Nadah El Shazly leaves the metaphors behind on Laini Tani
From the moment Nadah El Shazly released her first full-length album, Ahwar (2017), she was positioned as one of the most distinctive voices to emerge…
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Guns N’ Roses to open 2025 tour in Riyadh with Public Enemy and Sex Pistols — yes, really
There’s a strange kind of poetry in watching the legacy of American rock explode under the night sky of Riyadh. Guns N’ Roses, that bastion…
The Armenian mastermind behind Turkish pop
The name Sezen Aksu is known to everyone in Turkey and many music fans globally. Through her countless songs turned into cultural anthems, she has…
How four teenagers smuggled the first electric guitar into Jerusalem
“We were walking outside the old city walls of Jerusalem, right between Herod’s Gate and Damascus Gate,” Hagop Kaplanian recalls exactly — one step at…
Hanumankind ‘Runs it Up’ at Coachella: Behind the scenes of an iconic US debut
It’s less than one month before Coachella, and rapper Hanumankind, real name Sooraj Cherukat, is fully immersed in preparation mode. “It’s wild to think that…