service, and three years of probation in connection with an incident where he was alleged to have brandished a gun at a basketball game in South Los Angeles in February 2007. February 19 – System of a Down guitarist, Daron Malakian, tells MTV.com that the band is not likely to reform as he will be concentrating on his new project Scars on Broadway. February 20–25 – Viña del Mar International Song Festival is held in Chile. February 23 – March 3 – The second annual Soundwave festival is held in Australia. February 26 – The Return of the Spice Girls tour comes to a close in Toronto. March March 6–9 – The 2008 Langerado Music Festival is held on the Big Cypress Indian Reservation in southern Florida. March 7 – The Jakarta International Java Jazz Festival 2008 takes place in Indonesia. March 7–16 – The 2008 South by Southwest Conference and Festival is held in Austin, Texas, US. March 11 Jazz musician and broadcaster Humphrey Lyttelton announces his retirement from presenting BBC Radio 2's jazz programme after forty years. Rick Ross releases his second studio album, Trilla, to mixed reviews. March 18 – Electronic music duo Crystal Castles releases their eponymous debut album. March 25–29 – Miami Winter Music Conference. March 31 – theJazz radio station stops broadcasting. April April 1 – Scott Weiland's departure from rock band Velvet Revolver becomes official. His reunion with his former band, Stone Temple Pilots, and tensions between him and the rest of Velvet Revolver, led to his departure. April 5 The reunited Face to Face perform together for the first time in four-and-a-half-years at The Bamboozle Left in Irvine, California, US. Leona Lewis single "Bleeding Love" reached number 1 in 35 countries and became the first song to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart by a female British solo artist in 20 years since Kim Wilde did with "You Keep Me Hangin On" back in 1987. Her single was later proclaimed as the best selling single of 2008 worldwide and Lewis was named Top New Artist by Billboard. April 12 – "Touch My Body" becomes Mariah Carey's 18th number 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, putting her into second place among artists with the most number 1 singles in the rock era, and first place as a solo artist, surpassing Elvis Presley. April 13 – Justin Bieber officially signed to Def Jam