The boss sent me this MTV NEWS LEBANON video of a bouzouki player, TOROS NACCASHIAN, entertaining his neighborhood from a fourth-story corner balcony, and it was a welcome reminder that live music is doing a pretty good job surviving its own death. The devastation to the club and touring industries is very real, threatening the livelihoods of artists, crews and others whose careers depend on people being able to leave their homes. We've been robbed of a communal experience that's central to many of our lives. There may be a long, difficult recovery ahead. But we still need live music, right now, especially right now. Our isolation kills one kind of live music experience but demands another—a way to communicate across vacant courtyards, empty streets and locked-down nations. Music is ringing out as loudly as ever, from windows and balconies, from intimate rooms, from every nook and cranny of the internet, from wherever anyone still has access. From Lebanon, from Spain, from Italy. From MARGO PRICE's attic and NEIL YOUNG's ranch. You can slow down the business but you can't stop the music... And you will never, ever run out of streaming options. JOHN LEGEND, JOE JONAS, DIPLO, MONSTA X and BARRY GIBB are among the long list of scheduled performers at TWITCH's 12-hour-long STREAM AID benefit show, which starts at 9 am PT Saturday. Three years' worth of AUSTIN CITY LIMITS performances are available here. More than 50 sets from the archives of the MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL are streaming for free here. For example... You will not be surprised to learn, meanwhile, that people are still releasing albums and singles. And 17-minute songs that are sort of about the KENNEDY assassination and sort of about the last half-century of music and sort of about things that pop-culture scholars will be digging up for years to come, as some 78-year-old dude from Minnesota who once won a NOBEL PRIZE has just done. It feels weirdly right for this moment... It's Friday and that means there's also new music from DUA LIPA, PARTYNEXTDOOR, JOYNER LUCAS, WAXAHATCHEE, JESSIE REYEZ, KNXWLEDGE, SKEPTA/CHIP/YOUNG ADZ, NINE INCH NAILS (two albums released Thursday), PEARL JAM, BRIAN FALLON, 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER, LILLY HIATT, BASIA BULAT, VANESSA CARLTON, LUKAS NELSON & PROMISE OF THE REAL, MARGARET GLASPY, JEEZY, DIRTY PROJECTORS, SORRY, JASMINE INFINITI, NICOLAS JAAR, DANIEL AVERY & ALESSANDRO CORTINI, MR. SCRUFF (DJ-KICKS mix), LITTLE DRAGON, the ORB, ORION SUN, SIMON FISHER TURNER & EDMUND DE WAAL, FERRY CORSTEN, KANDACE SPRINGS, BÉLA FLECK & TOUMANI DIABATÉ, AVISHAI COHEN, SLIM THUG, HALF WAIF, the CHATS, IN THIS MOMENT, the SUICIDE MACHINES, ME AND THAT MAN, DEEPER, FACS and CLEM SNIDE... RIP PHIL PHILLIPS and MIKE BEZZEG.