What once sounded like a gimmick now often comes out uncannily close to human music. The ability to type a prompt and receive a fully formed…
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.
A longtime figure in the global electronic music scene, Anyma, the audiovisual project of Italian producer Matteo Milleri, formerly one half of the electronic duo Tale…
Just a few months after debuting in Dubai, the anthemic, Grammy-nominated EDM trio Axwell, Steve Angello, and Sebastian Ingrosso are set to perform at Ushuaïa Dubai…
Sudanese rapper Onlyone, born Mazen in Khartoum in 1999, introduces himself through a tight three-track EP that reads like a personal document. Following the outbreak of…
Sudanese singer-songwriter, based between Khartoum and Cairo, introduces her debut body of work with the lead single ‘Moya W Nar’, a meditation on coexistence under pressure,…
Palestinian-founded ticketing platform Tzkrti launches ‘Tzkrti Impact Fund’, a biannual microgrant initiative supporting independent cultural production across the SWANA region and the Arab diaspora. The fund…
Moroccan artist Sara Moullablad releases ‘Twehechtek’ as the first glimpse of an upcoming EP. The track centers on the persistence of an inner presence, someone who…
Europe’s leading all-Arab music festival returns to TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on May 30, bringing a stacked lineup of MENA talent, rising voices, and underground…
“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world.” That famous Hermann…
Following the success of her debut full-length album MAGNÜN, Lella Fadda steps away from charged rap bars to capture a moment of reckoning and self-definition without…
