By Todd Spangler
31.03.2020 - 18:25 / pitchfork.com
With music fans responsibly self-isolating and social distancing and venues on lockdown, artists are finding creative ways to navigate the coronavirus outbreak and its profound impact on the entertainment industries. To help you keep track, Pitchfork is rounding up a daily slate of concert streams, digital gatherings, community support efforts, and other endeavors artists are undertaking to support everyone’s wellness.
By Todd Spangler
With music fans responsibly self-isolating and social distancing and venues on lockdown, artists are finding creative ways to navigate the coronavirus outbreak and its profound impact on the entertainment industries. To help you keep track, Pitchfork is rounding up a daily slate of concert streams, digital gatherings, community support efforts, and other endeavors artists are undertaking to support everyone’s wellness.
Life on lockdown has left the country desperate for a taste of the great outdoors.
Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Angel Olsen, Margo Price, Jessie Reyez, Finneas, the Secret Sisters, Soccer Mommy, Norah Jones, Justin Moore, Jeff Tweedy and Kim Petras are some of the artists performing this weekend.
As lockdown hits its third week in the UK, it’s safe to say a large amount of us have been pouring over social media, seeing what others are getting up to during this downtime. And it seems romance is far from dead for some celebrity couples, who are giving us serious #couplegoals envy whilst self-isolating with their partners, from Siânnise Fudge and Luke Trotman and their top TikTok game, to Justin and Hailey Bieber and all those smoochy shots.
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Love Island 's Maura Higgins has left her fans in stitches as she tucks in to Ann Summers' penis shaped pasta.
An Elvis Costello appearance “from his underground lair” in the UK and Dierks Bentley broadcasting live from the U.S. of A. lead the list of performance live-streams happening for music lovers Friday. Costello performs at 3:30 ET, and Bentley goes on at 9 ET.
Dave Matthews is definitely the elephant in the room — or maybe the 800-pound marching ant? — when it comes to Thursday’s music live-streams. Tonight is the night he performs a half-hour solo show online as the premiere of a new Verizon-sponsored series, “Pay It Forward Live,” that will be broadcast each week to promote the Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s efforts to help out small businesses in distress.
Children can watch pandas, penguins, tigers and more as zoos live stream their animals for us all to see.
Tori Kelly and Jojo treated their fans to an a capella rendition of the 1998 single “When You Believe” via Instagram Live on Monday (March 23).
The pace of fresh music live-streams is slowing down just a little mid-week, but Tuesday brings promising performances in store from Chloe x Halle, Kiana Ledé, “The Voice” alumna Meghan Linsey and her duo partner Tyler Cain, and a DJ set from Diplo, among others.