Earwormz: The New Abnormal

We’re out! Read about The Strokes’ latest album for the last edition of this music column

Earwormz: Quarantine Tunes

An introduction to some short and crisp, genre-bending productions.

Earwormz: Politics of Sound

From Plato to Bernie, music has always been political.

Earwormz: Barzakh

Refinding the Arts Center through Barzakh Music Festival

Stories of Migration and Displacement: The Legacy of Palestinian Occupation

The legacy of Palestine lives through stories and acts of remembrance until a future generation is able to make more of their own.

Earwormz: Yesterday

Music, coupled with context and memory, can provide an immense nostalgia that connects with one’s yesterday. Aravind and Reema use tracks from their past to offer us a retrospective experience of music.

Earwormz: Dubai’s New Groove

Earwormz this week finds themselves at the Dubai festival Grooves on the Grass. With both acts on at the same time and on different stages, they split up and experienced two musical journeys still being developed by the Arab world.

Earwormz: Power and Women in Rock

This week in Earwormz, women’s influence in rock ‘n’ roll takes the stage, with Reema looking into how it shaped the genre despite being invisible in music discourse at the same time.

Earwormz: Tension

This week we decided to explore how artists use various forms of tension to elicit a physical response to their musical performance.

Earwormz: Trip Chunes

This edition we write about the tunes we traveled to as we physically moved across the globe for fall break. From the wet sounds of goa-psy to the sandy drums of Egyptian heritage, we try to narrate a score to our trips.

Earwormz: Pulse

Aravind and Reema takes the reader through a cross-genre listening session with a specific focus on pulse as both the rhythm we inhabit and the musical core of a song.

Feeling RHCP: Space

In the thick of clueless UFC fans and rock junkies alike, this unexpected experience drove us into Red Hot Chili Pepper deep listening session to try and figure out why this feely was so prevalent in our experience.