music

Listening to Quranic verses and prayers playing on the radio while riding a cab is common in Cairo. But recently,…

It doesn’t really matter what type of music Lazzy Lung performs. After watching the band open for the Black Lips…

They didn’t set anything on fire, and nobody got arrested — both signs of commendable restraint by a band known…

On Mashrou Leila’s latest album is the song “Inni Mnih” (I’m All Right). The opening line of the lyric can…

Many people are not aware of Egypt’s internationally recognized Free Jazz Ensemble, which was active during most of the second…

On the last night of Ramadan, my brother and I would anxiously wait for Eid, when we would get to…

In the world of underground music, electro-pop singer Yasmine Hamdan is known for Soapkills, the duo she started with Zeid…

Last weekend, Lebanese singer Oumeima El Khalil performed with composer and pianist Hani Siblini for two consecutive nights at El…

In the mountainous Lebanese village of Qurnet al-Hamra is a musicians’ haven: a state-of-the-art studio specialized in digitizing, researching and…