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See also:

• 2004 in music (UK)
• Record labels established in 2004

Events

January

• January 1
  • The Vienna New Year's Concert is conducted by Riccardo Muti.
  • Kurt Nilsen wins World Idol.
• January 3 - Britney Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a childhood friend, in Las Vegas.
• January 5 - Britney Spears' marriage to Jason Allen Alexander is annulled.
• January 15 - Valfar, vocalist of black metal band Windir, dies of hypothermia in a blizzard.

• Dimmu Borgir, Releases Nicholas Barker

February

• February 1- Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performed onstage at Super Bowl XXXVIII and the performance ended with her left breast being expose by Justin. The phrase "wardrobe malfunction" was coined due to the controversy.
• February 1 - Daron Hagen is appointed President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation in New York City.
• February 8 - The 46th Annual Grammy Awards are held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA. Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below becomes the first rap album to win Album of the Year. Beyonce won 5 awards.
• February 17
  • BRIT Awards held in London. The Darkness, Dido, Busted, Justin Timberlake, and KRS-One are among the winners.
  • Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan posts a bitter message on his personal blog calling D'Arcy Wretzky a "mean spirited drug addict" and blaming James Iha for the breakup of the band.
• March 10- George Michael announces that Patience will be his last commercially released record. Future releases will be available from his web site in return for donations to his favourite charities.
• March 13 - Luciano Pavarotti gives his last performance in an opera, in Tosca at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
• March 16 - Godsmack releases an EP titled The Other Side, which contains acoustic reworkings of some of their songs
• March 23 - Usher releases his " Confessions " album selling 1.1 million copies its first week , making him the first R&B artist to ever accomplish that. The album would be the top seller of the year with four number one singles.
• April 6
  • A previously unreleased Johnny Cash album called My Mother's Hymn Book is released less than a year after his death on September 12, 2003.
  • Modest Mouse, an American indie rock band releases Good News for People Who Love Bad News.
• April 20 - Fear Factory returns after their 2002 breakup with the new album Archetype.
• April 26
  • Deborah Voigt, sacked by Covent Garden for being too fat for an opera role, makes her recital debut to a rapturous reception at Carnegie Hall.
  • Dream Theater performs at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.
• May - Blender magazine's May issue includes a "50 Worst Songs Ever!" list. "We Built This City," by Starship, is rated worst.
• May 10 - Keane release Hopes and Fears which becomes the 16th best selling album of the millennium in the UK. It went 8x platinum and was nominated for the Mercury Prize and the BRIT award for best album.
• May 18 to May 23 - European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) in Basel.
• May 24 - Madonna starts The Re-Invention Tour in 20 cities with a total of 56 shows and making it the most successful concert tour of the year with a gross of $124.5 million.
• May 25- Avril Lavigne released her highly anticipated second album Under My Skin which debut in number one of 15 countries around the world including U.S, Australia, Mexico, UK, Hong Kong and more.
  • Jam band Phish announces that after 21 years they will break up following the Summer 2004 Tour.
  • Skinny Puppy releases their first studio album since disbanding in 1996, called The Greater Wrong of the Right.
• May 26 - Fantasia Barrino wins the third season of American Idol, defeating Diana DeGarmo.
• June
  • Staind start recording their fourth album, produced by David Bottrill.
  • Velvet Revolver's first album Contraband debuts in the top slot on the Billboard album charts, selling over 250,000 copies its first week out.
  • The Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone is hospitalized in Los Angeles with prostate cancer and diagnosed.
• June 4
  • Karl Jenkins signs a 10-year recording deal with EMI.
  • Creed dissolved. Guitarist Mark Tremonti, Drummer Scott Phillips and Brian Marshall (ex Bassist of Creed) were working on side project Alter Bridge along with Myles Kennedy of The Mayfield Four Their first album is One Day Remains, which is scheduled to be released on August 10.
