Spanish Artists Record a New Version of Coronavirus Anthem 'Resistiré': Watch

By Bruce Haring

Ryan Tedder has hit out at the “tone-deaf” artists who are continuing to release music during the coronavirus pandemic.

Bruce Springsteen, SZA, Bon Jovi, Halsey, and more artists will perform a benefit concert for the state of New Jersey to support its Pandemic Relief Fund. Organized with the New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund (NJPRF), the at-home performances will be broadcast on local television, radio, and online via Apple Music and E Street Radio on SiriusXM. Other performers include Tony Bennett, Charlie Puth, Chelsea Handler, and more.

Neil Young has released “Shut It Down 2020,” a new version of “Shut It Down” from his 2019 album Colorado that was “inspired by fans reaching out to Young expressing the elevated poignancy the song has come to represent during this pandemic.” Recorded with Crazy Horse, the new video is interspersed with images from various places around the world from the past month. “These are uncertain times,” Young said in a statement.

Amid the social, emotional, mental and economic effects that have impacted hundreds of millions of people around the world caused by the coronavirus, Asian people are also dealing with an evergreen threat to minorities in times of crisis: xenophobia.

"I didn’t even know we were on her radar"

Like many of us, Tyga has been seriously bored in the house during the coronavirus lockdown.

LONDON – With independent record stores around the world facing the prospect of weeks and possibly months of shutdown, a growing number of artists and labels are getting behind social media campaigns to help protect the sector’s survival. The most high-profile campaign so far is #loverecordstores, a global, social media-led initiative that’s asking musicia

"And if you dry cough, I'll run from you"

Of the many home concerts that have been streamed in the past two weeks, few stand close to the solidarity and emotion of “Argentina Canta La Cigarra.”

Margo Price has pushed back the release of her next album That’s How Rumors Get Started. She says the record, initially set to arrive May 8, will now come out in the summertime. To accompany the news, Price has shared a cover of John Lennon’s “Nobody Told Me.” Watch Price and her husband Jeremy Ivey’s performance below. Scroll down for Price’s announcement about her album.

Spanish musicians play for comic relief, wear pajamas (or in one case, only a banana), entertain their kids, dance with their pets and get silly with cabin fever in the video for “Quédate En Tu Casa,” a new song created by seventeen artists in their respective homes for their fans in confinement. The video comes as the Spanish public is in the second week of at-home lockdown.

Deerhoof have announced their new album Future Teenage Cave Artists with two new songs: the title track and “The Loved One.” The album is due out May 29 via Joyful Noise. Check out both songs below.

A global initiative has been launched to support independent record shops during the coronavirus crises. 

#LoveRecordStores