24)
• To Be Anyone
• Tyler Rauman - Phonophobia
• Tyler Rauman - X-Mas_Ep
• Vaya - One More Story Of A Bleeding Heart
• Wax Philosophic - Its
• With Regard

Major events

• Flipper Flanagan played the final episode of Arthur Black's "Basic Black" at the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium
• Kreamsikle played the Winnipeg Folk Festival Youth Stage
• The first Out Of The Garage concert was held, the series which became eventually became the Superior Youth Festival
• 103.5 CFQK-FM signed on, which would later become Hot-FM and The Thunder 103.5
• Former Thunder Bay resident Shawn Pierce won a West Coast Music Award for Producer of the Year.
• The first War On The Shore was held at The Apollo