After a 13-week run, Radiohead have concluded their quarantine concert series with a recording of July 4th, 1997 performance at Les Eurockéennes in Belfort, France, in support of the band’s 'OK Computer'. The 12 previous installments in the band’s quarantine series — including festival sets at Coachella and Bonnaroo as well as In Rainbows From the Basement and The King of Limbs From the Basement — are collected in a YouTube playlist.

Wuhan is frequently cited as China’s punk rock capital, as it was the COVID-19 capital of the world at the start of the year. Now the quarantine is over in the central China region, but the concerts remain banned. The Diplomat reports from the city about music venues that don't play music, bands that aren't playing, not even writing music - seemingly quarantine isn't inspiring, it's just bleak...

An estimated crowd of 3,000 people attended a concert in Tel Aviv on Thursday, that was among the first large live music gatherings since the global industry shut down in March amid the coronavirus pandemic, Times of Israel reports. The cultural protest event was staged in support of crew members who rely solely on live music concerts for their livelihood. It had the backing of the Israeli Police and the city of Tel Aviv, and it was against the Israeli government for ongoing shutdown of live events.

It will not be possible to operate nightclubs, bars and restaurants while enforcing social distancing measures without government support, a survey of 130 UK businesses about the viability of reopening while social distancing measures continue has shown. Owners of "night time" establishments expect to be able to operate from 40-43% of their businesses' capacity once the lockdown has been lifted, Quietus reports. If this is the case, 63.8% of respondents believe that their businesses will not be financially viable.

Concerts and festivals will not go ahead in the UK until at least next year - Cambridge University lecturer dr Chris Smith tells BBC about the prospect of music events by the end of this year. Smith believes it is "too optimistic" to think such social gatherings will take place - "we won't even have got a vaccine into people by then". Dr. Smith is confident we will ultimately return to enjoying such collective experiences - as they "appeal to the human nature" - but only after most people in the country have either been infected with the disease (herd immunity) or inoculated (vaccines or combinations of drugs) in some way. "I think this year is basically a write-off, if I'm honest with you," he adds.

Missouri Governor Mike Parsons has declared that concerts and other public events like movies and amusement parks can start happening in the state starting Monday, May 4. According to Billboard, Governer also noted that the seating shall be spaced out according to social distancing requirements. Most major Missouri cities, however, will not see concerts reinstated so quickly - St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson said in a statement “We will continue to be guided by data, not dates”.

Danish singer-songwriter Mads Langer performed at a drive-in concert last week at a stage that was erected on the outskirts of Aarhus, Denmark. As Forbes reports, Langer played to an audience of cars, with his performance being transmitted via FM radio to those in attendance. It’s apparently the first of a series of live events planned for the space.

Since the beginning of the big lockdown, distribution platforms that cater to unsigned acts are seeing huge surges in activity, Rolling Stone reports. TuneCore, Vydia, CD Baby, Soundrop, United Masters, and Ditto all push music to streaming services for a fee, providing a useful service for acts without a label, or artists who want to retain ownership of their songs. All six platforms have observed surges in activity since the start of the pandemic and quarantine - in some cases, music uploads are up 300 percent.

Professional Spanish dancer Albert Garcia has not been able to dance freely, so he took the opportunity to dance in an empty street in Valencia while taking out the garbage. He says performing in the street felt like "pure freedom", adding the applause he got from his neighbours' balconies felt so warm, like the ones he got dancing in Berlin Staatsoper and La Scala in Milan. BBC reports on the heartwarming story.

Australian music writer Ben Freeman went into mandatory 14 days of quarantine after returning to Sydney from Berlin, and found his hotel room to be a - nightclub just for himself. He described it to Guardian: "On my first day, after doing a lousy excuse for a hotel workout, I began to just naturally have a boogie to whatever house mix I was listening to. All of a sudden, the anxiety about returning home and feeling confined subsided; I closed my eyes and was back on the dancefloor. What began as just a random shake of my ass quickly turned into a daily ritual. I was content with the fact I was dancing alone in my quarantine hotel room, lapping up the ridiculousness of it all. Funnily, both feelings weren’t dissimilar, I felt as alone in the world when I envisioned myself in a club and when I looked out the hotel window at Sydney Harbour. Finding comfort in solitude was calming and cathartic when the world felt so distant".

David Guetta performed a two-hour DJ set from a balcony in Downtown Miami, with eight thousand Miami residents watching and dancing from their own balconies, while an additional 12 million people streaming the performance live online. According to EDM, Guetta raised $780,000 for the World Health Organization, Feeding South Florida, Feeding America, and the French Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris. Watch his performance here.