Livestreams
Inside Track: Where Does Music’s Love Affair With Gaming Go?
Yes, you read that correctly. It’s not news that the music business wants in on that money. For years there have been collaborations across industries, including soundtracks for games like Grand Theft Auto IV way back in 2008 and ongoing partnerships spanning well over a decade to provide music for sports franchises like Madden and NBA 2K. But over the past two years, that relationship has rapidly expanded, reaching a fever pitch during the pandemic when gaming, in general, exploded around the world as people were confined to their homes and artists looked for new revenue streams (think Travis Scott partnering with Fortnite and Lil Nas X working with Roblox). Now many are wondering where this leads next. For rights holders, lawsuits are shifting to cooperation, most recently with the NMPA ...
Mother Nature and LEGIT Get Under the Tracks with Consequence on Vans’ Ch 66
The latest episode of Consequence’s bi-weekly livestream show Under the Tracks is bringing some of the finest names in Chicago underground hip-hop right into your homes. Broadcasting on Vans’ Channel 66 on July 12th, this week’s show will see host NNAMDÏ joined by rising stars Mother Nature and local stalwart LEGIT. LEGIT has been grinding from the Southside for years. An accomplished rapper, singer, producer, and DJ, he’s known for a genre-blending chemistry with collaborators like Young $antana, Young Meech, Deadboy, and more. His output rate is one of the fiercest in the city, with hundreds of songs released in just the last few years. Mother Nature, meanwhile, have been on a swift climb in recent months. Having been putting out their uniquely conscious rap for nearly half a d...
Consequence’s Under the Tracks Celebrates Chicago’s Indie Labels on Vans’ Ch 66
Click on over to Vans’ Channel 66 for the latest episode of Consequence’s bi-weekly livestream show, Under the Tracks. Broadcasting June 28th, this week’s episode finds host NNAMDÏ welcoming the co-founders of some of Chicago’s most beloved indie labels to celebrate the city’s underground sounds. Chicago has long been known as a nurturing home for creators, and The Numero Group and Hausu Mountain have been some of their strongest supporters over the years. Over a trio of 45-minute DJ sets, NNAMDÏ and his guests will ride the rails to tour the underground scene these labels have helped thrive. First up is Doug Kaplan and Max Allison, the co-founders of Hausu Mountain. Originally started as a way to release music from their own projects (Good Willsmith, Pepper Mill Rondo, MrDougDou...
PUP, Turkuaz’s Remain in Light, TEKE::TEKE Added to Protect Live Music Archive
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-02T16:18:39+00:00“>June 2, 2021 | 12:18pm ET Consequence’s Protect Live Music Livestream Archive has expanded with another round of performance videos, bringing five new artist from our relaunch benefit event to our on-demand viewing experience. New content arrives every week, and June 5th comes with five major video additions. In a special remote arrangement, Turkuaz, Talking Heads’ Jerry Harrison, and King Crimson’s Adrian Belew performed material from their Remain in Light cover collaboration. In addition to their PLM-exclusive performances of “Born Under Porches (The Heat Goes On)” and “Houses in Motion”, our latest archival release includes footage from PUP, TEKE::...
Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mathus, Brian Fallon, Squirrel Flower, More Come to Protect Live Music Archive
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-26T19:47:09+00:00“>May 26, 2021 | 3:47pm ET Consequence’s Protect Live Music Livestream Archive continues to expand today, bringing more performances from our relaunch benefit event for you to revisit. We’re rolling out new on-demand archival content every week, and May 26th features six fresh videos. Back together for their new collaborative album These 13, Andrew Bird and Jimbo Mathus took to the fields for their rendition of the Squirrel Nut Zippers classic “Train on Fire”, exclusively for PLM. Other footage part of the latest PLM Archive release includes performances from Brian Fallon, together PANGEA, Squirrel Flower, Hounds, and The Ballroom Thieves. To acces...
Tegan and Sara, Courtney Barnett, Ben Gibbard to Play Bachelor’s Doomin’ Sun Fest
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-19T21:08:45+00:00“>May 19, 2021 | 5:08pm ET Later this month, Jay Som (Melina Duterte) and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner will release their debut album together as Bachelor. It’s too risky to celebrate Doomin’ Sun’s release by playing a concert for fans right now during the pandemic, so the duo have organized the next best thing: a star-studded livestream music festival. Say hello to Doomin’ Sun Fest, a free event on June 10th featuring Tegan and Sara, Courtney Barnett, Ben Gibbard, and dozens of other artists. Doomin’ Sun Fest is billed as both a massive livestream festival and a telethon to benefit Seeding Sovereignty, an Indigenous-led collective that disrupts colonized spaces thr...
