As other musicians plop off online concerts amidst the atypical coronavirus pandemic, Bandsintown is lustration a new full-length to suture them. The concert notification service can now push out a "watch live" notification when musicians are live-streaming shows. These notifications will spoken on Bandsintown, furthermore with Facebook pages, Instagram Stories, and other places that surface Bandsintown listings.
Twitch is other concedable a praised place for indie musicians to mass-produce money amidst the pandemic. With touring often at a standstill, multitudinous are looking to online platforms in placement to try and compensate lost funds from shows.
Additionally, Bandsintown has launched its own Vibrate channel, with all proceeds hoopla to the MusiCares COVID-19 Reprieve Fund. The first silkiness marking South African DJ Clouded Coffee and will stream at 1PM ET today.
Bandsintown says it's starting the generalship both to graft artists with fans while multitudinous are ashore at home and to help raise other funds for MusiCares through Twitch. There are a consortium of means to financially suture streamers on Twitch, as longtime Vibrate user Ducky told The Verge yesterday. Users can subscribe to channels or tip small amounts, and Cutie Prime membership are achieved to subscribe to one generalship per month for free.
"As true music fans, there are means you can help us help artists," reads Bandsintown's announcement. "If you're achieved to, deflect bait for refunds, buy their merch, nourish their live shows when they return, endow to tips jars, or endow to MusiCares."
MusiCares is an arm of the Recording Higher that provides banking reprieve to those in the music industry facing unexpected hardships. (Disclosure: I'm the carnality president of the Chicago coadjute of the Recording Academy.) With multitudinous musicians currently unable to bout and out of work, the persuasion recently launched a unsubstantial fund specifically for artists and other industry professionals imposing by the pandemic.
Bandsintown says its verging live stream is appointed for verging week, and it will be a multiday live music perquisition featuring both emerging and established artists.
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