Syrian-American composer who plays for peace
A symphony for Syria reminds me of Sarajevo and the hope that cosmopolitan tolerance will survive
Lou Reed, RIP: the luckiest man in rock
He was irascible to the end despite having a legendary career that far surpassed his talents
What an Omar Suleiman girl group would sound like
Mubarak’s Angel of Darkness would have yelped and wailed just like this
Vietnam Chante revolutionary songs, Paris, France, c1967
Employing everything from martial chants to opera in support of revolution in Vietnam
Cultures of Independence, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2007
A scrap book, of sorts, of a cool, modernizing Cambodia in the 1960s that few realize ever existed
Arctic Monkeys still rock
They were young and massively hyped when they started. But there’s no denying they’re great
Photographer Martin Klimas and the color of sound
Marrying Abstract Expressionism to every heavy metal kid’s discovery that speakers produce air waves
Gavin Russom plays Le Poisson Rouge
He designs and builds his own synthesizers and you can see what he’s up to this Wednesday
The unlikely face of hip-hop
Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop explored the boundaries of sound
At LCD Soundsystem’s last-ever show
The band put on a marathon final show at Madison Square Garden and went out in style
Teenager’s songbook, France, early-1960s
A handwritten record of a French teenager’s musical passions in the early-1960s