Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Wrigley Field
photo by James Richards IV

Today's livestreams (Tom Petty, Courtney Barnett, Ludacris vs Nelly, Bat for Lashes, more)

NOTE: We post the newest livestreams in a new post every day. Make sure you’re reading the newest edition of our roundup – check the livestream tag HERE for the latest.

LAST UPDATED: 5/16 at 9:51 AM ET

With no shows happening, a lot of artists are livestreaming performances from safely isolated locations that you can watch in a safely isolated location like your home.

HERE ARE TODAY’S LIVESTREAMS (Saturday, 5/16):

Courtney Barnett, Georgia Maq of Camp Cope, Banoffee and more play a charity livestream on Instagram at 5 AM ET.

Virtual fest In The House streams on Houseparty starting at 8 AM ET, with Westside Gunn, David Blaine, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Bad Bunny, Dua Lipa, DaBaby, Alicia Keys and more.

Withered Hand performs on Instagram at 8 AM ET.

Previous performances from Ariana Grande, Coldplay, Pharrell Williams, Stormzy and more stream on YouTube at 12 PM ET for “The Best of Capital’s Summertime Ball”

La Blogotheque’s Stay Away Shows stream every day at 1 PM ET on Instagram. Today Sasami performs.

Rough Trade’s weekday Instagram TV series, Rough Trade Transmissions, continues at 1 PM ET. Today The Beths perform.

Sofi Tukker at 1 PM ET daily on Facebook and Instagram.

Anti-Flag‘s A-F Records streams “Takeover Fest 3” on Instagram at 2 PM ET, with Erica Freas of RVIVR, Justin Sane and Chris #2 of Anti-Flag, Caitlin Bender of Calyx, Jon Snodgrass, Lee Corey Oswald, Erik Button of Dollar Signs, Lauren Denitzio of Worriers, and Jen Pop of The Bombpops

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Face to Face, MakeWar and more do acoustic sets on Destiny Tour Booking’s Facebook starting at 2 PM ET.

Billy Bragg is playing an hour-long livestream to benefit Sheffield, UK venue The Leadmill today at 3 PM ET via Facebook.

The rescheduled edition of Minecraft festival Block by Blockwest begins at 3 PM ET, with Pussy Riot, Fever 333, Cherry Glazerr, IDLES, HEALTH, Citizen, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, Knocked Loose, Magdalena Bay, Heart Attack Man, and more.

“Sounds Like Home” streams on The Current’s Facebook starting at 3 PM ET, with Remo Drive, David Huckfelt Music, NUR-D and more.

LA Priest is livestreaming at show at 3 PM ET; tickets are on sale now.

Get your tickets now for my first ever livestreamed gig. https://lapriest.veeps.com/stream/schedule

Posted by LA PRIEST on Thursday, May 7, 2020

Charli XCX is doing a “self-isolation Instagram livestream” every afternoon at 3 PM ET on Instagram.

Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is presenting daily Twitter listening parties for classic (and sometimes new) indie and alternative albums, with commentary from the artists who made them. Today they’ll discuss Sleaford ModsAll That Glue at 3:15 PM ET and Edgar Wright‘s Baby Driver at 4 PM ET.

Jarvis Cocker continues his “Domestic Disco” DJ series at 4 PM ET on Instagram.

EscapeTracks hosts a virtual festival at 4 PM ET on YouTube featuring BJ The Chicago Kid, Queen Naija, Eric Bellinger, Amaal, Chris Larocca, Elliott Trent, Jazzy Amra, Joyce Wrice, Julius, Leven Kali, Maeta, Maurice Moore, Mikhala Jene, Malachaie, Nakala, Nbdy, Quin, Tasha Angela, Tiana Major9, Tone Stith, Vanjess, Xavier Omar and more. Get free tickets on dice.fm.

Pickathon continues broadcasting a concert a day from their vaults for 60 days at 4 PM ET, and you can watch on BrooklynVegan’s Facebook. They’re taking donations for MusiCares’ COVID-19 relief fund, and today’s set is with Warpaint.

WTH-A-THON II streams on thepinhook.com starting at 4 PM ET, with Mirah, Des Ark, Laura Ballance, Joe Westerlund, Jade Payne and more.

