Clit 45 starte out in 1996 as a Streetpunk/Hardcore-band from Long Beach, California. The band plays traditional, fast punk, influenced by The Adolescents, Poison Idea and Bad Religion. Their second and third albums were published by BYO Records and distributed by Cargo Records in Europe. They have toured with bands like The Casualties, The Virus, The Unseen, Bad Religion, and A Global Threat. Currently they are on hiatus and involved in other projects. Clit 45 announced that they had disbanded on Christmas Day, 2007 via their MySpace page.