Monday, 5/11
The Airborne Toxic Event join
WAQX/Syracuse's
Instagram Live Session at 12pm PT. Check it out
here.
The Airborne Toxic Event frontman
Mikel Jollett continues his Virtual Book Tour with another exclusive event, this time hosted by
Chicago's
Book Cellar at 5pm PT. The exclusive online event series sees Jollett discuss his life story and memoir,
Hollywood Park, perform material from the new album and have a Q&A with the audience. Tickets will support local indie bookstores and include a signed copy of the book. For tickets, click
here.
Tuesday, 5/12
Caylee Hammack hosts
CMT's
Next Women of Country event with special guest
Sara Evans. Hammack hosts the reoccurring series during quarantine on CMT's
Facebook page every Tuesday at 3pm PT, watch
here.
The Airborne Toxic Event's Jollett continues his Virtual Book Tour with Denver's
Tattered Cover at 6pm PT. Tickets will support local indie bookstores and include a signed copy of
Hollywood Park. For tickets, click
here.
Thursday, 5/14
Elvis Costello,
Sheryl Crow,
Milton Nascimento and
Robert Cray are among the musicians participating in the
Jazz Foundation of America’s #TheNewGig COVID-19 Musicians’ Emergency Fund Concert. It begins at 8pm ET at
www.jazzfoundation.org/covid19.
Josh Groban continues his
Movie Night series of Groban concert films with
Awake Live at 5pm PT/8pm ET. Previously aired concert films include
Bridges Live: Madison Square Garden and
Stages Live. Upcoming movie nights will air
Live at the Greek (5/28) and
Josh Groban in Concert (6/11).
Friday, 5/15
Steve Earle will give a virtual in-store performance at
Grimey’s
Records in Nashville beginning at 8pm ET. Proceeds from
tickets and album sales benefit independent record stores.
Saturday, 5/16
Capitol's Lewis Capaldi is set to perform an acoustic livestream set at his parents' Bathgate, Scotland home to celebrate the 1-year anniversary of his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent. The digital special begins at 12pm PT/3pm ET exclusively on DICE.FM and supports the mental health initiative CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), a movement against suicide. Tickets can be purchased here.
John Legend kicks off the first-ever
MelodyVR Live from L.A. livestream series on 5/16 at 6pm PT. Broadcast from a specially designed studio location in L.A., the music series will also include performances from
Machine Gun Kelly,
Katelyn Tarver and
The Score during the first week. Legend’s performance on the series comes ahead of his new album
Bigger Love, set for release on 6/19. Performances will be broadcast on smartphones and VR headsets via the MelodyVR
app.
Tuesday, 5/19
Alanis Morisette’s You Live, You Learn: A Night With Alanis and Jagged Little Pill will livestream on Facebook and YouTube beginning at 8pm ET. It’s to benefit the Actors Fund’s COVID-19 relief efforts. The livestream will include conversations and performances from Morissette and the cast of the music Jagged Little Pill.
Daily
The Roots have announced a new lineup of daily content on their YouTube channel, all of which will be produced by The Roots' production company Two One Five Entertainment, in partnership with Live Nation Urban and available here. A recurring highlight will be DJ Questlove Presents live nightly at 9pm ET/6pm PT.
Pickathon festival will present A Concert A Day, opening the vaults to premiere one full concert daily for 60 days, streaming for free on Facebook, Amazon Music’s Twitch, and YouTube at 4pm ET/1pm PT. All donations received will go to MusiCares' COVID-19 Relief Fund. Artists will include Drive-By Truckers, Margo Price, Jeff Tweedy, Tyler Childers, Tank and the Bangas, Thee Oh Sees and more.
TikTok's
#HappyAtHome: Live! series continues on the app, Monday-Friday at 8pm ET/5pm PT. The performances will be 30 minutes each, much longer than the platform's usual one minute limit for videos. Details
here.
