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January–February

• January 29 - The Supremes
  The Supremes
  
  The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
  ' Mary Wilson
  Mary Wilson (singer)
  
  Mary Wilson is an United States singer best known as a member of the legendary Motown group The Supremes. Wilson was notably the only original member of The Supremes who remained in the group from its founding in 1959 to its disbandment in 1977....
   is injured when her Jeep
  Jeep
  
  Jeep is an automobile marque of Chrysler. It is the oldest off-road vehicle brand, with Land Rover coming in second. The original vehicle which first appeared as the prototype Bantam GP became the primary light 4-wheel-drive vehicle of the US Army and allies during the World War II and postwar period....
   hits a freeway
  Freeway
  
  A freeway is a type of road designed for Road safety#Motorway high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of at-grade intersections....
   median and flips over just outside of Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles, California
  
  Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
  , USA. Wilson's 14-year old son is killed in the accident.
• February 7 - Blind Melon
  Blind Melon
  
  Blind Melon is an American rock band that originally existed from 1989 to 1995, and ceased with the death of lead vocalist Shannon Hoon shortly after the release of the band's second album....
  's lead singer Shannon Hoon
  Shannon Hoon
  
  Richard Shannon Hoon was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He rose to fame as frontman and lead singer of the band Blind Melon until his death from a drug overdose in 1995....
   is forced to leave the American Music Awards ceremony for his loud and disruptive behavior. Hoon was later charged with battery, assault, resisting arrest, and destroying a police station phone.
• February 14 - The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia
  Jerry Garcia
  
  Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his work with the band the Grateful Dead. Though he vehemently disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group....
   marries Deborah Koons.
• February 23 - Eddie Van Halen
  Eddie Van Halen
  
  Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen , is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and music producer, most famous as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen....
  , Chris Isaak
  Chris Isaak
  
  Christopher Joseph Isaak is an United States rock music musician and occasional actor....
  , and B.B. King attend the ground breaking ceremony for the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada
  Las Vegas, Nevada
  
  Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
  , USA.

March–April

• March 1
• Nirvana
  Nirvana (band)
  
  Nirvana was an American Rock music band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987....
   play their final concert in Munich
  Munich
  
  Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
  .
• Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
   receives the Grammy Award
  Grammy Award
  
  The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
  s Lifetime Achievement award. Sinatra's acceptance speech is cut short and other artists, upset by this action, criticize the producer's decision during the show, including Billy Joel
  Billy Joel
  
  William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
   who takes extra time to perform his song, The River of Dreams, noting that he is wasting valuable air time.
• March 3 - In Rome, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain
  Kurt Cobain
  
  Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician who served as Singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Grunge music band Nirvana .With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Nirvana's second album Nevermind , Cobain with Nirvana entered into the mainstream, bringing along with them a subgenre of alternative rock called Grunge musi...
   lapses into a coma after overdosing on Rohypnol and champagne.
• March 5 - Grace Slick
  Grace Slick
  
  Grace Slick is an United States singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship #Starship, and as a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s....
   is arrested for pointing a shotgun at police in her Tiburon, California
  Tiburon, California
  
  Tiburon is an List of cities in California in Marin County, California. It occupies most of the Tiburon Peninsula , which reaches south into the San Francisco Bay....
   home.
• March 8 - Soundgarden
  Soundgarden
  
  Soundgarden was an American Rock music band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by lead singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto....
   releases Superunknown
  Superunknown
  
  Superunknown is the fourth studio album by the American alternative rock band Soundgarden, released on March 8, 1994 through A&M Records. Soundgarden began work on the album after touring in support of its previous album, Badmotorfinger ....
  , a groundbreaking album that stands as one of the most acclaimed from that era.
• March 18
• Courtney Love
  Courtney Love
  
  Courtney Michelle Love is an United States rock musician and actress. Love is known as lead singer and lyricist for the alternative rock band Hole and for her two-year marriage to Nirvana singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain....
   calls the police fearing that her husband, Nirvana's
  Nirvana (band)
  
  Nirvana was an American Rock music band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987....
   Kurt Cobain
  Kurt Cobain
  
  Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician who served as Singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Grunge music band Nirvana .With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Nirvana's second album Nevermind , Cobain with Nirvana entered into the mainstream, bringing along with them a subgenre of alternative rock called Grunge musi...
  , is suicidal. Police confiscate four guns and twenty-five boxes of ammo from Cobain's home.
• Bassist Darryl Jones
  Darryl Jones
  