• June 10 - Legendary blues and soul pianist and singer Ray Charles dies of liver disease at the age of 73.
• June 12 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 12th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, The Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard.
• June 22 - 14th annual Lollapalooza festival, scheduled for July 17, is cancelled. Organizers cite "poor ticket sales". (See: Lollapalooza 2004 lineup.)
• June 23 - UK DJ Tony Blackburn is suspended by radio station Classic Gold Digital for playing songs by Cliff Richard, against station policy.
• July 10 - Ex-S Club star Rachel Stevens sets a world record for completing the fastest promotional circuit in just 24 hours- including a run for the charity Sport Relief. American Idol winner Fantasia becomes the first artist in history to debut at number-one on the Hot 100 with a first record.
• July 11 - McFly debut at #1 on the UK album charts with Room On The 3rd Floor. They break the record set by The Beatles as the youngest group ever to debut at #1 on the album charts.
• July 20 - Van Halen releases The Best of Both Worlds, a 36-song compilation album featuring three new recordings with Sammy Hagar on vocals.
• July 24 - The Robert Smith organized Curiosa Festival kicks off with a concert in West Palm Beach, Florida. Performing along with The Cure are Interpol, The Rapture, Mogwai, Cursive, Muse, Head Automatica, Thursday, Scarling., The Cooper Temple Clause, and Melissa Auf der Maur.
• July 31 - Dispatch performs their last live show at the DCR Hatchshell in Boston, Massachusetts.
• August - Wes Borland returns to Limp Bizkit. Björk presents her brand new single Oceanía in the opening act fot the 2004 Summer Olympics.
• August 8 - Dave Matthews Band's tour bus dumps 800 lb (360 kg) of human feces from a Chicago bridge, intending to unload it in the river, but it lands on an architecture tour boat. The bus driver and the band are sued by the state of Illinois.
• August 15 - Phish performs their final concert at a two-day festival in Coventry, Vermont.
• September 26 - Avril Lavigne kick off her second world tour the Bonez Tour which visit every single continent around the world touring exactly for one year.
• September 28 - Brian Wilson completes Smile, 37 years after its original planned release.
• October 11 - The original lineup of Duran Duran release their new album Astronaut, which was preceded by the single "(Reach Up For The) Sunrise".
• October 16 - Avril Lavigne earns her fourth #1 single "My Happy Ending", second single and lead song of her album 'Under My Skin'.
• October 23 - Ashlee Simpson is accused of lip-synching after an abortive live performance on the television show Saturday Night Live.
• November 4 - Three members of the band RAM, who all lived in a neighborhood known for its support of the then-recently deposed former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, are detained by Haitian police during a concert performance in Port-au-Prince; no charges are ever filed or official explanation for the detentions given.
• November 9 - Britney Spears releases her first compilation album titled Greatest Hits: My Prerogative.
• November 12 - Eminem's fourth major studio album, Encore is released four days before planned to combat bootleggers. The album sells 710,000 copies in only three days and becomes Eminem's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the billboard charts.
• November 24 - Brian & Eric Hoffman leave Deicide after a royalties dispute.
• November 30 - Jay-Z and Linkin Park's album Collision Course debuts at number #01 at the Billboard 200, and the album converted in the most selling CD/DVD of that year.
• December - Ned's Atomic Dustbin begins touring with 5 upcoming shows.
• December 7 - Lindsay Lohan releases her début album Speak
• December 8 - Dimebag Darrell is shot in the head 5 times
• December 11–12 - The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ airs the 15th Annual of the Acoustic Christmas with Chevelle, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Hoobastank, Incubus, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, Keane, The Killers, Modest Mouse, Muse, The Music, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, The Shins, The Used, and Velvet Revolver.
• December 14 - Clint Lowery leaves Sevendust due to fights with band about gaining control of the band and doubts of the band's future after being released from their label TVT Records.
• date unknown
  • Jack Owen leaves Cannibal Corpse to Focus on Adrift.
  • New classic rock and New Wave-influenced bands such as The Killers begin to oust nu metal bands.

