Random selection from around 6,400 Facts
Click to filter results
On their 21st Century Breakdown tour, Green Day play at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena, Seoul, South Korea.
On her 
On their 
On their 
Los Angeles-based band Metro Station announces that it has split up for an indefinite period. the band includes Trace Cyrus, the brother of Miley Cyrus and son of country star Billy Ray Cyrus.
Part of a stage being built for an Elton John concert at the world-famous Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza in Mexico, collapses during construction, injuring three workers.
Cool jazz musician and author Mike Zwerin dies aged 79, after a long blood-related illness, in Paris, France, Europe. In a long and acclaimed career, Zwerin worked with Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Maynard Ferguson and many others.
Salif Keita plays at 
Singer-songwriter Livingston
Taylor releases a new album, Last Alaska Moon on Chesky Records in the USA.
Ash play 
On their 
Rodrigo y Gabriela, with their guest Robert Trujillo of Metallica, play at The White House in Washington DC, USA, for the President and Mrs. Obama and their guests the Mexican President Felipe Hinojosa and the First Lady of Mexico Margarita Zavala.
Liam Gallagher announces that his new band will be called Beady Eye, and that it will include his former Oasis bandmates Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock.
Leading independent label Cooking Vinyl announces the signing of three new acts to the label - Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly., Underworld and The Charlatans.
Green Day play at The Jammin Festival, Venice, Italy, Europe, with 30 Seconds To Mars, Rise Against and The Editors
American Idol winner Carrie Underwood marries ice hockey player Mike Fisher at The Ritz Carlton Reynolds Plantation, Greensboro, Georgia, USA. 200 guests attend the wedding which is estimated to have cost $500,000.
Goldfrapp and Marina And The Diamonds play at the month-long iTunes festival in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK.
Foreigner and Europe play at the month-long iTunes festival in The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, England, UK.
On their 
The Green Man Festival, a three-day event, comes to an end in the Brecon Beacons, Wales. Artists appearing on this, the final day, include Efterklang, Joanna Newsom, Laura Marling, Mumford And Sons, Field Music, Girls and Tindersticks.
Paul Weller releases a new single, Fast Car-Slow Traffic/Andromeda, in the UK on Island Records.
Hello World by Lady Antebellum is released to radio in the USA by Capitol Records.
On the third leg of his Twisted Road tour, Neil Young plays at the IP Casino, Resort And Spa, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.
Cirque Du Soleil and the estate of Michael Jackson officially announce 'Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour', a combination of Jackson's music, with 'thrilling choreography and visual effects'. The tour is planned to begin in Montreal, Canada, in October 2011 before moving on to New York, Miami, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, and then taking up a residency in Las Vegas.
Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses files a $20m lawsuit against computer games maker Activision claiming its use of the Gn'R song Welcome To The Jungle in the game Guitar Hero violates a condition of their deal not to include any imagery of ex-guitarist Saul Hudson [aka Slash] in the game.Madonna attends the opening of her Hard Candy Fitness Center in Mexico City, Mexico. While there she also teaches a class.
Want To Be (Under Your Christmas Tree), the debut single by Fallen Millie is released on iTunes. All five members of this all-girl group are still at school in North London, UK.
Paramore announce, via a statement posted on their official website that guitarist Josh Farro and drummer Zac Farro, have quit the band.
In the UK's New Year's Honours list Annie Lennox formerly of Eurythmics is awarded an OBE for her Aids charity work. Richard Thompson, a former member of folk-rock group Fairport Convention also gets an OBE, while influential record producer Trevor Horn is awarded a CBE.Gov't Mule play the second of two nights at The Beacon Theatre, New York City, USA.
Jan |