In front of a psychedelically oozing virtual background, they played an hour of house and Latin club music. Yes, he says, it’s really as bad as you’ve heard.Statewide in California, the transmission rate of COVID-19 has stabilized or is falling, and hospitalization rates are also dropping.The body that runs the electric grid for most of California has declared a statewide Stage 3 emergency due to excessive heat driving up electricity use and straining the grid.President Trump’s order for a $400 unemployment extension might end up being $300 -- if it arrives at all. Is your network connection unstable or browser outdated? As we see traditional revenue streams dry up, it takes a leap to get to where new ones are.”COVID-19 has kneecapped even huge acts like Lady Gaga and Alicia Keys, who have had albums and tour cycles pushed back in the pandemic. And country artist Margo Price gives the hit song a makeover.Jim Mahoney believes he’s stumbled on the rarest of rarities: two unreleased Frank Sinatra songs. Over 4 million fans watched it live, and it was the most popular stream on YouTube and the top-listed stream on Twitch over the weekend.

Given that current tour profits are hovering steadily around zero, more flexible approaches to livestreamed gigs (paid in money, exposure or goodwill) will be a part of artists’ livelihoods for a while.But sponsored streaming is “more triage versus a long-term replacement” for touring, Hampp said. “We see that it works when we keep it super-curated, with companies that have already been active here.”From Drake to 5 Seconds of Summer to Kehlani, videos shot in quarantine have become a go-to medium to renegotiate the social contract of pop stardom.For five years, Budweiser has thrown a livestreamed “Dive Bar” tour of small venues, including a Lady Gaga gig at the Satellite in Silver Lake. Experts aren’t so sure.

That’s where it becomes truly supplemental.”In June of last year, the electronic music producer Porter Robinson headlined a 30,000-capacity festival he’d booked at a park in Oakland. At 5 p.m. on Saturday last week, Diplo and Dillon Francis — A-list DJs and dance music producers — hopped behind their decks to spin a quarantine livestream. In the at-home livestreaming era, fees are less than half that, sometime 75% less (though overhead to perform is also significantly less).Artists and their crews are growing restless for answers. Diplo shouted to around 250 viewers on Instagram Live at the set’s halfway mark (it was also broadcast on Zoom). Diplo - Higher Ground DTLA Warehouse (Live Set) by Diplo published on 2020-02-19T17:29:49Z. The shows average around 5,000 viewers and 75,000 minutes watched per show, Club House says. While we’re all in self-imposed quarantine and I’m grounded from playing shows I am going to get creative and make up random sets and shows live … Most artists demand a charity component like the Red Cross or Music for Relief to do something constructive with their sets.“Artists want to showcase music, and in the same breath give back,” said Brenda Reynoso, Awbrey’s partner at Tiger’s Eye. Artists who want to control and profit from their own streams will have to make them real events. “Brands also know that a main source of an independent artist’s revenue stream has been depleted. Yes, he says, it’s really as bad as you’ve heard.Statewide in California, the transmission rate of COVID-19 has stabilized or is falling, and hospitalization rates are also dropping.The body that runs the electric grid for most of California has declared a statewide Stage 3 emergency due to excessive heat driving up electricity use and straining the grid.President Trump’s order for a $400 unemployment extension might end up being $300 -- if it arrives at all.

We haven’t quite cracked this next phase yet.”“When quarantine happened, our entire industry collapsed,” said Patrick Struys, an L.A. club promoter and nightlife photographer who turned to livestreaming for his Club House party series. Your current browser isn't compatible with SoundCloud.
Fans might be willing to pay to see something similar.“If things reopened tomorrow, there might not be a need to do this, but I do see these experiences as being inevitable as part of future,” Robinson said. Red Bull built an entire shadow underground rave scene to promote its energy drinks.Hampp said that before COVID-19, an artist playing a theater-sized gig could make around $75,000 to $100,000 from sponsorships alone. That landed sponsorships from millennial-friendly brands like Beats By Dre and Bumble, and Club House pools those resources to give every DJ at least $200 for a one-hour set. Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke talks about experiencing COVID-19. At 5 p.m. on Saturday last week, Diplo and Dillon Francis — A-list DJs and dance music producers — hopped behind their decks to spin a quarantine livestream. “Ticketing was the backbone of touring revenue, and when that goes away, it’s a huge hurdle.

August Brown covers pop music, the music industry and nightlife policy at the Los Angeles Times.The 2020 Premios Juventud staged a stunning tribute to late Tejano music icon Selena, featuring Danna Paola, Natti Natasha, Greeicy and Ally Brooke.The Canadian rock band pays tribute to the late country-rock star Charlie Daniels with a cover of his 1979 smash “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.”In today’s “WAP” update, Cardi B says she spent $100,000 on COVID-19 testing for the video. The set was sponsored by the fast-food chain Jack in the Box, and posed as a substitute prom for a pair of Los Angeles-area high schools, whose students lightheartedly heckled them in the comments. It was good for fan loyalty, but he acknowledged that acts will eventually need to make it pay. Benros recently oversaw a geofenced digital “tour” for Lion Babe and Kwamie Liv, making free tickets available only to fans in the area where they would have performed anyway. “But it’s similar to what we’re seeing within the bar industry.