2014 in music

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

Specific locations
• African music

• American music

• Asian music

• Australian music

• Brazilian music

• British music

• Canadian music

• Chinese music

• Danish music

• European music (Continental Europe)

• Finnish music

• French music

• German music

• Indian music

• Irish music

• Japanese music

• Malaysian music

• Mongolian music

• North Korean music

• Norwegian music

• Philippine music

• Polynesian music

• South Korean music

• Swedish music

• Taiwanese music

• Vietnamese music

• World music

Specific genres
• Classical

• Country

• Electronic

• Heavy metal

• Hip hop

• Jazz

• Latin

• Opera

• Pop

• Rock

• K-pop

• J-pop

Bands formed

 * Akdong Musician
 * Antemasque
 * American Wrestlers
 * The Babe Rainbow
 * Berry Good
 * Cheat Codes
 * FFS
 * High4
 * Hotshot
 * LANY
 * Lovelyz
 * Lip Service
 * Maddie & Tae
 * Mamamoo
 * Melody Day
 * Missio
 * No Devotion
 * Oh Wonder
 * Operation: Mindcrime
 * Pale Waves
 * Red Velvet
 * Sonamoo
 * Saint Asonia
 * Sheer Mag
 * Slaves
 * Sofi Tukker
 * Soul Glo
 * Stereo Kicks
 * Toheart
 * Winner
 * You+Me

Bands reformed

 * American Football
 * Atreyu
 * Babes In Toyland
 * Basement
 * Breaking Benjamin
 * Constantines
 * Copeland
 * Deep Dish
 * Despised Icon
 * Design the Skyline
 * 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

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 – Kåre 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.

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