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Americana | Hunter Benson: Heaven's Letter (Independent / February 21, 2025)

2 weeks ago | artandculturemaven.com | Anya Wassenberg

Stream It On SpotifySinger Songwriter Hunter Benson delivers three songs with their hearts in country - but with a few surprises to offer. In addition to Heaven's Letter, he's released two other singles in advance of an EP: Come and Gone, and Seeking. With slightly raspy yet fluid vocals that suit the genre, each of the three singles carves its own niche. Heaven's Letter is classic Americana with slide guitar ably supplied by Dan Kalisher.
Jazzy Fusion | Alan Goldberg: CreateBecome (Independent / March 10, 2025)

2 weeks ago | artandculturemaven.com | Anya Wassenberg

Stream It On Spotify"'CreateBecome' is a forty-year-old mantra I use, and the title of my fifth album. Repeating CreateBecome over and over is a focus that I use to be purely In the moment. It's also a perfect title for the eleven songs on this album. The songs are linked together by what I've learned in my life, through paying attention, making choices, and changing, hopefully growing." Austin-based musician and composer Alan Goldberg has been making music for more than two decades.
Progrock for the 21st Century | The Far Cry: Once There Was (Independent / March 1, 2025)

2 weeks 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.
Electronic | Guido Affini: Lulla By • [Modulo#5 Vs.] • feat Fantuz (Independent January 17, 2025)

2 weeks 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.
Melodic Rock | Taz Taylor Band: Lonely I Ride (Independent / March 7, 2025)

2 weeks 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.
Music for Change | Moez Masoud: Here to Stay

2 weeks 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.
Culture and Arts: Lebanon | Rehabilitating the historic Le Colisée Cinema in Beirut

1 month ago | 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...
Toronto Fringe | Reveals Programming for Next Stage Series 2025

1 month ago | artandculturemaven.com | Anya Wassenberg

From a media releaseMore Info(February 19, 2025) Toronto Fringe is pleased to announce the 2025 Next Stage Series will be presented during the 37th annual Toronto Fringe Festival taking place July 2-13, 2025. The Next Stage Series will feature four shows including Justice for Maurice Henry Carter, and BABZ JOHNSTON: Songs by a WANNABE at Michael Young Theatre, and Have Fun Kids, and Siranoush at Tank House Theatre.
Contemporary Jazz & Fusion | Ivan Mazuze: Penuka (Global Sonics / July 12, 2024)

2 months ago | artandculturemaven.com | Anya Wassenberg

Check It Out/Buy It HereIvan Mazuze is a virtuoso saxophone and wind player, and a composer with a distinctive and assured voice. Penuka, his latest album, is a rich and imaginative kaleidoscopic intersection of global sounds and modern jazz. On Penuka, he dives deeply into his roots in Afrojazz and the kind of edgy contemporary music beloved particularly in Northern Europe and Scandinavia, where he now makes his home.
Determined to Be: The Sculpture of John Rhoden

Jan 12, 2025 | artandculturemaven.com | Anya Wassenberg

The work of African American sculptor John Rhoden is on display at the Birmingham Museum of Art in an exhibit of some 50 pieces in bronze, wood, and stone. The show, the first comprehensive retrospective of Rhoden's work, has been on a US tour since its initial launch in October 2023 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Founded in 1805, PAFA has the distinction of being the first art school and museum in the United States.