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The Treasure Island Music Festival, a two day event, comes to an end in San Francisco, California, USA. Artists appearing today include The XX, Joanna Newsom, Gossip, Best Coast, Imperial Teen, Hospitalty, Wild Belle, Ty Segall, Los Campesinos, The War On Drugs, Youth Lagoon.
Arlo Guthrie, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder And Dan Gellert, Judy Collins, The Del Mccoury Band With Tim O'Brien, Ani Difranco, Tom Morello, Rosanne Cash With John Leventhal, Lucinda Williams, Donovan, The Old Crow Medicine Show, Jimmy Lafave, Joel Rafael, Rob Wasserman, Tony Trischka, Sweet Honey In The Rock and Ramblin' Jack Elliott play in the This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie At 100 Concert at The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, USA. The event is a tribute to folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie.
B.B. Cunningham, best remembered for his 1967 garage-rock hit Let It All Hang Out with The Hombres, is shot dead while working as a security guard in the Cherry Crest Apartment block in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Dustin Toland, the inventor of Gigwam, a new tent system aimed at the music festival market, appears on BBC-tv show Dragons' Den but turns down two offers of investment from the Dragons and decides to go it alone. Gigwam enables tents to link together via tunnels to create tent communities.
The Treasure Island Music Festival, a two day event, comes to an end in San Francisco, California, USA. Artists appearing today include The xx, Joanna Newsom, Gossip, Best Coast, Imperial Teen, Hospitalty, Wild Belle, Ty Segall, Los Campesinos, The War On Drugs, Youth Lagoon.
Submotion Orchestra play at The O2 Academy, Oxford, UK.
Lawson release a new single, Standing In The Dark, in the UK.
The Nightingales play at The Continental, Preston, UK.
Ellie Goulding plays at The Sound Academy in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Parlotones play at The Fleece, Bristol, UK.
Rick Astley is the musical guest on the BBC tv show Breakfast, live from Media City, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK.
Tegan and Sara are among the artists appearing at the Corona Capital Music Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, Central America.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse play at The Tulsa Convention Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
On his Single Ladies tour, R. Kelly plays at The BJCC Concert Hall, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
On their Ceremonials tour, Florence And The Machine play at The Corona Capital Festival in Foro Sol, Mexico City, Mexico, North America.
Skyfall by Adele reaches No2 on the UK Singles Chart on sales of 176,000 copies.