On a street at the edge of downtown Amman, a small Radio Alhara decal on a glass door is the only hint that Turbo – a studio that helped shape the city’s independent visual culture – operates inside. Outside, downtown hums with its usual chaos – cars, shop signs and voices overlapping in the air. Inside,…
Over a video call on a late autumn afternoon, GOME are under the blankets of a hotel bed in Barcelona, recovering from the night before. They’ve just played at Tunnel, one of the city’s key underground spots – an exhilarating night midway through their latest European tour. GOME are Robin Townshend and Julian Marks, two…
October felt like a collision between beauty and unrest — a month where music refused to stand still. Voices rose from Beirut to Brooklyn, from protest to pure chaos: Yasmine Hamdan turned memory into resistance, Geese made rock sound dangerous again and Makaya McCraven stretched jazz into new shapes. Even The Weeknd and Giorgio Moroder…
A flood of new music landed this September, making it tough to choose what to spotlight. But between long-awaited returns, a fresh print magazine and a handful of new releases, there’s plenty to carry us past the post-holiday lull. So, back to school with what happened in the world of music this September. As always,…
Throughout the summer, the industry insiders and big-name media have been saying the same thing: there’s no real “song of the summer” this year. Maybe it’s because of the endless scroll of disposable playlists, the way streaming keeps shuffling everything around, or the pull of nostalgia, sending listeners back into old catalogues – patterns we’ve…
For Charif Megarbane – Beirut-based musician, producer and restless sonic cartographer – genres, borders, and industry norms aren’t barriers, but starting points. Things to cross, blur and reshape. Across over a hundred albums – released under shifting aliases via his DIY label Hisstology – Megarbane has drawn a musical map that moves fluidly between Lebanon…
Built across twelve hills and shaped by its uneven topography, Amman isn’t quite a metropolis, but a city in flux. Roman ruins stand beside concrete high-rises; traffic is a fact of life. Camps like Baqa’a and Marka, originally established after the 1967 war to shelter Palestinians displaced by the Israeli occupation, have evolved into semi-urbanized,…
July is when the soundtrack of the summer really takes shape. A lot of new music has dropped, so let’s skip the long intro and dive straight into what happened in the music world this month. And you can shape your summer soundtrack with our companion playlists on Spotify and Tidal. New Album Kokoroko –…