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Bandsintown Adds WATCH LIVE Fan Alerts For Livestream Concerts, Announces Online Benefit Fest

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With touring suspended, the online show listing service will expand to include livestreams and launch the Bandsintown Live Music Marathon next week to benefit MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund
Nate Hertweck
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Mar 20, 2020 - 12:06 pm

As the music industry shirts its focus from live events to livestream performances due to the global coronavirus pandemic, artists and business alike continue to adapt. Now, Bandsintown, a leader in direct-to-fan engagement has announced the addition of WATCH LIVE fan alerts for online performances by their favorite artsts.

With the new feature, artists will be able to add WATCH LIVE listings on their pages that will link directly to their performance on Facebook Live, Instagram Live, other third party streaming hosts, and a new live music channel on Twitch Bandsintown launched today to host live concerts at live.bandsintown.com. They kicked off the new channel with a special set by producer/DJ Black Coffee live from South Africa. 

The new Bandsintown Live channel will also host the multi-day Bandsintown Live Music Marathon next week Mar. 26 & 27 featuring both established and rising artists. The full lineup is yet to be revealed, but all donations received during the livestream will be donated to the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund. 

WATCH LIVE will become available for free for artists on Bandsintown starting next week. For more information, visit the Bandsintown website.

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Tank And The Bangas, Tayla Parx, TBS, Sofi Tukker & More: WATCH Bandsintown's LIVE Music Marathon

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Benefitting the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, the livestream festival will run eight hours a day March 26 & 27 on Twitch
Nate Hertweck
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Mar 25, 2020 - 5:37 pm

Leading live event discovery platform Bandsintown will host the LIVE Music Marathon on its newly established Twitch channel March 26 and 27 featuring perfomrnaces from Taking Back Sunday, Amanda Palmer, Tank & The Bangas, Yuksek, Sofi Tukker, Matt Quinn of Mt. Joy, Tayla Parx, The Mowglis and more. Donations collected during the virtual music festival will go to support the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund.

Looking ahead, Bandsintown has also said it will announce a regular schedule of live music programming and events on the Bandsintown LIVE channel. They're also paving the way for their artist users to do the same, offering its 530,000 musicians registered with Bandsintown For Artists free access to Twitch’s monetization tools for live streaming as artists everywhere adapt to the hiatus of live shows. 

“We are experiencing a new form of connectivity between music acts and their fans,” said Bandsintown Managing Partner Fabrice Sergent. “Artists have suddenly become more approachable. A new form of entertainment is emerging from this chaos.”

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In addition to empowering artists to find a new way forward, the money the LIVE Music Marathon raises will go support MusiCares' ongoing effort to help people in the music industry affected by the coronavirus disease outbreak and subsequent cancellation of countless music events, festivals, shows, sessions and tours.

The platfrom made a critical pivot last week, adding WATCH LIVE fan alerts for livestream concerts and launching the Bandsintown Live Channel with a livestream set from South Africa by Producer/DJ Black Coffee, which racked up 84,500 unique viewers checking out the DJ’s set.

Bandsintown's LIVE Music Marathon will run eight hours each day starting at 1 pm. EDT. The full lineup and schedule for Bandsintown's LIVE Music Marathon is available here.

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Black Eyed Peas, Katy Perry, Ne-Yo, Saweetie & More To Play Rock The Vote Livestream

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Big Freedia, Amara La Negra, Eve, Chuck D and Senator Elizabeth Warren will also make appearances during the two-hour digital party
Ana Monroy Yglesias
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Jun 15, 2020 - 12:21 pm

Rock The Vote has revealed the details for their first Democracy Summer 2020 livestream event featuring performances from Katy Perry, the Black Eyed Peas, Ne-Yo, Eve, Chuck D, Big Freedia, Amara La Negra, Saweetie and more. The two-hour digital party, taking place this Thurs., June 18, will also feature speeches from senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker, as well as activists and others encouraging young people to get out and vote.

The kick-off event will be hosted by actors Logan Browning ("Dear White People") and Rosario Dawson ("Briarpatch," Sin City, Josie & The Pussycats) and also include performances from Lucy Hale, Rich Brian, Sklyar Astin, Max, Leslie Grace, Dove Cameron and Sofia Carson.

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"I'm excited to be a part of this kickoff to Democracy Summer 2020 with so many amazing talents, activists and speakers," Perry said in a statement. "The young people of America are speaking loud and clear on the streets and online, and come November, it will be more important than ever to fight for justice and equality, and against systemic racism, with our ballots."

More Democracy Summer 2020 events will be announced later, as part of a push to encourage voter registration and turn out during the pivotal elections this year. Democracy Summer is a collaboration with Rock The Vote and almost two dozen other non-profits, including Voto Latino, Drag Out The Vote, Get Lit and the House of Blues Music Forward Foundation.

The concert begins on Thurs., June 18 at 8:00 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PST, streaming on democracysummer.org, Facebook and YouTube. Visit their website for more info and to register.

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Lucinda Williams & Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit Announce 2021 Tour Dates

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Both GRAMMY-winning Americana trailblazers have new albums out now
Nate Hertweck
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Jun 10, 2020 - 5:47 pm

In a songwriter's dream double-header, Lucinda Williams and Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit will team up for a run of dates next summer across the West Coast and Southwest U.S. 

The 15-date run kicks off in Vancouver on July 19 and wraps up with a pair of shows at Austin City Limits Live on Aug. 7 & 8. 

Williams recently released her raucous new offering, Good Souls Better Angels, on April 24, and you can read the Recording Academy's exclusive interview about the project here. Isbell and his band also dropped new music recently, treating fans to Reunions on May 15. Both efforts show a pioneer of Americana continuing to push their own songwriting limits.

"There's already a lot of songs in the world; a lot of really, really good ones about all kinds of things. So the challenge more often than not for me is to find a new angle," Isbell told NPR.

For a full list of tour dates and to purchase tickets, visit Williams' website.

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Lollapalooza 2020 Canceled, Along With Other Chicago Summer Fests, Due To Coronavirus Concerns

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Festival organizers turn their sights to its 30th anniversary edition in 2021 as the city announces slate of summer virtual events
Nate Hertweck
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Jun 9, 2020 - 12:56 pm

The city of Chicago has officially canceled Lallapalooza 2020, as well other summer festivals including the Chicago Jazz Festival, due to concerns over coronavirus. As the Chicago Tribute put it, "Summer is over in Chicago before it even began."

“We must provide ways for people to enjoy the spirit of a Chicago summer while prioritizing health and safety,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said. “As difficult as it is to remove these in-person events from our calendar, we are pulling out all the stops for an inventive, engaging and fun festival season this summer.”

The annual mega-festival was set to return to Chicago's Grant Park July 30 - Aug. 2. But Lolla organizers had yet to reveal this year's lineup or make tickets available for sale, and now shifting their focus to planning for the festival's 30th anniversary celebration in 2021.

The news is not all bad, however, as the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) has announced, "A slate of more than 150 reimagined summer events that will include at-home dance parties, virtual concerts, farmers markets and community meals for frontline workers."

Similarly, Lollapalooza is instead planning a weekend-long streaming event for July 30 - Aug. 2. For more information, visit the festival website.  

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