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2 months ago | artandculturemaven.com | Anya Wassenberg

Stream it on SpotifyBuy it on BandcampProgressive rock didn't die, it just grew up and entered the 21st century. That's what you'll hear on Once There Was, a full-length release by The Far Cry. Synths take centre stage in the music, which, along with its roots, has a cinematic sensibility. Crossing Pangea could easily be the soundtrack for a drama.

2 months ago | artandculturemaven.com | Anya Wassenberg

Stream It on SpotifyMusic and science are not strange bedfellows, to twist the old saying. Italian multidisciplinary composer, sound designer and artist Guido Affini's latest piece offers proof. He creates a sound environment with glitches through sample synths and oscillator synths, with particular attention to granular synthesis. The track is atmospheric but also affecting, with a kind of accessible, yet spacey, sensibility.

2 months ago | artandculturemaven.com | Anya Wassenberg

Taz Taylor Band, led by British/American guitarist Taz Taylor, will be releasing their 8th studio album - The Other Side of Midnight - in May 2025. Lonely I Ride is the first advance single. The band's sound blends hard rock and an emphasis on melody. True to the genre, the song is leans into blues along with the 90s rock vibe, with a nice balance between piano and guitar. Harmonically, it takes some nicely unexpected turns. The chorus is appropriately anthemic. Laura K.

2 months ago | artandculturemaven.com | Anya Wassenberg

Stream it on SpotifyCan music change minds about the Middle East? Egyptian artist Moez Masoud is collaborating with Healthworkers 4 Palestine on a global ceasefire campaign for Gaza. The music, and the message, are universal. Music can make us see the humanity in issues and events that are taking place across the world, that here in North America we only see in the headlines. That's the barrier that Moez Masoud aims to crack with the song Here To Stay.

Mar 2, 2025 | artandculturemaven.com | Anya Wassenberg

From a media release BEIRUT - After the experience of rehabilitating and opening the closed cinemas in the south and north of Lebanon and turning them into independent and free cultural spaces, the Tiro Association for Arts and the Istanbouli Theatre rehabilitated the Le Colisée Cinema in Beirut, to transform it into the Lebanese National Theatre, an independent free cultural space, in which training workshops, festivals, and artistic performances are organized, as well as the establishment...