Bands formed

See Musical groups established in 2004

Bands disbanded

• Apartment 26
• Audiovent
• B2K
• The Beta Band
• Beulah
• Blur (hiatus)
• Cadaver
• Creed (reformed in 2009)
• Damaged
• Damageplan
• Eve 6
• Gene
• Give Up the Ghost
• Goodshirt
• The Libertines
• Midtown
• Orbital
• Phish
• The Roy Clark Method
• Sixpence None the Richer
• Small Brown Bike
• Soluna (hiatus)
• The Superjesus
• TISM (hiatus)
• The Unicorns
• Windir

Bands re-formed

• Megadeth
• Restless Heart
• Destiny's Child
• Vaya Con Dios

Albums released

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March

April

May

June

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August

September

October

November

December

Unknown Release Date

• 3rd Strike - 3 Feet Smaller
• Greatest Hits 1973-1988 (compilation) - Aerosmith
• 9Live - Angie Aparo
• Gathering Speed - Big Big Train
• Field Rexx - Blitzen Trapper
• Tripped Into Divine - Dexter Freebish
• Golden (compilation) - Failure
• Leaving Town Tonight (EP) - Hit the Lights
• Smoking Weed in the President's Face by Hockey
• IM the Supervisor - Infected Mushroom
• Naked - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
• Bombs Below - Living Things
• Black Skies in Broad Daylight - Living Things
• Safely From the City - Locksley
• Le Compte Complet - Malajube
• We (Don't) Care EP - The Management (MGMT)
• 5 Stories EP - Manchester Orchestra
• Ballads of Living and Dying - Marissa Nadler
• Phantom Planet: Negatives - Phantom Planet
• Negatives 2 - Phantom Planet
• The Pink Spiders Are Taking Over! EP - The Pink Spiders
• Guerilla Disco - Quarashi
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• Set Your Goals (Demo EP) - Set Your Goals
• Sherwood (EP) - Sherwood
• A Year at the Movies - Social Code
• Point of Origin - There for Tomorrow

Top hits

• "Amazing" - George Michael
• "American Idiot", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Green Day
• "Breaking the Habit" - Linkin Park
• "Call On Me" - Eric Prydz
• "Dragostea din tei" - Haiducii
• "Don't Tell Me" - Avril Lavigne
• "Dragostea din tei" - O-Zone
• "Dry Your Eyes" - The Streets
• "Duality" - Slipknot
• "Everybody's Changing" - Keane
• "Everytime" - Britney Spears
• "Femme Like U (Donne-moi ton corps)" - K.Maro
• "From the Inside" - Linkin Park
• "Goodies" - Ciara Featuring Petey Pablo
• "Heaven" - Los Lonely Boys
• "Hey Ya!" - OutKast
• "I Don't Wanna Know" - Mario Winans featuring Enya & P.Diddy
• "I Miss You" - Blink-182
• "Last Train Home" - Lostprophets
• "La Rivière de notre enfance" - Garou and Michel Sardou
• "Leave (Get Out)" - JoJo
• "Left Outside Alone" - Anastacia
• "Lying from You" - Linkin Park
• "Mockingbird" - Eminem
• "Modern Times" - J-five
• "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers
• "My Band" - D12
• "My Immortal" - Evanescence
• "My Happy Ending" - Avril Lavigne
• "My Place" - Nelly featuring Jaheim
• "My Secret Life" - Eric Burdon
• "Obsesión" - Aventura
• "Pain - Jimmy Eat World
• "Physical - Alcazar
• "Pieces of Me" - Ashlee Simpson
• "Predictable" - Good Charlotte
• "Run" - Snow Patrol
• "She Will Be Loved" - Maroon 5
• "Shadow" - Ashlee Simpson
• "Shut Up" - Black Eyed Peas
• "Si demain... (Turn Around)" - Bonnie Tyler and Kareen Antonn
• "Somebody Told Me" - The Killers
• "Somewhere Only We Know" - Keane
• "Take Me Out" - Franz Ferdinand
• "Time Is Running Out" - Muse
• "Talk About Our Love" - Brandy featuring Kanye West
• "The Reason" - Hoobastank
• "This Is the World We Live In" - Alcazar
• "This Love" - Maroon 5
• "Toxic" - Britney Spears
• "What You Waiting For? - Gwen Stefani
• "Yeah!" - Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris
• "You Won't Forget About Me" - Dannii Minogue vs. "Flower Power"
• "Superstar" - Jamelia
• "My Prerogative" - Britney Spears
• "Burn" - Usher
• "Thank You" - Jamelia
• "Tipsy" - J-Kwon
• "Milkshake" - Kelis
• "Flawless (Go to the City)" - George Michael
• "I Am" - Killing Heidi
• "Accidentally In Love" - Counting Crows
• "Naughty Girl" - Beyonce
• "Let's Get It Started" - The Black Eyed Peas
• "Coming Clean" - Hilary Duff
• "Lose My Breath" - Destiny's Child
• "Black Betty" - Spiderbait
• "These Words" - Natasha Bedingfield
• "Flap Your Wings" - Nelly
• "Fuck It (I Don't Want You Back)" - Eamon
• "Trick Me" - Kelis
• "Sunshine" - Twista featuring Anthony Hamilton
• "Not in Love" - Enrique Iglesias featuring Kelis

