14 OCTOBER
Featured Events
2014 Kesha files a civil lawsuit against her longtime producer, Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald), in a bid to be released from her contract. She cites years of physical, verbal, emotional, and sexual abuse at the hands of the producer, who denies all charges.More
2011 After 27 years of marriage, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth announce they are breaking up.
2006 Opening for Rascal Flatts at Madison Square Garden, Eric Church goes off-kilter, playing a little "Crazy Train" and staying on stage past his allotted time. He is kicked off the tour and replaced by a talented newcomer named Taylor Swift.
2003 Ozzy Osbourne seeks treatment for Parkinson's Disease-like tremors and postpones a fall European tour. The veteran rock artist says in a statement, "I have been in Boston for the last three weeks, having medical tests for a tremor which has become markedly worse over the last two years."
2000 The Beatles' official autobiography Anthology hits #1 on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list.
1996 Madonna gives birth to her first child, a daughter named Lourdes. The father is her personal trainer, Carlos Leon.
1974 Nashville veterans worry about the sanctity of country music when Olivia Newton-John wins Female Vocalist of the Year at the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards.More
1972 Michael Jackson's "Ben," a song about a boy and his love for a pet rat, hits #1 in the US.More
14 OCTOBER
In Music History
2025 D'Angelo, a neo-soul pioneer known for his albums Brown Sugar (1995) and Voodoo (2000), dies of pancreatic cancer at 51.
2023 After a delay while she battled a bacterial infection, Madonna begins her Celebration Tour at the O2 Arena in London. Three of her kids join her onstage, with daughter Ester doing some vogueing and son David playing guitar.
2019 Choi Jin-ri, the South Korean singer/actress known as Sulli, commits suicide at Busan aged only 25.
2018 Fifty years after they first started touring, Steppenwolf play their last show, a concert in Baxter Springs, Kansas.
2017 Kacey Musgraves marries Ruston Kelly (also a country singer) in Tennessee. He inspires her song "Butterflies," and their divorce in 2020 informs much of Musgraves' 2021 album Star-Crossed.
2016 JoJo releases her third album, Mad Love., her first since 2006, as legal issues have kept her from issuing new material.
2014 David Bowie debuts his new single "Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)," a jazzy seven-and-a-half-minute song, on BBC Radio 6 to promote his upcoming compilation album Nothing Has Changed.
2012 B. B. Cunningham Jr., aged 70, finishes one of the most unusual lives in music history when he dies of a gunshot wound inflicted while working as a security guard at an apartment complex in Memphis, Tennessee. We mainly know Cunningham through his work with the band Hombres, who had a #12 Billboard-charting hit in 1967 with "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)." Cunningham was lead singer of Hombres and not to be confused with his brother Bill Cunningham, who was a member of The Box Tops. Cunningham rounded off his music career with work as a studio engineer, even returning to Memphis to launch his own studio. How he ended up as a 70-year-old security guard is anybody's guess.
2011 The remake of Footloose opens in US theaters. The new film is energetic and sexy and earns better critical acclaim than its forebear. Starring Kenny Wormald and Julianne Hough, the film also resurrects the title-theme song with a cover by Blake Shelton.
2011 Chuck Ruff (drummer for Edgar Winter Group and Sammy Hagar) dies in San Francisco, California, after a lengthy illness at age 60.
2010 Alicia Keys gives birth to a baby boy named Egypt, and is inspired to write the song "Speechless." The father is her producer husband Swizz Beatz.
2007 The Tom Petty documentary film Running Down A Dream debuts at the New York Film Festival.
2006 Country/rock singer and guitarist Freddy Fender dies of lung cancer in Corpus Christi, Texas, at age 69.
2004 Ludacris and Public Enemy play the "Race to the Polls" concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom to raise voter awareness for the upcoming US presidential election.
Noah Kahan Goes Folk With Stick Season
2022After teasing songs on social media for two years, Noah Kahan finally issues his third album, Stick Season, which marks his shift from indie-pop to folk and launches him into the mainstream.
Stick Season explores the love-hate relationship Kahan has with the place where he grew up. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the singer-songwriter retreated to his tiny hometown of Strafford, Vermont, where he was trapped with the ghosts of old memories he'd rather forget. The isolation of lockdown also forced him to confront the state of his career, which was leading him in an indie-pop direction after the success of his 2018 single "Hurt Somebody." Kahan wanted to be a folk singer but was scared to abandon the genre that put him in the spotlight. He tested the idea with the folk EP Cape Elizabeth in 2020 and was validated when fans immediately embraced his new sound. Suddenly the old ghosts seemed a little friendlier and he wrote about them on Stick Season, which takes its name from the phrase Vermonters use to describe the desolate period between fall and winter. "I wanted to write about what it was like to grow up in a small town, what it means to fall in love and lose people in a small town, and write from the perspective of someone who stayed behind," Kahan told Billboard in 2022. "As I found this niche and new concept to write about, I started being really excited again about what my future and life could look like doing what I actually want to do." Mining his own experiences and stories from his friends and family, Kahan sings about the breakdown of a long-distance relationship ("Stick Season"), his past struggles with alcohol abuse ("Dial Drunk"), the pain of unrequited love ("She Calls Me Back"), and the toll shared trauma takes on a friendship ("Orange Juice"). "Stick Season," in particular, takes off on social media long before the album's release. When the single finally drops in 2022, it goes to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. Stick Season goes to #2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, bringing Kahan back to the spotlight - only this time, as a folk star.
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