Editing 2002 in music (section)

===March–April===
* [[March 7]] – [[Burton C. Bell]] leaves [[Fear Factory]] after falling out with [[Dino Cazares]]. Fear Factory soon disband.
* [[March 12]] – [[Silverchair]] withdraw from the [[Gone South]] festival in Australia after [[Daniel Johns]] contracts [[reactive arthritis]].
* [[March 15]] – Liverpool Airport is rechristened [[Liverpool John Lennon Airport]] in an official ceremony.
* [[March 24]] – [[Takahiro Nishikawa]] leaves [[Dreams Come True (band)|Dreams Come True]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2002/04/03/music/still-chasing-their-dream/#.XtfCdjozbIU |title=Still chasing their dream |last=McLure |first=Steve |date=3 April 2002 |newspaper=The Japan Times |access-date=2020-06-03 }}</ref>
* [[March 25]] – [[Celine Dion]] returns to the music scene after a four-year absence with the album ''[[A New Day Has Come]]''.
* [[April 17]] – [[Pop-punk]] giants [[Blink-182]] and [[Green Day]] co-headline the two-month ''[[Pop Disaster Tour]]''.
* [[April 22]] – [[Sugababes]] release their first UK Number 1 single, a cover of Adina Howard's 1995 single Freak Like Me.
* [[April 25]] – Member of R&B group [[TLC (group)|TLC]], [[Lisa Lopes|Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes]] dies in car accident in Honduras
* [[April 27]]-[[April 28|28]] – The [[Coachella|Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival]] takes place in [[California]]. Headlined by [[Björk]] and [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]], the lineup also features [[The Chemical Brothers]], [[The Prodigy]], [[Cake (band)|Cake]], [[Foo Fighters]], [[Jack Johnson (musician)|Jack Johnson]], [[Queens of the Stone Age]], [[The Strokes]], [[The Vines (band)|The Vines]] and [[Belle and Sebastian]]. This year marks the festival's return to its original two-day format.