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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2008.

Events

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January

• January 29 - Face to Face announced that they will reunite for select shows in the US and internationally.^[1]
• Rage Against the Machine headlined the Big Day Out festivals in Australia and New Zealand, their first shows outside of the United States since reforming, and their first Australian shows in 12 years.^[2]

February

• February 10 - The 50th Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, USA.^{citation needed}
• February 15 - The Irish National Music Awards were held in Dublin, Ireland.^{citation needed}
• February 19 - System of a Down guitarist, Daron Malakian, told MTV.com that the band were never likely to reform as he would be concentrating on his new band project Scars on Broadway.^[3]
• February 20 - The 28th BRIT Awards were held in London, UK.^{citation needed}
• 20–February 25 - The Viña del Mar International Song Festival was held in Chile. ^[4]
• February 23–March 3 - The second annual Soundwave Festival was held in Australia.^[5]

March

• March 7 - The Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2008 took place in Jakarta, Indonesia.^[6]
• 7–March 16 - The 2008 South By Southwest Conference and Festivals was held in Austin, Texas, USA.^[7]
• March 11 - Jazz musician and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton announced his retirement from presenting BBC Radio 2's jazz programme after forty years.^[8]
• March 20 - The Eagles began a tour to promote their album, Long Road Out of Eden.^{citation needed}
• 25–March 29 - The Miami Winter Music Conference was held in Miami Beach Resort & Spa, Miami, Florida, USA.^[9]
• March 26 - Guitarist Clint Lowery rejoined the band Sevendust, replacing Sonny Mayo.^{citation needed}
• March 27
  • British singer Leona Lewis topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 with her debut single "Bleeding Love", the first solo British female singer to do so since Kim Wilde in 1987.^[10]
  • Rock band Def Leppard began the first leg of their world tour to promote their album Songs from the Sparkle Lounge.^{citation needed}

April

• April 1 - Scott Weiland's departure from rock band Velvet Revolver became official.^[11] Weiland's reunion with his former band, Stone Temple Pilots, and tensions between Weiland and the rest of Velvet Revolver, led to his departure.^[12]
• April 2 - Mariah Carey's new single, "Touch My Body", from her album E=MC², is officially confirmed as her eighteenth number one single in the United States making her the artist with the second most number one hit singles in the so-called "rock era", behind the Beatles with 20.^{citation needed}
• April 5 - The reunited Face to Face performed together for the first time in four-and-a-half-years at The Bamboozle Left in Irvine, California, USA.^[1]
• April 7 - The newly reunited 90s rock band Stone Temple Pilots held a press conference announcing a 65-date reunion tour and played for the first time since 2002 at a small, private show in Los Angeles, California, USA.^{citation needed}
• April 15 - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa officially proclaimed April 15 as Mariah Carey Day in Los Angeles, California, USA.^[13]
• April 19 - With her single, "I'm a Fire", Donna Summer became the first artist to have a song reach number one on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in every decade since the chart's inception in 1974.^{citation needed}
• 19—April 20 - The Festival Imperial 2008 was held in Autódromo La Guácima in Alajuela, Costa Rica.^{citation needed}
• 25—April 27
  • The Empire State Building in New York City, USA was lit up in Mariah Carey's motif colors — lavender, pink, and white — in celebration of her achievements in the world of music. Carey is the first person in history to be honored by this event.^[14]
  • The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was held in Indio, California, USA.^{citation needed}
• April 26 - The MTV Australia Awards 2008 took place in Sydney, Australia.^{citation needed}

May

• May 3 - Girls Aloud began their Tangled Up Tour in Belfast, UK.^[15]
• 3–May 4 - The sixth annual The Bamboozle festival was held at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA.^{citation needed}
• 10–May 11 - The Give It A Name 2008 festival was held at Earls Court, London, UK.^[16]
• May 16 - The Offspring began the first leg of their Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace Tour to promote their new album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace.^{citation needed}
• May 17 - The sixteenth annual KROQ Weenie Roast was held at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California, USA.^{citation needed}
• May 21 - David Cook won season 7 of the television talent contest American Idol, with the contest decided by a record breaking 97 million votes.^{citation needed}
• May 24 – The 53rd Eurovision Song Contest final was held in Belgrade, Serbia. 43 countries competed in the event, including newcomers San Marino and Azerbaijan.^[17] The contest was won by the Russian entry with the Ukrainians coming second and the Greeks third.^{citation needed}
• 24–May 26 - The Sasquatch! Music Festival was held over Memorial Day weekend at The Gorge Amphitheatre in central Washington, USA.^{citation needed}
• May 30–June 1
  • Rock In Rio Lisboa 2008 took place in Parque da Bela Vista, Chelas, Lisbon, Portugal. The festival continued on 5–June 6.^{citation needed}
  • The fourth annual Mountain Jam Festival was held in Hunter Mountain, New York, USA.^{citation needed}