Honus Honus of Man Man‘s daily “Live from Honie Pond Shower Stream” streams at 4 PM ET on Instagram.

Roger Harvey “Live from a Distance,” daily at 4:20 PM ET on Facebook.

Natasha Khan promises to play “lots of the old Bat For Lashes songs that you might not have heard for a while” at a livestreamed concert at 4:30 PM ET. Tickets are on sale now.

James Alex of Beach Slang is doing an acoustic show at 5 PM ET on Stageit.

Christine and the Queens are doing something on Instagram every day at 5 PM ET, “guests and weird concepts included.”

Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs at 5:20 PM ET on Instagram, every day.

Live From Here with Chris Thile streams one of its “At Home” editions at 5:30 PM ET on YouTube, with Wilco, Madison Cunningham, Tom Papa, Marion Winik, and more.

Neil Finn‘s radio show “Fangradio” streams daily at 6 PM ET on Mixlr.

Joey Cape does an all-Lagwagon set at 6:30 PM ET on Stageit.

The 924 Gilman livestream festival streams on Facebook at 7 PM ET with Touche Amore, Mom Jeans, Thick, Destroy Boys, Small Crush, Grumpster, Rosie Tucker, awakebutstillinbed, Sarchasm, and Sour Widows.

Ludacris goes to head to head to Nelly for the next Verzuz at 7 PM ET on Instagram.

Sheryl Crow‘s 2018 LOCKN’ Fest set screens on fans.com at 7 PM ET.

The Met is hosting “Nightly Met Opera Streams” every day during its coronavirus closure. Each night is a different “complete operatic gem from our collection of HD presentations from the past 14 years,” and begins streaming at 7:30 PM ET. Verdi’s Rigoletto streams today.

Riot Fest’s Riot Fest At Home livestream series continues at 8 PM ET on Facebook with an acoustic set from Dan & Alan of Four Year Strong.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers‘ 2014 LOCKN’ Fest set streams on fans.com at 9 PM ET.

Baby’s All Right’s Baby TV continues today at 9 PM ET with Frankie Cosmos. More info and tickets here.

Ani DiFranco‘s Righteous Babe Radio continues broadcasting an unreleased live show from the archives each week, to air on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 10 PM ET.

Lucius and Colin Meloy and Chris Funk of The Decemberists have a trivia battle at 10:30 PM ET. RSVP for the Zoom link.
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Diplo is doing livestreamed DJ sets five nights a week on YouTube, Twitch, and Instagram, including “A Very Lazer Sunday” on Sundays at 7 PM ET, “Ronatronix” on Tuesdays at 10 PM ET, “The Thomas Wesley Show” on Thursdays at 10 PM ET, Corona Sabbath Fridays” on Fridays at 10 PM ET, and “Coronight Fever” on Saturdays at 11 PM ET.

Jeff Tweedy‘s livestream series “The Tweedy Show” streams most nights on Instagram at 10 PM ET.

Rufus Wainwright is performing a song a day, streaming on Facebook; times vary.

DJ D-Nice has been throwing “Homeschool Club Quarantine” Dance Parties on Instagram regularly.

MORE STUFF TO WATCH AND LISTEN TO FROM HOME

Every day, we’re posting more of our favorite live concert videos here. Also, check out our latest album reviews in Notable Releases and Bill’s Indie Basement and subscribe to our monthly Spotify playlist to listen to some of our favorite new songs.

Missed livestreams or other quarantine/isolation videos from earlier this week/previous weeks? Watch archives of Lou Barlow playing a new Dinosaur Jr. song, Kurt Vile covering John Prine, American Football playing “Stay Home” while staying home, Matt Berninger on Colbert, full set videos from Primavera Sound, Paul Simon & Edie Brickell, PUP’s Stefan Babcock, Billie Joe Armstrong, Matt Freeman playing Rancid, Op Ivy, and Motorhead, Baroness, Bon Iver, Julien Baker, James Blake, Dashboard Confessional, The Hives, Brian Fallon covering Lana Del Rey and talking with Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional, Ben Gibbard covering The Beatles, Metallica, Mutoid Man, Jeff Tweedy, John Prine covers, Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires covering Radiohead, Jim James covering The Beatles and Bill Withers, Angel Olsen covering Roxy Music and Tori Amos, The Tallest Man on Earth covering Wilco, Bruce Springsteen, Bon Iver, Joni Mitchell, John Lennon, The Strokes, The National, Daniel Johnston and more, Phoebe Bridgers covering Conor Oberst, and Theh 1975, and Code Orange.

