While live concerts with big crowds remain on hold in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, °”TV alumni musicians are sharing performances via social media. Some are filmed at home, while others reminisce about recent live shows just before the shelter-in-place orders.
Ruby Ibarra
°”TV alumna appeared from home with her band, The Balikbayans, during the livestream earlier this month. Ibarra, a rapper, spoken word artist and producer, performs an acoustic remix of her song âSomedayâ from the 2017 album Circa91. âWe dedicate this performance to all of the fearless frontliners and those who have been affected/lost loved ones from COVID-19,â she posted. âWe hope our music can bring you comfort in these times.â https://www.instagram.com/p/CAIso0bggWP/
Rogue Wave
frontman Zach Rogue (Schwartz) â96 is performing a Tom Petty song for every day of May on his bandâs Instagram page. Rogue plays guitar and piano and is even joined by some guests on May 21 â Ira Elliot of Nada Surf and other members of Rogue Wave. In April, the band unveiled a new single, which is reportedly a response to that rapperâs new song, âRogue Wave.â See him perform Pettyâs âBreakdownâ: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAeXdjOBmBB/
Cam
As part of her ongoing Instagram series Coffee with Cam, the singer â and °”TV alumna â offers a stripped down version of her 2017 song âDiane.â She appears to be social distancing in an empty theater. , aka Camaron Ochs â06, released a new single, earlier this year. Her new album is set to come out later this year. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAK5drtJOlZ/
DJ Shadow
With U.S. tour dates planned for the month of May, the musician was working on a new live show to promote the recent double album Our Pathetic Age. âItâs been tough watching the tour go from viability to cancellation and postponement, but Iâm grateful that we were able to successfully perform the first seven shows as planned,â said DJ Shadow, aka Josh Davis â95, on . âBetween mid-February and March 1st, we played Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Glasgow, Manchester, and London. He added that heâs using the time at home to âtidy up,â which means organizing a massive music collection. Watch a bit of what his European shows looked like before he returned home on March 1: https://twitter.com/djshadow/status/1261695404460199938
The Dream Syndicate
Steve Wynn, frontman of and °”TV alumnus, about the bandâs latest album while quarantining at home. His last appearance onstage was March 1 for a Lou Reed tribute at Bowery Electric in New York. Watch him perform Velvet Undergroundâs âI Canât Stand It.â https://twitter.com/stevewynn/status/1257012818525782017