Pick a Day

15 MAY

In Music History

2024 The new professional hockey team in Athens, Georgia, is christened the Rock Lobsters in honor of the B-52s, who formed in the city and released their classic song "Rock Lobster" in 1979. The name was chosen in a fan vote that nearly went to Classic City Panic in honor of another Athens band, WideSpread Panic.

2014 Rapper Evan Plunkett, who performed as Hollywood Will, is shot dead at a Las Vegas casino.

2011 Jazz vocalist Bob Flanigan (of The Four Freshmen) dies at age 84 of congestive heart failure.

2011 Rock star Meat Loaf and rapper Lil Jon are eliminated one week before the Season 11 finale of Donald Trump's show The Celebrity Apprentice.

2010 Usher hits #1 in America with his Will.i.am collaboration "OMG," giving him chart-topping hits in the '90s, '00s, and '10s.

2009 Green Day release the album 21st Century Breakdown, their follow-up to American Idiot, released five years earlier. The first two singles are "Know Your Enemy" and "21 Guns."

2008 Shania Twain and producer Robert "Mutt" Lange announce they are separating after 14 years of marriage. Lange's affair with Twain's best friend, Marie-Anne Thiébaud, triggered the split. Twain later marries Thiébaud's ex-husband, Frédéric.

2007 Ike Turner spends a day in a Los Angeles jail over a mistaken warrant.

2006 Dubstep artist Burial releases his debut album, Burial, the first full-length album released through Kode9's Hyperdub Records. It's an attempt to capture the feeling of 2000s London late at night, and the album cover features an aerial view of South London. The logo, which later becomes Burial's signature, represents a pirate radio signal.More

2003 t.A.T.u.'s manager Ivan Shapovalov is arrested for disturbing the peace after staging a video shoot in Moscow's Red Square for the duo's song "Show Me Love." Playing up the act's image as teenage lesbian lovers, Shapovalov had arranged for about 200 young girls to dress like t.A.T.u. and kiss each other, which causes a disturbance. By the end of the year, t.A.T.u. will abandon the ruse and admit that they only acted like lovers for the sake of scandalous publicity.

2003 June Carter Cash dies after undergoing heart-valve replacement surgery at age 73.

2001 Weezer release their third album, which like their first, is called Weezer - it becomes known as "The Green Album" and their debut is called "The Blue Album." The Green Album comes five years after their previous album, Pinkerton, and is a lot brighter, getting the band back on the radio with songs like "Hash Pipe" and "Island In The Sun." It's not the last self-titled Weezer album - the Red, White, Teal and Black albums all follow.

2001 God Bless the Go-Go's, the Go-Go's fourth album, is released. It is the band's first studio album in 17 years.

2001 Tool release their third studio album, Lateralus. It sells 2 million copies and sets the stage for the also-successful 10,000 Days album that comes out three years later.

1995 Stone Temple Pilots lead singer Scott Weiland is arrested for heroin and cocaine possession outside a motel in Pasadena. It's the first of his high-profile drug arrests.