As the spread of COVID-19 isolates more and more Americans in their homes, many thought that they would be coping by streaming more music — and, in turn, helping to soften the inevitably catastrophic blow that the pandemic will have on the music industry. But that doesn’t seem to be …
Read More »Support Musicians Directly by Buying These Albums on Bandcamp
Musicians everywhere are suffering right now, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten their livelihoods by forcing tour and festival cancellations. One way for fans to help out is to buy music and merchandise directly from those artists — and Bandcamp, the online music store that has become a key …
Read More »How Nashville's Play-for-Tips Musicians Are Adapting in the Age of Social Distancing
Joshua Hedley has played Robert’s Western World, the famous Nashville honky-tonk known for its old-school country music and fried bologna sandwiches, thousands of times since 2005, but until this past Tuesday night, he had never performed there to an empty dance floor. After bars and honky-tonks shut down in Nashville’s …
Read More »Billie Eilish Postpones Tour, Urges Fans to Take Coronavirus Seriously
Billie Eilish expressed her thoughts on the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, telling her Instagram followers, “Don’t panic, but don’t be stupid.” “It is a really big deal right now, and it is not a joke,” she said. “I know because a lot of us haven’t seen it with our eyes …
Read More »WHO Labels COVID-19 a 'Pandemic'
The World Health Organization (WHO) reclassified the international coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a “pandemic” on Wednesday. “WHO has been assessing this outbreak around the clock and we’re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated …
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