Support the people of Beirut: music to discover, ways to give to vulnerable communities

This week saw a catastrophic explosion atop layers of existing crises in Beirut. From Lebanese artists – and their extended family of music makers around the world – comes an answer in sound, and a call for help.

Don’t miss the visceral electroacoustic performances of Rojin Sharafi

Tehran-born, Vienna-based artist Rojin Sharafi plays electroacoustic music that’s kinetic, complex, and grippingly powerful. But just watch.

Peter Kirn - July 22, 2020

Transfiguración: decolonizing AI, in Hexorcismos’ shamanistic music and art

Meet technoshamanism – a counterbalance to AI’s use in state and corporate control and surveillance. Hexorcismos is transforming technology into something mystical – and producing beautiful images and music, at once both ancient and futuristic.

Peter Kirn - July 6, 2020

Time travel through polyrhythms: King Britt’s Back 2 Black, on repeat

Peter Kirn - June 19, 2020

From the far edges of experimental electronic compositions, inside Elli Records’ In the Room

David Abravanel - June 9, 2020

Electronic virtuoso Thomas Piper’s insistent voice delivers in honest, powerful “Permission to Live”

Peter Kirn - June 6, 2020

Real relief: Music releases to go discover now, in days of pleas for equality

Peter Kirn - June 6, 2020

Music lovers are sharing black artists, labels, and causes today on Bandcamp

Peter Kirn - June 5, 2020

Fall into the dislocated, glitching rituals of Microhm, latest project of Mexico’s Leslie Garcia

Peter Kirn - May 21, 2020

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