2005 in music

See also: 2004 in music, 2005 in music (UK), other events of 2005, 2006 in music, list of 'years in music', 2000s in music

Events

January 22 - Tsunami Relief concert held at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales - the largest live music event in the UK since the Live Aid concert of 1985. Performers included Eric Clapton, Jools Holland, Manic Street Preachers, Lulu, Aled Jones, Charlotte Church, Katherine Jenkins, Feeder, Snow Patrol, Liberty X.
January 29 - Avril Lavigne, Chantal Kreviazuk, the Barenaked Ladies, Raine Maida, and Sarah MacLachlan will conduct a concert in Vancouver, British Columbia for tsunami relief.
February 22 - The pop punk group Blink-182 announced that they would be taking an indefinite hiatus.
In April, country music legend Kenny Rogers signed a major world-wide deal with Capitol Records.
April 3 - Alice in Chains original bass player Mike Starr was arrested for "investigation of property destruction and theft". He has also sentenced to 30 years for misdemeanor drug possession during April 1994 in 2 years after being replaced from the group during the recording of Dirt.
May 3 through May 6 - Legendary blues-rock group Cream reunited for four shows in London's Albert Hall.
May 6 - Audioslave became the first American rock group to perform a free outdoor concert in Cuba.
May 21 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 13th Annual Weenie Roast show with Alkaline Trio, Audioslave, Bloc Party, The Bravery, The Dead 60s, Foo Fighters, Hot Hot Heat, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, The Killers, The Mars Volta, Mötley Crüe, MxPx, My Chemical Romance, Queens of the Stone Age and The Transplants.
July 2 - Live Eight benefit concerts

