Middle East

Interview: LUMI and the Great Comeback

Although it's easy to think it's all been done before, there's something new, fresh and exciting about Lebanese duo LUMI, an electro-pop and glam punk band comp...

Interview: Who Killed Bruce Lee

From small local band to sharing a giant billboard with Mashrou’ Leila in the core of Downtown Beirut, Who Killed Bruce Lee have given the Lebanese community ev...

Ibrahim Maalouf: Top 10 Songs

Ibrahim Maalouf is a Lebanese musician based in Paris, born and raised in a musical family, his dad played the trumpet and his mom was a pianist. Maalouf was a pioneer in jazz fusion, if you can name it that, making one haunting album after the other. His accomplishments were honoured recently at the 29th annual Victoires de la Musique ceremony, France's top music awards, with the Best World Music Album of the Year for his latest endeavor "Illusions". If you're not familiar with this national treasure, we suggest you give the below gems a listen to get acquainted with probably the best thing to come out of Lebanon since Phoenician ships....

Sandmoon: The Journey Home

photos credit: Cyrill Reaidy By Nisrine Najem The first time I heard of Sandmoon was on a local radio station. Sandra (the lead singer) gave an interview befo...

Who Killed Mashrou Nemr?

by Kareem Chehayeb : Editor in Chief of @MetalityBlog, Co-Founder of @cmajormusiclb Last month, I saw Mashrou Leila and Who Killed Bruce Lee posters on the w...