2004 in music
Events
- January 1 - Vienna New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Vienna, conducted
by Riccardo Muti
- January 1 - Kurt Nilsen
wins World Idol
- January 3 - Britney
Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a childhood
friend, in Las Vegas. The marriage was annulled two days later.
- February 17 - Brit
Awards held in London. The
Darkness, Dido, Busted,
Justin Timberlake, and KRS-One are among the winners.
- February 17 - Billy
Corgan posts a bitter message on his personal blog calling D'Arcy Wretzky a "mean spirited drug addict" and blaming James Iha for the breakup of The Smashing Pumpkins.
- March 10 - George
Michael announces that Patience will be
his last commercially released record, telling Jo Whiley of BBC Radio 1 "this album nearly killed me". Future releases will be available from his
web site for in return for donations to his favourite charities.
- April 6 - A previously unreleased Johnny Cash album called My Mother's Hymn Book is released less than a year after his death on September 12, 2003.
- April 20 - Fear Factory
returns after their 2002 breakup with the new album Archetype.
- May - Blender magazine's May issue includes a list of the 50 worst
songs. "We Built This City," by Jefferson Starship, is
rated worst.
- May 18 to May 23 - European Festival of
Youth Choirs (EJCF) in Basel.
- May 25 - Jam band Phish announces that
after 21 years they will breakup following the Summer 2004 Tour.
- May 25 - Skinny Puppy
releases their first studio album since disbanding in 1996, called The Greater Wrong of the Right.
- May 26 - Fantasia
Barrino wins the third season of American Idol, defeating
Diana DeGarmo.
- June - Staind start recording their fourth
album, produced by David Bottrill.
- June - The Velvet
Revolver's first album Contraband debuts in the
top slot on the Billboard album charts, selling over
250,000 copies its first week out.
- June - The Ramones guitarist
Johnny Ramone is hospitalized in Los Angeles with prostate cancer and diagnosed.
- June 4 - Creed dissolved
because guitarist Mark Tremonti
is working in a side project Alter
Bridge and their first album is One Day Remains, which is scheduled to be released on August 10th.
- June 10 - Ray Charles dies of
liver disease at the age of 73.
- June 12 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 12th
Annual KROQ Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The
Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year,
The Strokes, The Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and
Yellowcard.
- June 22 - 14th annual Lollapalooza festival, scheduled for July 17, is cancelled.
Organizers cite "poor ticket sales". (See: Lollapalooza
2004 lineup.)
- June 23 - UK DJ Tony Blackburn is suspended by radio
station Classic Gold
Digital for playing songs by Cliff Richard, against station
policy.
- July 20 - Van Halen releases "The
Best of Both Worlds", a 36-song compilation album featuring three new recordings with Sammy Hagar on vocals.
- July 31 - Dispatch performs their
last live show at the DCR Hatchshell in Boston, MA.
- August 8 - Dave
Matthews Band's tour bus dumps 800 lbs. (360 kg) of human feces from a Chicago bridge, intending to unload it in the river, but it lands on an architecture tour
boat. The bus driver and the band are sued by the state of Illinois.
- August 15 - Phish performs their
final concert at a two-day festival in Coventry, Vermont.
- September 14 - Megadeth
is scheduled to release their new studio album The System
Has Failed.
- September 28 - Hilary
Duff releases her self-titled second album on the day she turns 17.
- September 28 - Brian
Wilson completes SMiLE, 37 years after its original planned
release
- October 11 - The original lineup of Duran Duran release their new album Astronaut, which was preceded by the single "(Reach Up For The) Sunrise".
- October 26 - Legendary DJ John
Peel dies, after 40 years of massive influence upon popular music.
- December - Ned's Atomic Dustbin begins touring with 5 upcoming shows.
- December 11-12 - The
Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 15th Annual of the Acoustic Christmas with Chevelle, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Hoobastank, Incubus, Interpol, Jimmy
Eat World, Keane, The Killers, Modest Mouse, Muse, My Chemical
Romance, Papa Roach, Snow
Patrol, Social Distortion, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, The Music, The Shins, The Used and the Velvet Revolver.
