Critic’s notebook: No work for the working musician amid COVID-19

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Musicians know calamity. They used to sell albums, until the online revolution. Touring was the solution, the backup plan. Now their audiences are being told to stay home. First the rug is pulled out from underneath gigging musicians. Next, the floor collapses.“It’s scary out there," Mullholand told me after the impromptu pub show. “This is an opportunity to show everybody just how precarious the life of an independent musician is, during this crisis.

Ever since the advent of illegal downloading, the music industry has existed in a state of postponed consequences. Apple’s iTunes was supposed to save the business from Napster, but then streaming services arrived, soon dominating the industry and paying less than pennies to artists. Musicians reacted by hitting the road harder, relying on ticket sales and merchandise sales to pick up the slack.

 

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