If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. As cases of coronavirus continue to surge across the nation, many have made the decision to start doubling up on face masks if they have to leave the …
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Online music marketplace Bandcamp announced Tuesday that its pandemic-inspired Bandcamp Fridays initiative — in which it waives its full revenue share on its sales to help artists better fend through Covid — will continue in 2021. Starting in March, when the pandemic cut off touring and removed artists’ most reliable …
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I work in television and film post-production. What does that mean? People associate show business with glamor — movie stars, Hollywood premiers and traveling the world. Post-production has none of that. We work on entertainment media after it is shot. Stars don’t drop by for lunch. Paparazzi do not stake …
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A new study conducted in Germany has found that there’s potentially a low risk of spreading the coronavirus at indoor concerts, so long as significant safety precautions are taken, The New York Times reports. Back in August, a group of researchers at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg conducted a study …
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Kid Cudi is helping launch a new fan interaction app called Encore, the app developers announced on Wednesday. He joins a growing slate of artists putting their entrepreneurial weight behind hopeful music startups since the pandemic began in March. Cudi is the co-founder and chief creative officer of Encore, a …
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UPDATE (10/22):A Biden campaign ad highlighting the struggles of Michigan venue during the Covid-19 pandemic was pulled after its owner and his family started receiving threats. ** Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has released a new ad highlighting the devastating impact of Covid-19 on the live music industry — and it …
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A group of over a dozen black concert promoters in the U.S. is working to address longstanding inequality in their industry — which members say has made it a challenge for them to stay competitive in an increasingly consolidated live music marketplace. The new organization, called The Black Promoters Collective …
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Talent agencies made steep staff layoffs at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. But now, several departed agents from Paradigm — one of the major music agencies that announced cuts — have announced their own company, carrying over prominent touring acts including The War on Drugs, Chvrches, and Courtney Barnett. …
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MTV‘s annual Video Music Awards are the network’s most well-known television offering. So when it decided to press forward with this year’s ceremony on Sunday, August 30th as a live show — making the 2020 VMAs the first major live awards show to take place since COVID-19 shut down events …
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UPDATE:In a statement shared with Pitchfork, Pictureplane, one of the DJs who performed at the rave, admitted that he didn’t “think it was worth the risk.” The DJ/producer (who’s real name is Travis Egedy), said he expressed reservations about performing to organizers, but was assured that “this one would be …
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