"Is there a way that a real-life music festival can be replicated in the virtual world?" - Guardian asks, and answers affirmatively, in case of Sea Change festival, at least. "Decision not to postpone or cancel but instead reincarnate the festival online, sooner and for free, was bold but also canny", the G argues. Many of the sets (including Jon Savage, Cool Greenhouse, the Orielles, Douglas Dare, Manu Delgado, Qasim Naqvi) proved brief affairs, but "the key to the weekend’s success was that by moving across platforms — from video streaming to Soundcloud, Twitter to Spotify to Instagram live – and providing links to explore works further (or purchase online), it managed to create both texture and a sense of companionability. Not once did it feel a flat or lonely endeavour; rather it found a great swell of congregation".

Black Midi, Tame Impala, Erykah Badu, Weyes Blood and Sunn O))) are among 50 artists scheduled to perform in NTS’s 24-hour livestream concert dubbed Remote Utopias on Saturday, May 2 (at noon London time, 4 a.m. LA time, 7 p.m. Shanghai time). It will also feature performances by Deb Never, Four Tet, JME, JPEGMAFIA, Rejjie Snow, Skrillex, Blood, Yves Tumor, Khruangbin. The livestream by the online radio will raise funds for The Global Foodbanking Network, a charity providing food to those in need around the globe. The stream will concurrently broadcast two live “stages”, aiming to emulate the setup of a music festival. Some artists are expected to perform on the live-stream, Badu will lead a guided meditation during her live-stream and JME will present a radio show about his favourite video game music.

Post Malone’s Nirvana tribute livestream on YouTube last weekend raised more than $500,000 for coronavirus relief, CNN reports. Google matched $2 for each $1 donation. The event raised $500,000, including Google's match. Over $4.3 million has been raised in total for the United Nations Foundation's Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund for The World Health Organization.

TikTok has announced an in-app feature that allows users to donate to a number of charities. Content creators can now embed ‘donation stickers’ within their videos and livestreams that will encourage users to donate funds to a selection of approved organisations. Facebook will soon allow artists to charge fans for access to livestreams hosted through the platform.

Nick Cave has launched a new livestream Bad Seed Teevee on YouTube, a 24-hour broadcast that will air concert footage, music videos, interviews and other rarities around the clock "for the foreseeable future".

The first of Travis Scott’s ‘Astronomical’ concerts within Fortnite had over 12.3 million concurrent players participating live, an all-time record. That means Scott beat the 10.7 million audience for Marshmello’s Fortnite concert in February 2019. Complex's journalist attended the show - "I tapped in tonight because I’m stuck inside with nothing better to do, but I’m surprised with how much fun this was. I could see myself going to one of these again when all of this is over" (although he got shot in the head by a teenager named Micah). Watch the show here (10 minutes).

Warner Music Group is hosting a three-day streaming music event dubbed PlayOnFest that will stream concerts beginning this Friday (April 24, at noon Atlanta time, 6 p.m. Cairo time, midnight Shanghai time) for 72 hours straight, wrapping on April 26 - check out the schedule at MTV.com. Warner will feature some of the top acts in music, with Coldplay, Korn, Ed Sheeran, Green Day, Janelle Monae, Bruno Mars, David Guetta, Cardi B, The Flaming Lips, Lizzo, Twenty One Pilots, Panic! at the Disco, Slipknot, Weezer, Kaleo, Royal Blood, Paramore, Gary Clark Jr., Portugal. The Man, Lil Uzi Vert and more scheduled for the weekend. The event will feature recorded concerts taking place at some of the biggest stages in the world, as well as some unique performances as well. Warner will be while raising money for the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund. The entire run of shows can be viewed via Songkick's YouTube Channel.

Erykah Badu's Quarantine Concert Series saw the singer and her band perform live from her Dallas home, playing a different set each time in the interactive live stream, Variety reports. Badu charged viewers directly - $1 for the first concert, $2 for the second, $3 for the third. The first two live streams together drew more than 100,000 viewers, which would put her gross in the low- to lower-middle six figures. Angel Olsen did a different thing - she performed a solo set from home to benefit her band and touring crew as well as a charity, MusiCares’ COVID-19 relief fund. The show had a mandatory $12 fee ($15 on the day of the show), filling her set with rarities and some new material.

Guardian journalist Brigid Delaney curated her own three-day multi-arts, multi-platform culture festival, from the comfort of her own home. She went to a nightclub - "it’s so fun, no one’s sleazing on anyone and I don’t have to worry about getting an Uber home" - and danced from 9:45 p.m. to 1 a.m.; she watched Isolaid for two hours - "not only reconnected me with my favourite artists (and their houses) but introduced me to a heap of new music"; she saw Australian Chamber Orchestra play Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony while drinking wine, texting wine and eating pepperoni pizza - "but this immense work by Beethoven remains undimmed"; dropped by a Broadway piano bar - "singing via the internet is better than having no singing at all". Her conclusion after three days of some of the best art and culture the world has to offer – "without the festival crowds and a posse of friends it’s like the proverbial tree falling in the forest".