Albums Released

Osirus - Ol' Dirty Bastard - (January 4) - LP (his final album after passing)
Punk Singles Collection 77-80 - Sham 69 - (January 4) - Compilation
Live at CBGB's - Living Colour - (January 11) - LP
Live! Thirty Days Ago - Phoenix - (January 11 - UK release date) - Live
All I Want...Live in Santa Barbara 9/30/92 - Toad the Wet Sprocket - (January 11) - Live
Black Mountain - Black Mountain - (January 18) - LP
Honeysuckle Sweet - Jessi Alexander - (January 25) - LP
Nightbird - Erasure - (January 25) - LP
The Way Up - Pat Metheny Group - (January 25) - LP
Worlds Apart - ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - (January 25) - LP
Side One - Adrian Belew - (January 25) - LP
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn - Bright Eyes - (January 25) - LP
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes - (January 25) - LP
Push the Button - The Chemical Brothers - (January 25) - LP
Happiness In Magazines - Graham Coxon - (January 25 - US release date) - LP
Life Begins Again - Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - (January 25) - LP
Heart & Soul - Joe Cocker - (January 25) - LP
Knuckledown - Ani DiFranco - (January 25) - LP
Curtains - John Frusciante (guitarist of Red Hot Chili Peppers) - (January 25) - LP
Soul Mover - Glenn Hughes - (January 25) - LP
This Woman - LeAnn Rimes - (January 25) - LP
Ready 2 Die - 2Pac - (January 31) - LP
Octane - Spock's Beard - (January 31) - LP
Monkey Business - Black Eyed Peas - (February 1) - LP
Ultimate Kylie - Kylie Minogue - (February 1 - US release date) - Compilation
Red, White and Crüe - Mötley Crüe - (February 1) - Compilation
Here's to the Mourning - Unwritten Law - (February 1) - LP
Seventeen Days - 3 Doors Down - (February 8) - LP
The Golden Republic - The Golden Republic - (February 8) - LP
Disconnection Notice - Goldfinger - (February 15) - LP
Here Come the ABCs - They Might Be Giants - (February 15) - LP
Some Cities - Doves - (February 21) - LP
The Beekeeper - Tori Amos - (February 22) - LP
Elevated - Earth, Wind & Fire - (February 22) - LP
Solarized - Ian Brown, singer of the Stone Roses - (February 22 - US release date) - LP
1984 - Roger Miret and the Disasters - (February 22) - LP
Live! Thirty Days Ago - Phoenix - (February 22 - US release date) - Live
Real Illusions: Reflections - Steve Vai - (February 22) - LP
In Between Dreams - Jack Johnson - (March 1) - LP
Angel of Retribution - Judas Priest - (March 1) - LP
Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta - (March 1) - LP
The Massacre - 50 Cent - (March 3 - internet leakage) - LP
Meltdown - Ash - (March 8 - US release date) - LP
MAFIA - Black Label Society - (March 8) - LP
Warts & All, Vol. 4 - Moe. - (March 8) - LP
Everything's OK - Al Green - (March 15) - LP
Origin Volume 1 - The Soundtrack of Our Lives - (March 15) - LP
Language. Sex. Violence. Other? - Stereophonics - (March 15) - LP
Hearts on Parade - American Hi-Fi - (March 22) - LP
Human After All - Daft Punk - (March 22) - LP
Devil's Playground - Billy Idol - (March 22) - LP
The Best Little Secrets Are Kept - Louis XIV - (March 22) - LP
Hotel - Moby - (March 22) - LP
Prince of Darkness - Ozzy Osbourne - (March 22) - Box
Lullabies to Paralyze - Queens of the Stone Age - (March 22) - LP
True Parallels - Trust Company - (March 22) - LP
Strange and Beautiful - Aqualung - (March 22) - LP
Waiting for the Sirens' Call - New Order - (March 28 - UK, April 26 - US) - LP
Guero - Beck - (March 29) - LP
The Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey - (March 29) - LP
Lifehouse - Lifehouse - (March 29) - LP
Counting Down the Days - Natalie Imbruglia - (March 29) - LP
Lost and Found - Mudvayne - (March 29) - LP
Joe Perry - Joe Perry (guitarist of Aerosmith) - (March 29) - LP
