
- Trent Reznor's How To Destroy Angels released the new video How Long from their upcoming album Welcome Oblivion. (NPR)
- The Beatles's I Want To Hold Your Hand became the number one single on February 1, 1964.
- Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich announced new tour dates. (Rolling Stones)
- Dave Grohl released his much publicized documentary Sound City. (Spin)
- Sonic Youth's guitarist Lee Ranaldo was born in Long Island on February 3, 1956.
- Guitarist Gary Moore died in a hotel room in Spain on February 6, 2011. He was 58.