Albums Released
- Phantom Planet - Phantom Planet - January 6 - LP
- Sapphire Blue -
Larry Carlton - January 13 -
LP
- Legion of Boom -
The Crystal Method - January 13 - LP
- The Glorious Burden - Iced Earth - January 13 - LP
- Slow - Richie Kotzen - January 13 - LP
- These Times - Mike Stern - January 13 - LP
- The Opera Band - Amici Forever - January 13 - LP
- Educated Guess - Ani DiFranco - January 20 - LP
- Woman's Gotta Do Her Thing - Sally Fingerett - January 20 - LP
- Kimi Ga Suki - Matthew Sweet - January 20 - LP
- Immortal Memory - Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy - January 26 - LP
- Join the Dots: B-Sides & Rarities 1978-2001 - The Cure - January 27 - Compilation
- Delirium Cordia -
Fantômas - January 27 - LP
- Unsung: The Best of Helmet 1991-1997 - Helmet - January 27 - Compilation
- Because I Can - Katy Rose - January 27 - LP
- Kamikaze - Twista - January 27 - LP
- The Battle for Everything - Five for Fighting - February 3 - LP
- A Crow Left of the Murder - Incubus - February 3 - LP
- Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters - February 3 - LP
- Start Something - The Lostprophets - February 3 - LP
- 50 First Dates - Soundtrack - February 3 - Soundtrack
- Yes to
Everything - The Washdown
- February 3 - LP
- That's What I'm Talking
About - Shannon Noll - February 8 - LP
- New Found Power - Damageplan - February 10 - LP
- 'Merican - The Descendents - released in Europe in 2003 - February 10 - EP
- Feels Like Home - Norah Jones - February 10 - LP
- America's Sweetheart - Courtney Love - February 10 - LP
- Body Language - Kylie Minogue - February 10 - LP
- College Dropout -
Kanye West - February 10 - LP
- Turn of the Screw - 1208 - February 10 - LP
- All That We Let
In - The Indigo Girls - February 17 - LP
- Logic Will Break Your Heart -
The Stills - February 23 - LP
- About a Burning Fire - Blindside - February 24 - LP
- Schizophrenic - JC Chasez - February 24 - LP
- Shadows Collide With People -
John Frusciante - February 24 - LP
- Bodysong - Jonny Greenwood - February 24 - LP
- Punk Statik Paranoia - Orgy - February 24 - LP
- Scorpio Rising - Prong - February 24 - LP
- After We Go - Tantric - February 24 - LP
- Nude - V.A.S.T. - February 24 - LP
- The Guilt Show -
The Get Up Kids - March 2 - LP
- MODERN ARTillery - The Living End - March 2 - LP
- Sunrise Over Sea - The John Butler Trio - March 8
- Temple of the
Damned - Exodus - March 9 - LP
- All of Our Names - Sarah Harmer - March 9 - LP
- Don't Stop
the Music - Play - March 9 - LP
- Live at the
Deaf Club - Dead Kennedys - March 9 - Live
- Patience - George Michael - March 16 - LP
- The Very Best of Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne - March 16 - Greatest Hits
- Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1984-1993) -
Camper Van Beethoven - March 16 - Re-Issue, LPs
- Split Personality - Cassidy - March 16 - LP
- Eminem is Back -
Eminem - March 16 - Compilation
- The Other Side - Godsmack - March 16 - 8-Track Acoustic EP
- Frustration
Plantation - Rasputina - March 16 - LP
- Dead Letters - The
Rasmus - March 16 - LP (US release)
- Till Death Us Do Part -
Cypress Hill - March 23 - LP
- Cool to Be You - The Descendents - March 23 - LP
- Guns n' Roses' Greatest Hits - Guns
n' Roses - March 23 - Greatest Hits
- Peace, Love, Death Metal - The Eagles of Death Metal - March 23 - LP
- Me and Mr. Johnson - Eric Clapton - March 23 - LP
- MP3 - Marcy Playground - March 23 - LP
- Fly or Die - N.E.R.D.