Classic emo band, now an adult-emo band American Football headlined a lengthy concert on April 11th, online across Minecraft becoming "a place to gather", The Verge journalist who was there reports. "I was surprised at how emotional the show made me, and it was the same for more than 10,000 people watching. Maybe it was because we were all experiencing this moment together, the first big communal event I’ve been to since self-quarantining about a month ago". The band reports they had raised $8,000 for charity. As it turns out, there's a technology that needs to be developed in order to make this kind of shows become bigger and work without glitches, something former Amazon Studios strategist and analyst Matthew Ball wrote about - “the technology simply does not yet exist for there to be hundreds, let alone millions of people participating in a shared, synchronous experience”.

Cannabis Corpse host a special edition of their 'Wake and Bake' show on Gimme Radio; vocalist and bassist Phil “Landphil” Hall will be on hand to talk weed and metal (at 11:00 a.m. New York time, 5 p.m. Stockholm, 11 p.m. Singapore time)

Deerhoof is hosting a listening party of their new album 'Future Teenage Cave Artists' and chatting, on YouTube (4 p.m. / 10 p.m. / 4 a.m. on Tuesday)

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is presenting listening party of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti‘s 'Before Today' and The Pogues‘ 'Rum, Sodomy & The Lash'; he'll comment on them with the artists who made those albums (4/5 p.m., 10/11 p.m., 4/5 a.m.)

Cypress Hill is performing on LiveXLive at to benefit Crew Nation (7:10 p.m. / 1:10 a.m. / 7:10 a.m.)

Snoop Dogg is DJing on Merry Jane’s Instagram (7:20 p.m. / 1:20 a.m. / 7.20 a.m.)

Willie Nelson is hosting a weed variety show Come and Toke It, joined by Kacey Musgraves, Billy Ray Cyrus, Tommy Chong, Angel Olsen, and Beto O'Rourke (5:20 p.m. / 11:20 p.m. / 5:20 a.m.)

Last weekend's virtual Farm Aid benefit live concert, hosted by Willie Nelson, raised more than $500,000 to support American family farmers and ranchers affected by the coronavirus crisis, Billboard reports. It featured at-home performances from Willie Nelson and his sons, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews. Previously, 33-hour ReConnect livestream in March raised $185,000 for various relief nonprofits; Twitch's 12-hour Stream Aid event, featuring artists like Steve Aoki and Diplo, raised $2.8 million for the World Health Organization (WHO); iHeart Living Room Concert For America raised another $10 million; upcoming One World: Together at Home special, which airs April 18, has already raised $35 million to support healthcare workers.

Everybody is isolated, many are alone, so everyone wants some connection, The Atlantic argues in an excellent article about livestreams. No wonder the Instagram live hip hop battles are so popular, live-streamed concerts in which performers take requests have healthy viewership also, as well as live-streamed DJ sets in which viewers can see other people dancing at home. Some artists are also focusing on interactivity. Grimes put out a music video with a green-screen background on which fans were supposed to doodle, The Armed released audio stems of a song they wanted others to finish, Charli XCX is doing a similar thing with her new album.

Radiohead are streaming previous concerts on YouTube today (5 p.m. New York time, 11 p.m. Paris time, 5. a.m. Friday Hong Kong time)

Dolly Parton‘s weekly livestream series 'Goodnight with Dolly' continues on YouTube with 'Coat of Many Colors' (7 p.m. / 1.a.m. / 7 a.m.)

Oneohtrix Point Never‘s new radio show 'Depressive Danny's Witches Borscht' kicks off with its first episode, 'Demented Ass 'Music' From Outer Space' on Elara.fm (9 p.m. / 3 a.m. / 9 a.m.)

Diplo is doing livestreamed DJ set 'The Thomas Wesley Show' on YouTube, Twitch, and Instagram (10 p.m. / 4 a.m. / 10 a.m.)

The Roots are sharing stuff on YouTube all week

Tomorrow, Friday, April 10

The Tallest Man on Earth is playing 'The Wild Hunt' in full for its 10th anniversary on YouTube (3 p.m. / 9 p.m. / 3 a.m.)

Kvelertak brings Live From Your Living Room, a livestreamed show and Q&A, to Vierlive (3 p.m / 9 p.m. / 3 a.m.)

'Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert' premieres on YouTube (3 p.m. / 9 p.m. / 3 a.m.)

Phoebe Bridgers on Pitchfork’s Instagram (4 p.m. / 10 p.m. / 4 a.m.)

