Editing 1996 in music (section)

===January===
* [[January 8]] – Robert Hoskins is convicted on five charges of assault, stalking, and threatening to kill [[Madonna]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1431648/19960112/madonna.jhtml|title=Madonna Faces Stalker In Court|last=anonymous|date=January 12, 1996|publisher=MTV Networks|access-date=April 15, 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080411164844/https://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1431648/19960112/madonna.jhtml| archive-date=April 11, 2008| url-status= dead}}</ref>
* [[January 16]]
** Two American teenagers, Nicholaus McDonald and Brian Bassett, are tried for the murder of Bassett's parents and younger brother. At the trial, defense lawyers attempt to blame the murders on the fact the pair had been listening to "[[Israel's Son]]" by [[Silverchair]] before the crimes. The murders are dubbed the "Israel's Son Murders." Murmur Records releases an official response, stating that the members of Silverchair do not condone violence of any kind, and that the song "seeks to criticize violence and war by portraying them in all their horror."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1996/9601180034.asp|title=ATTORNEY WANTS TO OPEN TEEN'S MURDER TRIAL WITH ROCK SONG|last=P-I Staff and News Services|date=January 18, 1996|newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|access-date=April 15, 2008}} {{dead link|date=June 2011}}</ref>
** [[Jamaica]]n authorities open fire on [[Jimmy Buffett]]'s seaplane, ''Hemisphere Dancer'', mistaking it for a drug trafficker's plane. [[U2]] singer [[Bono]] and [[Island Records]] executive [[Chris Blackwell]] are also on the plane during the incident. No one is injured.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buffettworld.com/incidents/jamaicamistaica/|title=Incidents -> Jamaica Mistaica|last=anonymous|date=n.d.|publisher=BuffettWorld|access-date=April 15, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080408113434/https://www.buffettworld.com/incidents/jamaicamistaica/  |archive-date = April 8, 2008}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] – [[Lisa Marie Presley]] files for divorce from [[Michael Jackson]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9601/jacko_presley/|title=She's out of his life|last=anonymous|date=January 18, 1996|publisher=Cable News Network, Inc. (CNN)|access-date=April 16, 2008}}</ref> The two were wed on May 26, 1994.
* [[January 19]]–[[February 4]] – The [[Big Day Out]] festival takes place in [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]], headlined by [[Porno for Pyros]] and [[Rage Against the Machine]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/music-reads/features/every-big-day-out-line-up/11539046 |title=The definitive guide to every Big Day Out line-up ever |publisher=ABC |date=September 30, 2019 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |first=Dan |last=Condon}}</ref>
* [[January 25]] – [[Madonna]] receives death threats from [[Argentina|Argentine]] [[Peronism|Peronists]], who are enraged and insulted that she was playing [[Eva Peron]] in ''[[Evita (1996 film)|Evita]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title = (Artes y Espectaculos) ARGENTINA: Evita y Madonna, iguales y distintas {{!}} IPS Agencia de Noticias|url = http://www.ipsnoticias.net/1996/02/artes-y-espectaculos-argentina-evita-y-madonna-iguales-y-distintas/|website = www.ipsnoticias.net|access-date = 2016-02-02|date = February 16, 1996|language = es|last = Valente|first = Marcela}}</ref> After she arrives in Argentina, over 50 walls throughout the city are spray-painted with the words: ''¡Viva [[Maria Eva Duarte de Perón|Evita]]! ¡Fuera Madonna!'' (Long Live Evita! Get Out, Madonna!).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elmundo.es/papel/hemeroteca/1996/01/21/cultura/78600.html|title=Madonna empieza a pasar los primeros apuros en Buenos Aires|first=Juan|last=Ignacio|date=January 21, 1996|publisher=Mundinteractivos, S.A. (El Mundo)|language=es|access-date=April 16, 2008}}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] – The first public performance of the controversial musical ''[[Rent (musical)|Rent]]'' takes place at the [[New York Theatre Workshop]], a day after the death of its creator, [[Jonathan Larson]].<ref>[http://siteforrent.com/creativeteam_details.php?url_identifier=jonathan-larson-1 Creative Team – Jonathan Larson] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605223723/http://siteforrent.com/creativeteam_details.php?url_identifier=jonathan-larson-1 |date=June 5, 2013 }}</ref>
* [[January 28]] – [[Chris Isaak]] makes a guest appearance on the television show ''[[Friends]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0583439/|title= "Friends" The One After the Superbowl: Part 1 (1996)|last=anonymous|date=n.d.|publisher=IMDb.com, Inc.|access-date=April 16, 2008}}</ref>
* [[January 29]]
** [[La Fenice]] [[opera house]] in Venice, Italy, is destroyed by fire.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1250826.stm|title=Two jailed for Venice opera arson|last=anonymous|date=March 30, 2001|publisher=BBC|access-date=April 16, 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090509000816/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1250826.stm |archive-date = May 9, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** [[Garth Brooks]] refuses to accept his American Music Award for Favorite Overall Artist, briefly explaining his belief that all music is "made up of a lot of people."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/31/arts/critic-s-notebook-music-awards-for-a-mythical-middle-america.html |title=CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Music Awards for a Mythical Middle America |last=Pareles |first=John |date=January 31, 1996 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 16, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714083724/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E2D61639F932A05752C0A960958260 |archive-date=July 14, 2012 }}</ref>