- March 23 - LP
- REDEFiNE -
SOiL - March 23 - LP
- 4 Times - Revolution - March 23 - LP
- Blackmail - Cory P - March 23 - LP
- The Punisher - Soundtrack - March 23 - Soundtrack
- Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed - Soundtrack - March 23 - Soundtrack
- Confessions - Usher - March 23 - LP
- Now That's What I Call Music! 15 - Various Artists - March 23 - Compilation
- Winning Days - The
Vines - March 23 - LP
- Solace - Xavier Rudd -
March 28 - LP - Australia
- Honkin' on Bobo - Aerosmith - March 30 - LP
- The Essential Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains - March 30 - Greatest Hits
- Me & Mr. Johnson - Eric Clapton - March 30 - LP
- Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1975-1979) -
Fleetwood Mac - March 30 - Re-Issue, LPs
- Damita Jo - Janet Jackson - March 30 - LP
- Final Straw - Snow
Patrol - March 30 - LP
- Prophecy - Soulfly - March 30 - LP
- You Are Here - UFO - March 30 - LP
- The Dissociatives - The Dissociatives - April 5 - LP
- J Wess Presents Tha LP - J-Wess - April 5 - LP
- Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1982-1992) -
Bad Religion - April 6 - Re-Issue, LPs
- The
Curse of the Blondie - Blondie - April 6 - LP
- Hellfire Club - Edguy - April 6 - LP
- My Mother's
Hymn Book - Johnny Cash - April 6
- Re-Issue of 3 oldest albums - Jethro Tull - April 6 -
Re-Issue, LPs
- Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles? - Local
H. - April 6 - LP
- Good News for People
Who Love Bad News - Modest Mouse - April 6 - LP
- Indestructible Object - They Might Be Giants - April 6 - EP
- Crossfade - Crossfade - April 13 - LP
- Is
There Love in Space? - Joe Satriani - April 13 - LP
- Cutting - Red Skeleton - April 13 - LP
- Palm Trees and Power Lines -
Sugarcult - April 13 - LP
- Hangover Music, Vol. VI - Black
Label Society - April 20 - LP
- Archetype - Fear Factory - April 20 - LP
- Cuckoo Clocks
of Hell - Buckethead - April 20 - LP
- Underneath - Hanson - April 20 - LP
- Desensitized - Drowning Pool - April 20 - LP
- Fire It Up - The Kottonmouth Kings - April 20 - LP
- Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand - April 20 - LP
- High Volume - Corrosion of Conformity - April 20 - LP
- Hurt No More - Mario Winans - April 20 - LP
- Me - The Marques Sisters - April 20 - LP
- Musicology - Prince - April 20 - LP
- Ratatat -
Ratatat - April 20 - LP
- Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1 - Various
Artists, Rock Against Bush - April 20 - Compilation
- Stone Age
Complications - Queens of the Stone Age -
April 20 - Compilation
- Through the Ashes of Empires -
Machine Head - April 20 - LP
- Walk The Tightrope - Human Nature - April 26 - LP
- re.present - Jimmie's Chicken Shack - April 27 - LP
- D12 World - D12 - April 27 -
LP
- The Girl in the Other Room -
Diana Krall - April 27 - LP
- Marbles - Marillion - May 3 - LP
- We
Are All Sluts of Trust - Sluts of Trust - May 3 - LP
- Endangered Species - Flaw - May 4 - LP
- Metalogy - Judas Priest - May 4 - Greatest Hits
- The Ride - Los Lobos - May 4 - LP
- Duets - The Notorious B.I.G. - May 4 - LP
- Wave of
Mutilation: The Best of the Pixies - Pixies - May 4 - Compilation LP, Concert
& Documentary DVD
- Just for You - Lionel Richie - May 4 - LP
- Matt
Sharp - Matt Sharp - May 4 - LP
- Police State - The Transplants - May 4 - LP
- Dis/Location - Seven Mary Three - May 11 - LP
