Noise11’s definitive guide to the first half of 2026 album releases, spanning rock, pop, metal, indie and more.

Traditional instruments, folk cultures and mythic ideas of futurity offer slip roads exiting AI’s highway to a hollow future, argues Daryl Worthington in The Wire 503/504 ...

Music has played a significant role in uniting people of different faiths in the United States. From the Civil Rights era to ...

An artistic force in Lebanon, Ziad Rahbani was a composer and musician first and foremost. But he was also a playwright, whose critiques and satires earned him a reputation as the “voice of the ...

For his 18th annual concert with the New Year's Eve orchestra, the conductor has programmed Beethoven's fiery Symphony No. 7, Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, and vocal works by Rossini and ...

The film follows lifelong friends Doug (Jack Black) and Griff (Paul Rudd) who have spent decades obsessing over their shared dream: remaking their beloved cinematic “classic,” Anaconda. When a looming ...

In an attempt to inscribe the name of the Land of the Cedars in the Guinness World Records, a group in Lebanon will sing ...

If you need an antidote to Christmas schmaltz, Morgan Daniels offers ten songs with a more critical outlook on the season ...

EXCLUSIVE: Slow Horses star Hiba Bennani will star opposite Asaad Bouab in MBC drama series Rass Jbel.

Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan returns with mournful minimalism, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra’s 1982 album of Punjabi disco makes a comeback and Venezuelan-Guatemalan duo Titanic serve up ecstatic ...

Lorde, Annahstasia, Rosalia, Brandon Lake, Hayley Williams, Clipse, Pulp, London Suede, Samia all released great albums in 2025.

Despite their different backgrounds and upbringings — or because of them — the duo have created a sound all their own.