How Will Pop Music Respond to the Coronavirus?

Popcast

The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The concert industry has been devastated by the pandemic. What's music's next move?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your let's be a safe space of music news and criticism.
0:15.7	I'm your host John Cara Monica. So, I'm going to get a new You're listening to Rage Dance a Machine.
0:45.0	The reason you're listening to Rage Ant's machine
0:50.0	is because Rage was about to embark upon a reunion tour
0:55.0	who's gonna start in El Paso,
0:57.7	was running through Coachella and running
0:59.9	for the direction of the summer.
1:01.6	That tour, along with many other tours, has been either postponed
1:05.0	or cancelled. I was going to go to opening night of that tour in El Paso to cover it, and that
1:10.6	is one of the many things that have changed in the world since the last time that I have checked in with you guys.
1:17.0	As you know, the spread of the coronavirus has led to some extreme measures, social distancing,
1:22.5	including the cancellation of all gatherings
1:26.2	over, depending on where you are, 50 people,
1:29.7	some recommendations for 10 people,
1:32.0	potentially by the time you hear this, there will be curfews in place.
1:34.9	This is a very unusual situation in the world and in America, and as someone who has always found concerts to be healing spaces and safe spaces, it's pretty jarring.
1:49.0	And I'm sure it's jarring for a lot of you as well.
1:52.0	On Popcast for this episode and probably the next episode as well,
1:55.2	we're going to talk about how things are affected in the world of live music and in the music world more broadly.
2:02.8	The first thing that I'm going to talk about
2:04.9	is the fact that I am not in the office.
2:06.5	No one is in the office.
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