- Illinois celebrates Cheap Trick Day every April 1. (Yahoo)
- 100 best tracks of the 60s. (NME)
- Patti Smith will release her 11th studio album on June 5. (Rolling Stone)
- Neil Young trademarks new digital audio format. (Rolling Stone)
- New Neil Young & Crazy Horse album is set to release on June 5. (neilyoung.com)
- Marshall Amps inventor Jim Marshall died on April 5, 2012. He created the legendary Sound of Rock. (NME)
- Kurt Cobain died in Seattle on April 5, 1994.
- Journalist Mike Wallace died on April 7. Here is a video of him interviewing Salvador Dalí on April 19, 1958. The transcript is here. Wallace questioned Dali "What is philosophical about driving in a car full of cauliflowers or lecturing inside a diving helmet?"
- A pioneer in computers Jack Tramiel died on April 8th at the age of 83. (LA Times) (Time)
- Matt Groening revealed the real location of Springfield. (Smithsonian)
- Green Day planned to release trilogy of new albums entitled ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré! starting on September 25th. (Rolling Stone)
- Leonard Cohen's ex-manager was sentenced to 18 months in prison. (Rolling Stone)
- TV legend Dick Clark died on April 18 at the age of 82. (New York Times)
- Drummer and singer of the Band Levon Helm died on April 19th in New York at the age of 71. (Rolling Stone)
- Joey Ramone's lost track Rolling Stone.
- The Beastie Boys' Mike D will bring the Transmission LA AV Show art and music festival on April 20. (Rolling Stone)
- Julius Robert Oppenheimer, one of the most important scientists of the 20th century, was born in New York City on April 22, 1904.
- Oppenheimer, A life. A great website dedicated to the scientist with bio.
- The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a well produced film looking into the life of a brilliant scientist. (PBS)
- German physics Max Planck was born on April 23, 1858. He is the founder of the quantum theory and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
- Blues guitarist Albert King was born in Indianola, Mississippi on April 25, 1923.
- Cy Twombly was born in Lexington, Virginia on April 25, 1928. He is known for his large-scale, freely scribbled, calligraphic-style graffiti paintings. See the gallery of his paintings.
- Actor Hank Azaria was born in Queens, New York on April 25, 1964.
- The Beatles recorded And Your Bird Can Sing at Abbey Road studios on April 26 1966. Here is a shot of John, Paul and Mick Jagger at Abbey Road Studios during Revolver sessions: The Beatles.
- William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England on April 26, 1564.