Songs Not to Get Married To - Reggie and the Full Effect - (March 29) - LP
If We Could Only See Us Now - Thrice - (March 29) - LP
In the Arms of God - Corrosion of Conformity - (April 5) - LP
Suspended Animation - Fantômas - (April 5) - LP
Elevator - Hot Hot Heat - (April 5) - LP
We're Not Happy 'Till You're Not Happy - Reel Big Fish - (April 5) - LP
The Apprenticeship of 2Pac - 2Pac - (April 12) - DVD
Bleed Like Me - Garbage - (April 12) - LP
Kingwood - Millencolin - (April 12) - LP
Silver Rain - Marcus Miller - (April 12) - LP
Safety Second, Body Last - The Locust - (April 12) - CDEP
Lost and Found - Mudvayne - (April 12) - LP
22-20s - 22-20s - (April 19) - LP
Untilted - Autechre - (April 19) - LP
The Milk of Human Kindness - Caribou - (April 19) - LP
Cold Roses - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - (April 19) - LP (2-Disc)
Ohmwork - Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath bassist) - (April 19) - LP
Complicated - Nivea - (April 19) - LP
Mighty Rearranger - Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation - (April 25) - LP
Before the Robots - Better Than Ezra - (April 12) - LP
Paper Tigers - Caesars - (April 26) - LP
Blinking Lights And Other Revelations - Eels (April 26) - LP
Songs for Silverman - Ben Folds - (April 26) - LP
Ocean of Confusion: Songs of Screaming Trees 1989-1996 - Screaming Trees - (April 26) - Compilation
Devils & Dust - Bruce Springsteen - (April 26) - LP
Lichtgestalt- Lacrimosa - (May 2) - LP
Perception - Blessid Union of Souls - (May 3) - LP
The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) - Limp Bizkit - (May 3) - LP
The Forgotten Arm - Aimee Mann - (May 3) - LP
With Teeth - Nine Inch Nails - (May 3) - LP
Rock Of Ages...Hymns and Faith - Amy Grant - (May 3) - LP
Pretty In Black - The Raveonettes - (May 3) - LP
A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005 - Sloan - (May 3) - LP/DVD
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - Soundtrack, John Williams - (May 3) - LP
LateNightTales - The Flaming Lips - (May 10) - LP
Gimme Fiction - Spoon - (May 10) - LP
Big Bang Theory - Styx - (May 10) - LP
State of Discontent - The Unseen - (May 10) - LP
Make Believe - Weezer - (May 10) - LP
Mezmerize - System of a Down - (May 17) - LP
A Tyranny of Souls - Bruce Dickinson - (May 23) - LP
Demon Days - Gorillaz - (May 23) - LP
Out of Exile - Audioslave - (May 24) - LP
Crimson - Alkaline Trio - (May 24) - LP
Twenty - Robert Cray - (May 24) - LP
All or Nothing - Fat Joe - (May 24) - LP
Warriors of the Rainbow Bridge - Molly Hatchet - (May 24) - LP
Karma and Effect - Seether - (May 24) - LP
Rebel, Sweetheart - The Wallflowers - (May 24) - LP
Don't Believe the Truth - Oasis - (May 30) - LP
The Dead 60s - The Dead 60s - (May 31) - LP
Everything Ecstatic - Four Tet - (May 31) - LP
X&Y - Coldplay - (June 6) - LP
Tales From Turnpike House - Saint Etienne - (June 6) - LP
Anastacia - Anastacia - (June 7 - US release date)
Octavarium - Dream Theater - (June 7) - LP
Death for Life - Death By Stereo - (June 7) - LP
Say Hello to Sunshine - Finch - (June 7) - LP
Panic - MxPx - (June 7) - LP
Sleeping in the Nothing - Kelly Osbourne (daughter of Ozzy Osbourne) - (June 7) - LP
That's What I Say - John Scofield - (June 7) - LP
Get Behind Me Satan - The White Stripes - (June 7) - LP
Never Gone - Backstreet Boys - (June 14) - LP
Twelve Year Silence - Dark New Day - (June 14) - LP
Another Day on Earth - Brian Eno - (June 14) - LP
In Your Honor - Foo Fighters - (June 14) - LP (2-Disc)
Hours - Funeral for a Friend - (June 14) - LP
Bloom - Eric Johnson - (June 14) - LP
Broken Valley - Life of Agony - (June 14) - LP
Start a War - Static-X - (June 14) - LP
Who You Waiting For? - UB40 - (June 14) - LP