  Darryl Jones , also known as "The Munch", is an United States bass guitarist. He is highly regarded for his stylish bass-playing in jazz, blues, and rock music....
   replaces Bill Wyman
  Bill Wyman
  
  Bill Wyman is the former bass guitarist for the England rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings....
   in The Rolling Stones
  The Rolling Stones
  
  The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
  .
• March 30 - Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  
  Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
   embarks on what would be their last world tour before their breakup. The record-breaking tour supports their Division Bell
  The Division Bell
  
  The Division Bell is the final recording studio album by Pink Floyd, released in 1994 , and their second album without Roger Waters. It was recorded at a number of studios, including guitarist/Singing David Gilmour's houseboat studio called Astoria ....
   album, with the band playing to 5,500,000 people in 68 cities and grossing over £150,000,000.
• March 31 - Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  
  Madonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, Madonna moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance....
   appears on The Late Show with David Letterman, making headlines for her foul-mouthed, profanity-laced interview. Robin Williams
  Robin Williams
  
  Robin McLaurim Williams is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and Grammy Award-winning United Statesn comedian and actor.Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980....
   later described the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman."
• April 8
• The body of Kurt Cobain
  Kurt Cobain
  
  Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician who served as Singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the Grunge music band Nirvana .With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Nirvana's second album Nevermind , Cobain with Nirvana entered into the mainstream, bringing along with them a subgenre of alternative rock called Grunge musi...
  , lead singer of Nirvana
  Nirvana (band)
  
  Nirvana was an American Rock music band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987....
  , is found. Cobain's death three days before, is legally declared to be suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot.
• The Offspring
  The Offspring
  
  The Offspring is an American rock music band. It was formed in 1984 in Huntington Beach, California. The band is credited, along with fellow California punk bands Green Day and Rancid , with reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid-1990s....
   release their third album, Smash
  Smash (album)
  
  Smash is the third studio album by United States band The Offspring. Released on April 8, 1994, the album was the band's last collaboration with record producer Thom Wilson, who produced their last two albums....
  , which helps bring the 1990s punk scene
  California punk scene
  
  Since the late 1970s, California has had a thriving regional punk rock movement. It primarily consists of bands from the Los Angeles, Orange County, California, San Francisco, and San Diego areas....
   into the mainstream and has been credited as the highest selling independent album of all time.
• April 19 - Rapper Nas
  Nas
  
  Nasir Jones, , , better known by his stage name Nas, , formerly Nasty Nas, is an American rapping and actor. The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, he was born and raised in the Queensbridge, Queens housing projects in New York City....
   releases his debut album, Illmatic
  Illmatic
  
  Illmatic is the debut album of American Hip hop music rapper Nas, released April 19, 1994 on Columbia Records in the United States. Recording sessions for the album took place from 1992 to 1993 at Chung King Studios, D&D Studios, Battery Studios and Unique Recording Studios in New York City....
  , which is heralded as a rebirth of East Coast hip hop
  East Coast hip hop
  
  East Coast hip hop is a form of hip hop music that originated and developed in New York City, USA during the 1970s and early 1980s. The style emerged as a definitive subgenre after artists from other regions of the United States emerged with different styles....
  .
• April 25
• Blur
  Blur (band)
  
  Blur are an English alternative rock band who formed in London in 1989. The four members of the band are singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree....
   releases Parklife
  Parklife
  
  Parklife is the third studio album by the British alternative rock band Blur , released on 25 April 1994 on Food Records. After disappointing sales for their previous album Modern Life is Rubbish , Parklife returned Blur to prominence in the UK, helped by its four hit singles: "Girls & Boys ", "End of a Century", "Parklife " and "...
  , its first album reaching #1 in UK, where it was certified "quadruple platinum" .
• Adam Horovitz
  Adam Horovitz
  
  Adam Keefe Horovitz , better known as Ad-Rock or King Ad-Rock, is an American musician, guitarist, rapper, producer , and actor....
   of the Beastie Boys
  Beastie Boys
  
  Beastie Boys are an American hip hop music group from New York City consisting of Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz. Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Mix Master Mike, who was first featured in the song "Three MC's and One DJ"....
   is sentenced to 200 hours of community service for attacking a television cameraman during funeral services for actor River Phoenix
  River Phoenix
  
  River Jude Phoenix was an United States film actor. He was listed on John Willis's Screen World, Vol. 38 as one of twelve "promising new actors of 1986", and was hailed as highly talented by such critics as Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel....
   in November 1993
• April 26
• The legendary Fillmore
  The Fillmore
  
  The Fillmore is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California, made famous by Bill Graham . Named for its original location at the intersection of Fillmore Street and Geary Boulevard, it lies on the boundary of the Western Addition and the Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California neighborhoods....
   club reopens in San Francisco, California
  San Francisco, California
  
  The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
  .
• Grace Slick
  Grace Slick
  
  Grace Slick is an United States singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship #Starship, and as a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s....
   pleads guilty to pointing a shotgun at police officers on March 5.

