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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. Check back to this page everyday for new listings and recaps.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Live Streams
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Benjamin Gibbard: Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard is going to host concerts from his
home studio every day at 7 p.m. Eastern. They’ll broadcast on
YouTube and
Facebook. “We’re still
working out the details but I’m hoping to take some requests and
maybe even have a guest or two stop by digitally,” Gibbard wrote. -
Chris Thile: Mandolinist Chris Thile, the host of radio variety show Live From Here, has launched the “Live From
Home”
series, which will offer a digital space for musicians to put on
virtual concerts for fans. Thile kicked things off himself with a
cover of Wilco’s “Radio Cure” and tagged artists such as Sara
Bareilles and Jon Batiste to contribute to the series.
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Dan Mangan: Singer-songwriter Dan Mangan’s show at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall last week was canceled, but he and his band still
performed in the empty venue and recorded the set. The aptly titled
Show to Nobody is streaming on Mangan’s YouTube.
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Metropolitan Opera: Performances at the Met Opera have been canceled through at least March 31. Now, the cultural institution has
begun hosting “Nightly Met Opera Streams” on its website, which
include encore performances from its Live in HD series that begin
at 7:30 p.m. Eastern every day. (They are available to stream for 20
hours.) Tonight’s opera is a 2008 recording of Puccini’s La Bohème. -
Neil Young: Fresh off his digital concert for Bernie Sanders,
Neil Young is planning to
launch
a live stream series at the Neil Young Archives website. “We will try
to do a stream from my fireplace with my lovely wife filming,” he
wrote. “It will be a down-home production, a few songs, a little time
together.” -
Specialist Subject Records: Bristol label Special Subject will host a
concert on Instagram Live
from 3:45 p.m. Eastern to 7:30 p.m. Eastern. Performers on the bill
include Jeff Rosenstock and AJJ. The label says, “If you’re
self-isolating or your plans have been cancelled, please tune in!”
Playlists and Endeavors
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Christine and the Queens: Chris is hosting
daily hangouts on her
Instagram at 6
p.m. Eastern. “Guests and weird concepts included. 🕊♥️ ,” she
promises.
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Hinds: Indie-pop group Hinds are currently on quarantine in their native Spain. Yesterday, they uploaded a tutorial on how to play
their latest single “Come Back and Love Me.” They wrote, “Obviously
if you can get yourself into playing music or doing something
creative then it can actually help your mental health and staying
calm.”
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Los Campesinos!: Los Campesinos! are spending their time inside by digging up old band artifacts. The band will auction off
memorabilia to raise funds for those facing hardships due to
coronavirus.
https://twitter.com/LosCampesinos/status/1239855564819173376
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Matt Berninger: The National’s Matt Berninger has launched the Social Distancing
Distortion
playlist to help people “stay healthy, body and mind.”
Read “A Working Guitarist In Italy’s Hardest-Hit Coronavirus City Talks Life Under Lockdown” and “How 14 Major Cities Are Responding to the Coronavirus.”