Albums Expected (Pre-Releases)

Blink the Brightest - Tracy Bonham - (June 21) - LP
TheFutureEmbrace - Billy Corgan (singer/guitarist of the Smashing Pumpkins) - (June 21) - solo debut
The Warrior's Code - Dropkick Murphys - (June 21) - LP
Greatest Hits - The Offspring - (June 21) - Compilation
A Son Unique - Ol' Dirty Bastard - (June 21) - LP (recorded before his death)
Haunted Cities - The Transplants - (June 21) - LP
Robot Hive/Exodus - Clutch - (June 21) - LP
Look At All the Love We Found - A Tribute to Sublime - (June 21) - Tribute
Teen Dance Ordinance - A - (June 27) - LP
Wanted - Bow Wow - (June 28)
An Answer Can Be Found - CKY - (June 28) - LP
Somewhere Down in Texas - George Strait - (June 28) - LP
Undoing Ruin - Darkest Hour - (June 28) - LP
Every Kind of Light - The Posies - (June 28) - LP
The Essential Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden - (July 4) - Compilation
Move Along - The All-American Rejects - (July 12) - LP
Fused - Tony Iommi - (July 12) - LP
Honeycomb - Frank Black - (July 19) - LP
Nothing Is Sound - Switchfoot - (July 19) - LP
Before the Blackout Allister - (July 26) - LP
Don't Tread on Me - 311 - (July 26) - LP
Layourbattleaxedown - The Concretes - (July 26) - Compilation
Body of Song - Bob Mould - (July 26) - LP
War Profiteering Is Killing Us All - The Suicide Machines - (July 26) - LP
Sisters of the Red Death - Vendetta Red - (July 26) - LP
Dirty Diamonds - Alice Cooper - (August 2) - LP
Fireflies - Faith Hill - (August 2) - LP
Tommy Lee Presents...TommyLand - The Ride - Tommy Lee - (August 9) - LP
Looking for Lucky - Hootie & the Blowfish - (August 9) - LP
The Fuse - Pennywise - (August 9) - LP
Rebirth of a Nation - Public Enemy - (August 9) - LP
Chapter V - Staind - (August 9) - LP
A Beautiful Lie - 30 Seconds To Mars - (August 16) - LP
Anxiety - Smile Empty Soul - (August 16) - LP
Blue-Sky Research - Taproot - (August 16) - LP
Teleincision - Tool - (August 16) - LP
Healthy In Paranoid Times - Our Lady Peace - (August 16) - LP
Transgression - Fear Factory - (August 22) - LP
Welcome the Night - The Ataris - (August 23) - LP
Untitled - Tracy Chapman - (August 23) - LP
Untitled - Mest - (August 23) - LP
What the Game's Been Missing - Juelz Santana - (August 23) - LP
Ghetto Extraordinary - Killer Mike - (August 30) - LP
Untitled - Paul McCartney - (September) - LP
Black Cadillac - Rosanne Cash - (September 6) - LP
The Calm That Killed the Storm - Cold - (September 13) - LP
Souls Alike - Bonnie Riatt - (September 13) - LP
All That I Am - Santana - (September 13) - LP
Untitled - Simple Minds - (September 13) - LP
Dark Ages - Soulfly - (September 13) - LP
Jasper County - Trisha Yearwood - (September 13) - LP
The Painstaking - The Darkness - (September 20) - LP
Plans - Death Cab for Cutie - (September 20) - LP
Yeah! - Def Leppard - (September 20) - LP
Souvenir of Sadness - KOЯN - (September 20) - LP
Good Apollo: I'm Burning Star IV: Vol. One From Fear Through The Eyes Of Men - Coheed and Cambria - (September 27) - LP
Untitled - Bon Jovi - (September 27) - LP
Wildflower - Sheryl Crow - (September 27) - LP
Hypnotize - System of a Down - (September 27) - LP
Ça Ira - Roger Waters - (September 27) - LP
Untitled - Dashboard Confessional - (October 11) - LP
Untitled - Rob Zombie - (October 11) - LP
Untitled - A Perfect Circle - (October 18) - LP
What I Really Want for Christmas - Brian Wilson - (October 18) - LP
Untitled - Diana Krall - (November 1) - LP
Untitled - P.O.D. - (November 1) - LP
Cryptology - Muse - (November 7) - LP
Strap It On - AC/DC - (Spring/Summer) - LP
The Essential Alice in Chains - Alice in Chains - (Spring/Summer) - Compilation
American V - Johnny Cash - (Spring/Summer) - LP
Detox - Dr. Dre - (Spring/Summer) - LP
Operation: Mindcrime II - Queensrÿche - (Spring/Summer) - LP
Face the Promise - Bob Seger - (Spring/Summer) - LP
A Year at the Movies - Social Code - (Spring/Summer) - LP
Half | Life - Eric West - (Spring/Summer) - solo debut
A Time 2 Love - Stevie Wonder - (Spring/Summer) - LP
Chinese Democracy - Guns n' Roses - (Late) - LP