Top 10 selling albums of the year in the US

1. Confessions / Usher ~ 7,978,594
2. Under My Skin / Avril Lavigne ~ 6,970,000
3. In The Zone / Britney Spears~ 4,535,102
4. Encore / Eminem ~ 3,917,097
5. Feels like Home / Norah Jones ~ 3,842,920
6. Autobiography / Ashlee Simpson ~ 3,534,912
7. When the Sun Goes Down / Kenny Chesney ~ 3,072,224
8. Here for the Party / Gretchen Wilson ~ 2,931,097
9. Live Like You Were Dying / Tim McGraw ~ 2,786,840
10. Songs About Jane / Maroon 5 ~ 2,708,415

Top 15 selling albums of the year globally

1. Confessions - Usher
2. Under My Skin - Avril Lavigne
3. Encore - Eminen
4. Love. Angel. Music. Baby. - Gwen Stefani
5. Feels Like Home - Norah Jones
6. Greatest Hits - Robbie Williams
7. Greatest Hits - Shania Twain
8. Destiny Fulfilled - Destiny's Child
9. Greatest Hits - Guns N' Roses
10. Songs About Jane - Maroon 5
11. American Idiot - Green Day
12. Elephunk - Black Eyed Peas
13. Greatest Hits: My Prerogative - Britney Spears
14. Here For The Party - Gretchen Wilson
15. Anastacia - Anastacia

Acclaimed Music

AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums from 2004

1. Funeral — Arcade Fire
2. Franz Ferdinand — Franz Ferdinand
3. The College Dropout — Kanye West
4. Smile — Brian Wilson
5. A Ghost Is Born — Wilco
6. Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
7. A Grand Don't Come for Free — The Streets
8. Madvillainy — Madvillain
9. The Libertines — The Libertines
10. Rejoicing in the Hands — Devendra Banhart
11. Van Lear Rose — Loretta Lynn
12. American Idiot — Green Day
13. Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes — TV On The Radio
14. Real Gone — Tom Waits
15. You Are The Quarry — Morrissey

AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs from 2004

1. "Take Me Out" — Franz Ferdinand
2. "First Of The Gang To Die" — Morrissey
3. "Since U Been Gone" — Kelly Clarkson
4. "Galang" — M.I.A.
5. "Can't Stand Me Now" — The Libertines
6. "Float On" — Modest Mouse
7. "Yeah!" — Usher
8. "Mr Brightside" — The Killers
9. "Drop It Like It's Hot" — Snoop Dogg
10. "Rebellion (Lies)" — Arcade Fire
11. "Hollaback Girl" — Gwen Stefani
12. "Banquet" — Bloc Party
13. "I Predict A Riot" — Kaiser Chiefs
14. "Dry Your Eyes — The Streets
15. "Hounds Of Love" — The Futureheads

