Jawbreaker was a popular San Francisco punk rock band in the 1990s. They had their roots in Los Angeles, where members Blake Schwarzenbach and Adam Pfahler were students at the exclusive private Crossroads High School. The band came together when they met bass player Chris Bauermeister at New York University in 1988.
Jawbreaker had seemed poised for critical and commercial success by the time of their last album, Dear You. Despite a vigorous marketing push, Jawbreaker's album sales were anemic in the wake of a post- Green Day market, and was one of the causes leading to the end of the band's career.