Gilad Hazan’s fusion of rock, house, and arabic music captivates at Oud Festival

Gilad Hazan wowed the audience at the Jerusalem Oud Festival with his genre-defying performance, blending Arabic music with ...

Dune of Dreams: Baseball league in Dubai begins with novel rules and camels

Emerging from the shimmering heat in the desert outskirts of Dubai is an unfamiliar sight in the Middle East, a baseball ...
Music Business Worldwide

‘I see an explosion of hybrid sounds coming from Africa. The next big global hits will come from these cultural crossovers.’

MBW’s World Leaders series meets Nuno Rocha, Head of Business Development for MENA, Lusophone, and Francophone markets at ...
Music Business Worldwide

From 50,000 AI tracks flooding Deezer daily, to Spotify’s Premium Platinum pilot

Fully AI-generated music now accounts for 34% of all tracks delivered to Deezer each day, according to new data released by the French streaming platform. Deezer said on Wednesday (November 12) that ...

Dana Salah's Music Is A Defiant Expression Of Palestinian Identity

And so, King Deco’s alias was shed, and she became exactly who she’s always been. Being known as Dana Salah proved to be more ...
Van Toan on MSN

She Challenged Me to Play an Arabic Song

While playing piano in public, this girl came up and asked me to play an Arabic song. I gave it a shot — and her reaction said it all. A beautiful moment of shared culture through music. Kansas mayor ...
The National on MSN

Saudi all-women rock band Seera hit the right note on London debut

All-women psychedelic rock band Seera have taken a leap forward for Saudi music, playing one of London's foremost arts venues.Backstage at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, at the Southbank Centre, after ...
American Songwriter

This 1969 One-Hit Wonder Was Working As a Cook When His Song Went No. 1 (And It’s Still One of Our Favorites Today)

Even a one-hit wonder has a certain air of glamour and celebrity (a hit’s a hit even if there’s only one of them, after all), but Norman Greenbaum wasn’t exactly living on Easy Street after the ...
AOL

Ace Frehley’s Biggest Hit Wasn’t a KISS Song

Ace Frehley might be best known for shredding his guitar with KISS, but the biggest hit of his career didn’t come from the band that made him famous. Frehley would go on to have the most critically ...
American Songwriter

3 One-Hit Wonder Songs From the 1970s That Are Impossible To Cover

One-hit wonder songs were all over the place in the 1970s, across genres like disco, rock, new wave, and pop. And a select few of those one-hit wonders are really difficult to cover properly. Some of ...
USA Today

The songs of the summer are here – at least according to Spotify

As summer slowly melts into fall, the songs that defined the warmer months are coming into clearer view. An announcement on Aug. 27 from Spotify named five songs of the summer, hand-selected by the ...
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Hozier’s First Billboard Hot 100 Hit 'Too Sweet' Isn’t His Best Song — It’s This Underrated Track

When most people think of Hozier, it's most likely that the first songs that come to mind are either "Take Me to Church" or, if they're new fans, "Too Sweet." The Irish singer became an international ...