May–June

• May 6
• Pearl Jam
  Pearl Jam
  
  Pearl Jam is an American rock music band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready ....
   files a complaint against Ticketmaster
  Ticketmaster
  
  Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is a ticket sales and distribution company based in West Hollywood, California, United States, with operations in many countries around the world....
   with the U.S. Justice Department charging that the company has a monopoly on the concert ticket business.
• To help promote his new album, Alice Cooper
  Alice Cooper
  
  Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
   released a three part comic book that followed the album The Last Temptation
  The Last Temptation
  
  The Last Temptation is a 1994 concept album by rock singer, Alice Cooper. It centred around a boy named Steven_%28Alice_Cooper_character%29 , and a mysterious showman....
  .
• Weezer
  Weezer
  
  Weezer is a Grammy-winning United States Rock music band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1992. Initially, the band consisted of Rivers Cuomo , Patrick Wilson , Matt Sharp , and Jason Cropper ....
   release their debut album, the self-titled "blue" album
  Weezer (The Blue Album)
  
  Weezer, often referred to as "The Blue Album", is the debut album by the American alternative rock band Weezer. It was released on May 10, 1994 by Geffen Records....
  , which goes multiplatinum.
• Tupac Shakur
  Tupac Shakur
  
  Tupac Amaru Shakur , also known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American Rapping. In addition to his status as a top-selling recording artist, Shakur was a promising actor and a social activist....
   begins serving a 15-day sentence in a county jail for attacking director
  Film director
  
  A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
   Allen Hughes on the set of a video shoot.
• June 7 - Grace Slick
  Grace Slick
  
  Grace Slick is an United States singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship #Starship, and as a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s....
   is sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three month's worth of Alcoholics Anonymous
  Alcoholics Anonymous
  
  Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship of men and women who share a desire to stop drinking alcoholic beverage. AA suggests members completely abstain from alcohol, regularly attend meetings with other members, and follow its program to help each other with their common purpose; to help members "stay sober and help other alcoholics...
   meetings after a March 5 incident with police officers.
• June 21 - Rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
  Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
  
  Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is an United States hip hop group from the Glenville, Cleveland section of Cleveland, Ohio. They are best known for their fast-paced, aggressive rapping style and harmonizing vocals....
   releases their first major debut album Creepin On Ah Come Up
  Creepin on ah Come Up
  
  Creepin on ah Come Up is an Extended play by rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. The album was released on June 21, 1994 on Ruthless Records. In 1998 the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums ....
  , Which eventually goes multiplatinum and garners critical success.

July–August

• July - The Verbier Festival
  Verbier Festival
  
  The Verbier Festival is an international music festival that takes place annually for 2 weeks in late July and early August in the mountain resort of Verbier, Switzerland....
   is launched.
• August - Rich Mullins
  Rich Mullins
  
  Richard Wayne Mullins was an United States Contemporary Christian Music singer and songwriter born to John and Neva Mullins in Richmond, Indiana....
   and "Leave a Legacy" contest winner, 76-year-old Miguel Garcia Massiate, travel to Bogotá
  Bogotá
  
  Bogot? ? officially named Bogot?, D.C. , formerly called Santa Fe de Bogot? ? is the capital city of Colombia, as well as the most populous city in the country, with 6,776,009 inhabitants ....
  , Colombia
  Colombia
  
  Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
   with Compassion International
  Compassion International
  
  Compassion International is a Christianity child Child_sponsorship organization dedicated to the long-term development of children living in poverty around the world....
  . The two men visit the Ciudad Sucre Center where Mullins presented them with over $40,000 that was raised on his summer '94 Ragamuffin Band tour.
• August 9 - Machine Head
  Machine Head (band)
  
