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During a gig at the Festival d'été de Québec, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Arcade Fire give out a number to which the public can text donations towards Haitian Earthquake relief. Further, the band promises to match those donations up to $1m from their own pockets.
On their Circle Tour, Bon Jovi play at Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA, supported by Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes.
Jazz vocalist and songwriter Parry Ray releases her second album, The Way I'm Wired, in the UK.
The Coral release a new album, Butterfly House, in the UK on Deltasonic/Co-op Records.
The XX and Wild Beasts play at the month-long iTunes festival in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK.
New York trio School Of Seven Bells play at The Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe.
On their The E.N.D. World Tour, The Black
Eyed Peas play at the TW Classic Festival, Werchter, Belgium, Europe. Also on the bill are Mika, The Scissor Sisters, Amy MacDonald and others.
The third day of The 25th Wigan International Jazz Festival features a concert by the Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra with trumpet soloist Bobby Shew, at the Lowri Beck Celebration Hall, Wigan, England, UK.
Tuli Kupferberg of influential 60s anarchist band The Fugs dies in Manhattan, New York City, USA, aged 86, having recently suffered two strokes.
It is reported that former Spice Girls member Melani e Brown (aka Mel B, Scary Spice) is facing a $1.5m lawsuit from real estate appraiser Amado Aguirre who claims he was assaulted outside Brown's home in Los Angeles, California, USA, by her husband Stephen Belafonte who mistook him for a papparazzi photographer.
Police arrest three men in connection with the previous day's stabbing of two twenty-year-olds at the T In The Park Festival, Kinross, Scotland, UK.
It is reported that Jennifer Lopez is facing a $40 million lawsuit from the owners of new hotel complex Cratos Premium in Cyprus, Europe, for scrapping a politically-sensitive show at the opening of the hotel.