Virtual Music News — July 2020

4 min readAug 11, 2020

July was another exciting month in virtual music — from Tomorrowland and Lost Horizon to Tiny Tinie performing Whoppa on a Whopper, artists and creators are pushing boundaries to perform for their fans.

Artists & fans are connecting virtually now more than ever. Here are the major virtual and immersive music announcements from July, 2020 and a listing of August Virtual events. Please comment if there are upcoming events missing.

August Virtual Music Events

The Weeknd will perform in a virtual TikTok concert on August 7thOn August 7th at 8:30PM ET, TikTok will play host to a live virtual concert from The Weeknd, where he'll perform a…
www.theverge.com

Outside Lands Goes Virtual With a Digital Music Festival | KQEDOutside Lands, one of San Francisco’s most popular music festivals, has been postponed to 2021-for obvious reasons. But…
www.kqed.org

Lollapalooza to Celebrate Postponed 2020 Event With Four-Night Virtual FestThough this year's Lollapalooza in Chicago will not happen due to COVID-19, Lolla2020 will take place on the original…
www.billboard.com

4 virtual music festivals UK students can still catch this summerThe UK is world-renowned for its creative and vibrant music festivals, typically held over the summer when the weather…
www.studyinternational.com

Bandsintown Partners With DJ Vanic For Hybrid EDM and Gaming Festival, Ocean Meets MusicBandsintown, the live event discovery platform and hub for livestreaming, continues its impressive run of hosting unique…
www.broadwayworld.com

Supergrass to play Goose Island Presents virtual reality gig this summer | NMESupergrass will play a one-off virtual reality gig for Goose Island Beer Company (August 21). The performance, which…
www.nme.com

Virtual Music Outlook

The future of music is about to get weirdMaking it in music has never been easy. Successful artists often have to endure long hours, ever-changing trends,…
www.sfchronicle.com

Concerts Aren’t Back. Livestreams Are Ubiquitous. Can They Do the Job?With no return date for shows in sight, fans and artists are adapting to a new way of experiencing music together.…
www.nytimes.com

How Artists Can Optimize The Virtual Concert ExperienceVirtual concerts are finally getting more interactive. Four months into the pivot to the lion’s share of live music…
www.forbes.com

Alone Together: What I have learned organizing a big VR concert — The Ghost HowlsOn June, 21th, in the occasion of the French Music Fest, there has been a virtual reality concert held by electronic…
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Augmented Reality News

Tiny Tinie performs Whoppa on a WhopperBurger King® UK and Tinie unveil world-first private AR concert on a burger, bringing summer vibes and extra heat to the…
www.dimensionstudio.co

Bob Moses x ZHU — “Desire”Watch a series of interactive videos by eko and the award-winning team at FBE, inspired by FBE’s popular franchises and…
video.eko.com

Jio Glass Mixed Reality Headset With 3D Holographic Video Calling AnnouncedJio Glass, a mixed reality headset, was announced at the annual Reliance AGM 2020 on Wednesday. The headset essentially…
gadgets.ndtv.com

Dua Lipa’s Hallucinatory new music video by The Mill features dancing auberginesThe video for Dua Lipa’s new single merges Studio 54 glam, cartoons across the decades and a playfully psychedelic…
www.creativeboom.com

Virtual Reality News

deadmau5 Teases New VR Project with Epic Games’ Unreal Enginedeadmau5 took to Instagram recently to share a teaser of a forthcoming VR project. The electronic music icon was mum on…
edm.com

“This is the Future of Raving”: Sansar Delivers a Next-Level Festival Experience to 4.36M Fans…SAN FRANCISCO — () — Sansar, the premier platform for virtual live events, today shared the results for Lost Horizon…
www.businesswire.com

Lost Horizon VR festival debut attracts more than four million viewersVirtual reality music and arts festival Lost Horizon attracted a worldwide audience of 4.36 million viewers for its…
www.musicweek.com

Rave Family Blockfest Announces Second PostponementWith a lineup featuring more than 950 artists, the livestream festival Rave Family Blockfest seemed too massive to be…
www.billboard.com

Iconic Music Venue Presenting Live Gigs in Glorious VR | Digital TrendsIt sounds like ancient history here in the middle of 2020, but there was once a magical time, before social distancing…
www.digitaltrends.com

Now that livestream concerts are the rule, this LA company wants them to feel like real lifeWhen 12th Planet played for fans on a recent livestream, the DJ's 80-minute-long set was full of flashing graphics,…
www.presstelegram.com

Leading VR Company Redpill Announces Three New Livestream Music PerformancesAs part of their continued efforts to alchemize the worlds of live music and virtual reality, leading VR company has…
edm.com

How KLM Airlines Uses VR To Save Money On TravelKLM Royal Dutch Airlines is setting a course to a brand new destination — virtual reality. KLM, the flag carrier airline…
www.forbes.com

Spatial Audio News

BEAUZ Release First Ever THX Ltd. Spatial Audio Digital Album, "BEAUZWORLD, VOL. 1"Since its inception in 1983 by legendary filmmaker George Lucas, THX Ltd. has expanded its empire beyond the cinema and…
edm.com

Double review - unsettling audio that turns your home into a sci-fi dystopia'This is supposed to be a controlled space, a safe space," says Christopher Brett Bailey at the start of Double, and…
www.theguardian.com

Apple Takes Binaural Audio to the next-level by adding Head-Tracking for Next-Gen AirPods Pro and…Patently Apple has covered a few "Binaural Audio" patents in the last year (01 and 02). We've also covered "Spatial…
www.patentlyapple.com

AES to Hold Conference on Audio for Virtual, Augmented RealityThe Audio Engineering Society has released preliminary details on the upcoming International Conference on Audio for…
www.avnetwork.com

BEAUZ and THX Announce New Global Standard for Digital MusicBEAUZ and THX Ltd. today announced the first digital EP album rendered in THX® Spatial Audio for an immersive music…
www.webwire.com

For even more music, livestream concerts and events can be found at Oh My Rockness, NPR, Billboard and other music publications. See you next month.