  Machine Head is an American heavy metal music band, formed in 1992 in Oakland, California, California. Founded by singer and guitarist Robert Flynn and bassist Adam Duce, and has only had 3 personnel changes since its inception 17 years ago....
   release their first album Burn My Eyes
  Burn My Eyes
  
  Burn My Eyes is the debut album by Oakland, California groove metal band Machine Head . Its themes generally tie into the social disorder and corresponding inner tension that the band was exposed to in their native Oakland, CA, reflected in Robb Flynn lyrics....
  , which was a big success and becomes Roadrunner Records
  Roadrunner Records
  
  Roadrunner Records is a record label that concentrates on heavy metal music bands. It is currently a subsidiary of Warner Music Group....
  ' best selling debut album.
• August 12-August 14 - Woodstock '94
  Woodstock '94
  
  Woodstock '94 was a music festival organized in order to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original Woodstock Festival of 1969. It was promoted as "2 More Days of Peace and Music." The famous poster used to promote the first concert was revised to feature two birds perched on a guitar ....
  
• August 23 - Jeff Buckley
  Jeff Buckley
  
  Jeffrey Scott Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician....
   releases his single, critically-acclaimed, full-length studio album "Grace;"
  Grace (album)
  
  Grace is the only complete studio album by Jeff Buckley, released on August 23, 1994 . The album is named after the title track, "Grace ," co-written by Buckley and Gary Lucas....
  
• August 30 - Oasis
  Oasis (band)
  
  Oasis are an English rock music band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as "The Rain", the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul Arthurs , Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher ....
   release their debut album Definitely Maybe, it becomes the fastest selling debut album in the United Kingdom at the time until 2006 when it was beaten by the Arctic Monkeys
  Arctic Monkeys
  
  Arctic Monkeys are an England indie rock band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield. Formed in 2002, the band currently consists of Alex Turner , Jamie Cook , Nick O'Malley and Matt Helders ....
  ' debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
  Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
  
  Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not is the debut album by Sheffield band Arctic Monkeys, released on 23 January 2006. The album became the fastest selling debut album in the UK since Definitely Maybe by Oasis ....
  .

September–October

• September - José Cura
  José Cura
  
  Jos? Cura is a prominent operatic tenor known for his intense and original interpretations of his characters, notably Giuseppe Verdi?s Otello and Camille Saint-Sa?ns? Samson et Dalila, as well as for his unconventional and innovative concert performances....
   wins the Operalia – International Plácido Domingo
  Plácido Domingo
  
  Jos? Pl?cido Domingo Embil Order of the British Empire , better known as Pl?cido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor, known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range....
   Opera Singer Competition.
• September 8 - Richard A. Morse, lead male vocalist of RAM
  RAM (band)
  
  RAM is a mizik rasin band based in the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The band derives its name from the initials of its founder, songwriter, and lead male vocalist, Richard Auguste Morse....
  , narrowly escapes a kidnapping by armed men during the band's live performance at the Hotel Oloffson
  Hotel Oloffson
  
  The Hotel Oloffson is an inn in central Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The main structure of the hotel is a 19th century Gothic Revival architecture Victorian architecture mansion set in a lush tropical garden....
   in Port-au-Prince
  Port-au-Prince
  
  Port-au-Prince is the Capital and largest List of cities in Haiti of Haiti. Growth, especially in crowded slums in nearby plains and hillsides, has raised the population of the Port-au-Prince area to between 2.5 and 3 million....
  , Haiti
  Haiti
  
  Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Haitian Creole language- and French language-speaking Caribbean country. Along with the Dominican Republic, it occupies the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago....
  ; the attempted kidnapping was provoked by the performance of "Fèy
  Fey
  
  Fey may refer to:* A word for fairy with multiple spellings.* A word means "doomed, fated to die", often ascribed to supernatural causes, and evidenced by abnormal behavior ....
  ", a RAM single banned nationwide by the military authorities.
• October 4 - Dream Theater
  Dream Theater
  
  Dream Theater is an United States progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Myung, John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, before they dropped out to support the band....
   releases their third studio album Awake
  Awake (Dream Theater album)
  
  'Awake' is the third studio album by United States progressive metal band Dream Theater, released in 1994. The record holds the distinction of being the last Dream Theater album to feature keyboardist Kevin Moore, and is the band's second-highest selling effort to date behind 1992's ....
  .

