Powderfinger, Paul Kelly, Adam Liaw and more: the best live streams for Australia and beyond
The Brisbane band’s one-off reunion is just one of many big things happening on a small screen near you. Here’s what’s coming up
Why we’re obsessed with Zoom backdrops: from Anna Wintour to Meryl Streep
The pandemic has forced us to make our private spaces into public ones. Here’s how to get it right
Artists find fans and creative outlet as they flock towards crowdfunding sites
Coronavirus crisis has forced musicians and others to adapt, says founder of platform
Fortnite to celebrate 350m players with massive virtual party
Fortnite to celebrate launch of new party mode with live event featuring Deadmau5 and Steve Aoki
Explain it to me quickly: did Elon Musk and Grimes really name their baby X Æ A-12?
Is it a troll, a code or an actual name? And how do you pronounce it? One Guardian staffer asked another to explain the decision ... quickly
Spotify’s ‘tip jar’ is a slap in the face for musicians. It should pay them better
Fans can now donate to their favourite artists via Spotify, but this feature is a tacit admission that the firm undervalues the musicians that make it viable
‘People opened up because I’m the Beavis and Butt-head guy’: Mike Judge on his new funk direction
The writer-director’s comedies – from Office Space to Silicon Valley – always sum up the spirit of their times. So why has he made an LSD-soaked cartoon about George Clinton and Bootsy Collins?
From Arnold Schwarzenegger to Naomi Campbell: the best of celebrity quaran-TV
With stars holed up at home during the coronavirus crisis, web series are back on trend. Here’s our pick of the savviest and the silliest, from model hang-outs to Arnie’s reality show
It’s Friday night as Britons head to the pub, theatre or a gig … online
From Alicia Keys to DJ Khaled, Frankie Boyle to Daniel Sloss, live streams and video-sharing launch the lockdown weekend
‘Instagram, how we feeling!’ Can livestreaming replace cancelled gigs?
As Covid-19 brings live music to a halt musicians are getting creative, but can an online show replace the real deal?
Cunningham review – powerful 3D documentary about a dance pioneer
This highbrow study is fascinating less for its fancy 3D footsteps than for its insight into choreographer Merce Cunningham’s life and work
Reply All’s The Case of the Missing Hit: could this be the best podcast episode ever?
Gimlet’s internet-culture podcast has produced a bona fide masterpiece, with this tale of a song that has seemingly been erased from history
Now in 3D! Merce Cunningham’s mind-blowing dance
A superb documentary immerses you in the choreographer’s creations and shows off his own wild and weightless performances
An Evening With Whitney review – Houston hologram is ghoulish cash-in
M&S Bank Arena, LiverpoolIf you close your eyes you can bask in the late star’s magnificent voice, but open them and this jerky simulacrum is unsettling
Musical notes: Scorsese, Madonna, and the awfulness of millennium pop
In our new monthly roundup of our music critics’ musings, we explore a forgotten corner of middle-class post-Britpop angst, and a book that argues for pop’s intrinsic magic