Virtual Music News — July 2020

August Virtual Music Events

The Weeknd will perform in a virtual TikTok concert on August 7th

On August 7th at 8:30PM ET, TikTok will play host to a live virtual concert from The Weeknd, where he'll perform a…

Outside Lands Goes Virtual With a Digital Music Festival | KQED

Outside Lands, one of San Francisco’s most popular music festivals, has been postponed to 2021-for obvious reasons. But…

Lollapalooza to Celebrate Postponed 2020 Event With Four-Night Virtual Fest

Though this year's Lollapalooza in Chicago will not happen due to COVID-19, Lolla2020 will take place on the original…

4 virtual music festivals UK students can still catch this summer

The UK is world-renowned for its creative and vibrant music festivals, typically held over the summer when the weather…

Bandsintown Partners With DJ Vanic For Hybrid EDM and Gaming Festival, Ocean Meets Music

Bandsintown, the live event discovery platform and hub for livestreaming, continues its impressive run of hosting unique…

Supergrass to play Goose Island Presents virtual reality gig this summer | NME

Supergrass will play a one-off virtual reality gig for Goose Island Beer Company (August 21). The performance, which…

Virtual Music Outlook

The future of music is about to get weird

Making it in music has never been easy. Successful artists often have to endure long hours, ever-changing trends,…

Concerts Aren’t Back. Livestreams Are Ubiquitous. Can They Do the Job?

With no return date for shows in sight, fans and artists are adapting to a new way of experiencing music together.…

How Artists Can Optimize The Virtual Concert Experience

Virtual concerts are finally getting more interactive. Four months into the pivot to the lion’s share of live music…

Alone Together: What I have learned organizing a big VR concert — The Ghost Howls

On June, 21th, in the occasion of the French Music Fest, there has been a virtual reality concert held by electronic…

Augmented Reality News

Tiny Tinie performs Whoppa on a Whopper

Burger King® UK and Tinie unveil world-first private AR concert on a burger, bringing summer vibes and extra heat to the…

Bob Moses x ZHU — “Desire”

Watch a series of interactive videos by eko and the award-winning team at FBE, inspired by FBE’s popular franchises and…

Jio Glass Mixed Reality Headset With 3D Holographic Video Calling Announced

Jio Glass, a mixed reality headset, was announced at the annual Reliance AGM 2020 on Wednesday. The headset essentially…

Dua Lipa’s Hallucinatory new music video by The Mill features dancing aubergines

The video for Dua Lipa’s new single merges Studio 54 glam, cartoons across the decades and a playfully psychedelic…

Virtual Reality News

deadmau5 Teases New VR Project with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine

deadmau5 took to Instagram recently to share a teaser of a forthcoming VR project. The electronic music icon was mum on…

“This is the Future of Raving”: Sansar Delivers a Next-Level Festival Experience to 4.36M Fans…

SAN FRANCISCO — () — Sansar, the premier platform for virtual live events, today shared the results for Lost Horizon…

Lost Horizon VR festival debut attracts more than four million viewers

Virtual reality music and arts festival Lost Horizon attracted a worldwide audience of 4.36 million viewers for its…

Rave Family Blockfest Announces Second Postponement

With a lineup featuring more than 950 artists, the livestream festival Rave Family Blockfest seemed too massive to be…

Iconic Music Venue Presenting Live Gigs in Glorious VR | Digital Trends

It sounds like ancient history here in the middle of 2020, but there was once a magical time, before social distancing…

Now that livestream concerts are the rule, this LA company wants them to feel like real life

When 12th Planet played for fans on a recent livestream, the DJ's 80-minute-long set was full of flashing graphics,…

Leading VR Company Redpill Announces Three New Livestream Music Performances

As part of their continued efforts to alchemize the worlds of live music and virtual reality, leading VR company has…

How KLM Airlines Uses VR To Save Money On Travel

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is setting a course to a brand new destination — virtual reality. KLM, the flag carrier airline…

Spatial Audio News

BEAUZ Release First Ever THX Ltd. Spatial Audio Digital Album, "BEAUZWORLD, VOL. 1"

Since its inception in 1983 by legendary filmmaker George Lucas, THX Ltd. has expanded its empire beyond the cinema and…

Double review - unsettling audio that turns your home into a sci-fi dystopia

'This is supposed to be a controlled space, a safe space," says Christopher Brett Bailey at the start of Double, and…

Apple Takes Binaural Audio to the next-level by adding Head-Tracking for Next-Gen AirPods Pro and…

Patently Apple has covered a few "Binaural Audio" patents in the last year (01 and 02). We've also covered "Spatial…

AES to Hold Conference on Audio for Virtual, Augmented Reality

The Audio Engineering Society has released preliminary details on the upcoming International Conference on Audio for…

BEAUZ and THX Announce New Global Standard for Digital Music

BEAUZ and THX Ltd. today announced the first digital EP album rendered in THX® Spatial Audio for an immersive music…

Written by Amy LaMeyer