Anniversaries
21 Apr

Ben Watt, best known as one half of Everything But The Girl, plays at The Bodega, Nottingham, UK. Watt is accompanied on guitar by Bernard Butler.

Neil Young plays at The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

The Olive Theory, The Senile Delinquents, Chis Weston, Beth Monk, My Social Orbit, Magic Tractor, The Shout, The Bad Detectives, Dudlow Joe and Big Ten Inch play at the Mells Mini Fest, Mells, Somerset, UK.

The Temperance Movement play at The Engine Shed, Lincoln, UK.

During their In Pusuit Of Spring tour, Pedal Folk play at A Warehouse, Hackney, London, UK.

Franz Ferdinand play at The Gothic Theatre, Englewood, Colorado, USA, supoported by Cate Le Bon.

Listener play at The Joiners, Southampton, UK.

Ghost play at Mojoes, Joliet, Illinois, USA.

David Crosby plays at The Great American Hall, San Francisco, California, USA.

It is announced that legendary country music songwriter, singer and guitarist, Glen Campbell was recently admitted to an Alzheimers care facility.

The funeral of Peaches Geldof, daughter of Sir Bob Geldof, is held at St Mary Magdalene and St Lawrence Church in Davington, Kent, UK. Cebrities attending the memorial service include Kate Moss, Sarah Ferguson, Jo Wood, Jools Holland and Jaime Winstone.

Having sold 1.54m download copies since its release in May 2013, Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke is named the biggest selling download in UK history by the Official Charts Company.

Iggy Azalea releases her debut album The New Classic in the UK.

Ben Harper performs live with his mother Ellen at Rockwood Music Hall, New York City, USA.

Two police officers play the KRS One rap classic Sound of Da Police from the loudspeakers of their marked car during a late night patrol of Chelmsford, Essex, UK. The officers will be disciplined for their 'unsuitable' behaviour, even though 462 responses to an online poll of 500 people state that the officers should not face further disciplinary action.

Jeff Beck plays at Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia, Oceania.

On his Moonshine Jungle tour, Bruno Mars plays the last of three nights at Blaisdell Arena, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Katy Perry releases a new single, Birthday, in the USA.

When Marilyn Manson plays at the Van Andel Center, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, the audience includes State Senator Dale Shugars who is conducting research for a proposed bill he has been authoring which would require parental warnings on concert tickets and promotional material relating to any performer that had released a record bearing the Parental Advisory sticker in the last five years. [censorship]

The Jackson 5, including Michael Jackson, play the thirteenth of fifteen nights at the MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Pioneering jazz mandolinist, guitarist and violinist Snoozer Quinn, who worked with Bix Beiderbecke, Paul Whiteman and others, dies of tuberculosis in Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA. He made some of his best-known recordings while bedridden in the hospital during the last year of his life.

The Fisk University Jubilee Singers record You Better Get Somebody On Your Band and other songs for Columbia Records in New York City, USA.

Revered gospel singer Clara Ward, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.