"Once it's established that a patio big enough to hold a laptop podium is all that most modern acts need to deliver their unexpurgated festival set to iPhone, a livestreamed Glastonbury is entirely possible" - Mark, My Words predicts the future of online concerts. It looks bright, at least to the NME columnist, who wants major acts to "blow their cancelled tour budget on 360-degree cameras and stage virtual gigs that’ll be almost impossible to distinguish from the real thing – only with much, much better wine".

Members of classic Britpop, shoegaze and alter-rock bands are hosting interactive online listening parties at 10 p.m. UK time on Twitter, each hosted by a member of the respective bands. It kicked off yesterday (March 23) with The Charlatans’ debut album and Tim Burgess, tonight’s is with Alex Kapranos, discussing Franz Ferdinand‘s self-titled album.

Schedule for the following days:

• Wednesday (3/25): Blur – 'Parklife' w/ David Rowntree
• Thursday (3/26): Ride – 'Going Blank Again' w/ Andy Bell and Loz Colbert
• Friday (3/27): Oasis – 'Definitely Maybe' w/ Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs and Liam
• Monday (3/30): Sleaford Mods – 'Key Markets' with the band
• Tuesday (4/1): The Lightning Seeds – 'Jollification' w/ Ian Broudie
• Wednesday (4/2): Prefab Sprout – 'Steve McQueen' with Wendy Smith
• Thursday (4/3): The Fall – 'The Wonderful & Frightening World of The Fall' with Brix Smith Start

Actress and musician Rita Wilson is self-quarantined in Australia with her husband Tom Hanks, which is, of course, a great opportunity to read 'Ender’s Game', and - learn all the words to hip-hop classics. The 63-year-old captioned a clip where she flawlessly raps the entire song 'Hip Hop Hooray' by Naughty by Nature.

UK musicians being affected by the closure of live venues and schools, and a stop to music teaching, have already lost an estimated £13.9m in earnings because of coronavirus, according to a Musicians’ Union survey. According to the Guardian, ninety per cent of respondents in the survey said their income had already been affected. I Lost My Gig Australia estimates total lost income from cancelled events in Australia at $300M. Number of people impacted by event cancellations came to 599.000. Australian are performing, online - last weekend saw online festival Isol-Aid featuring 74 acts playing 20-minute sets, live streaming from their bedrooms. Guardian says it "felt like the first laugh after a big cry. The energy was fun, hilarious and occasionally chaotic". Watch a part of it below.

International music festival Pop Montreal set up its own balcony singing session in hopes of bringing some hope to residents holed up in their homes amid the coronavirus pandemic social distancing measures. Montrealers headed out onto their balconies, porches and rooftops, and belt out the words to Leonard Cohen's 'So Long, Marianne', a song that has the opening lyrics "Come over to the window, my little darling". Montreal folk musician Martha Wainwright lead the singalong through a live stream on social media.

Good stream day today (March 22): Julia Jacklin at 6:40 a.m. ET, part of the ISOL-AID! Instagram Live Music Festival.

Charli XCX and Clairo are hosting a “quarantine art class” on Instagram at 3 p.m. ET.

Patti Smith, Jesse Smith, and Rebecca Foon at 4 p.m. ET on Instagram.

Courtney Barnett, Lucius, Sharon Van Etten, Fred Armisen, Sheryl Crow, Bedouine, Nathaniel Rateliff, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, Jonathan Wilson, Emily King starting at 7 p.m. ET on Instagram.

Jason Anderson is livestreaming performances every night at 8 p.m. ET on his Instagram.

Erykah Badu is streaming “Apocalypse One : live interactive experiment from badubotron” this weekend on Instagram.

Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy is playing covers and requests at 3 p.mp ET on Instagram. Year of the Knife will livestream a performance at 6 p.m. ET. Ultra Virtual Music Festival is at 5 p.m. ET through Monday 3/23 on Sirius XM channel 52 here. Christine and the Queens is streaming every day at 6 p.m. ET on Instagram. Ben Gibbard is livestreaming solo performances from his home studio every day at 7 p.m. ET. Jason Anderson is livestreaming performances every night at 8 p.m. ET on his Instagram, and tonight’s stream will be a full performance of Jason’s album 'Restless'. 74 Australian artists, including Angie McMahon, Julia Jacklin, Stella Donnelly, Alice Skye, Didirri have created Isol-Aid, a “socially (media) distanced music festival” - the two-day festival will run from midday to midnight on Saturday and Sunday, with artists streaming 20-minute sets from self-isolation live on their Instagram accounts. Erykah Badu will be performing a bedroom concert on Saturday and Sunday on her Instagram. Toronto is getting a livestream concert series at URGNT.ca.

