Lebanon’s musicians are a model for action — they deserve support now

Again and again, music communities in Lebanon have embraced mutual aid and spoken out through activism and in their art. That’s been true from experimental music labels to the Beirut Synthesizer Center initiative. They’re getting results. It’s time for the international music scene and press to do more.

Music for the displaced from Tunefork Studios and Beirut Synthesizer Center

In Lebanon, over one million people, about a fifth of the population, have now been forcibly displaced by Israel. From inside the country and uniting an artist community around the world, Tunefork Studios and Beirut Synthesizer Center have issued a powerful protest in two musical compilations — and an urgent cry to support those displaced […]

Peter Kirn - March 23, 2026

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

Amidst the noise of end-of-year lists and Bandcamp Friday, here are two compilations rooted in the music scenes of Lebanon and Palestine and diaspora and allies, as well as organizing aid there and for Sudan and Congo.

Peter Kirn - December 6, 2024