2015 in music

Specific locations

Specific genres

Albums released

• List of 2015 albums

  Awards

Bands formed

Bands reformed

• 13th Floor Elevators
• The Academy Is...
• A-ha
• Aiden
• Alexisonfire
• Armor for Sleep
• At the Drive-In
• Bay City Rollers
• The Black Eyed Peas
• Black Grape
• The Bluetones
• Brooks & Dunn
• Busted
• The Corrs
• Daphne and Celeste
• Dashboard Confessional
• Digable Planets
• Disturbed
• Evanescence
• Faithless
• Good Charlotte
• LCD Soundsystem
• Lush
• The Matches
• Pist.On
• The Promise Ring
• Rainbow
• Royal Trux
• Savatage
• Simply Red
• The Starting Line
• Supertramp
• Symphony Number One
• Thrice
• A Tribe Called Quest
• Underoath
• Ween

  Bands disbanded

• 3 Inches of Blood
• Avi Buffalo
• The Black Crowes
• Bloodhound Gang
• Burzum
• California Breed
• Cali Swag District
• CBS Orchestra
• Cobra Starship
• Device
• Eastern Conference Champions
• Erase Errata
• Flesh for Lulu
• Framing Hanley
• Funeral For a Friend
• Goodbye to Gravity
• G.R.L.
• I, the Breather
• James Last Orchestra
• Kill Hannah
• Klaxons
• Maybeshewill
• Mean Creek
• MellowHype
• Mötley Crüe
• Motörhead
• Neutral Milk Hotel
• Noah and the Whale
• Obits
• Odd Future
• The Replacements
• Rise to Remain
• The Rosso Sisters
• Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts
• Sleeper Agent
• Stereo Kicks
• Tangerine Dream
• Texas in July
• The Weakerthans

  Deaths

January

• 1 – Matthew Cogley, British musician and songwriter.
• 6 – Lance Percival, British actor and singer.
• 13 – Ronnie Ronalde, British siffleur and yodeller.
• 19 – Ward Swingle, American jazz singer.
• 22 – Joan Hinde, British trumpet player.
• 27 – Margot Moir, Scottish-born Australian singer.
• 29 – Danny McCulloch, British bassist.

  February

• 12 – Steve Strange, British musician.
• 21 – Clark Terry, American jazz trumpeter.
• 22 – Erik Amundsen, Norwegian jazz upright-bassist.

  March

• 21 – Jørgen Ingmann,, Danish guitarist.

  April

• 1 – Dave Ball, British musician.
• 3 – Andrew Porter, British organist, music critic, and opera director
• 10 – Ronald Hambleton, English-born Canadian broadcaster and music critic.
• 13 – Ronnie Carroll, Northern Irish singer.
• 17 – Brian Couzens, British music industry executive.

  May

• 14 – B.B. King, American blues guitarist.
• 20 – Bob Belden, American jazz saxophonist.
• 23 – Marcus Belgrave, American jazz trumpeter.
• 31 – Slim Richey, American jazz guitarist.

  June

• 11 – Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist.
• 12 – Monica Lewis, American singer and actress.
• 21 – Gunther Schuller, American composer, conductor, and horn player.
• 27 – Joe Bennett, American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist

  July

• 1
• *Val Doonican, Irish-born singer.
• *Edward Greenfield, British music critic and broadcaster.
• 13 – Eric Wrixon, British musician from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• 22
• *Daron Norwood, American country music singer
• *Eddie Hardin, British singer-songwriter and pianist.
• 31 – Pamela Brandt, American country-rock bassist, singer and songwriter

  August

• 1 – Cilla Black, British singer and presenter.
• 12 – John Scott, British organist and choirmaster.
• 14 – Jazz Summers, British music manager,
• 20 – Laurent Rossi, French singer, songwriter, and record producer

  September

• 29 – Phil Woods, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader and composer.

  October

• 9 – Larry Rosen, American drummer, entrepreneur, and music producer.
• 22 – Mark Murphy, American singer.

  November

• 5 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer.
• 25 – Svein Christiansen, Norwegian drummer.

  December

• 3 – Scott Weiland, American musician, singer and songwriter
• 28 – Ian Kilmister , English musician, singer and songwriter
• 30 – Zjef Vanuytsel, Belgian folk singer.
• 31 – Natalie Cole, American singer, songwriter, and actress.