2014 in music

This topic covers notable events and articles related to 2014 in music.

Specific locations

Specific genres

Albums released

Awards

Bands formed

• Akdong Musician
• Antemasque
• American Wrestlers
• The Babe Rainbow
• Berry Good
• The Beths
• Brockhampton
• Cafuné
• Cheat Codes
• Drain
• FFS
• Fiddlehead
• Finom
• Goose
• Great Grandpa
• Gunship
• High4
• Hot Mulligan
• Hotshot
• I'm with Her
• LANY
• Lovelyz
• Lip Service
• Maddie & Tae
• Mamamoo
• Melody Day
• Men I Trust
• Michigander
• Missio
• No Devotion
• Oh Wonder
• Oso Oso
• Pale Waves
• Post Animal
• Red Velvet
• Remember Sports
• Sonamoo
• Saint Asonia
• Shame
• The Shelters
• Sheer Mag
• Slaughter Beach, Dog
• Slaves
• Sofi Tukker
• Soul Glo
• The Spirit of the Beehive
• Stereo Kicks
• Teenage Wrist
• Toheart
• Ultimate Painting
• Uranium Club
• The War and Treaty
• Winner
• You+Me

Bands reformed

• American Football
• Atreyu
• Babes In Toyland
• Basement
• Breaking Benjamin
• Constantines
• Copeland
• Deep Dish
• Despised Icon
• Design the Skyline
• Electric Light Orchestra (Now credited as Jeff Lynne's ELO)
• Erase Errata
• Failure
• Haste the Day
• L7
• The Libertines
• Luna
• The Matches
• Metro Station
• Midtown
• Mineral
• Nickel Creek
• OutKast
• Ride
• Saosin
• Sleater-Kinney
• Slowdive
• Trick Pony
• The Unicorns

Bands on hiatus

• As I Lay Dying
• Darkside
• Dredg
• Foxy Shazam
• Furthur
• The Wanted
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Bands disbanded

• Abandon All Ships
• The Allman Brothers Band
• Anberlin
• As Blood Runs Black
• Austrian Death Machine
• Beady Eye
• Beastie Boys
• Beneath the Sky
• The Blackout
• Bleeding Through
• Bomb the Music Industry!
• Brown Bird
• Camp Freddy
• Chimaira
• The Civil Wars
• Clipse
• Company of Thieves
• Crystal Castles
• Danity Kane
• The Dangerous Summer
• Eleventyseven
• For All Those Sleeping
• Guided by Voices
• HotCha
• Jethro Tull
• The Knife
• Lestat
• LFO
• The Luchagors
• Morning Parade
• The Move
• Orbital
• Nightmare Boyzzz
• Nachtmystium
• Pink Floyd
• The Rapture
• Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine
• Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock
• Slaughterhouse
• Smith Westerns
• The Swellers
• Ten Second Epic
• There for Tomorrow
• Vista Chino
• Vivian Girls
• WC and the Maad Circle

Deaths

January

• 4 – Phil Everly (74), American musician (The Everly Brothers)
• 13 – Ronny Jordan (51), British guitarist.
• 18 – Dennis Frederiksen (62), American singer (Toto), (Survivor)
• 27 – Pete Seeger (94), American guitarist.

February

• 5 – Samantha Juste (69), English-American singer and television host.
• 8 – Finbarr Dwyer (67), Irish accordionist and fiddler.
• 16 – Raymond Louis Kennedy, 67, American pop-rock singer-songwriter
• 17
• Frank Wappat (84), British DJ and singer.
• Bob Casale, (61), American guitarist and keyboardist (Devo).
• 23 – Chip Damiani, (68), American drummer (The Remains)
• 24 – Franny Beecher (92), American guitarist.
• 25
• Paco de Lucía (66), Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer and producer.
• Peter Callander (74), English songwriter and record producer.

March

• 5 – Dave Sampson (73), English singer.
• 6 – Marion Stein (Thorpe) (87), British pianist.

April

• 2 – Lyndsie Holland (75), English actress and singer.
• 7 – John Shirley-Quirk (83), British operatic bass-baritone.
• 16 – Stan Kelly-Bootle (84), British songwriter, author and computer engineer.
• 17 – Cheo Feliciano (78), Puerto Rican singer and composer (Joe Cuba Sextet)
• 18 – Brian Priestman (87), British conductor (Denver Symphony Orchestra).

May

• 13 – Akihiro Yokoyama (49), Japanese thrash metal bassist (United)
• 25 – Herb Jeffries (100), American singer and actor.

June

• 18 – Horace Silver (85), American jazz pianist.
• 21 – Jimmy C. Newman (86), country music singer.

July

• 3 – Jesse Anderson (73), American blues singer-songwriter and musician.
• 11 – Charlie Haden (76), American upright-bassist.
• 19 – Lionel Ferbos (103), American trumpeter.
• 24 – Christian Falk (52), Swedish record producer and musician.

August

• 1 – Michael Johns (35), Australian singer and American Idol contestant.
• 3 – Yvette Giraud (97), French singer and actress.
• 15 – Svein Nymo (61), Norwegian violinist and composer.
• 17 – Pierre Vassiliu (76), Swiss-born French singer.
• 19 – KÃ¥re Kolberg (78), Norwegian composer.
• 23 – Inga Juuso (68), singer and actress.
• 24 – Aldo Donati (66), Italian singer, composer and television personality, (cerebral hemorrhage)
• 29
• Jan Groth (68), Norwegian singer (Aunt Mary, Just 4 Fun), (cancer).
• Peret (79), Spanish singer, guitarist and composer.

September

• 1 – Jimi Jamison (63), American singer (Survivor)
• 2 – Antonis Vardis (66), Greek composer and singer.
• 8
• Magda Olivero (104), Italian soprano.
• Gerald Wilson (96), American jazz trumpeter.
• 12 – Joe Sample (75), American pianist.
• 15 – Jackie Cain (86), American jazz singer (Jackie & Roy).
• 17 – George Hamilton IV (77), American country music singer.
• 18 – Kenny Wheeler (84), Canadian jazz composer, trumpeter and flugelhorn player.

October

• 1 – Lynsey de Paul (66), English singer
• 10 – Olav Dale (55), Norwegian jazz saxophonist, composer and orchestra leader.
• 16 – Tim Hauser (72), American jazz singer.
• 20 - Tyson Stevens (29), vocals, additional guitar, bass guitar in Arizona Post Hardcore band Scary Kids Scaring Kids.
• 23 – Alvin Stardust (72), English singer
• 25 – Jack Bruce (71), Scottish bassist, composer and orchestra leader.

November

• 6 – Maggie Boyle (57), British folk singer and musician (cancer).
• 14 – Mike Burney (70), British jazz saxophonist.
• 15 – Cherry Wainer (79), South African-born British organist (Lord Rockingham's XI).
• 17
• Jeff Fletcher (36), British guitarist (Northern Uproar).
• Jimmy Ruffin (78), American soul singer
• 20 – Arthur Butterworth (91), English composer and conductor.
• 27 - Érick Bamy, 64, French singer and Johnny Hallyday's former backing vocalist from 1973 to 2000.

December

• 8 – Knut Nystedt (99), Norwegian composer.
• 12 – John Persen (73), Norwegian composer.
• 22 – Joe Cocker (70), English singer
• 24 – Buddy DeFranco (91), American jazz clarinetist.
• 31 – Michael Kennedy (88), English writer on music.

Musical films

• God Help the Girl
• Whiplash

See also

• Timeline of musical events
• Women in music

References