Unknown dates

• Christian Olde Wolbers
  Christian Olde Wolbers
  
  Christian Olde Wolbers was the one of the many bass guitarists of the Industrial music band Fear Factory from December 1993 to 2002 when the group disbanded....
   replaces Andrew Shives
  Andrew Shives
  
  Andrew Shives was the former live bassist of the industrial metal group Fear Factory between 1990 and 1994. His photo appeared on the Soul of a New Machine album jacket, but he didn't play on the album ....
   in Fear Factory
  Fear Factory
  
  Fear Factory is an American heavy metal music band. The band formed in 1989 and have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes....
  .
• Jeff Burrows
  Jeff Burrows
  
  Jeffrey John Burrows is the drummer and percussionist for Canadian rock band Crash Karma.Jeff Burrows begun drumming at eleven years of age and professionally so since 1990 when he joined childhood friends Jeff Martin and Stuart Chatwood in forming The Tea Party....
   signs a Cymbal
  Cymbal
  
  Cymbals are a modern percussion instrument. Cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various cymbal alloys; see cymbal making for a discussion of their manufacture....
   deal with Sabian.
• ALL
  ALL (band)
  
  All is an American punk band from Fort Collins, Colorado, formed by Descendents members Bill Stevenson , Karl Alvarez, and Stephen Egerton ....
   part ways with their original home Cruz Records, and sign a recording contract
  Recording contract
  
  A recording contract is a legal agreement between a record label and a recording artist , where the artist makes a record for the label to sell and promote....
   with Interscope
  Interscope Records
  
  Interscope Records is an United States record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group....
   (though they shortly leave that label after releasing an album
  Pummel (album)
  
  Pummel is the sixth album by California pop punk band All .Pummel was All's major label debut on Interscope Records, their first venture away from Cruz Records....
   in the following year
  1995 in music
  
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995....
  ).
• The Offspring
  The Offspring
  
  The Offspring is an American rock music band. It was formed in 1984 in Huntington Beach, California. The band is credited, along with fellow California punk bands Green Day and Rancid , with reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid-1990s....
   frontman Dexter Holland
  Dexter Holland
  
  MsBio. Bryan Keith Holland , in , better known under his stage name Dexter Holland, is the singer and rhythm guitarist for the Californian punk rock band The Offspring, who are best known for their hit singles, such as "Gone Away", "Come Out and Play ", "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid", "Hammerhead ", Self Esteem ", "Pretty Fly ", "Why Don'...
   and bassist Greg Kriesel
  Greg Kriesel
  
  Gregory David Kriesel , best known by his stage name Greg K., is an United States bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the punk rock band , The Offspring....
   form the label Nitro Records
  Nitro Records
  
  Nitro Records is an independent record label created and owned by Dexter Holland and Greg Kriesel . They started the label in 1994 in music.The label is famous for being an incubator for Punk rock artists who have subsequently become successful, most notably AFI ....
  , an incubator for successful punk artists such as AFI
  AFI (band)
  
  AFI is an American hardcore punk band from Ukiah, California, California, formed in 1991. They have consisted of the same lineup since 1998, lead vocalist Davey Havok, drummer and backup vocalist Adam Carson, with bassist Hunter Burgan and guitarist Jade Puget, who both play keyboard and contribute backup vocals....
  . The label later releases albums from classic punk bands, including The Damned
  The Damned
  
  The Damned are an English Rock music band formed in London in 1976. They are notable for being the first punk rock band from England to release a single , an album , and to tour the United States....
   and TSOL
  TSOL
  
  TSOL are an American punk band which formed in 1979 in Long Beach, California. TSOL is short for True Sounds of Liberty although they are rarely referred to by their full name....
  , and also reissues the first Offspring album
  The Offspring (album)
  
  The Offspring is the debut studio album by the American punk rock band The Offspring. It was released on 15 June 1989 on Nemesis Records as vinyl-only, and was not released on Compact disc until 21 November 1995 on Nitro Records/Epitaph Records, with a new album cover but otherwise identical....
  .
• Social Distortion
  Social Distortion
  
  Social Distortion is an United States rock music band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California, Orange County, California, California. The band currently consists of Mike Ness , Jonny Wickersham , Brent Harding and Charlie Quintana ....
   manager Jim Guerinot forms the label Time Bomb Recordings
  Time Bomb Recordings
  
  Time Bomb Recordings is a Laguna Beach, California based record label founded by Social Distortion manager Jim Guerinot in a 1994 joint-venture agreement with Arista Records....
   in joint-venture agreement with Arista
  Arista Records
  