June

• June 1 - Westlife played their 10th anniversary concert at Europe's fourth biggest stadium, Croke Park, in Dublin, Ireland.^[18]
• 6 and June 7 - Foo Fighters played their biggest UK stadium shows at Wembley Stadium in London.^{citation needed}
• June 10 - Rancid began the first leg of their tour to promote their seventh studio album.^[19]
• 12 – June 15 - Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival was held in Manchester, Tennessee, USA.^{citation needed}
• 13 – June 15
  • The seventh Isle of Wight Festival took place in Seaclose Park, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK.^{citation needed}
  • The sixth annual Download Festival took place in Donington Park, UK.^{citation needed}
• June 17 - George Michael began the American leg of his 25 Live tour in San Diego, California, USA, his first U.S. tour for 17 years.^{citation needed}
• June 20 - My Bloody Valentine played their first reunion show at the Roundhouse, London, UK.^{citation needed}
• June 27 - The Nelson Mandela 90th Birthday Tribute charity concert took place in Hyde Park in London, in support of Mandela's 46664 Aids Foundation.^{citation needed}
• 27 – June 29 - Glastonbury Festival was held at Worthy Farm, Somerset, UK.^{citation needed}
• June 29
  • Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, the first video game in the Guitar Hero series to be based around a single music group (Aerosmith), was released.^[20]
  • The Marquee at Cork Festival, was held in Ireland.^{citation needed}
  • Linkin Park and Jay-Z performed at Projekt Revolution at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, UK.^{citation needed}

July

• 3 – July 6
  • The O2 Wireless Festival took place in Hyde Park, London, UK.^[21]
  • The Roskilde Festival took place in Denmark.^{citation needed}
  • The Rothbury Music Festival took place in Rothbury, Michigan, USA.^{citation needed}
• 3 – July 7 - The Rock Werchter festival took place in Belgium.^{citation needed}
• 3 – July 13 - The Ottawa Bluesfest took place in Ottawa, Canada.^{citation needed}
• 4 – July 6 - The Heineken Open'er Festival took place in Gdynia, Poland.^{citation needed}
• 10 – July 13 - The EXIT Festival 08 took place at Petrovaradin Fortress, in Novi Sad, Serbia.^{citation needed}
• July 20
  • The T4 On The Beach music festival took place in Weston-super-Mare, UK.^{citation needed}
  • The Oxegen music festival took place in Kildare, Ireland.^{citation needed}
  • The All Good Music Festival took place in Masontown, West Virginia, USA.^{citation needed}
  • The T in the Park music festival took place at Balado airfield, Kinross, Scotland.^{citation needed}

August

• August 1 - 3 - Lollapalooza held in Chicago, USA.
• August 12 - 18 - Sziget Festival 2008 held in Budapest, Hungary.
• August 21 - Jerry Finn, the producer behind acts such as Rancid, Green Day, and most notably Morrissey and blink-182, passed away from a brain hemmorage.
• August 24 - Season 6 of Australian Idol begins.

September

• September 7 - MTV Video Music Awards

Bands formed

• Fear and the Nervous System^[22]
• Girlicious^[23]
• One Day as a Lion^[24]
• Whitaker Malloy

Bands reformed

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• Amebix^[25]
• Atomic Kitten
• Bad Company (one-off show)
• Big Drill Car (six shows only)
• Bleed the Dream (The 3 remaining founding members started playing & writing music again)
• Blind Faith (Clapton + Winwood, 3 performances)
• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (The original 5 all back together)
• Boyzone
• Cold^[26]
• Carcass
• D:Ream
• Died Pretty (five shows only)
• Dogs Die In Hot Cars
• Dynamite Boy (two shows only)
• En Vogue^[27]
• Eve 6
• Face to Face
• Green River (one-off show)
• Living Sacrifice
• New Kids on the Block^[28]
• No Doubt^[29]
• Oneida
• The Pharcyde
• Pestilence
• Sixpence None The Richer
• Snot
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Teenage Jesus & the Jerks (one-off show)
• Vision of Disorder

Bands disbanded

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• 3LW
• Be Your Own Pet
• Blinded Black^[30]
• The Chalets^[31]
• The Dead 60s
• Dead To Fall^[32]
• The Departure
• Etan
• Folly
• From Autumn To Ashes
• The Fully Down
• The Hellacopters
• Himsa^[33]
• Hopesfall
• I Was A Cub Scout
• Meet Me In St. Louis
• Milburn
• Ministry
• Modern Life Is War
• Moros Eros
• Mumm-Ra
• The Procussions
• Quiet Riot
• Trick Pony
• Raging Speedhorn
• Ride the Sky
• The Receiving End of Sirens
• Shot Down Sun
• SikTh
• Spineshank (on hiatus since 2004 but officially announced split in February 2008)
• Still Remains
• Submersed
• The Police
• The Summer Obsession
• This Et Al
• Toto
• Yellow Swans
• YouInSeries