Classical music

• Michel van der Aa - Second self
• Louis Andriessen - Racconto dall'Inferno
• Cornelis de Bondt - Madame Daufine
• Elliott Carter - Réflexions
• George Crumb - Winds of Destiny for soprano, percussion quartet and piano
• Mario Davidovsky - Sefarad: Four Spanish-Ladino Folkscenes, baritone voice, flute (piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (bass clarinet), percussion, violin and cello
• Joël-François Durand - Ombre/Miroir for flute and 14 instruments
• Ivan Fedele - Odos
• Lorenzo Ferrero - Guarini, the Master for violin and strings
• Philip Glass - Symphony No. 7 Toltec
• Georg Friedrich Haas - Haiku
• Hans Werner Henze - Sebastian im Traum
• Alun Hoddinott - Trombone Concerto
• York Höller - Ex Tempore
• Guus Janssen
  • Memory Protect Extended
  • Wankeling
• Karl Jenkins - In These Stones Horizons Sing
• Jan Klusák - Axis Temporum
• Rolands Kronlaks - Paion
• Hanna Kulenty - Run
• Theo Loevendie - De 5 Driften
• Roderik de Man - Mensa Sa
• Peter Maxwell Davies
  • Naxos Quartet No. 4 Children's Games
  • Naxos Quartet No. 5
• Martijn Padding - And Trees Would Sing

Opera

• Thomas Adès - The Tempest
• Harrison Birtwistle - The Io Passion
• William Bolcom - A Wedding
• Karlheinz Stockhausen - Licht

Musical theater

• Assassins Broadway production
• Bombay Dreams Broadway production
• Fiddler On The Roof Broadway revival
• Jerry Springer - The Opera by Richard Thomas & Stewart Lee
• The Woman in White - music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by David Zippel and book by Charlotte Jones, freely adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins. Opened on September 15 at the Palace Theatre, London.
• People Are Wrong! Off-Broadway production

Musical films

• Beyond the Sea, starring Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin
• De-Lovely released June 13 starring Kevin Kline as Cole Porter and Ashley Judd
• Home on the Range, a Disney animated feature
• Ray, starring Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles
• Red Riding Hood
• Pixel Perfect, a Disney Channel Original Movie that is also a musical.
• The Phantom of the Opera, starring Emmy Rossum as Christine and Gerard Butler as the Phantom

Births

Deaths

January-February

• January 15 - Terje Bakken, 25, also known as Valfar, lead singer and founder of Norwegian black/folk metal band Windir
• January 17
  • Czeslaw Niemen, 65, Polish rock singer
  • Tom Rowe, 53, musician
• January 22
  • Billy May, 87, US big band & pop music arranger
  • Ann Miller, 80, actress, singer and dancer
• January 28 - Mel Pritchard, 56, drummer of Barclay James Harvest
• February 3 - Cornelius Bumpus, 58, musician (The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan)
• February 8 - Cem Karaca, 58, Turkish singer and composer
• February 16 - Doris Troy, 67, R&B singer
• February 21 - Bart Howard, 88, composer and pianist
• February 23
  • Don Cornell, 84, US singer
  • Alvino Rey, 95, US bandleader and guitarist

March-April

• March 4 - John McGeoch, 48, British guitarist with Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL
• March 6 - Peggy DeCastro, 82, US singer born in the Dominican Republic, eldest of the DeCastro Sisters
• March 16 - Vilém Tauský, 93, Czech conductor and composer
• March 18 - Vytas Brenner, 57,musician, keyboardist and composer
• March 26 - Jan Berry, 62, US singer of Jan and Dean
• April 3 - Gabriella Ferri, 62, Italian singer
• April 9 - Harry Babbitt, 90, US singer with Kay Kyser & his Orchestra
• April 10 - Jacek Kaczmarski, 47, Polish poet and singer, the bard of Solidarity
• April 15
  • Hans Gmür, 77, Swiss theatre author, director, composer and producer
  • Ray Condo, 53, Canadian rockabilly musician