Miley Cyrus has ramped up her
#BrightMinded series, livestreaming Monday-Friday at 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT on her
Instagram, in which she will discuss "how to stay LIT with love in dark times." Check the show's
schedule, and view replays of the episodes
here.
Gibson guitars has launched
HomeMade Sessions, a new daily series featuring artist performances and interviews, viewable on all Gibson and
Epiphone digital platforms, namely their Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Gibson TV. Their goal is to support musicians and spread the healing power of music, and to "Stay Home. Be Safe. Make Music." Details
here.
Sofar Sounds has launched a daily
Listening Room series, details and schedule
here. All shows are free, and optional donations can be given directly to the featured performing artists or to the Sofar Sounds
Global Artist Fund.
Def Jam has launched
Def Talks, a new Instagram Live show this week hosted by
Jadakiss with guest
Dave East. The two will discuss music, movies, fitness, food and life in quarantine, watch it
here.
Brendan Benson of
The Raconteurs has launched
Boy in a Bubble, a daily livestreamed performance at 5:20pm ET/4:20pm CT (see what he did there?)/2:20pm PT, on his
Instagram. He will perform one song per day from throughout his career, including songs from his forthcoming LP
Dear Life on
Third Man Records.
Matt Pinfield's new daily music talk show
In A Lonely Place will be live on
Linda Perry's label
We Are Hear's
YouTube at 7pm ET/4pm PT.
Chad Smith of
Red Hot Chili Peppers will post a daily video of himself drumming along to a classic song on his
Instagram.
Cold War Kids will be live on their
Instagram for
Quarantine Serenade daily at 3pm ET/12 noon PT.
The
Bandsintown Live channel on Twitch will host a multi-day
Bandsintown Live Music Marathon featuring both emerging and established artists. All donations collected during the festival will be donated to the
MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund.
Charlie XCX has launched
Self-Isolating, a livestream series airing daily. Check her
Instagram to see the full schedule. Prior episodes have been at 1pm ET/10am PT (6pm in the U.K.) and have featured personal training w/
Diplo.
Rufus Wainwright promises to deliver a song a day on his
Instagram, with his
Robe Recital series.
Ben Gibbard of
Death Cab for Cutie will be performing live from his home studio via YouTube and Facebook daily at 7pm ET/4pm PT
here.
Diplo is livestreaming a DJ set from his living room, complete with Christmas lights and candles, each night at 10pm ET/7pm PT
here.
SOFI TUKKER will perform live daily on their
Facebook at 1pm ET/10am PT.
Linda Perry and friends will be live on her label
We Are Hear's
YouTube weekdays at 3pm ET/12 noon PT.
AWOLNATION will be live daily on their
Instagram at 3pm ET/12 noon PT.
Arrested Youth is performing live “quarantine sessions” with his fans nightly on his YouTube, details
here.
Third Man Records has launched a series of daily livestreamed performances called
Third Man Public Access from the Blue Room at its Nashville HQ. The shows will take place every day at 1pm ET/12 noon CT/10am PT on Third Man's
YouTube page. Fans can use
Venmo or
Paypal to tip the performers.
Shut In & Sing, a livestreamed Country/Folk/Americana concert series on
StageIt, continues daily, details
here.
Tom Chapin and his daughters,
Abigail and
Lily, will livestream a 30-minute kid-friendly show daily,
Mornings With Papa Tom Chapin and the Chapin Sisters, on
Facebook and
Instagram at 11am ET/8am PT.
Neil Young has announced a series of
Fireside Sessions, to be filmed by his wife
Daryl Hannah live from their living room; exact dates and times TBA
here. Peep the first one
here. Young also posted a
schedule of his own archival films he'll be showing online over the next two weeks via his
Hearse Theater site, for his
NYA subscribers.
Weekly
Metallica Mondays on the band's
Facebook and
YouTube at 8pm ET/5pm PT. Each Monday the band will broadcast a full concert from their video archives directly to your couch. (Just don't tell
Lars that you used to share files on
Napster back in 1999.)
