4:31 COVID-19 decimated the music industry. Western New England University’s Nicole Acevedo spoke with pop-rock band The Home Team about the reality of life as a musician during a global pandemic. Racking in over 148,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, The Home Team is a four-piece pop-rock band from Seattle. With COVID-19 canceling concerts and tours, the band couldn’t travel to perform – but the pandemic didn’t stop them from producing their second album. “My company that I was working for had to completely shut its doors, because it was all based on field marketing – which is like, big events that are like 20,000 people, which those definitely do not happen anymore,” said Brian Butcher, the band’s lead vocalist. And so I have pretty much been riding on unemployment, and taking this opportunity to work as much as humanly possible on the release of the album.”