Consequence’s Under the Tracks Plays Five Degrees of Chicago on Vans’ Channel 66
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-13T17:28:16+00:00“>May 13, 2021 | 1:28pm ET Consequence is back with a new edition of our bi-weekly show on Vans’ Channel 66, Under the Tracks. Airing May 17th, the latest episode will find host NNAMDÏ play a game of Five Degrees of Chicago with a pair of very special guests. This week’s Under the Tracks comes under the theme of “Worlds Collide,” where NNAMDÏ and guest DJs Post Animal and Grapetooth’s Chris Bailoni will each spin a 45-minute playlist spotlighting Chicago’s vast interconnected music scene. Each set will highlight songs by “people who have collabed with people who have collabed with people;” think of it like the Kevin Bacon game, only with Chicago music. Post ...
Consequence Launches Protect Live Music Livestream Archive
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-12T17:30:22+00:00“>May 12, 2021 | 1:30pm ET Last month, Consequence celebrated our rebranding and new website with the Protect Live Music livestream event benefitting the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA). Now, we’re giving readers and fans a chance to revisit a number of the Protect Live Music performances with our on-demand archive. Each week, we’ll be rolling out six to seven archival videos exclusively available on the Protect Live Music page. Launching today (March 12th), the first clips we’ve loaded up include performances from Anjimile, Briston Maroney, Claudio Sanchez’s Prize Fighter Inferno, Watkins Family Hour, and Skeggs, plus testimonials from Julien ...
Evanescence Announce Free Livestream Show Hosted by Alice Cooper, Unveil “Better Without You” Video
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-16T19:41:49+00:00“>April 16, 2021 | 3:41pm ET Evanescence have announced a new livestream concert that will be hosted by shock-rock legend Alice Cooper. “Driven to Perform” goes live at 9 p.m. ET on May 13th and will be appropriately presented by Cooper Tire and free to stream. In addition, a battle-of-the-bands style competition is being held to determine the opening act. Among the three bands competing are Suspect208, who feature the sons of Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash and Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. Each band covered the Alice Cooper classic “Under My Wheels”, and Suspect208 dished out the heaviest version of the three. At one point, the young L.A. band was fronted by...
Live Nation and Veeps to Retrofit 60+ Venues for Livestreaming
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-14T02:13:23+00:00“>April 13, 2021 | 10:13pm ET Livestreaming has been embraced out of necessity over the last year, but even when things return to “normal,” it doesn’t look like the format is going anywhere. In fact, it’s only going to become more advanced. Live Nation and the Veeps platform have announced a partnership that will equip over 60 US venues with turnkey livestreaming capabilities. Launching the new joint effort will be a series of livestream concerts broadcast from Los Angeles’ The Wiltern. The innovative deal finds Veeps, co-founded by Good Charlotte’s Joel and Benji Madden, installing their livestreaming setups across a number of venues at which bands frequently st...
Puscifer Share Trippy “Bullet Train to Iowa” Mini Film as Prologue for Upcoming Livestream: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-12T18:15:25+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 2:15pm ET Puscifer are setting the scene for their upcoming livestream performance of 2015’s Money $hot. The band has now shared a psychedelic mini film for the Existential Reckoning track “Bullet Train to Iowa”, which serves a segue between their previous Arizona desert virtual show and the upcoming stream on April 17th. The trippy, partially animated clip is the next chapter in the saga of the bizarre desert-dwelling Billy D — the protagonist of Puscifer’s loosely connected livestream narrative. Longtime Puscifer fans will recognize the work of Meats Meier, who previously created videos for Puscifer’s “Queen B”, “Dozo”, and “Apocalyptica...
Tame Impala Announce “Innerspeaker Live From Wave House” Livestream
Last year, Tame Impala rang in the 10th anniversary of their debut album, Innerspeaker, by rolling out a limited-edition box set. It looks like those celebrations won’t stop anytime soon either, because Kevin Partner and co. have just announced a special livestream event featuring a full performance of the album. The concert, titled “Innerspeaker Live From Wave House”, will go down on Wednesday, April 21st via streaming platform Moment House. For those not in the know, Wave House isn’t a real venue. It’s the name of the studio where frontman Kevin Parker recorded the album a decade ago. Expect the audio to be perfect and the views to be even better; Wave House is a four-hour drive from Tame Impala’s hometown of Perth, Australia and has a scenic view of the Indian Ocean waves. Tickets for t...
