Apple Music Quietly Starts $50 Million COVID-19 Advance Fund for Indie Labels
Posted in: Music News
Apple’s deal is the latest move by a major music company to bolster the struggling business.
‘Hey Siri, Play Songs to Calm Me Down’: What the World Is Listening to Amid COVID-19
Posted in: Music NewsChildren’s music soars, while hip-hop and pop streams fall, and listeners in the U.S. and abroad turn to chiller tunes
Jewel Finds the Sunshine in Darkness in New Song ‘Grateful’
Posted in: Music News“Anxiety has been a teacher to me,” the singer wrote. “It has caused me to learn there are only two basic states of being”
As Job Losses Grow, Newly Unemployed Embrace Sex Work by Camming for Cash
Posted in: Culture FeaturesThanks to the coronavirus pandemic’s high unemployment, some people are turning to online sex work, to the chagrin of longtime performers
Duran Duran’s John Taylor Announces Coronavirus Recovery
Posted in: Music NewsBassist admits he was “blessed with gettting only a mild case of COVID-19”
Charli XCX Announces ‘DIY’ Quarantine Album ‘How I’m Feeling Now’
Posted in: Music NewsAlbum’s entire recording process will be shared on social media
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Moved to Intensive Care
Posted in: Politics News“The condition of the prime minister has worsened,” said an official statement from Downing Street
Outside Lands’ CEO Sees the Post-Crisis Music Industry as an Opportunity
Posted in: Music Features“For all I know, we may go into the national touring business if other people leave an opening,” Gregg Perloff says in an interview with Rolling Stone on the future of the live music industry
Madonna Partners With Bill Gates, Donates $1 Million to COVID-19 Efforts
Posted in: Music News“He warned us of a global pandemic in 2015, and I wish to God we had listened,” singer said of Gates
Sara Bareilles ‘Fully Recovered’ From Coronavirus
Posted in: Music News“I had a very mild case of COVID and am counting my blessings for that… I am totally fine and fully recovered,” the Waitress star wrote in an Instagram story.