H.E.R.'s
Girls With Guitars, a weekly
Instagram series, will happen Mondays at 8pm ET/5pm PT, sponsored by
Fender. During each live session, H.E.R. along with her vast array of guitars will perform songs from her catalog as well as covers, take fan requests, and welcome celebrity female guitarists to perform and talk about music and life.
Every Monday at 5pm ET/2pm PT,
The National will be live on their
YouTube for their series
An Exciting Communal Event.
Grace Potter will perform live at
Twilight Hour on her
Instagram, YouTube and Facebook Mondays at 9pm ET/6pm PT.
Monday Monday at the
Hotel Cafe Second Stage, Quarantine Edition, a weekly online streaming showcase, will feature artists such as
Jensen McRae and
Terra Naomi, each doing 15 minute sets, beginning at 10pm ET/7pm PT on
Facebook.
Lukas Nelson will be performing his
#Quarantunes on
YouTube every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7pm ET/4pm PT.
Billie Joe Armstrong of
Green Day will livestream covers on
Instagram for his
No Fun Mondays series.
Alt Bloom will be live on his
Instagram Tuesdays at 9pm ET/6pm PT.
Destiny Rogers will perform live every Tuesday for
Taco Bell Twosday on her
Instagram at 9pm ET/6pm PT.
Third Eye Blind will perform live on their
Quarantine Kitchen Sessions every Tuesday on their
Instagram, to promote social distancing. Said
Stephan Jenkins: "We all need to be part of the solution and not the spread." The band will also be on
Radio.com's
Instagram for a live Q&A at 1pm ET/10am PT.
DJ Adam 12 will spin dark music live on
Twitch and
Instagram Tuesdays at 11pm ET/8pm PT. If you ever wanted to hear what it's like inside
Cloak & Dagger, his weekly private dark music dance club in Hollywood (which is temporarily on hold), this is your chance.
DJ and producer
Dillon Francis will be doing a live DJ set every Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday night during quarantine via his
YouTube and Twitch. Tuesdays at 11pm ET/8pm PT are
Taco Tuesdays. Wednesdays at 11pm ET/8pm PT
are
Humpday Heaters with his piñata mascot Gerald. Saturdays at 11pm ET/8pm PT are
Coronight Fever, a back to back set with
Diplo.
ZZ Ward will be
Live From Lockdown Wednesdays at 4pm ET/1pm PT on her
Instagram.
Jason Mraz'
La La La Livestream will be live every Wednesday at 1pm ET/10am PT on his
YouTube.
Matt Nathanson will be live every Wednesday at 8pm ET/5pm PT on
YouTube and
Instagram.
We Found New Music (WFNM) will host a livestreamed version of their L.A. local artist showcase series, Wednesdays at 10pm ET/7pm PT on their
Instagram.
Matt Stell will be live on his
Instagram Wednesdays at 9pm ET/8pm CT/6pm PT for
Penned Up.
Judith Owen will perform live
In Isolation every Wednesday and Sunday at 5pm ET/2pm PT on her
YouTube.
Diplo is everywhere online these days. Thursday nights at 7pm PT is the
Thomas Wesley Show, his country variety show; Fridays at 8pm PT he lights the candles for Corona Sabbath, an ambient mix show in partnership with
Mike Milosh of
Rhye and Secular Sabbath; Saturdays at 8pm he'll crank up the BPMs for Coronight Fever, a high energy dance show, and Sundays at 3pm is
Very Lazer Sunday, his show in the vein of the
Major Lazer project. Details about everything on his
Instagram live and
Twitch.
Radiohead will be streaming concerts from their vault on Thursdays for the foreseeable future,
at 5pm ET/2pm PT
here.
