BBC World July 31st, 2020 Ian Brennan on BBC World talking about “Who You Calling Slow?” an album by the…
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Malawi Mouse Boys: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert on NPR
NPR Tiny Desk Home Concerts July1 st, 2020 The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing…
Radio Pulled Violent Songs Off Air After 9/11 — But It Won’t Reckon With Race
Amid national conversations about racial injustice, radio stations are struggling to respond appropriately in their programming. What goes and what…
The Invisible Damage To Global Music COVID-19 Has Wrought — By Ian Brennan
By Ian Brennan Pollstar April 29th, 2020 Musical Trio frafra was set to play the UK’s WOMAD festival in July,…
Turn Away from the Sound. Listen to the silence.— By Ian Brennan
By Ian BrennanApril 7th, 2020 The word essential has been at the forefront of the current global lockdowns, acting as…
Rwanda: How music heals divides, 25 years on
By Ian BrennanThe Vinyl District December 9th, 2019 PHOTOS: MARILENA UMUHOZA DELLI | December 9th is World Genocide Commemoration Day.…
Ian Brennan event recorded at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, CA 10/2019
As we were doing this interview the Animal Collective was setting up for their show so we decided to go…
Producer taps voices of Oakland’s homeless community for new album
By Ian Brennan CounterPunch October 7th, 2019 – Voices from the streets I have been to Kibera, arguably the world’s largest slum, a place where human shit runs in the streets. But I’ve never seen poverty more severe than here.
Homeless Oakland Heart: “Not a Homeless Person, Just a Person Without a Home.”
By Ian Brennan CounterPunch October 7th, 2019 – Voices from the streets I have been to Kibera, arguably the world’s largest slum, a place where human shit runs in the streets. But I’ve never seen poverty more severe than here.
Ian Brennan’s Silenced by Sound Is a Rallying Cry for International Musicians
By Randy SchulmanMetro WeeklySeptember 26th, 2019 “I don’t have a lot of feedback yet,” says Ian Brennan of his just-released…