Tag Archives: Coronavirus
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INTERVIEW: Amoeba Founder Marc Weinstein on the future of the business amid coronavirus crisis
Amoeba Music Berkeley in October 2008. Courtesy: Andreas Praefcke. In less than 48 hours, Amoeba Music has raised more than one-fourth of its $400,000 fundraising goal. Cofounder Marc Weinstein started a GoFundMe campaign for the company’s flagship Berkeley store, as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles locations on…
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Noise Pop expands COVID-19 fundraising with merch, digital membership, streaming series
Cafe Du Nord on Feb. 20, 2018. Jane Hu/STAFF. Facing an uncertain summer, concert producer Noise Pop has expanded the number of ways in which Bay Area music fans can keep the organization afloat—with a multitiered Patreon, gift cards and a more varied online merchandise store in addition to…
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Q&A: André Allen Anjos on his new RAC album and earning a paycheck during the concert blackout
André Allen Anjos (RAC), Courtesy: Jules Davies. It’s March 48 (who’s keeping track, though?) and musician-producer André Allen Anjos, better known as RAC, seems happy to see a new human face. After several weeks of keeping indoors at his Portland, Oregon apartment, Anjos, like most of us, is living…
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Ticketmaster, Live Nation, AEG to offer refunds for postponed shows; StubHub offers credit
Ticketmaster and Live Nation tickets. Adam Pardee/STAFF. While much of the world is coming together to share resources in an attempt to mitigate the financial and emotional toll the coronavirus pandemic is taking, Ticketmaster tried to take a different tactic—until it quickly backfired. Traditionally, Ticketmaster, the largest seller of…
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Insert Foot: Music in 2021 can learn a lot from music in 2002
Insert Foot and the hope for more great music. Last week I wrote about the Covid-19 pandemic creating opportunities for musicians to reconnect and remember why they became musicians in the first place. Remember? It’s so drummers and Billy Joel can attract women. No, I won’t get over it.…
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Gov. Gavin Newsom: Gatherings of hundreds or thousands of people unlikely through the end of the summer
Attendees at Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco photographed on Aug. 12, 2019. In a public address Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that despite evidence of California bending the so-called Covid-19 and coronavirus spread curve, the possibility of gatherings hundreds or more people is “negligible”…
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INTERVIEW: Mayhem’s Morten Iversen talks COVID-19 and the band’s future
The One True Mayhem. Courtesy photo. Hot off the release of their well-received sixth album, Daemon, Norwegian black metal godfathers Mayhem were ready to take the world by storm—until the coronavirus hit. The band suddenly had to get out of town. “We had two days of pre-production before we figured…
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Michelin-starred chef Mourad Lahlou on helping laid-off workers and the future of food service
Chefs Mourad Lahlou and Frank Hanes prepare meals at Aziza in San Francisco on April 11, 2020. Onome Uyovbievbo/STAFF. Alongside arts and entertainment, perhaps no other industry has been more shattered by the nationwide coronavirus shelter-in-place orders than food service. Of the 16 million unemployment claims filed since the…
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Insert Foot: COVID-19 isolation reaffirming musical bonds
As far as we know, Tony Hicks is only having one kind of baby as he passes time at home during the COVID-19 quarantine. Some good really can come from this coronavirus mess. In the middle of boring COVID-19 isolation, I just spent more than an hour with 10…
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Rock’N Vino: Wine Country adapts to coronavirus shelter-in-place order
No industry has been left untouched by the impact of the coronavirus and the subsequent stay-at-home orders issued around the country. While we’ve documented the impacts on the music and touring industries, the affects on the travel, tourism and wine industries have been just as great. Along with bars…