Why This Rules

I met Nadah in Cairo, Egypt at a party in the apartment of legendary hep cat and musical polymath Mahmoud Refat through a mutual friend (the great oud player, Yasmine El Baramawry). We talked for [...]

Tasman Richardson is a master of video. Not just of making videos, but of video overall. I’ve never met anyone else with a more holistic understanding of the medium – of how it works [...]

He calls it “cosmic bebop.” Or “rhythmic cubism.” Even “synth expressionism” to acknowledge his inheritance and reanimation of the revolutionary intensities that have energized Afrofuturism and [...]

Just listen. Thanya Iyer is not a musician you should miss out on. Yeah, sure, you can listen to her record (and it’s awesome) but hearing her live is something else. Live music isn’t about [...]

I Suppose Lots could be said In fact, it took me a really really long time to write this I wrote so much and ended up with this instead I was struggling to make this sound like something other [...]