Interviews - Project Revolver

Sleeping With Headphones On: A Chat With Mehrak

Yara MradSeptember 22, 2020

It’s a Monday night, Riwaq opens its door again after weeks of mourning, healing and fixing following the Beirut explosion. Among a group of friends and strang...

Cyphers & Thai Rappers: Meet The Bitchersweet Girls

LinaSeptember 20, 2020

You can’t fight globalization, but you can definitely out-beat it. The Thai girls of Bitchersweet Girls Cypher EP.1 show us exactly how far you can go to make ...

Between Hunger and Famine: From the Scene with El Rass & Ziad Nawfal

Majd ShidiacAugust 18, 2020

The interviews, research, and development of this piece were done in the week of Monday, July 27, 2020⁠—almost a week before Beirut’s most horrific explosion i...

“A Comic’s Last Stand”: Interview with Munir Khauli

LinaJuly 30, 2020

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of coming across one of Munir Khauli’s works, then you've found a treasure box of some of the funniest Lebanese rock and blues ...

Flirting With Improvisation: The Anthony Tawil Interview

Yara MradJuly 24, 2020

It's a Tuesday evening. I'm rushing through a busy street, drivers letting out their anger through long honks and heavy curses. Earphones on, a fig...

Into the Music Cave with Firas Abou Fakher

Christina CavalcantiJuly 22, 2020

You may know Firas Abou Fakher as the keyboardist with indie rock band Mashrou’ Leila, but there’s (a lot) more to him than being a part of a whole. In fact, F...

The Egyptian Poet: Interview with Felukah

LinaJune 30, 2020

The Cairo-born, New York-based artist would be best introduced as Ms. Smooth. Felukah has an impressively natural slur when switching between Arabic and Englis...

Talking Desert Hearts & More with Marbs

Team RevolverJune 4, 2020

Having a rich background of sounds, with genres spanning from Rock to Hip Hop & Reggae, developed into a love affair with House, Marbs aka "Papa Bear" emba...

Out Of The Glasshouse: The Waynick Interview

Team RevolverMay 20, 2020

Waynick is the Indie-Pop musical project of Sara Abdo and Joe Kazan, two old friends from Beirut, Lebanon who spent their childhood summers making music. T...

Words, Rhythms & Grooves: The Vula Viel Interview

George KhabbazMay 7, 2020

I believe that there’s a Jazz for every mood, activity, and state of mind. While browsing around for new music, I fell on Vula Viel’s "Do not be afraid" and "W...

Yamakan: Reimagining Spaces on a Pirate Radio (Part III: Beirut)

Majd ShidiacApril 14, 2020

Before the government really picked it up a notch and started separating cars by plate numbers, but around a week into quarantine, a pirate radio broadcasting ...

Yamakan: Reimagining Spaces on a Pirate Radio (Part II: Palestine)

Majd ShidiacApril 11, 2020

I’ve been spending a lot of time with my sister this quarantine and that’s something that rarely happens. When I first played Radio Alhara to her, she as...