Live concerts and festivals are not the only events that have been canceled or postponed due to the coronavirus. Record Store Day was originally scheduled for April 18 this year, but in early March RSD revealed that they would push back the celebration saying, “RSD is worldwide and celebrates a record store’s place in their community. As good citizens of those communities we want everyone to be safe, healthy and feel comfortable coming to the party. Record Store Day 2020 is moving to June 20.”
With the rescheduled date less than a month and a half away, however, it looks like we’ll have to wait just a bit longer to celebrate Record Store Day this year. In a post to their website, Record Store Day revealed that 2020’s edition of the indie record store celebration will occur across three dates later in 2020: August 29, September 26, and October 24. Recognizing the need indie record stores will have in today’s climate, the change grants additional opportunities for fans of the event to pick up more items when stores are actually open.
“Record Store Day will look very different this year, but supporting indie record stores may be more important than ever,” the website said. “We don’t know what sort of rules will be in place, or what sort of gatherings people will be in the mood for this year, so we’re focusing on the music and getting the really great titles on the RSD Official List this year into the stores and into your hands, in the most financially and socially responsible way.”
Per the new changes, RSD also revealed that the new version of The List, which will feature new RSD Drops dates, will arrive on their website on June 1.
Despite concerns from medical officials and health experts, government leaders in various states hoping to restart economies have been begun the steps of relaxing social distancing rules by slowly reopening certain nonessential businesses and allowing larger gatherings. Taking a much bigger step than most states, live concerts will return to the state of Missouri starting May 4.
Detailed in a report by Billboard, Governor Mike Parson revealed his Show Me Strong recovery plan which details a slow reopening of the economy starting May 4. Becoming the first state to do so since the government began lockdown orders, the recovery plan will allow citizens to attend live events, including concerts. According to the Show Me Strong guidelines, large events and gatherings will no longer be banned, but in order to attend a concert, movie theater or stadium “seating shall be spaced out according to social distancing requirements.”
Despite the news, Missouri’s larger music hubs, which include St. Louis, Springfield, and Kansas City, will not open their doors to live events next week. Officials from the major cities plan to keep the cities’ Stay Home order in effect for the time being as St. Louis mayor, Lyda Krewson, revealed on Twitter.
This is an important reminder.
Though portions of the state will begin to slowly reopen Monday, @STLCityGov will not. While we are developing a phased approach for our own reopening, the City’s #StayHome orders remain in place.
We will continue to be guided by data, not dates. https://t.co/a1wqavqgNM
— Mayor Lyda Krewson (@LydaKrewson) May 1, 2020
Looking at venues in cities that can reopen according to the recovery plan, like The Blue Note in Columbia, they will not be as quick to open their doors to large groups. The Blue Note will continue to hold its Social Distraction, a livestreamed local music concert series, at least through May 15.
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Joan Crawford soaked her eyes in boric acid every week so they’d “sparkle” on camera.
“It was almost surreal how engaged and connected it made everyone feel at one of the most disconnected times of our lives.”
There are a number of NBA players that have turned to video games as their method of choice for passing the time during the NBA’s hiatus while the majority of the country is on stay-at-home orders.
It’s not just something that can eat hours of boredom, but it’s also a competitive release for pro athletes that are so accustomed to constantly having something to compete in. They also can stay connected to fans by streaming themselves gaming, offering some entertainment to the masses and giving folks a peek behind the curtain as to what they’re like when they’re not on the court.
Call of Duty is the preferred game of many NBA players, and Slam has been putting on a weekly COD tournament featuring NBA stars squaring off with streamers and others. Josh Hart is among those that takes his gaming seriously, and was a part of Saturday night’s action, which he was initially very excited to play.
Live now! Tune in to watch me on @SLAMonline weekly tourney with @spidadmitchell @ZachLaVine @epaschall @Zeno
https://t.co/zTRVWfr5UO pic.twitter.com/D1biFBdbxm
— Josh Hart (@joshhart) May 2, 2020
However, during the competition Hart got killed despite thinking he was behind a wall and that glitch sent him into a fit of rage, yanking his keyboard out of his PC, slamming it on the ground, and then stomping it while screaming “f*ck this game,” over and over.
“F*CK THIS GAME.”
My boy Josh Hart stomped the hell out of his COD keyboard.
pic.twitter.com/oW7G2uBaO7
— SLAM (@SLAMonline) May 3, 2020
This is, of course, what can happen when you have hyper-competitive people playing video games on live streams. It is a hilarious moment of rage quitting , and Hart’s teammates laughing at him over the chat makes it even better. Hopefully Hart has a backup keyboard because that one is toast, and in honesty it’s smarter to destroy the keyboard than, say, the monitor, because it’ll be cheaper to replace.
Already with a promise to share his upcoming sixth album by summertime, Drake surprised fans with a mixtape to make the wait in the midst of a quarantine less grueling. The Dark Lane Demo Tapes project was composed of 14 songs, many of which Drake had released in the previous months or that had leaked to the internet. Following the project’s release, Drake took to Instagram Live to preview more music, some of which could appear on the upcoming album.
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Drake later joined Lil Wayne for the second episode of his Young Money Radio show. There he explained his thought process behind the Dark Lane Demo Tapes project.
“We pieced a lot of those songs together and I put a few new joints on there, but really it was just instead of dropping a single right now,” he said. “It’s an interesting time for us all as musicians to figure out how this works and what people need. And I just felt like people would appreciate maybe a body of something to listen to as opposed to just one isolated song.”
Drake also opened up about his decision to share pictures of his two-year-old son Adonis last month.
I posted those pictures. It was great for me,” he said.” It was great to just share that with the world and I just felt like … It wasn’t even anything I talked to anybody about or anything I planned. I just woke up one morning and I was like, you know what? This is just something that I want to do….I want to be able to go places with my son and share memories with my son. I don’t want to feel like just because of a life choice I made to be a “celebrity” that I got to make everybody live under this blanket… I just wanted to free myself of that.
Drake later said that watching out artists, including Wayne, balance fatherhood with their music and tour life inspired to do the same with his own son.
A lot of us, like Chainz, is a great father and a lot of the guys that we came up around just being great family men on those tours and on those long studio nights when albums need to get done… But specifically you [Lil Wayne]… I could just tell the way your kids would stare at you that the time and effort that you put in as a father. So, that was really inspiring for me just to know that I can still keep pushing forward as a musician and be there for my son.”
To hear Lil Wayne and Drake’s conversation, press play on the video above.