This is the fourth installment of Rolling Stone’s Music in Crisis series, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with the coronavirus pandemic. The Bluebird Cafe is one Nashville‘s most important and idiosyncratic venues: an impossibly tiny listening room where songwriters and surprise guests like …
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As Tennessee begins to slowly restart its economy following a monthlong shutdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the state’s film and TV production companies are weighing the risks of rolling cameras too soon. Riverside Entertainment, a Nashville– and L.A.-based company that creates video content for clients including ABC, Disney, Spotify …
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Samantha Bee examines the fallout from the continued shortages of personal protective equipment for medical workers in a segment that will air on Full Fontal April 22nd. The piece focused primarily on the lack of N95 masks, which offer the most effective protection against the coronavirus. Bee spoke with medical …
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Donald Trump had such high hopes for Easter. So high, in fact, that when he burst forth on Fox News a couple of weeks ago with his idea of “re-opening” the country wide this coming Sunday, he gave it an exemplary rating of three “beautifuls”: “I just thought that it …
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The Police’s “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” is a fitting anthem for quarantine, self-isolation and social-distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. So, naturally, Jimmy Fallon has helped put together a new version of the song that feels especially appropriate for the times. Recorded as part of The Tonight Show‘s “At Home” …
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Update: The CDC is now recommending that all Americans wear non-medical cloth masks in public. President Trump says he will not. Should you wear a mask in public in the age of coronavirus? The benefits of mask wearing by the general public is suddenly a topic of hot debate. The …
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The 2020 Boston Calling festival has been canceled due to ongoing health and safety concerns related to the coronavirus pandemic. “We are heartbroken,” the festival said in a statement, “however, the health and safety of our audience, artists, partners, vendors, first responders, and staff are of the utmost importance to …
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It’s safe to say that J Balvin leads one charmed life. The Medellín-born artist entered 2020 as a second-time Grammy nominee for 2019’s Oasis, his joint album with Puerto Rican comrade Bad Bunny. At the year’s onset, Balvin’s reggaeton-house single featuring the Black Eyed Peas, “Ritmo (Bad Boys for Life),” …
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George Harrison‘s Material World Foundation has donated $500,000 to COVID-19 relief. The foundation — started by the late Beatle in 1973 with the release of the LP Living in the Material World — donated the funds to MusiCare’s COVID-19 Foundation, Save the Children, and Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). …
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By the time Stacy Seebode was let go from her job as Chef de Partie at New York’s L’Appart restaurant last Monday, she had already spent the week fielding panicked calls and texts from restaurant industry peers around the country. In Washington state, which was slightly ahead of New York …
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