UPCOMING LIVESTREAMS

Sunday, May 17

Virtual fest In The House streams on Houseparty starting at 8 AM ET, with Snoop Dogg, Miguel, Westside Gunn, 2 Chainz, Neil Patrick Harris, John Legend, Doja Cat and more.

“Sounds Like Home” streams on The Current’s Facebook starting at 11 AM ET, with Har Mar Superstar, YAM HAUS, Charlie Parr and more.

La Blogotheque’s Stay Away Shows stream every day at 1 PM ET on Instagram. Today Runner performs.

The Rolling Stones continue their weekly archival video series at 3 PM ET on YouTube with a stream of their 2015 show at The Fonda Theatre.
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Pickathon continues broadcasting a concert a day from their vaults for 60 days at 4 PM ET, and you can watch on BrooklynVegan’s Facebook. They’re taking donations for MusiCares’ COVID-19 relief fund, and today’s set is with Joseph.

Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional, Houndmouth, Durand Jones and more celebrate the music of Bill Withers, Adam Schlesinger and John Prine on “‘Til We Meet Again” on YouTube at 6 PM ET.

The Met is hosting “Nightly Met Opera Streams” every day during its coronavirus closure. Each night is a different “complete operatic gem from our collection of HD presentations from the past 14 years,” and begins streaming at 7:30 PM ET. Verdi’s Nabucco streams today.

Taylor Swift‘s September 2019 performance at Paris’ L’Olympia Theater is airing on ABC at 10 PM ET.

Monday, May 18

Rough Trade’s weekday Instagram TV series, Rough Trade Transmissions, continues at 1 PM ET.

Metronomy‘s Joe Mount brings “Metronomy TV” to Instagram every Monday at 2 PM ET, with “special guests, live performances, Q&As, language learning, darts tournaments, ‘Thought of The Week’, cooking classes with Monty’s Deli head chef, life drawing and more.”

Miley Cyrus is bringing “Bright Minded” to Instagram at 2:30 PM ET Monday-Friday; “connecting w/ special guests discussing how to stay LIT in dark times!”

‘Moving Through the Silence: Celebrating The Life and Legacy of Ian Curtis’ streams at 3 PM ET on United We Stream, with Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris talking to DJ Dave Haslam; performances from Elbow, LoneLady, The Lottery Winners and Kodaline; The Killers frontman Brandon Curtis discussing Joy Division’s influence on his band; and more.

Rolling Stone releases new episodes of their video series “In My Room” on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 3 PM ET on Instagram.

Every Monday, The National “share content from [their] vaults including classic live sets, and/or some unseen or rarely seen footage to pass the time at home” at 5 PM ET. Check back here at 5 PM for today’s.

Molly Burch‘s Loveline series streams on Mondays at 6 PM ET on Instagram.

Metallica are streaming previous concerts at 8 PM ET on Monday nights on YouTube

Bon Jovi, Dolly Parton, Meryl Streep, Stephen Colbert and more appear on “A Night Of Covenant House Stars,” streaming at 8 PM ET on Broadway on Demand and starsinthehouse.com.

Saint Vitus Bar’s interview series continues tonight at 8 PM ET on Instagram.

Craig Wedren is performing improvised vocal soundbaths to accompany his Sabbath Sessions podcast at 8 PM ET Monday through Friday on Facebook.

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong is releasing “a cover song every week until we’re let back out into the world” on YouTube on Mondays.

Tuesday, May 19

Jeff Rosenstock, Slingshot Dakota, AJJ, Muncie Girls and more perform on Specialist Subject’s Instagram starting at 2 PM ET.

Josh Ritter continues his weekly “The Silo Sessions” at 7 PM ET on Facebook.

