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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has ordered a music venue not to go ahead with a planned concert this week in what would be America’s first show since stay-at-home guidelines began for most of the country two months ago. The state Department of Health issued a cease-and-desist against TempleLive in Fort …

Tim Bray, a vice president and top engineer at Amazon Web Services, has quit the internet giant, citing in an open letter its “chickenshit” decision to fire whistleblowers raising concerns about safety for warehouse workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Amazon’s treatment of its warehouse workers has garnered increasing scrutiny amid …

Nearly 71 million people are displaced across the world due to poverty and violence; a new short film, We Do Not Live Here, tells the remarkable story of one of them. Kensey is a refugee who fled Honduras on foot with three of her children. She’s currently at a migrant …

Keith Urban got a little help from himself and also himself during Global Citizen’s “One World” concert on Saturday, April 18th, performing a cover of Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love” with two clones as his backing band. The concert raised $128 million in funds for COVID-19 relief. Seated on a stool …

Florence and the Machine have released the sparkling “Light of Love,” an outtake from their 2018 record, High as Hope. All proceeds will go directly to the U.K.’sIntensive Care Society COVID-19 Fund. “Don’t go blindly into the dark/In every one of us shines the light of love,” Florence Welch sings, …

Sturgill Simpson says he’s tested positive for COVID-19. In a lengthy Instagram post, the Sound and Fury artist writes that he received the diagnosis on Friday, after nearly a month of not exhibiting symptoms. That wasn’t the case in early March, however. Three days after playing Charleston, South Carolina, on …

Shortly after posting his complete 2009 Hyde Park Concert to aid isolated fans in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Bruce Springsteen will appear on SiriusXM’s E Street Radio.From His Home to Yours will premiere on Wednesday, April 8th at 10 a.m. ET. Springsteen will be DJing music he’s been …

Rosanne Cash, John Oates, Keb’ Mo’, Soccer Mommy, and Shovels & Rope are among a diverse group of artists banding together for a new online telethon to raise money for the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund. The “People Supporting Artists Telethon” will air live from Nashville on Saturday, April 11th, at …

Thursday night, the long-running concert series Austin City Limits hosted a special telethon fundraiser, ACL Stands With Austin, benefitting music and service industry workers hit hardest by the cancellation of South by Southwest and other live music events because of the coronavirus outbreak. The two-hour special featured performances from an …

Manu Dibango, the acclaimed Cameroonian saxophonist whose 1972 hit, “Soul Makossa,” would later be sampled by Michael Jackson, Kanye West, and dozens of other musicians, died Tuesday due to complications from COVID-19. He was 86. A note on Dibango’s Facebook page confirmed his death, as well as the cause (Dibango …