Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone, music now coming at you remotely.

I am recording personally in my apartment in New York and we have someone else in their

apartment in New York and two people in Los Angeles.

I truly hope that everyone out there is staying safe and healthy and I encourage you to stay at

home as much as possible. We are going to be continuing wrong some music now for the

foreseeable future recording remotely and still broadcasting on Sirius.

So I have with me today Amy X Wang, Samantha Hisong, and Ethan Millman,

who have been doing an amazing job under trying circumstances,

reporting on the absolute chaos that our current

crisis is inflicting upon the music industry. Obviously it's affecting a lot of people's lives and health.

It's affecting a lot of industries, but this is our world and it is most certainly affecting the music industry.

This has been like a slow motion train hitting. A lot of people understood what was coming,

for example, U.S. concerts as we saw what was happening first in China, then in Italy,

and other places.

But again, slow motion, and it took a while

for it to hit the concert industry.

And when it did, it was like a chain of dominoes. So maybe

maybe if one of you could kind of take us through the chronology and the

dominoes falling of cancellations. Sure I mean I will say with festivals I

think that one of the biggest domestically to kind of start that off was

Ultra in Miami which is a Dance Electronic Festival. That was actually the same day, but I do think it was first but it was the same day as

South by Southwest. In early March we heard of that cancellation and that was I believe the Friday before we heard of

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