With big festivals and tours being mostly cancelled, the bands are looking at live streaming as a way to make money. For now, it was mostly for free, but there's a growing need and an opportunity to find a model of income in music streaming. The Guardian writes about Left Bank, a Brooklyn-based magazine that's hosting a virtual music festival via YouTube, running 12 hours a day until 22 March with artists from around the world broadcasting from their bedrooms (like Vaeda Black, pictured above). There is no charge, listeners are encouraged to tip the musicians they enjoy using Venmo. Electronic musician Hana, best known for her collaborations with Grimes, has spent hundreds of hours on Twitch – a live streaming platform favoured by gamers and owned by Amazon – to create an intimate connection with her fans, who donate cash to show their appreciation. A big difference, also an opportunity, is live streaming's intimacy, every fan, and it could be millions of them, feels like they're in the front row.

Biggest online stream today is Luck Reunion’s Til Further Notice at 7 p.m. ET (New York time), with Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Edie Brickell, Margo Price & Jeremy Ivey, Lucinda Williams, Nathaniel Rateliff, Jewel, Micah and Lukas Nelson, Devon Gilfillian, Thomas Csorba, Tami Nelson, Sunny War, Ian Ferguson, Tre Burt, David Ramirez, Katie Pruitt, Nikki Lane, Early James, Paul Cauthen, Randy Houser and more - watch it here. Indigo Girls play at 6 p.m. ET - here. Christine and the Queens are up again at 6 p.m. ET on Instagram. Ben Gibbard is live-streaming solo performances from his home studio every day at 7 p.m. ET, he plays Death Car For Cutie and Postal Service songs and some covers. Automatic, Fat Tony, Froth, Monde UFO and Slaughterhouse start at 8:45 p.m. ET on Instagram. Common is up at 5:30 p.m. ET on Instagram. Bruce Springsteen isn't streaming, yet, but he released his 2009 concert film 'London Calling: Live in Hyde Park' onto streaming platforms for the very first time - here. Brooklyn Vegan and NPR keep a good list of online streams.

Porridge Radio have a great new album 'Every Day' out, they promoting it today with livestream via YouTube at 9:50 am ET. Yo La Tengo‘s Ira Kaplan is filling in as DJ on WFMU from noon-3 PT. Christine and the Queens is preparing "guests and weird concepts" everyday at 6 pm ET on Instagram. Ben Gibbard is livestreaming solo performances from his home studio everyday at 7 pm ET (listen to his take on 'Green Plastic Trees' below). Miley Cyrus will host another hourlong live stream on Instagram starting at 11:30 am PT. United We Stream is going to stream music from Berlin clubs and artists. Billboard, Brooklyn Vegan and NPR keep a list of online shows.

John Legend hosted a virtual concert on Instagram Live (watch it below) in an effort to bring happiness and content in a time of, well, bleakness (Chris Martin started it quite nice). Legend played 'Stay With You', 'Good Morning', 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', 'Beauty and the Beast' (his daughter Luna wanted to hear it), while his wife Chrissy Teigen was sipping some rose wine sitting on a piano. So, a lovely evening in the house of Legend.

Cherie Hu has made virtual music events directory, a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for anyone seeking guidance on how to stage alternative music events in this moment of significant upheaval for the industry. Slightly smaller, but it deserves a sentence - Boston Globe has put together a list of classical live streams. Similarly, Music Scholarship at a Distance offers daily free lectures at 4 PM EST.

There hasn’t been a live music show in China since late January due to, coronavirus, enter - live-streaming. China’s musicians and promoters are organizing “bedroom music festivals” and live-streamed club nights. Initially, an idea hatched by VOX Livehouse, the legendary punk rock dive located in Wuhan, the city at the heart of the COVID-19 outbreak, the “live-streamed music festival” is now a nationwide craze, and genre, too, is no barrier. Options range from pop and hardcore punk to techno and experimental improvisation. What it means on a deeper level remains to be seen, but for now, these events allow China’s so-called “anti-social generation” to redefine sociality their way.

Coachella will stream performances by 69 musicians this incoming weekend on YouTube. Concerts are starting Friday afternoon 4.15 PM (Pacific Standard Time, add 9 hours for Central European Time), and, apart from the ones in the headline, highlights include The 1975, Janelle Monáe, Mac DeMarco, Khruangbin, Maggie Rogers, JPEGMAFIA, Pusha-T, Lizzo, Kid Cudi, CHVRCHES, Blood […]