- The End of Heartache - Killswitch Engage - May 11 LP
- Here for the Party - Gretchen Wilson - May 11 - LP
- A Song Is A City - Eskimo Joe - May 16 - LP
- Happiness In Magazines - Graham Coxon - May 17 - LP
- Baptism - Lenny Kravitz - May 18 - LP
- So-Called Chaos - Alanis Morissette - May 18 - LP
- You Are the Quarry - Morrissey - May 18 - LP
- Catalyst - New Found Glory - May 18 - LP
- A Grand Don't Come For Free -
The Streets - May 18 LP
- Meltdown - Ash - May 24 - LP
- It's About Time
- Christina Milian - May 24 International - June 15 US - LP
- Café Naturale - Wendy Matthews - May 24 - LP
- The Human Equation - Ayreon - May 24 - LP
- The Printz - Bumblebeez 81 - May 25 - LP
- Long
Gone Before Daylight - Cardigans - May 25 - LP
- White Trash Beautiful - Everlast - May 25 - LP
- Rockin' The Rhein With The Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead - May 25 - Live
- Under My Skin - Avril Lavigne - May 25 - LP
- The Greater Wrong of the
Right - Skinny Puppy - May 25 - LP
- Vol. 3: the Subliminal Verses
- Slipknot - May 25 - LP
- Mercury4 - Mercury4 - May 31 - LP
- Wayward Angel - Kasey Chambers - May 31 - LP
- No Said Date - Masta Killa - June 1 - LP
- Rock the Block -
Krokus - June 1 - LP
- Melissa Auf der Maur - Melissa Auf der Maur - June 1 - LP
- Stand
Back: the Anthology - The Allman Brothers
Band - June 8 Compilation
- The Empire Strikes First - Bad Religion - June 8 - LP
- Purple Haze - Cam'ron - June 8 - LP
- Un - Chumbawamba - June 8 - LP
- Borrowed Heaven - The Corrs - June 8 - LP
- One Soul Now - Cowboy Junkies - June 8 - LP
- Keep Your Wig
On - Fastball - June 8 - LP
- Uh Hu Her - PJ Harvey - June 8 - LP
- Live at
Bonnaroo - Warren Haynes
- June 8 - Live
- Happy People - R. Kelly - June 8 - LP
- Asshole -
Gene Simmons - June 8 - LP
- Greatest Hits '93-'03 - 311 - June 8 - Compilation
- Punk-O-Rama,
Vol. 9 - Various Artists, Punk-O-Rama - June 8 - Compilation
- Sonic Nurse - Sonic Youth - June 8 - LP
- Contraband - Velvet Revolver - June 8 - LP
- Three Cheers for Sweet
Revenge - My Chemical Romance - June 8 - LP
- A New Day...Live in Las Vegas - Celine
Dion - June 12 - Live
- Up All Night - Rob Mills - June 14 - LP
- Sound Shattering Sound - Gyroscope - June 14
- To the 5 Boroughs - The Beastie Boys - LP
- Hot Fuss - The Killers - June 15 - LP
- Undermind - Phish - (June 15)
- LP
- Revival -
The Reverend
Horton Heat - June 15 - LP
- Afrodisiac - Brandy - June 22 - LP
- Will to Death - John Frusciante - June 22 - LP
- Jupiter's
Darling - Heart - June 22 - LP
- JoJo - JoJo - June 22 - LP
- Lit - Lit - June 22 -
LP
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lyve - Lynyrd Skynyrd - June 22 - Live
- Scream and
Whisper - Edwin McCain - June 22 - LP
- The Houses of the Molé - Ministry - June 22 - LP
- Inferno - Motörhead - (June 22) - LP
- Not So Much to Be Loved As to Love - Jonathan Richman - June 22 - LP
- Unbreakable - Scorpions - June 22 - LP
- A Ghost is Born - Wilco - June 22 - LP
- Gettin'
In Over My Head - Brian Wilson - June 22 - LP
- The Cure - The Cure - June 28 - LP
- Mojave -
Concrete Blonde - June 29 - LP
- Two - Earshot - June 29 - LP
- Live at the
Gorge - Dave Matthews Band - June 29 - Live
- Forget What You
Know - Midtown -
June 29 - LP
- This
Magnificent Distance - Chris Robinson - June 29 - LP
- Feedback - Rush - June 29 - LP
- Nina Sky -
Nina Sky - June 29 - LP
- III: Ghost