Alanis Morissette hosts “You Live, You Learn: A Night with Alanis Morissette and Jagged Little Pill” at 8 PM ET on Facebook and YouTube.

Matt Berninger of The National, Phantom Planet, Frank Turner, Beach Bunny and more play virtual concert “Safe and Sound” to benefit Safe Place for Youth at 8 PM ET, and RSVP is open now.

Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind continues his weekly Blind Tuesdays happy hour series at 8 PM ET on Instagram.

Phish will show previous shows every Tuesday “for a while” at 8:30 PM ET on webcast.livephish.com for their “Dinner And A Movie: An Archival Video Series.”

Wednesday, May 20

Molly Sarlé of Mountain Man performs on Duke Performances’ Instagram at 7 PM ET.

David Bazan of Pedro the Lion plays songs from home on Wednesdays at 7 PM ET on davidbazan.com.

Matt Costa‘s weekly livestream series “Hilltop Hymns” continues at Wednesdays at 8 PM ET on Facebook and Instagram.

Bob Weir (Grateful Dead/Dead & Company) streams previous Bob Weir and Wolf Bros performances in his weekly “Weir Wednesdays” series at 8 PM ET on nugs.tv.

Dave Matthews Band are streaming previous shows on Wednesdays at 8 PM ET on dmbdrivein.com.

Ani DiFranco‘s Righteous Babe Radio continues broadcasting an unreleased live show from the archives each week, to air on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 10 PM ET.

Sondre Lerche is streaming home shows every Wednesday on Facebook, time TBA.

Thursday, May 21

Norah Jones does a weekly livestream at 4 PM ET on Facebook.

Radiohead continue streaming previous concerts weekly on YouTube at 5 PM ET.

Overcoats curated a livestream with Margaret Glaspy, Porches, Samia, Torres, Adam Melchor, and more, streaming at 7 PM ET on Twitch.

Ben Gibbard will do livestreams “every week into the foreseeable future as long as people are quarantined” on Thursdays at 7 PM ET on YouTube. After May, streams will be “slightly less frequent,” he says.

Dolly Parton‘s weekly livestream series “Goodnight with Dolly” continues at 7 PM ET on YouTube.

Baby’s All Right’s Baby TV continues today at 8 PM ET with Zola Jesus and Blanck Mass. More info and tickets here.

Jo Firestone and Aparna Nancherla present “Self-Care and How,” with guests Naomi Ekperigin, Guy Branum, Christi Chiello and Josh Sharp, streaming at 8 PM ET. Tickets are on sale now.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah performs on Twitch every Thursday at 8 PM ET.

Mirah is livestreaming on Instagram every Thursday at 8 PM ET.

Elephant Stone‘s weekly livestream “Sacred Sounds Sessions” continues today at 9 PM ET on YouTube and Facebook.

Friday, May 22

Jehnny Beth of Savages is reading from her new book of erotic short stories, Crimes Against Love Manifesto (C.A.L.M.), every Friday at 11 AM ET on Instagram.

Wild Nothing is “playing records from my collection, pulling out some Wild Nothing demos and old radio sessions from time to time and taking questions and occasionally requests in the chat” on Twitch at 3 PM ET on Fridays.

Low on Instagram at 4 PM ET, every Friday.

Glamour UK is hosting a virtual festival with sets from Jessie Ware and Ellie Goulding, starting at 5 PM ET, and tickets are on sale now.

The Front Bottoms screen videos Twitch at 5 PM ET; next week they perform.

New Colossus Festival continues their weekly livestream series at 5 PM ET on Facebook.

Donita Sparks of L7 hosts “The Hi-Low Show with Donita Sparks” on Fridays at 6 PM ET weekly on YouTube.

Nap Eyes are playing Dungeons & Dragons every Friday at 6 PM ET on Twitch.

Grateful Dead continue their weekly stream of previous concerts and Q&A series, “Shakedown Stream” at 8 PM ET on YouTube

Frankie Cosmos does a weekly livestream at 9 PM ET on Instagram.

Margo Price continues her weekly radio show “Runaway Horses” tonight at 9 PM ET on YouTube.

