That is math, not prophecy. The spread can be slowed, public health professionals say, if people practice “social distancing” by avoiding public spaces and generally limiting their movement.
Still, without any measures to slow it down, covid-19 will continue to spread exponentially for months. To understand why, it is instructive to simulate the spread of a fake disease through a population.
Deafheaven have announced they’ll be releasing a 10th anniversary live album:
As part of our 10 year tour, we planned to record sets in Chicago toward a live album for fans while we work on new music. However, the last 24 hours since the tour cancelation have been a whirlwind while we rearrange our year and take these losses. Touring is our sole livelihood, but we have to move forward through the unexpected. We’ve made some phone calls, gotten some exciting people on board and are going to give fans a glimpse of what we originally had in mind for the year while we work to reschedule tour dates. We will be live recording a set of material from all our albums and releasing it digitally. In addition, we have started a pre-order for a special Double LP release on vinyl of this material slated for later this year, along with merchandise that was to be sold on the tour. We don’t even have an album cover yet. There’s no press release. All I know is we’re moving this into immediate action and turning this massive set-back around. We don’t ask for handouts, but are hoping this special session can help generate some good energy while we all wait for the rescheduling.
Recognizing national concerns over the spread of the coronavirus, Live Nation is instructing its touring shows to prepare to return home, Billboard has learned. The announcement affects all Live Nation tours, domestically and internationally.
Earlier Thursday (March 12) the company told employees it is hitting the pause button on current touring arena shows through the end of the month. A few shows will play out Thursday and Friday, but the remainder of the shows starting this weekend will be postponed.
In the Atlantic, Alan Taylor has put together a photo gallery of various public spaces that are now virtually empty due to COVID-19.
Tame Impala have announced a partnership with the nonprofit REVERB to reduce environmental waste while on tour behind their latest album The Slow Rush. The collaboration will include Eco-Villages at every stop, where fans can learn more about environmental nonprofits, join REVERB’s unCHANGEit campaign in collaboration with Defend Our Future, use a free filtered water refill station to reduce single-use plastic waste, donate for a custom Nalgene bottle, and get a Tame Impala eco-friendly guitar pick.
The website Wash Your Lyrics will make one of those little “how to wash your hands correctly” graphics to your favorite song.
Lil Baby has the number one album in the country this week:
Lil Baby lands his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as My Turn debuts atop the tally with the biggest streaming week of 2020 for an album.
The set, which was released via Quality Control/Motown on Feb. 28, earned 197,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending March 5, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.
Joel Madden of Good Charlotte talked with Kerrang:
Good Charlotte have never compromised who we are. We’ve survived. It’s almost like the music business had all these big extinctions – like climate change or something – and we survived all those changeovers. To still be making the music that we’re making, and still be together over two decades later, and still love each other, is a huge accomplishment. It wasn’t always easy not knowing what the future held for us, when everyone’s telling you that, ‘It’s over,’ or, ‘Music’s changed now,’ or, ‘This doesn’t age well.’ But we stuck it out together, we followed our hearts, and we landed in a place where we’re happy to be. I once thought it was over, and it now feels like it’s only just getting started.
My Chemical Romance’s Life on the Murder Scene will get its first vinyl release for Record Store Day.
Cassino’s new album, Yellowhammer, is now on all streaming services.
E for Explosion has released a new EP called Remember Blue Skies to all streaming services.
Taika Waititi has found the golden ticket.
Mere weeks after winning an Oscar for penning Jojo Rabbit, Waititi is jumping into the world of Roald Dahl for Netflix, closing a deal to write, direct and executive produce two original animated series based on the celebrated author’s works, the streaming company announced Thursday.
Ultra Music Festival is being postponed due to coronavirus:
The 2020 Ultra Music Festival will be postponed — possibly for a full year, which would effectively cancel this year’s edition of Miami’s marquee electronic dance music event, the Miami Herald has learned.
The decision to postpone, which sent shock waves through the electronic dance music community on social media, was made in a meeting Wednesday morning between Miami’s elected leaders and Ultra representatives, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
If this keeps spreading I feel like it will have a huge impact on the music industry. Touring is how many artists make their living. The ramifications could be enormous.
One tidbit in the great New York Times interview with Hayley Williams is that Boygenius will be on her upcoming album:
One of her confidants, the singer and songwriter Julien Baker, said she and Williams were bonded by “being raised culturally Christian in the South then coming into the world” of music. “She has an innate connection with the deeply emotionally profound and really wants to explore those things in an honest way with people,” Baker said in a phone interview. “But also she is a uniquely disarming person.” Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus — the trio boygenius — provide backing vocals on a “Petals for Armor” song about “wilted women” moving toward the light.