May-June

• May 1 - Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double)
• May 5 - Coxsone Dodd, 72, Jamaican record producer
• May 12
  • John LaPorta, 84, Jazz clarinetist, composer and educator
  • John Whitehead, 55, R&B artist (shot dead)
• May 17 - Elvin Jones, 76, Jazz Drummer, notably with the John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s.
• May 19 - Arnold Moore, 90, blues artist
• May 23 - Gundars Mauševics, 29, Latvian guitarist of Brainstorm
• June 2 - Billboard, 25, rapper, The Game's best friend
• June 4 - Irene Manning, 91, US actress, singer and dancer
• June 6 - Iona Brown, 63, conductor and violinist
• June 10 - Ray Charles, 73, US singer and pianist
• June 15 - James F. Arnold, 72, first tenor with the Four Lads
• June 17 - Jackie Paris, 77, US jazz singer

July-August

• July 6 - Syreeta Wright, 57, singer
• July 13 - Carlos Kleiber, 74, conductor
• July 21 - Jerry Goldsmith, 75, US composer, Academy Award winner
• July 22
  • Illinois Jacquet, 81, US jazz saxophonist
  • Sacha Distel, 71, French singer
• August 6
  • Rick James, 56, US funk singer
  • Argentino Ledesma, 75, Argentinian singer
  • Tony Mottola, 86, US Guitarist
• August 9 - David Raksin, 92, US composer
• August 18 - Elmer Bernstein, 82, US composer
• August 20 - María Antonieta Pons, 82, Cuban Rumbera
• August 26 - Laura Branigan, 47, US singer (brain aneurysm)
• August 31 - Carl Wayne, 61, vocalist (The Move)

September-October

• September 2 - Billy Davis
• September 11 - Juraj Beneš, 64, Slovak composer
• September 12
  • John Buller, 77, British composer
  • Fred Ebb, 72, US lyricist
• September 15 - Johnny Ramone, 55, US Guitarist and founding member of TheRamones (prostate cancer)
• September 16 - Izora Armstead, 62, member of The Weather Girls
• October 25 - John Peel, 65, British DJ and broadcaster (heart attack)
• October 28 - Gil Melle, 72, film and television music composer

November-December

• November 1 - Mac Dre, 34, Bay Area rapper (highway shooting)
• November 12 - Usko Meriläinen, 74, Finnish composer
• November 13
  • John Balance, 42, British musician from Coil
  • Ol' Dirty Bastard, 35, African American rapper
  • Carlo Rustichelli, 87, Italian film composer
• November 14 - Michel Colombier, 65, composer
• November 18 - Cy Coleman, 75, US composer
• December 8 - Dimebag Darrell, 38, former Pantera guitarist (shot to death in Ohio)
• December 13 - Alex Soria, 39, guitarist for The Nils (suicide)
• December 14 - Sidonie Goossens, 105, harpist
• December 19 - Renata Tebaldi, 82, operatic soprano
• December 20 - Son Seals, 62, blues musician
• December 26 - Sigurd Køhn, 45, Norwegian jazz saxophonist (tsunami)
• December 30 - Artie Shaw, 94, Swing Era Clarinetist and Bandleader

Awards

ARIA Music Awards

• ARIA Music Awards of 2004

BRIT Awards

• 2004 BRIT Awards

Country Music Association Awards

Eurovision Song Contest

• Eurovision Song Contest 2004
• Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 2004

Juno Awards

• Juno Awards of 2004

MTV Video Music Awards

• 2004 MTV Video Music Awards

Charts

Triple J Hottest 100

• Triple J Hottest 100, 2004

External links

For a more detailed list of hits or albums by month, see:

• KATS-FM
• New Rock 94.7 The Zone - WZZN-FM - Chicago
• Pause & Play's On The CD Front
• VH1
• MTV
• Rolling Stone