Tigers Rise - Tiger Army - June 29 - LP
- Hollywood Potato Chip - The Vandals - June 29 - LP
- 72 and Sunny - Uncle Kracker - June 29 - LP
- In Between Evolution - The Tragically Hip - June 29 - LP
- Stone Love - Angie Stone - July 6 - LP
- Star Trails - Spirit of the West - July 8 - LP
- Braxton Hicks - Jebediah - July 12 - LP
- Ashchik - All Mine - July 13 - LP
- Live on the
Rocks - Blues Traveler - July 13 - LP
- License to
Chill - Jimmy Buffett - July 13 - LP
- Songs in the
Key of W - George W. Bush Singers - July 13 - LP
- Hell to Pay - Dokken - July 13 - LP
- Viking -
Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
- July 13 - LP
- Eat Your Face - Guttermouth - July 13 - LP
- Keep Right - KRS-One - July 13 - LP
- The Tipping Point - The Roots - July 13 - LP
- Shhh...Don't
Tell - Adam Sandler - July 13 - LP
- Lock-Sport-Krock - Nikola Sarcevic - July
13 - LP
- Soft Commands -
Ken Stringfellow - July 13
- LP
- The Spine - They Might Be Giants - July 13 - LP
- Über Cobra - Widespread Panic - July 13 - LP
- Miss Machine - Dillinger Escape Plan - July 20 US/August 2
world - LP
- No Roots - Faithless - July 20 - LP
- Those Are
Not My Bongos - Fuck - July 20 - LP
- Autobiography - Ashlee Simpson - July 20 - LP
- Hazen Street - Hazen Street - July 20 - LP
- Tyrannosaurus Hives - The Hives - July 20 - LP
- B Is for
B-sides - Less Than Jake - July 20 - Rarities LP
- Beneath, Between, Beyond - Static-X - July 20 -
Rarities LP
- The Best of Both Worlds: The Very Best of Van Halen - Van Halen - July 20 – Greatest Hits
- Live in Hamburg - Maria McKee - July 27 - LP
- Throwback,
Volume 1 - Boyz II Men - July 27 - LP
- Whiskey Tango Ghosts - Tanya Donelly - July 27 - LP
- Kevin
Lyttle - Kevin Lyttle - July 27 - LP
- Re-Issue of their oldest albums (1986-1999) -
Megadeth - July 27 - Re-Issue, LPs
- The Marques
Sisters - Black And
Pink - July 27 - LP
- The
Beginning of Survival - Joni Mitchell - July 27 - LP
- Prince of the South - Mystikal - July 27 - LP
- Live at Benaroya
Hall - Pearl Jam - July 27 - Live
- The Rolling Stones Singles: 1965-1968 - The Rolling Stones - July 27 - Box
- Where You Want to Be - Taking Back Sunday - July 27 - LP
- Drive Train - 38 Special - July 27 - LP
- Spiritum
Oriundus - Fields of Aplomb - August 3 - LP
- Another
Intervention - Down to Earth Approach - August 3 - LP
- Accentuate the Positive - Al Jarreau - August
3 - LP
- Live in Hyde Park - Red Hot Chili Peppers - August 3 - Live
- Village Gorilla
Head - Tommy Stinson - August 3 - LP
- One Day Remains -
Alter Bridge - August 10 - LP
- The
Best of Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber - August 10 - Compilation
- Crosby Nash - David Crosby & Graham Nash
- August 10 - LP
- Bubblegum
- Mark Lanegan - August 10 - LP
- Creamfields - Paul Oakenfold - August 10
- The Best of
Sepultura - Sepultura - August 10 - Compilation
- Potter's Field - 12 Stones - August 10 - LP
- Live -
2Pac - August 10 - Live
- Rock Against Bush, Vol. 2 - Various
Artists, Rock Against Bush - August 10 - Compilation
- Bob Powell - Bob Powell Anthology - August 12 - Box
- The Hard Way - 213 - August 17 - LP
- Take It All
Away - Ryan Cabrera - August 17 - LP
- Sail On: the 30th Anniversary Collection 1974-2004 - Kansas - August 17 - Box
- Love Everybody - Presidents of the United
States of America - August 17 - LP
- Up All Night - Razorlight - August 17 - LP
