Music Stories
Homesickness and loss in sound, from Detroit to Beirut: Layan Srour
What does it mean to grieve home — being away from home and actually losing home? What does it mean to express that grief in sound, and to create spaces and belong through music? Detroit-based, Beirut-raised Layan Srour asks these questions in her own work, the duo Taqsim, and in an event series called Jalasat.
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Temp-Illusion’s video for “Sketchy” captures senseless cacophony
The news can be numbing in all its violence and mindlessness, compounded by a chorus of shills across media and social media. Temp-Illusion, the duo formed in Tehran by Shahin Entezami and Behrang Najafi, cuts through those feelings like a knife. Then stick around for the deeply meditative Bayal بیل (Shanin + Adel Poursamadi).
Get dark and strange with this free GodHatesGodRecords compilation
Out of Belgium, there’s a murky, forbidding free underground netlabel that has survived from another era. It’s aggressively anti-algorithmic, soul-chillingly dark in its aesthetics, and committed to free culture and commons like if social media and AI never happened. And it’s perfect for a frozen European night, wherever you might be.
Peter Kirn - January 10, 2026
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Vara Osiria Belich is taking Phase Plant to gestural, mangled frontiers
Peter Kirn - November 20, 2025
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Nazar’s “Demilitarize” sees the artist channeling Ghost in the Shell
Peter Kirn - April 30, 2025
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Arash Azadi’s music returns to primordial states of human existence
Peter Kirn - November 6, 2024
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