  Arista Records is an United States record label. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment and operates under the RCA Records....
  . The label actually exists mostly as an imprint for current releases from Social Distortion and solo albums by Mike Ness
  Mike Ness
  
  Michael James Ness is a prolific guitarist, singer, and chief songwriter for the punk rock band Social Distortion. As of Dennis Danell's death in 2000, he is the only remaining original member of the band....
  , along with the administration of the label's back catalog.
• Brett Gurewitz
  Brett Gurewitz
  
  Brett Gurewitz , nicknamed Mr. Brett, is the guitarist and a songwriter of Bad Religion. He is also the owner of the music label Epitaph Records....
   leaves Bad Religion
  Bad Religion
  
  Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
   to concentrate on the fast-growing Epitaph Records
  Epitaph Records
  
  Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O....
  , leaving singer Greg Graffin
  Greg Graffin
  
  Gregory Walter Graffin, Doctor of Philosophy is the vocalist and co-founder of the Punk rock band Bad Religion, as well as a life sciences and paleontology lecturer at UCLA....
   and bassist Jay Bentley
  Jay Bentley
  
  Jay Dee Bentley is the bassist and co-founding member of the punk rock group Bad Religion. He's played with the band through its whole existence with a small break between 1982 and 1986....
   the only founding members of the band still performing with the group. He is replaced by former Minor Threat
  Minor Threat
  
  Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. Despite being so short-lived, the band had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene....
  /Dag Nasty
  Dag Nasty
  
  Dag Nasty was a Washington D.C. hardcore punk band formed in 1985 by Brian Baker of Minor Threat, Colin Sears and Roger Marbury , both of Bloody Mannequin Orchestra, and Shawn Brown later of Swiz and Jesuseater ....
   guitarist Brian Baker
  Brian Baker (musician)
  
  Brian Baker is an United States punk rock musician. He is best known as one of the founding members of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat, and as a guitarist in Bad Religion since 1994 alongside Greg Hetson and later Brett Gurewitz as well....
  , who turned down a touring job for R.E.M. at this time. Gurewitz rejoined Bad Religion in 2001.
• The three surviving members of The Beatles
  The Beatles
  
  The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
   secretly reunite to record additional music for a few of John Lennon
  John Lennon
  
  John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
  's old unfinished demos, presented to Paul McCartney
  Paul McCartney
  
  Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
   by Yoko Ono
  Yoko Ono
  
  , born in Tokyo on February 18, 1933, is a Japanese people artist and musician. She is known for her work as an avant-garde artist and musician, and her marriage and works with musician John Lennon....
  , with Jeff Lynne
  Jeff Lynne
  
  Jeffrey Lynne is a two-time Ivor Novello Awards recipient and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, guitarist and record producer who gained fame as the leader of Electric Light Orchestra and was a co-founder and member of The Traveling Wilburys....
   producing. The track, "Free As A Bird
  Free as a Bird
  
  "Free as a Bird" is a song performed by The Beatles. The single was released on 4 December 1995, as part of the promotion for the release of The Beatles Anthology video documentary and the band's Anthology 1 compilation album....
  ", is released as a single, reaching #2 in the UK, and evolves into the exhaustive Beatles Anthology project.

Musicians Starting

• Agoraphobic Nosebleed
  Agoraphobic Nosebleed
  
  Agoraphobic Nosebleed is a grindcore band formed in 1994 in Massachusetts, United States. Its line-up has changed often during the years, leaving the only permanent member Scott Hull , also a guitarist in Pig Destroyer....
  
• Aqua
  Aqua (band)
  
  Aqua is a Denmark-Norway dance-pop band , perhaps best known for their 1997 breakthrough single Barbie Girl. The group formed in 1989 and achieved huge success across the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s....
   (as Joyspeed)
• The Aquabats
  The Aquabats
  
  The Aquabats are an United States Rock music band formed in 1994 in Huntington Beach, California and currently recording for Nitro Records. They have released four full-length studio albums and have toured internationally....
  
• Björn Gelotte
  Björn Gelotte
  
  Bj?rn Gelotte is a songwriter and guitarist for the Sweden band In Flames. He joined the band as the drummer in 1995 and continued his position as drummer during The Jester Race and Whoracle....
  
• Bowling for Soup
  Bowling for Soup
  
  Bowling for Soup is an United States rock band who originally formed in Wichita Falls, Texas, Texas in 1994. Now based in Denton, Texas, the band is best known for their single "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" "Almost ", "High School Never Ends", and "1985 "....
  
• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
  Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
  
  Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is an United States hip hop group from the Glenville, Cleveland section of Cleveland, Ohio. They are best known for their fast-paced, aggressive rapping style and harmonizing vocals....
  
• Coal Chamber
  Coal Chamber
  
  Coal Chamber was an United States nu metal band from Los Angeles, California. The band formed in 1994 and disbanded in 2003. Former vocalist Dez Fafara and Meegs Rascon started She's In Pain in 1992....
  
• Crimson Death
  Crimson Death (band)
  
  Crimson Death is a melodic death metal band founded in 1994 by Geyner Valencia and Edgar Rodr?guez, in Arequipa, Peru, playing metal in the vein of the Gothenburg Sound....
  
• Daimonion
  Daimonion (band)
  
  Daimonion - a Poland band from Piotrk?w Trybunalski established in 1994 in music. They play an energetic, colourful and spatial variety of atmospheric Rock music, rooted somewhere in the gothic rock scene of the 80s and 90s....
  
• Dark Age
• Derek Trucks Band
• Elf Power
  Elf Power
  
  Elf Power is an indie rock band. They are originally from Athens, Georgia, and consist of guitarist/vocalist Andrew Rieger, keyboardist Laura Carter, guitarist Jimmy Hughes , bassist Derek Almstead, Eric Harris , cellist Heather McIntosh, and drummer Josh Lott....
  
• Garbage
  Garbage (band)
  
  Garbage is an USA rock music group formed in Madison, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, in 1994. The band consists of Scotland vocalist Shirley Manson and American musicians Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig, and has counted worldwide album sales of over 14 million units....
  
• Kill Hannah
  Kill Hannah
  
  Kill Hannah is an alternative rock band formed in Chicago, Illinois and is currently signed to Roadrunner Records. They have released four studio albums, seven EPs, and two compilation albums as well as two DVDs....
  
• La Bouche
  La Bouche
  
  La Bouche is a Eurodance/Dance-pop duo formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1994, consisting of Melanie Thornton and Lane McCray. They scored two major worldwide hits in the mid-1990s with "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams "....
  
• Limp Bizkit
  Limp Bizkit
  
  Limp Bizkit is an United States nu metal band from Jacksonville, Florida, Florida. The band achieved success with over 50 million albums sold worldwide....
  
• LBC Crew
  LBC Crew
  
  The LBC Crew were a short-lived collective of Long Beach, California-based rappers. They were the first act to be executively-produced by Snoop Dogg....
  
• Mineral
  Mineral (band)
  
  Mineral was a prominent mid-90's indie-rock band originally from Houston, Texas, Texas, but soon relocated to Austin, Texas following their formation....
  
• Muse
  Muse (band)
  
  Muse are an English rock music band that was formed in Teignmouth, Devon, England in 1994. Since their inception, the band has comprised Matthew Bellamy , Christopher Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard ....
  
• Naer Mataron
  Naer Mataron
  
  Naer Mataron is a black metal band from Greece which draws on imagery from Greek mythology. The band was formed in 1994 after splitting from Nar Mataron, and was soon signed to Black Lotus Records, with whom they released four studio albums....
  
• Phantom Planet
  Phantom Planet
  
  Phantom Planet is an alternative rock band from Southern California. The band is most widely known in popular culture for its former member, actor and drummer, Jason Schwartzman and its track "California ", which became the theme song for the popular Fox Broadcasting Company Television program, The O.C.....
  
• Placebo
  Placebo (band)
  
  Placebo are an alternative rock musical ensemble formed in London in 1994, consisting of Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Forrest. To date, they have released five studio albums, six Extended plays and twenty-seven singles....
  
• Prototype
  Prototype (band)
  
  Prototype is an American Progressive Metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1994....
  
• Rammstein
  Rammstein
  
  Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche H?rte band, founded in Berlin in 1994, and consisting of Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul Landers , Oliver Riedel , Christoph Schneider and Christian Lorenz ....
  
• Savage Garden
  Savage Garden
  
  Savage Garden was an Australian pop music duo that enjoyed major international success between 1997 and 2000. The band was composed of Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones ....
   split up from Red Edge
• Sevendust
  Sevendust
  
  Sevendust is an American hard rock band from Atlanta, Georgia. They were originally signed to TVT Records, but then released their fifth album with Winedark Records in the US, and Roadrunner Records overseas....
  
