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.
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Ian Brennan of Silenced By Sound on the BBC
Seeking a music star in Rwanda… and finding one Produced by Bill McKenna, camera by Devin GallagherBBCOctober 13th, 2019 For…
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.
The Spitboy Rule in Maximum RockNRoll
By Arielle BurgdorfMaximum RockNRollJanuary 2017 I was probably 14 or 15 when I first discovered Spitboy on a mix from…
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…
Working Class Hero: Mat Callahan on High Plains Morning
By Jenny InzerilloHigh Plains Public RadioSeptember 3rd, 2019 After coming across an intriguing folk compilation entitled Working-Class Heroes: A History of…
Ian Brennan Interview: Ustad Saami, the Master of the Forty-Nine Notes
By Dick BaartThe QuietusSeptember 23rd, 2019 Ahead of a rare European performance at Le Guess Who? festival, Dirk Baart looks…
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…
Working-Class Heroes CD: A Review
Grateful WebMay 18th, 2019 The most essential music is conceived by real human beings: ordinary, anonymous, often poor—people who stood…