Nick Cave‘s Bad Seed TeeVee broadcasts videos, live performances, interviews, and more 24/7 on YouTube.

Robert Fripp of King Crimson is sharing soundscapes, part of his Music for Quiet Moments series, every Friday.

Saturday, May 23

As mentioned, Norwegian prog metal vets Green Carnation will release their first album in 14 years, Leaves of Yesteryear, on May 8 via Season of Mist. The band is also playing a ticketed, livestreamed album release show at 8 AM ET.

Baby’s All Right’s Baby TV continues today at 8 PM ET with Protect a Hero: A Benefit Concert for The Afya Foundation, featuring ABIR, Del Water Gap, May from Poppies, Charlotte Rose Benjamin, Ale Campos and more. More info and tickets here.

Sunday, May 24

T.S.O.L are playing a 40th anniversary show at an empty Backstage Bar and Billiards and Fremont Country Club in Las Vegas at 6 PM ET on Facebook.

Tuesday, May 26

Irving Plaza talks to Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional on Instagram at 7 PM ET.

Baby’s All Right’s Baby TV continues today at 8 PM ET Charlie Burg. More info and tickets here.

Wednesday, May 27

Clutch, Crowbar, Blacktop Mojo, and Saul are playing a virtual show at 3:30 PM ET; tickets are on sale now.

Friday, May 29

Insomnium stream a performance of their album Winter’s Gate at 2 PM ET; tickets are on sale now.

Royal Albert Hall hosts the “Royal Albert Home” livestream series: today Imogen Heap performs at 2:30 PM ET on royalalberthall.com.

After two weeks away, The Tallest Man on Earth resumes his weekly Friday livestream on YouTube at 3 PM ET.

Hi sweet people. My next YouTube livestream will be on May 29th. I have had to plan how to responsibly and safely…

Posted by The Tallest Man On Earth on Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Baby’s All Right’s Baby TV continues today at 8 PM ET with Castle Pasture, Emily Yacina, Rug, and Naomi Alligator. More info and tickets here.

Virtual fest Slay at Home streams on Friday and Saturday on Metal Injection’s YouTube with sets from Tesseract, Darkest Hour, O’Brother, Astronoid, A.A. Williams, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Silvertomb (ex-Type O Negative), and more; commissioned music by members of Gorguts, Revocation, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Carbomb, and more; cover collaborations with members of GWAR, Zeal & Ardor, The Black Dahlia Murder, Intronaut, Type O Negative, Revocation, Rivers Of Nihil, and more; and special guest appearances by Jessica Pimentel (Orange Is The New Black), Gost, and Charlie Benante (Anthrax). Daily schedules TBA.

Saturday, May 31

Virtual fest Slay at Home streams on Friday and Saturday on Metal Injection’s YouTube with sets from Tesseract, Darkest Hour, O’Brother, Astronoid, A.A. Williams, Der Weg einer Freiheit, Silvertomb (ex-Type O Negative), and more; commissioned music by members of Gorguts, Revocation, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Carbomb, and more; cover collaborations with members of GWAR, Zeal & Ardor, The Black Dahlia Murder, Intronaut, Type O Negative, Revocation, Rivers Of Nihil, and more; and special guest appearances by Jessica Pimentel (Orange Is The New Black), Gost, and Charlie Benante (Anthrax). Daily schedules TBA.

Friday, June 5

The Wonder Years are doing an “extended Burst & Decay Live Stream” at 6 PM ET. Tickets and merch packpages are on sale now.

Saturday, June 6

Laura Marling performs solo at London’s Union Chapel at 7 PM ET, and tickets are on sale now.

Sunday, June 7

Johnny Rotten is hosting a virtual Q&A on PiL’s Facebook at 5 AM ET.

Steel Panther‘s “Concert to Save the World” streams at 5 PM ET, and tickets are on sale. “This concert is guaranteed to, at the very least, have our microphones plugged in and facing the right direction,” they say Steel Panther. “We feel like heavy metal hasn’t been represented in any recent broadcasts. It is time to bring spandex and hairspray back to the forefront and ripping guitar solos into your living rooms. Additionally, Steel Panther would like to inform you that it is totally legal to attend this concert naked!”

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