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It is reported that Michelle Shocked has released an album entitled Inaudible Women, which consists of eleven tracks of silence. Shocked, however, claims that it actually does contain sounds - at frequencies so high they can only be heard by dogs. Several of the 'silent' songs are named after record company executives. It is assumed that Shocked is making some sort of protest against the music industry, and specifically against the low payments made to artists by Spotify, but precise details prove difficult to pin down.
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On his All The Hits All Night Long tour, Lionel Richie plays at The Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Toby Keith tops the newly-published Forbes magazine list of country music's top-paid artists for 2014 with estimated earnings of $65m. Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan make up the rest of the Country Music Top 5.
Jenny Lewis releases her third solo album, The Voyager, in the UK.
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The Kooks play at Webster Hall, New York City, USA.
Justin Timberlake plays at The Palace Of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA.
The Bangles play at The City Winery, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Andy Bell (best-known as one half of Erasure) releases his fourth solo album, Torsten The Bareback Saint, on Cherry Red Records in the UK.
It is reported that organisers of the inaugural Fashion Meets Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio, USA, have dropped R. Kelly from the line-up, in response to protests from musicians and local people.
Neil Young And Crazy Horse play at Norde Mole Open Air, Mainz, Germany, Europe.
Andrew Jackson Jihad play at Slim's, San Francisco, CA, USA
Writing a guest post on David Byrne's website, musician and record producer Brian Eno attacks America's involvement in the Israel-Gaza conflict. Among the many points he raises is, "Why does America continue its blind support of this one-sided exercise in ethnic cleansing?"
Queen and Adam Lambert play at The Air Canada Centre, Toronto, Ontario, USA.
Nell Bryden releases her fifth album, Wayfarer, on 157 Records NYC/Absolute/Universal.
The Vans Warped tour, featuring Air Dubai, Anberlin, A Skylit Drive, Less Than Jake, Bowling For Soup, Antiserum, Bad Rabbits, Enter Shikari, Cute Is What We Aim For, Echosmith and others plays at The PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.
Bonnie Pink plays at Otodama Sea Studio, Tokyo, Japan, Asia.
President Barack Obama presents the National Medal of Arts to singer Linda Ronstadt at the White House in Washington, DC, USA.
Slipknot finish recording their new album, .5: The Gray Chapter, at Sunset Sound Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Whiskers play at Le Bataclan, Paris, France, Europe.
Lyle Lovett And His Large Band with Robert Earl Keen plays at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado, USA.
It is reported that country superstars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood have put their beach-front home in Malibu, California, USA, up for sale at $7.5m. It is thought that the couple intend to move back to Nashville, Tennessee.
It is reported that two members of the feminist group Pussy Riot (Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova) are suing the Russian government in The European Court Of Human Rights over their imprisonment for a 2012 "punk prayer" protest at a cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Europe.