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Having lost its core funding, the British Music Experience museum in London, UK, closes down, and announces that it is seeking a new home.
Guitarist Wilko Johnson undergoes a nine-hour-long emergency operation at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, UK, for pancreatic cancer during which surgeons remove his football-sized tumour, pancreas, spleen, part of his stomach, parts of both his small and large intestines and various blood vessels.
Queen And Paul Rodgers play at The Globe Arena, Stockholm, Sweden, Europe.
Rappers T.I. and Game become embroiled in a violent fight with security men outside The Supperclub, Los Angeles, California, USA, when mutual acquantances are denied entry to the club.
The R.I.A.A. in the USA certifies Ramones, the 1976 debut album by The Ramones, as having achieved gold status by selling over 500,000 copies in the 38 years since it was released.
super-Earth, a new band fronted by Peter Buck of R.E.M. and Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney, plays its second-ever live show at Secret Society, Portland, Oregon, USA.
2 Chainz plays at The Best Buy Theater, New York City, USA.
Writing on his personal blog, Brian May of Queen attacks David Cameron's Conservative government and states that "I only recently realised the full extent of the festering rotten flesh of the over-rich which is poisoning and sucking the life out of Britain."
On her Neon Lights tour, Demi Lovato plays at NET LIve, Brasilia, Brasil, South America, supported by The Rosso Sisters.
Heavy metal shock-rockers GWAR announce the launch of their own brand of 'e-liquids' designed to be used with electronic 'vaping' devices. Selling for $10.99 each, the range of GWAR-promoted liquid vials includes Jizmoglobin, Bloodbath and Spew.
A study published online by Germany's Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology, shows that musicians are 1.45 times as likely as non-musicians to have any type of hearing problem, and 3.6 times more likely to have noise-induced hearing loss.
Pomplamoose release a video for their cover of Wham's Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go. The track is being used to draw attention to Pomplamoose's new involvement with crowd-funding organisation Patreon.
Adam Clayton, bassist of U2, reveals, 'I felt empty despite selling millions of records with U2 and living a privileged life'. the comments come during an interview in The Irish Independent newspaper when Clayton is helping to launch the Walk In My Shoes campaign to support mental health services at St Patrick's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, Europe.
Kasabian play at Le Bataclan, Paris, France, Europe. On the same day, the do a brief acoustic session for tv station 3èmeGauche, during which they perform Stevie.