Every October, I cue up the Halloween playlist featuring spooky-season songs such as Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” Roky Erickson’s “I Walked with a Zombie” and Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My ...

A girl challenges me to play an Arabic song during a live piano session, and her reaction says it all. Captured in one take, ...

United Arab Emirates-based collective management organization Music Nation Copyrights Management has formally started operations. The company received approval from the UAE government in June to ...

Every Sunday, 7.30pm (Free entry): The Nile Troupe for Folk Instruments, founded by artist Zakariya El-Hagawy, performs dances and songs from Upper Egypt on mizmar, tabla and other traditional musical ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Clarissa Bitar about their new album, Bakhaf al-Layl, and how they are leaning into vocals after a long time spent not liking the sound of their voice.

Hospitals and doctors' offices are inviting singers and musicians to help patients manage their pain, as music's ability to ...

In 2011, Emel Mathlouthi stood among the crowd of protesters in Tunis and began singing her song “Kelmti Horra,” which means ...

Chicago area Arabic music ensemble celebrates a year together Tayf, which can mean “spectrum” or “expansive” in Arabic, aims to showcase, queer, nonbinary, and women performers within traditional ...

Modern Arabic popular music is rich in its explorations of love, loss, longing and faith. But only recently have artists been speaking about their inner turmoil over anxiety, displacement, resilience ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

A country music star wrote a song inspired by ICE, but MAGAworld isn’t loving it. Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Zach Bryan teased an upcoming song on his Instagram account on Friday, ...

Directed by Shane Black, Play Dirty is a 2025 action-thriller film based on Donald E. Westlake's Parker novels written under the pseudonym Richard Stark. Mark Wahlberg stars as Parker, with LaKeith ...