2005 in music

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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 conducted 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, but did not completely become in-active.
• February 22 - Brian Welch, guitarist of Ko?n, leaves the band due to his rebirth into Christianity.
• 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 was also sentenced to 30 years for misdemeanor drug possession in April of 1994, 2 years after being replaced from the group during the recording of Dirt.
• May/June - Operation Ivy/Rancid's bassist Matt Freeman has been diagnosed with lung cancer and in no position to perform with his other bands.
• 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.
• June 15 - The members of Destiny's Child announced they would be disbanding upon completion of their current world tour.
• June 21 - On the day Billy Corgan released his debut solo album The Future Embrace, he has revealed that he wants to reform his popular alternative rock group The Smashing Pumpkins, which disbanded on December 2, 2000.
• July 2 - Live 8 benefit concerts
• August - The Cure frontman Robert Smith announces that the band has planned to record their thirteenth studio album in the fall and release it in the following April.