• Spice Girls
  Spice Girls
  
  The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994. They consist of Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell....
  
• Static-X
  Static-X
  
  Static-X is an industrial metal band. Formed in 1994, they are signed to Warner Bros. Records and have released five albums, their most recent being Cannibal , which was released on April 3, 2007....
  
• Texas Is the Reason
  Texas Is the Reason
  
  Texas Is the Reason was an American punk rock band. The group was founded by former Shelter guitarist Norm Arenas and 108 drummer Chris Daly in 1994....
  

Musicians Ending

• a-ha
  A-ha
  
  a-ha is a band from Norway. They initially rose to fame during the 1980s and have had continued success in the 1990s and 2000s.a-ha achieved their biggest success with their debut album and single in 1985....
   (Re-formed in 1998)
• American Music Club
  American Music Club
  
  American Music Club is a San Francisco-based band led by singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel. The band is commonly credited as one of the major bands from the "slowcore" and "sadcore" movements....
   (Re-formed in 2004)
• Carl Näslund
  Carl Näslund
  
  dated prod|concern = Per...
  
• Deacon Blue
  Deacon Blue
  
  Deacon Blue are a Glasgow pop music band . The name of the band was rumoured to be taken from the title of a Steely Dan song, whose lyrics seem to reflect the group's early outlook:...
  
• The Farm
  The Farm (band)
  
  The Farm were a band from Liverpool, England. They were popular through the early 1990s. Their album Spartacus stormed to number one in the UK albums chart when it was released in April 1991....
  
• The God Machine
  The God Machine
  
  The God Machine may refer to:*The God Machine , a novel by William Jon Watkins*The God Machine , a novel by Martin Caidin*The God Machine , a US/UK rock band...
  
• Jellyfish
  Jellyfish (band)
  
  Jellyfish were a power pop band from San Francisco. The core members were drummer/singer/songwriter Andy Sturmer, keyboard player/multi-instrumentalist Roger Joseph Manning Jr., and guitarist/songwriter/vocalist Jason Falkner....
  
• Level 42
  Level 42
  
  Level 42 is an England pop rock and jazz-funk music band who had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s. The band gained fame for its high-calibre musicianship - especially that of Mark King , whose percussive Slapping guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the band's hits....
   (Re-formed in 2001)
• Luv'
  Luv'
  
  Luv' is a Netherlands pop girl group which scored a string of successful hit records in a large part of Continental Europe and also South Africa and Mexico in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
   (Re-formed in 2005)
• New Kids On The Block
  New Kids on the Block
  
  New Kids on the Block is an USA pop group that enjoyed success in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a boy band which went on to sell 80 million records world-wide....
   (Re-formed in 2008
  2008 in music
  
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  )
• Nirvana
  Nirvana (band)
  
  Nirvana was an American Rock music band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987....
  
• Not Drowning, Waving
  Not Drowning, Waving
  
  Not Drowning, Waving were a musical group formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1983 by David Bridie and John Phillips. Their music combined elements of rock and roll, ambient music and world music; their lyrics dealt with characteristically Australian topics: word-pictures of landscapes and people, the seasons, and some political issues ....
  
• Rodan
  Rodan (band)
  
  Rodan was an American math rock/indie rock band in the early to mid 1990s. At its height, the band consisted of Jeff Mueller , Jason Noble , Tara Jane O'Neil , and Kevin Coultas ....
  
• Slowdive
  Slowdive
  
  Slowdive was a Dream pop / Shoegazing band formed in 1989, lasting until 1995. The band was formed in Reading, Berkshire, England and soon signed to Creation Records in the UK....
  
• Uncle Tupelo
  Uncle Tupelo
  
  Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville, Illinois, Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994. Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn formed the band after the lead singer of their previous band, The Primitives, left to attend college....
  
• The Wonder Stuff
  The Wonder Stuff
  
  The Wonder Stuff are a band originally based in Stourbridge, West Midlands , in the Black Country, England....
   (Re-formed in 2000)
• 213 (Re-formed in 1996)

Bands reformed

• Circle Jerks
  Circle Jerks
  
  The Circle Jerks are an American punk band, formed circa 1979 in Hermosa Beach, California. It was formed by Black Flag 's original singer, Keith Morris, and future Bad Religion guitarist Greg Hetson....
   (hiatus since 1989)
• King Crimson
  King Crimson
  
  King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
   (since 1984)

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