The
Guild of Music Supervisors, in partnership with
Mondo.NYC, will be holding a free weekly online
Zoom panel, Thursdays at 5:30pm ET/2:30pm PT, sign up to join
here.
iHeartRadio's
First Responder Fridays with FirstNet, Built with AT&T, hosted by
Ryan Seacrest will be live each Friday for the next 4 weeks this day-long tribute will be live on iHeartRadio's YouTube, and broadcast on iHeart stations nationwide, culminating with a 7pm ET/4pm PT artist performance.
The
Grateful Dead have announced a new streaming concert series
Shakedown Stream that will feature one of the band’s classic live performances, every Friday on their
YouTube channel at 8pm ET/5pm PT.
Pink Floyd will be sharing restored archival full concert performances on their
YouTube every Friday at 12 noon ET/9am PT.
Richard Marx will perform live on his
Instagram for his
#Beachin' series every Friday, peep the latest episode
here. Marx also hosts his
#SocialDistancing series on his Instagram, now in its 20th episode, featuring guests like
Paul Stanley of
KISS,
Kenny Loggins and
Matt Nathanson, check them all out
here.
Simon Neil of
Biffy Clyro will perform live on the band's
Facebook, Fridays at 1pm ET/10am PT.
Mike Peters of
The Alarm and his wife
Jules will be livestreaming their
show
The Big Night In on Saturdays at 5pm ET/2pm PT (which is 9pm in North Wales, U.K., where they reside) on the official Alarm
Facebook page. Their livestream last weekend welcomed over 68k fans into their living room, which they've transformed into a makeshift TV studio. Peters and The Alarm will be releasing
Hurricane of Change, a new double-LP on 6/12.
Jesse Malin will be live on his Saturday series
The Fine Art of Self Distancing at 4pm ET/1pm PT on
YouTube.
DJ Adam 12 will spin current and retro dance hits for the virtual edition of his longstanding weekly club
Giorgio's - A Modern Discotheque live on his
Twitch and
Instagram Saturdays at 7-10pm PT.
Meiko will perform
Alone, Together live every Sunday at 2pm ET/11am PT on her
Facebook.
Passenger will perform live on his
YouTube Sundays at 2pm ET/11am PT.
Rounder Records has launched
The Roundup, a weekly streaming series of live performances, Sundays at 1:30pm ET/12:30pm CT/10:30am PT on Rounder's
YouTube.
John Mayer will be live on his official
Instagram for his unofficial show
Current Mood, Sundays weekly, which we'll be watching comfortably from the deck of our luxury mega-yacht.
Recent Events
Thursday, 5/7
The Airborne Toxic Event frontman
Mikel Jollett is appearing on a Virtual Book Tour hosted by
Riffraff at 11pm PT. The exclusive online event series will see Jollett discuss his life story and memoir,
Hollywood Park, perform material from the new album and have a Q&A with the audience. Tickets will support local indie bookstores in Providence, RI and will include a signed copy of the book. For tickets, click
here.
Caylee Hammack joins
Caitlyn Smith's
Let's Be Lonely Together series at 6:30pm PT, followed by an appearance on
Lauren Jenkins'
Instagram Live at 9pm PT.
Friday, 5/8
Amazon Music has tapped
Tim McGraw to kick off their
Amazon Live music series. Friday at 10am PT, watch the country icon perform fan favorites, his new single "I Called Mama" and chat with fans. McGraw and Amazon Music will also raise awareness for WHO and MusiCares' COVID-19 relief funds. Watch
here.
Saturday, 5/9
Sarah Brightman’s September 1997 concert,
Sarah Brightman: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, will be streamed on
YouTube at noon PT/3pm ET to raise funds for COVID-19 relief charities. The performance, not commercially available, features
Andrea Bocelli and
Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Cher is dropping a Spanish version of the ABBA classic "Chiquitita” on 5/8, alongside an English version, and is donating her proceeds to UNICEF. A video for the single is set to debut on UNICEF’s COVID-19 Virtual Special, streaming on 5/9 at 8pm PT. You can stream the special on YouTube or on UNICEF. 
