25 years of improvisation and experimentation at Lebanon’s Irtijal

Peter Kirn - May 19, 2025

Must-listen: Claudia Khachan and Ziad Moukarzel in musical dialogue

Peter Kirn - May 2, 2025

Laurie Spiegel interview offers a way of thinking about community, imagination

Peter Kirn - April 7, 2025

Ruptured’s Postcards from Lebanon, telling the world’s story in sound

Peter Kirn - March 28, 2025

Cover - Land 01 by Tunefork Studios, showing an anthropomorphized valley and river and purple and orange sky dotted with clouds. artwork by Limb.00.

Two essential compilations, rooted in Lebanon, Palestine, organizing aid

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2024

In Beirut and abroad, critical aid for Lebanon: music, events, interview

Peter Kirn - October 31, 2024

In music video, Lebanese duo Rust captures emotions of “Diaspora”

Peter Kirn - October 11, 2024

Go support these Lebanese releases on Bandcamp

Peter Kirn - October 4, 2024

Lebanon’s cultural scene is responding with emergency crisis centers

Peter Kirn - September 27, 2024

Power, broken complexity in new Liliane Chlela album, “Anatomy of a Jerk”

Peter Kirn - July 5, 2024