Albums To Be Announced

AC/DC - (Winter) - LP
Appleton- (no date)- LP
Ace of Base - (Fall) - LP
AFI - (no date) - LP
All Systems Go! - (Summer/Fall) - LP
The Ataris - (Summer) - LP
Black Sabbath - (Summer) - LP
Blue Öyster Cult - (Spring) - LP
Brand New - (Summer) - LP
Kate Bush - (no date) - LP
Deftones - (Summer) - LP
Depeche Mode - (Fall) - LP
Dynamite Hack - (Summer) - LP
The Eagles - (no date) - LP
Eric West - (no date) - solo debut
Franz Ferdinand - (Summer/Fall) LP
Jet - (Fall) - LP
KISS - (no date) - LP
Linkin Park - (Summer) - LP
McFly- (summer)- LP
NOFX - (Summer) - LP
The Offspring - (no date) - LP
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - (no date) - Multiple Release
Pixies - (no date) - LP
Portishead - (no date) - LP
Puddle of Mudd - (no date) - LP
Rachel Stevens- (summer, working title "Je M'Appelle Rachel")- LP
Red Hot Chili Peppers - (Summer/Fall) - LP
Zach de la Rocha - (Summer/Fall) - solo debut
Sevendust - (Fall) - LP
The Strokes - (Summer) - LP
Supergrass - (no date) - LP
Spin Doctors - (no date) - LP
Story of the Year - (Summer/Fall) - LP
Three Days Grace - (no date) - LP
Thursday - (no date) - LP
William Provost - (no date) - LP
Yes - (Spring/Summer) - LP

Classical music

Alun Hoddinott - Celebration Fanfare (one-off composition for the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales)
Karl Jenkins - Requiem: In These Horizons Stones Sing
Stephen Warbeck - Peter Pan (ballet)

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths

January 11 - Spencer Dryden, 61, American drummer for American rock group Jefferson Airplane
January 11 - Jimmy Griffin, co-founder of Bread
January 15 - Victoria de Los Angeles, 81, Catalan soprano
January 24 - June Bronhill, singer
January 28 - Jim Capaldi, 60, British drummer and vocalist
January 30 - Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish bagpiper
February 8 - Jimmy Smith, 77, American jazz organist
February 9 - Tyrone Davis, 66, American soul singer
February 13 - Sixten Ehrling, 86, Swedish conductor
February 28 - Chris Curtis, 63, British drummer and vocalist
March 4 - Una Hale, soprano, 82
March 6 - Tommy Vance, DJ
March 9 - Chris LeDoux, country music singer, 56
March 9 - Kathie Kay, big band singer, 86
March 10 - Danny Joe Brown, 53, former lead singer of Molly Hatchet
March 21 - Bobby Short, singer
March 22 - Rod Price, guitarist, 47
March 26 - Paul Hester, drummer, 46
March 27 - Grant Johannesen, pianist, 83
March 27 - Rigo Tovar, Mexican singer and composer, 58
March 28 - Moura Lympany, pianist, 88
March 30 - Derrick Plourde, 33, former drummer of 2 California punk groups: Lagwagon and the Ataris
April 2 - Alexander Brott, conductor and composer, 90
April 7 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer, 82
April 10 - Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist, 82
April 12 - Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter, 63
April 13 - Johnnie Johnson, American pianist, 80
April 14 - John Fred Gourrion, pop singer, 64
April 18 - Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor, 75
April 19 - Bryan Ottoson, guitarist of American Head Charge, 27
April 19 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist, 58
April 23 - Robert Farnon, composer, arranger, 87
April 25 - Hasil Adkins, American rockabilly musician, 67
April 28 - Percy Heath, jazz musician, 81
May 8 - Nasrat Parsa, Afghan singer, murdered, 36
May 10 - David Wayne, former singer of Metal Church, 47
May 14 - Jimmy Martin, bluegrass musician, 77
May 22 - Thurl Ravenscroft, US singer
May 25 - Ruth Laredo, pianist, 67
May 25 - Domenic Troiano, The Guess Who, 59
May 29 - George Rochberg, composer, 86
June 4 - Helju Tauk, Estonian musician, 75
June 13 - David Diamond, American composer, 89
June 14 - Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor, 91
June 17 - Karl Mueller, bassist of Soul Asylum, 41

Awards

Grammy Awards

Grammy Awards of 2005

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

Brit Awards

2005 Brit Awards

Juno Awards

Juno Awards of 2005

Mercury Music Prize

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