- Survival of the Sickest - Saliva - August 17 - LP
- Greatest Hits: We Will Rock You - Queen - August 17 – Greatest Hits
- The Revolution Starts...Now - Steve
Earle - August 24 - LP
- Hide Nothing - Further Seems Forever - August 24 - LP
- Half Smiles of the Decomposed - Guided By Voices - August 24 - LP
- Untitled - Tim McGraw - August 24 - LP
- Paper - Rich Robinson - August 24 -LP
- The Secondman's Middle Stand - Mike Watt -
August 24 - LP
- Killing
Heidi - Killing Heidi - August 30 - LP
- Medúlla - Björk - August 31 - LP
- Circle of Snakes - Danzig - August 31 - LP
- The DEFinition -
LL Cool J - August 31 - LP
- Just One of the
Boys - Michelle Poe -
August 31 - LP
- Getting Away With Murder - Papa Roach - August 31 - LP
- The Big Eyeball in the Sky -
Col. Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains - September 7 - LP
- Armed Love - The (International) Noise
Conspiracy - September 7 - LP
- In the Meantime -
Christine McVie - September 7 - LP
- It Came From New Jersey: The Smithereens Anthology - The Smithereens - September 7 - Compilation
- Living Things -
Matthew Sweet - September 7 - LP
- Folker - Paul Westerberg - September 7 - LP
- A Hangover You Don't Deserve -
Bowling for Soup - September 14 - LP
- Wet From Birth - The Faint - September 14 - LP
- The System Has Failed - Megadeth - September 14 - LP
- Always Outnumbered,
Never Outgunned - The Prodigy - September 14 - LP
- Everybody Loves a Happy
Ending - Tears for Fears - September 14 - LP
- American Idiot - Green Day - September 21 - LP
- This Type of Thinking
Could Do Us In - Chevelle - September 21 - LP
- The Delivery
Man - Elvis Costello - September 21 - LP
- Il Sogno - Elvis Costello - September 21 - LP
- Welcome to
Woddy Creek - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band -
September 21 - LP
- The Rolling Stones Singles: 1969-1971 - The Rolling Stones - September 21 - Box
- The Jump Off - Lil' Romeo - September 21 - LP
- Noise From the Basement - Skye Sweetnam - September 21 - LP
- London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition - The Clash - September 21 – LP & DVD
- Souls Saved
Here - Big Satan - September 28
- LP
- Hilary Duff - Hilary Duff - September 28 - LP
- Antics - Interpol - September 28 - LP
- Shangri-La - Mark Knopfler - September 28 -
LP
- Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll
- Social Distortion - September 28 - LP
- SMiLe - Brian Wilson - September 28 - LP
- In Love and Death - The Used - September 28 - LP
- Pressure Chief - Cake - October 5 - LP
- Ten Years Gone: The Best of Everclear 1994-2004 - Everclear - October 5 – Greatest Hits
- Size Matters - Helmet - October 5 - LP
- Palookaville (Fatboy Slim
Album) - Fatboy Slim - October 5 - LP
- The Chronicles of Life and
Death - Good Charlotte - October 5 - LP
- Greatest
Hits, Vol. 1 - Korn - October 5 – Greatest Hits
- Gates - Love Is In The Air - October 5 - LP
- Unshattered - Peter Murphy - October 5 - LP
- Around the Sun - R.E.M. - LP
- Has Been - William Shatner - October 5 - LP
- 50 Number Ones - George Strait - October 5 – Greatest Hits
- Real Gone - Tom Waits
- October 5 - LP
- The Place You're In - Kenny Wayne Shepherd - October 5 - LP
- Astronaut - Duran Duran - October 12 - LP & DVD
- New Roman Times - Camper Van Beethoven - October 12 - LP
- Heart & Soul
- Joe Cocker - October 12 - LP
- Songs of
the Unforgiven - Crash Test Dummies - October 12 -
