Southern California went a solid three months without live, in-person concerts in 2020. It seems impossible given that for decades there were plenty of entertainment options on any single night at ...

Hopefully the live music industry will soon rebound, and there will be no need to curate a “best live streams” list (or have a “Best Quarantine Performance” category at the MTV Video Music Awards) in ...

This was the year that everything changed in the music industry. The pandemic required restrictions and new rules for everyone to play by, including musicians. But rockers are a creative and resilient ...

My 10 favorite concerts of 2020. (You'll notice nine have something in common): 1. The Tubes, Jergel's Rhythm Grille, Jan. 24. Over-the-top theatrics on a stage everyone easily could touch, performed ...

Watch 20 of the year's greatest Tiny Desk performances, featuring a small sample of the talented artists who delivered intimate sets from NPR... They feel like sepia-toned dispatches from the ...

Back in late February, when COVID-19 was an ominous but still-uncertain threat, Megan James held out hope for a big year on tour. Purity Ring, her L.A.-based electronic duo, had locked an April 3 ...

Organizers with the Grassroots Concerts canceled the fall 2020 concert season as a result of continuing concern about COVID-19. “We hope that live music can soon return to our stage,” Dawn Stattine, ...

“I have seen the future of concerts for 2020, and it’s at the drive-in.” Anyone making such a proclamation in 2019 would have been dismissed as delusional. Not so this year, when the nation and most ...

The Tiny Desk team had huge plans for 2020 — including what should have been the taping of our 1000th Tiny Desk concert — only to pivot madly as COVID-19 forced the closure of NPR headquarters in ...