Year 2013 in Music: What's New?

This spectacular year of the Snake is almost over and the Horse is waiting to take over the post and become the symbol of the oncoming year 2014. It’s exciting to see what it will bring, but before it’s officially here let’s have a brief look at the slipping-away 2013 and go through some of the music events it gave us, both positive and sad. So what do we have here?

Music Events 2013
Some of them include getting back on stage of David Bowie, Fall Out Boy; leaving the stage of My Chemical Romance, Jonas Brothers, Attack Attack. Such events as the 33rd Brit Awards (Feb 21), Eurovision (May 14-18), Ruisrock rock festival in Turku, Pori Jazz Festival took place.

Concerts 2013
Among the brightest concerts are Depeche Mode world tour, Pink Floyd show in St. Petersburg, Green Day tour concerts, 30 Seconds to Mars Moscow show.

New Albums 2013
Artists keep recording new albums and there are way too many of them to enumerate but some pretty successful include Hurts’ Exile, Bowie’s The Next Day, OneRepublic’s Native, Bon Jovi’s What About Now, Lara Fabian’s Le Secret, Demi Lovato’s Demi, Placebo’s Loud Like Love, Moby’s Innocents, Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience, Miley Cyrus’ Bangerz, Katy Perry’s Prism, Lady Gaga’s Artpop, Robbie Williams’ Swing Both Ways and numerous others.

Anniversaries 2013
This year became a round date for the anniversaries of many outstanding composers. Among them: Wagner, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Brahms , Verdi.

Losses 2013
Unfortunately, this year was also marked by some sad events, when the world lost some of the really talented and remarkable people – Patti Page (American singer), Sammy Johnes (American country singer-songwriter), Pham Duy (Vietnamese songwriter), Van Cliburn (American pianist), Ray Manzarek (American musician, producer, songwriter, The Doors’ founder), Lou Reed (American rock musician, poet, The Velvet Underground founder), Maria Pachomenko (Russian and Soviet singer), Jimmy Fontana (Italian composer, actor and singer).

Let’s hope that 2014 will be full of new bright achievements and will pass with minimum reasons for being upset!