Jehnny Beth of Savages is reading from her new book of erotic short stories, 'Crimes Against Love Manifesto (C.A.L.M.)', every Friday (at 4 p.m. / 10 p.m. / 4 a.m.)

On Saturday April 11, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews perform on At Home with Farm Aid (at 8 p.m. / 2 a.m. / 8 a.m.)

Brooklyn Vegan still keeps up a good list of livestreams.

In the first quarter of this year, gross revenue for the Top 100 tours was a record $840 million, up 10.9% compared to the same period the previous year, while ticket sales rose 4.5% to 9.4 million. Based on that growth, Pollstar projects this year’s box office would have reached $12.2 billion had Q1’s percentage growth remained constant. Pollstar also forecasts the live industry would lose up to $8.9 billion of revenue if the rest of 2020 were to remain dark – a worst-case scenario and certainly not what is expected.

Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli will perform a concert on Easter evening at the historic Duomo Cathedral in Milan, Italy, to be offered as a global live-stream on YouTube, Reuters reports. Bocelli will be accompanied only by cathedral organist Emanuele Vianelli for the occasion. Sacral pieces slated for the set-list include 'Ave Maria' and Mascagni’s 'Sancta Maria'. The performance is titled 'Bocelli: Music for Hope', and it’ll be seen exclusively on Bocelli’s YouTube channel (at 7 p.m. Milan time, 1 p.m. Boston time, 1 a.m. on Monday Manila time).

Instagram Live is truly alive thanks to live battles of rap and R&B stars, with hundreds of thousands of viewers being able to witness hitmaker’s skills in going up against a peer song-for-song while also judging a catalog of work, Variety reports. The rules are as follows: two music-makers trade off tracks that they have credits on - in 90 second samples - then those in the virtual room choose the winner of each round. One of the first beat battles was between producers Swizz Beats - who boasted his Beyonce, Jay-Z and DMX classics, and Timbaland - he showed his catalog rich with Missy Elliot, Madonna and Rihanna. The audience is becoming festival-size big - on Saturday, 270,000 tuned in to see Lil Jon vs. T-Pain battle. Tory Lanez made history on the platform when Drake checked into his 'Quarantine Radio' on Instagram along with Justin Bieber, Megan The Stallion, Chris Brown and more when more than 300,000 viewers tuned in - breaking a record previously held by Taylor Swift.

Guardian's Mark Beaumont shared some advice on how to make a good live stream. First, there are some "dos": finish your songs (unlike Chris Martin who slaughtered his nice songs to just a few seconds of duration); put on a show; have an enthusiastic spouse (like Nicole Kidman, and unlike Chrissy Teigen); think big (like Willie Nelson who seriously upped the game with his ’Til Further Notice). There are, of course, some "don'ts": use Facebook (they cut Frant Turner's show for “violating community standards”); hold your own camera (Bono mistake); let quality control slip (like with John Lennon's 'Imagine' rendition); give up now.

Prog-metallers Baroness are keeping up the spirits performing together while each of the members is alone in quarantine - they made a video of each member playing 'Tourniquet' from their own homes. The message of it is "no matter what situation we face, we are still able to enjoy friendship, family and community through something as simple as a song. Isolated but never alone". Similarly, members of Testament, Anthrax and Suicidal Tendencies have recorded-in-isolation video cover of 'YYZ' by Rush, while Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong released a cover of Prince-written Bangles hit 'Manic Monday', with the help of Bangles' own Susanna Hoffs.

On Tuesday evening, for six hours, more than 250 artists from around the world will gather for an epic online performance of late composer Pauline Oliveros' 'The Lunar Opera: Deep Listening For _Tunes', an open-form opera in which the enlisted performers create their own characters, movements and sound based on sonic cues known only to themselves, LA Times reports. For this occasion the production is called Full Pink Moon: Opera Povera in Quarantine, it's free, but the viewers can also choose to donate to help cover production costs. It's on here, starting at 5 p.m. Los Angeles time, 1 a.m. (Wednesday) London time, 8 a.m. Beijing time.

Billboard is reporting about companies like Side Door, Looped, and StageIt trying to build online streaming business. Live event platform Side Door announced the launch of its ticketed private, streaming events with tickets ranging from $5-$35. Looped started as a virtual meet-and-greet platform between artists and fans until Wednesday, when the platform enabled those same artists to invite their super fans to ticketed livestreaming shows. Tickets typically range from $5-$30. Online venue StageIt has been in the business of monetizing livestreams since 2011 with 450 shows per month. Now they're doing anywhere between 30-40 shows per day (900-1,200 shows per month), with tickets averaging $10 each, offering fans the option to donate more.