Bands on hiatus

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• ¡Forward, Russia! (indefinite hiatus)^[34]
• Big & Rich (until 2009, due to a neck injury suffered by Big Kenny)
• Fear Factory
• The Format
• From Autumn to Ashes
• Glue Gun
• Incubus (on break from touring and recording)^[35]
• Monkey Swallows the Universe (indefinite hiatus)
• June (indefinite hiatus)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers (hiatus for at least one year)^[36]
• Reuben
• Social Distortion (due to their lead singer undertaking a solo tour)
• The Starting Line (indefinite break)^[37]
• Velvet Revolver (whilst looking for a new lead singer)
• Walking Corpse
• Westlife (a one-year break)
• Wolfmother (whilst looking for new musicians)
• Yellowcard

Albums released

All releases are an LP unless otherwise stated.
Multiple entries for the same day should be arranged alphabetically by the album's name.
Release dates may vary in different countries.

January

February

Day	Album	Artist	Notes
4	Dive Deep	Morcheeba
	Live After Death	Iron Maiden	DVD re-release
	Made in the Dark	Hot Chip
	Pray	Crematory
5	Back To Basics: Live And Down Under	Christina Aguilera	DVD
	The Best of SHeDAISY	SHeDAISY
	District Line	Bob Mould
	Here's to Being Here	Jason Collett
	It Is Time for a Love Revolution	Lenny Kravitz
	Lucky	Nada Surf
	Satisfied	Taylor Dayne
	Sleep Through the Static	Jack Johnson
	The Life I Know	Gwen Stacy
	Time Stand Still	The Hooters	release
6	Qualia	Jinn
	Simple Plan	Simple Plan
8	Horror Vacui	Linea 77
	Thriller 25	Michael Jackson	Re-issue
9	Do You Like Rock Music?	British Sea Power
11	Greatest Hits	Morrissey	Compilation
	HLLLYH	The Mae Shi
12	Advent Parallax	Averse Sefira
	Bring Me Your Love	City and Colour
	Great White Whale	Secret and Whisper
	Invisible Baby	Marco Benevento
	We Need Each Other	Sanctus Real
13	N	Norther
15	Slania	Eluveitie
18	Delusions	To-Mera
	Shallow Believer	The Used	Extended play
	Little Death	Pete & The Pirates
19	A Twist In My Story	Secondhand Serenade
	Board Up the House	Genghis Tron
	Brimborium	KMFDM
	Carved in Stone	Rage
	day&nightdriving	Seven Mary Three
	Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God	Sculptured
	Fury and Flames	Hate Eternal
	Harlem's American Gangster	Jim Jones	Mixtape
	Heretic Pride	The Mountain Goats
	Kingdom of Sorrow	Kingdom of Sorrow
	Life Underwater	Across Five Aprils
	Misfortunes	This Is Hell
	My Life's Been a Country Song	Chris Cagle
	No Time for Later	The Trews
	Numinosum	Ascension of the Watchers
	Susquehanna	Cherry Poppin' Daddies
	What A Terrible Thing To Say	Four Letter Lie
22	Carpe DiEnd	Steel Attack
	Ever Changing Times	Steve Lukather
	Galgenfrist	Nortt
	Puppenspiel	Unheilig
	The Legacy of Medusa	Stormlord	Compilation and live album
	Thrash Speed Burn	Exciter
25	Architects & Dead Swans	Architects & Dead Swans	Extended play
	Burn the Witch	Stone Gods	Extended play
	Eidolon	Dark Fortress
	Hold on Now, Youngster...	Los Campesinos!
	Seventh Tree	Goldfrapp
	Sexuality	Sébastien Tellier
26	Backwoods Barbie	Dolly Parton
	Broken In	Trent Willmon
	Discipline	Janet Jackson
	For the Love of the Game	Pillar
	In and Out of Love	Cheri Dennis	Physical release
	Killing Season	Death Angel
	New Amerykah: Part 1 (4th World War)	Erykah Badu
	NY's Finest	Pete Rock
	Parc Avenue	Plants and Animals
	Punch	Punch Brothers ft. Chris Thile
	Savage Life 2	Webbie
	Units in the City	Shawty Lo
	Nos lendemains	Isabelle Boulay
27	極東シンフォニー〜the Five Stars Night〜@BUDOKAN	Nightmare	Live album
	The Face	BoA
29	The White	Agalloch
	Turning Season Within	Draconian

March