The Isolation Check-In: New Music, Live Streams, Playlists, and More Amid Coronavirus

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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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • Christine and the Queens: Chris is hosting
    daily hangouts on her
    Instagram at 6
    p.m. Eastern. “Guests and weird concepts included. 🕊♥️ ,” she
    promises.
  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • 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.”

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