Amid national conversations about racial injustice, radio stations are struggling to respond appropriately in their programming. What goes and what…
Ian Brennan’s Blog
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…
Ian Brennan & the Good Ones in the New Yorker
By Jay RuttenbergThe New YorkerSeptember 24th, 2019 A breathtakingly tender trio from Rwanda, the Good Ones were formed in the…
Ian Brennan on PRI’s The World
PRI’s The WorldThe Good OnesOctober 4th, 2019 Ian Brennan is a grammy-award winning record producer. He works with musicians from…