Working-from-home-themed playlists have seen a 1,400% increase on Spotify during lockdown, with Fifth Harmony’s single 'Work from Home' the most-added track to those playlists (it's actually about waiting for a lover to come home). Dolly Parton’s '9 to 5', Beethoven, Bach and the pianist Lang Lang’s version of 'Für Elise' follow, as well as 'Circles' by Post Malone, and 'Don’t Start Now' by Dua Lipa. Specific playlists have also seen a surge - Cleaning Kit playlist, a six-hour medley of songs to mop to, has had a 30% increase in streaming, painting-themed playlists are up by 90%, baking by 120%, and gardening playlists up by 430%.

Drake's 'Toosie Slide' features the singer in a black balaclava, moving through the mostly empty Toronto mansion. Haim sisters perform solemn choreography at a safe distance from each other on a cracked outdoor basketball court in 'I Know Alone'. Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande’s charity duet, 'Stuck With U', intermixed pixelated visions of teenage fans dressed for the proms they will never go to with glimpses of celebrities like Chance the Rapper and Gwyneth Paltrow slow dancing in their immaculate houses. In Squarepusher's 'Detroit People Mover' a wireless printer on the floor of the actual Detroit People Mover -a monorail that travels a nearly 3-mile loop around downtown - spit out photographs that were shot in the city during the late 1970s and ’80s, when the mass transit system turned tourist attraction was built.

"It doesn’t seem likely we are going to open in the fall" - Jay Marciano, chairman of AEG Presents, told New York Times about the possibility of major torus this fall. AEG is the parent company of Goldenvoice, which presents Coachella, and the festival's 2020 edition is currently rescheduled for October. Live Nation president Joe Berchtold said they don’t expect a large volume of major tours in the fall. Live Nation previously said that drive-in concerts, reduced capacity shows, broadcasts from empty venues are all under consideration. BBC reports from a performance in Copenhagen by Danish musician Mads Langer; more than 70 similar shows are planned.

Bolivian group Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos travelled to Germany in March to prepare for a two-week tour, but before they had played a single show, the entire country was put into coronavirus lockdown. Since then, the orchestra has been stuck at a hostel on the grounds of Rheinsberg Palace near Berlin, BBC reports. That's the good news. The bad news is - the surrounding areas is home to 23 packs of wolves, and the orchestra members have become afraid of ghosts while in the castle. Germany has started to open up, but the Bolivian government won't take the orchestra back, not just yet.

There will be four stages in corona-influenced albums, Mark, My Words argues: Insanity and bewilderment of the isolation nation; calming records about the routine, zen-like serenity of home quarantine; Coronapunk stage demanding the heads of the political class; Pub. But, what is it that we really need" - "Albums about the crisis will get tired very quickly; albums designed to help us through it, on the other hand, will remain encased in the generational amber. It’s time, already, to start singing for when we’re winning".

"If you want to record, just hit record. It’s not about equipment. For the Beck record we had nothing, just inspiration” - Calvin Johnson, of K Records told Guardian about recording albums in his basement. One of the latest bedroom pop artists is 21-year-old Girl in Red, who is ratcheting up hundreds of millions of streams with indie-pop tracks made in her bedroom. Everybody is locked down now due to the pandemic, so everybody can be a music producer, the G argues.

Independent music festivals in Britain are at risk of collapsing after coronavirus forced many to cancel their 2020 editions, a new report by the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) has warned. Some 92% of AIF members - including Gloucestershire’s 2000trees, London’s Meltdown and Sheffield’s Tramlines - warn they face ruinous costs as a result of cancelled events, with the vast majority (98.5%) not covered by insurance for cancellation as a result of coronavirus, the Guardian reports.

Since the beginning of lockdown on Monday, March 23 in the UK, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington have been releasing albums as Bulbils, at the rate of almost one album a day. Their living room in Newcastle has been converted into a makeshift studio, with synths, vocoders, keyboards, guitars and drum machines; the music is, for the most part, hypnotic, lo-fi, beautiful and ambient. Pilkington told Quietus it's "kind of music we wouldn’t normally share, which feels like quite a personal thing. A lot of it’s quite rough and the kind of thing that’s quite unprocessed. It’s quite intimate in a way". Find all the albums at Bandcamp.

he New York Times reports on a beautiful story - accomplished classical musicians like Molly Carr and Andrew Janss have started playing at the New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in Manhattan - through patients' iPhones or iPads. Chamber music players, winners of international competitions and prizes, teachers at prestigious music schools perform from California, Kentucky, Maine, Virginia, Massachusetts and New York. They play the music of Bach, Brahms, the Beatles, Edith Piaf...

The lockdown caused by the coronavirus has left 140,000 UK's performers, agents, promoters and technicians without a steady income since the end of March, BBC reports. The effect of the quarantine on live music is "catastrophic", according to the chief executive of UK Music Tom Kiehl. 554 of Music Venue Trust's 670 member venues are under threat of "imminent closure", before the end of the month. "In a typical year, live music contributes £1bn to the UK economy and supports many jobs. What we are seeing now with the changes and social distancing likely to continue this year - at least £900m could be wiped off the sector" - said Mr Kiehl.