Montreal-based Lebanese experimental producer and DJ Liliane Chlela teams up with alt-pop artist LAÏ to launch an open-ended collaborative project titled SuperBored. SuperBored is an independent…
Author: Hesham Badr
Hesham Badr
Hesham would rather listen to music than to most people talk and he’s built a life around that truth. For the past three years, he’s been tuned into the MENA music scene, writing, reporting, and swapping stories with the artists behind the sound. When he’s not reading about music, he’s listening to it, and when he’s not listening to music, he's making his own.
For a little under a decade now, Wegz has been one of Egypt’s most experimental rap stars in the MENA region. Undeniably, he’s been bringing Egyptian…
‘Damascus’ stands as the fourth track shared from the group’s ninth studio album, The Mountain, which is due on 27 February 2026 via the band’s own…
Syrian rapper and producer born Mounir Bu Kolthoum has found a niche in his rap and production style, with a wide musical range and social consciousness.…
Nearly a year after disappearing from her debut release, the anonymous Egyptian artist known as ZAD surfaces again with “Khesert Nafsy,” a track that extends the…
Inspired by the movie character Abbas El Gen from the film series Awlad Rizk, performed by Bassem Samra, who plays an antagonistic crime lord serving as…
Young Zuksh, half of the Egyptian Mahraganat duo Double Zuksh, collaborates with El Waili on ‘KARAKEB’ to release a short social-commentary film for the El Waili-produced…
One of the prominent voices in Egypt’s drill scene, Flex will wrap up the year with a New Year’s Eve performance at Cairo International Stadium’s Hockey…
Let’s hear it straight from the source… The region’s annual checkpoint for assessing the state of its music ecosystem, XP Music Futures ’25, returns for its…
With a blend of electronic instrumentals and classical, often poetic Arabic vocals and lyrics, the Syrian-German duo Shkoon, Ameen from Syria and Thorben from Hamburg, has…