MTV is launching MTV Unplugged At Home today, stripped-down, acoustic sets from artists including Jewel, Finneas, Melissa Etheridge, Monsta X, Alessia Cara, Shaggy, Yungblud, and Wyclef Jean. The first episode, featuring Alessia Cara, airs Friday, April 3rd at 12:00 p.m. EST via MTV’s YouTube channel. NPR is taking a similar path with its beloved Tiny Desk series, having recently launched Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts. Early episodes have featured Michael McDonald and Margo Price performing mini sets from their homes.

Jarvis Cocker, Ben Gibbard, Jim James, Devendra Banhart, Fred Armisen, UK folk legend Michael Chapman, Brazilian music great Marcos Valle, The Free Design‘s Sandy Dedrick, Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys, and more are taking part in a livestream COVID-19 relief benefit today at 4 p.m. PT via Light In The Attic’s Twitch and YouTube channels. Soccer Mommy performs today at 1 p.m. ET on Instagram Basia Bulat is on at 2 p.m. ET on Instagram Norman Brannon (Texas Is The Reason and Shelter) continues his daily livestream series at 3 p.m. ET, with Dennis Lyxzén (Refused) as guest Donita Sparks of L7 launches The Hi-Low Show with Donita Sparks weekly show today at 6 p.m. ET on YouTube. Friday’s guests are Lydia Lunch and Dani Miller Chick Corea is on at 7 p.m. ET, part of the Live from our Living Rooms Jazz Festival Levi’s brings "live performances from some of your favorite artists” every weekday at 8:01 p.m. ET on Instagram today it's Burna Boy and Kiana Lede Bad Brains’ H.R. is on at 9 p.m. ET on Stageit The Tallest Man on Earth is “planning a Youtube livestream on Friday”, “probably around Friday afternoon EST so Sweden is still up” Tomorrow, Waxahatchee, Snail Mail, Brian Fallon, Beach Bunny, The Marias, The Aces, and Cautious Clay play at Fender curated stage at UnCancelled Music Festival at 4 p.m. ET.

Ben Gibbard was performing online for two weeks because, as he's told Rolling Stone, "musicians who have had any modicum of success and who are in a position to wait out this crisis - have a moral obligation to pitch in in some capacity". When this is over - "I’m hoping that... we will enter a new era of increased empathy and understanding".

Kesha, Finneas, DJ Shadow, Phantogram, Jessie Reyez, Earthgang, Noah Cyrus are partaking in two-day digital Fader Fort event, which will raise money for musicians and entertainment professionals impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The event, boasting performances and content from over 100 artists, will air in nine-hour broadcasts set for Tuesday, March 31st and Wednesday, April 1st from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET. All performances will be available for a 24-hour window at the Fader Fort website.

Sir Elton John assembled some of the biggest names in music - Billie Eilish, Dave Grohl, Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong, Mariah Carey, Sam Smith, and many more - to perform live from their homes last night in a televised concert to raise money for the coronavirus relief effort.

John Legend, Rita Ora, Monsta X, Die Antwoord, Diplo, Marcus Mumford are among dozens of musicians scheduled to perform at TWITCH's 12-hour-long Stream Aid 2020 benefit show, which starts at 5 p.m. (GM+1) Saturday. Fans will be able to donate through Tiltify donation page during the stream.

TIDAL is streaming 12 hours of filmed concerts by JAY-Z, Rihanna, Meek Mill, Beyoncé, and others - on Saturday (March 28) Tidal will air hip hop concerts, and on Sunday (March 29) it will broadcast R&B. Montreux Jazz Festival has made over 50 festival concerts available to stream for free, including performances by Ray Charles, Wu-Tang Clan, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Deep Purple, Carlos Santana, James Brown. Austin City Limits is streaming the last three years of performances. LA’s The Grammy Museum has started sharing previously unreleased Q&As and performances with musicians online for the first time. Today (March 27) Elvis Costello will stream specially pre-recorded message and performance at 7:30 p.m. New rock hopefuls Porridge Radio perform at 2 p.m ET. Peter Bjorn and John co-host a 36-hour marathon livestream on Twitch called “36h Ingrid,” running from 9 a.m. ET Friday through Saturday at 10 p.m. ET.

Warner's Songkick started out as a platform to track bands, get concert alerts, and buy tickets, but in the time of the big shutdown it has turned into a livestream concert calendar. The shows are listed by date, the most attractive ones featured at the top of the page. Brooklyn Vegan still keeps up a good daily list of online shows.

"After a weekend of watching a number of impressive online performances, I am beginning to feel a little better about things" - the Quietus wrote about online concerts in a time of general shutdown. Why? - "It's actually pretty good, this live-streaming lark. You don't have to squeeze through a sea of bloated hoodies to nip to the toilet and back. No one is standing in front of you filming the entire set for their YouTube channel because it basically already is one. The drinks are cheaper. Before you attend, you don't have to worry about what you're going to wear to the gig anymore. Be as uncool as you like, people, nobody's judging you anymore".