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Annual song contest is latest major music event to fold amidst coronavirus spread

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Annual song contest is latest major music event to fold amidst coronavirus spread

The new single sees The Avalanches teaming up with Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu, with the latter performing lyrics written by the late David Berman.

"This is our way to sing from the cyber balconies to the world in these difficult times," John Butler says of the new initiative from The Cat Empire.

"This will help them pay their rent and live and also encourage new works to be made, with a domino effect of creating and keeping jobs for recording engineers, graphic artists, managers etc."

Song is the first of several to be released in the next two weeks

Death Cab for Cutie frontman will stream intimate acoustic shows on YouTube and Facebook

Band’s motto for the LP was “Deep Purple is putting the ‘Deep’ back in Purple”

Singer Randy Blythe asks people to look out for one another during COVID-19 outbreak

DJ iMarkkeyz’s dance track “Coronavirus,” which remixes audio ripped from a Cardi B Instagram post, is rising quickly on the iTunes charts

“It’s a calling,” the musician said. “I was born to do it.”