LP
- Miracle - Celine Dion - October 12 - LP
- Chuck - Sum 41 -
October 12 - LP
- Never Breathe What You Can't
See - Jello Biafra & The Melvins - October 19 - LP
- Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - October 19 - LP
- Raise Hell - (hed) p.e. - October 19 - LP
- Iron Bottom Sound - Flick - October 19 - LP
- Futures - Jimmy Eat World - October 19 - LP
- Welcome to the
North - The Music - October 19 -
LP
- Walkin' in the Shadow of Life - The Neville Brothers - October 19 - LP
- The Great American Songbook III - Rod
Stewart - October 19 - LP
- 2067 - Rheostatics - October 26 - LP
- All for You - Annihilator - October 26 - LP
- Gold Medal - The
Donnas - October 26 - LP
- War Party - GWAR - October 26 - LP
- Different
Tonight - Steve Holy - October
26 - LP
- Ultimate Jerky Boys - The Jerky Boys - October 26 - Compilation
- Still Not Getting Any... - Simple Plan - October 26 - LP & DVD
- This is Music: The Singles
92-98 - The Verve - November 1 international/November 15 USA -
Compilation
- Singles - Travis - November 2 - Compilation
- Merry Christmas With Love - Clay Aiken - November 2 - LP
- Acoustic - John Lennon - November 2 - LP
- eMOTIVe - A
Perfect Circle - November 2 - Covers
- Reise Reise - Rammstein - November 2 - LP
- I Need an Angel -
Ruben Studdard - November 2 - LP
- Alive at Last -
Train - November 2 - Compilation
- Untitled - Trisha Yearwood - November 2 - LP
- Mistaken
Identity - Delta Goodrem - November 7 - LP
- Harmonium - Vanessa Carlton - November 9 - LP
- Real Talk - Fabolous - November 9 - LP
- Peachtree Road - Elton John - November 9 - LP
- 2005 KROQ New Music - KROQ - November 9 - Compilation
- Warts
& All, Vol. 4 - moe. - November 9 - LP
- The
Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us!) - NOFX - November 9 - Compilation
- Home Movies - Pennywise - November 9 - DVD; Re-Issue
- Hummin' to
Myself - Linda Ronstadt - November 9 - LP
- The Silent Force - Within Temptation - November 15 - LP
- Greatest Hits: My Prerogative
- Britney Spears – Greatest Hits & DVD
- The Capitol Albums, Volume 1 -
The Beatles - November 16 - Box
- Youth - Collective Soul - November 16 - LP
- Destiny Fulfilled - Destiny's Child - November 16 - LP
- Encore - Eminem - November 16 - LP
- aMOTION - A
Perfect Circle - November 16 - LP & DVD
- Spongebob Squarepants: the
Movie - Soundtrack - November 16 - Soundtrack
- Want Two - Rufus Wainwright - November 16 - LP
- The
Ultimate Collection - Michael Jackson - November 16 -
Box
- Greatest
Hits - Creed - November 23 – Greatest Hits
- R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta) The Masterpiece - Snoop Dogg - November 23 - LP
- Red Light
District - Ludacris - November 23 - LP
- With the Lights Out - Nirvana - November 23 - Box
- Rejoice - Jessica Simpson - November 23 - LP
- Love, Angel, Music, Baby -
Gwen Stefani - November 23 - LP
- How to Dismantle an Atomic
Bomb - U2 - November 23 - LP
- Collision Course - Linkin Park and Jay-Z - November 30 - LP & DVD
- Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson - November 30 - LP
- Speak - Lindsay Lohan - December 7 - LP
- Loyal to the Game - 2Pac - December 14 - LP
Top Hits
See also: Hot 100 No. 1 Hits
of 2004 (USA) so far
Births
Deaths
- January 13 - Philip Crosby, 69, member of Crosby Boys band, son of crooner Bing Crosby
- January 17 - Czeslaw
Niemen (65) - Polish rock singer
