March 15, 2021By Ian BrennanThe GuardianMarch 11th, 2021 Lebanon’s Mashrou’ Leila, Japan’s OOIOO and Syria’s Omar Souleyman are among artists from regions…
March 10, 2021By Ian BrennanThe GuardianMarch 10th, 2021 Renaming the world music category does little to fix its pattern of exclusion, which…
February 24, 2021By Ian BrennanAmerican SongwriterFebruary 22nd, 2021 A true pleasure offered in life is a genuinely elegant sounding recording. Given over…
October 17, 2020By Ian Brennan Afropop Worldwide September 30th, 2020 The musical trio Good Ones are genocide survivors, as is every Rwandan…
October 14, 2020A Grammy-winning, world-traveling producer makes the case for looking beyond technology and academia for rhythmic and musical inspiration. By Ian…
October 5, 2020By Bob Boilen NPR Tiny Desk (Home) Concert September 29th, 2020 Credit: Courtesy of the Artist The Tiny Desk is…
August 14, 2019By Ian BrennanPollstarAugust 14th, 2019 The Good Ones After having released two critically acclaimed albums – and the first original…