- January 17 - Tom Rowe, musician
- January 22 - Billy May (87)
- US big band & pop music
arranger
- January 22 - Ann Miller, actress, singer and dancer
- February 1 - Rocco Clein, 35, journalist, musician ([1] (http://www.turbojugend.net/pg/detail.php?k_id=1&a_id=1477)); ([2] (http://de.BambooWeb.org/articles/R/o/Rocco_Clein))
- February 3 - Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie
Brothers, Steely Dan)
- February 8 - Cem Karaca,
58, Turkish singer and composer
- February 16 - Doris
Troy, 67, R&B singer
- February 21 - Bart
Howard, 87, composer and pianist
- February 23 - Don
Cornell, 84, US singer
- February 23 - Alvino Rey, 95, US bandleader and guitarist
- March 4 - John McGeoch, 48,
British guitarist with Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL
- March 6 - Peggy DeCastro, 82, US singer born in the Dominican Republic, eldest of the DeCastro Sisters
- March 18 - Vytas
Brenner, 57,musician, keyboardist and composer
- March 26 - Jan Berry, US singer
of Jan and Dean
- March 28 - Sylvia Froos, 89, US singer
- April 3 - Gabriella
Ferri, 62, Italian Singer
- April 9 - Harry Babbitt,
90, US singer with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra
- April 10 - Jacek
Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
- May 1 - Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)
- 12 May - John LaPorta, 84,
Jazz clarinetist, composer and educator
- May 12 - John Whitehead,
55, R&B artist, shot dead
- May 17 - Elvin Jones, 76,
Jazz Drummer, notably with the John
Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s.
- May 19 - Arnold Moore, 90,
blues artist
- June 4 - Irene Manning, 91,
US actress, singer and dancer
- June 6 - Iona Brown, 63,
conductor and violinist
- June 10 - Ray Charles, 73, US
singer and pianist
- June 15 - James F. Arnold, 72, first tenor with the Four
Lads
- June 17 - Jackie Paris, US jazz singer
- July 13 - Carlos
Kleiber, conductor
- July 21 - Jerry
Goldsmith, 75, US composer, Academy Award winner
- July 22 - Illinois
Jacquet, 81, US jazz saxophonist
- July 22 - Sacha Distel, 71,
French singer
- August 6 - Rick James, 56, US
funk singer
- August 6 - Argentino Ledesma, 75, Argentinian singer
- August 9 - Tony Mottola, 86, US Guitarist
- August 9 - David Raksin, 92, US composer
- August 18 - Elmer
Bernstein, 82, US composer
- August 20 - María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban Rumbera
- August 26 - Laura
Branigan, 47, US singer
- September 12 - Fred Ebb,
72, US lyricist
- September 15 - Johnny Ramone, 55, US Guitarist and founding member of The Ramones
- September 19 - Skeeter Davis, 72, US country singer
- October 25 - John Peel, 65,
British DJ and broadcaster
- November 13 - John
Balance, 42, British musician from Coil
- November 13 - Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, African American
rapper
- November 18 - Cy
Coleman, 75, US composer
- December 8 - Dimebag Darrell, 38, former Pantera guitarist, shot to death in Ohio
- December 14 - Sidonie Goossens, 102, harpist
- December 19 - Renata Tebaldi, 82, operatic soprano
- December 20 - Son Seals,
62, blues musician
- December 30 - Artie
Shaw, 94, Swing Era Clarinetist and
Bandleader
Awards
See also: 2003 in music, 2004 in music (UK), other events of 2004, 2005 in music, list of 'years in music', 2000s in music
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