When members of the Baida family established a record company in Beirut during the first decade of the twentieth century, they could hardly have imagined the scale of what would follow. From a small family-run operation with ties to Germany’s recording industry, Baidaphon grew into one of the most influential music companies in the Middle […]
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Björk has unveiled a major new exhibition in Iceland featuring immersive audiovisual installations, reimagined songs from her album Fossora and a preview of previously unheard music from her next studio album. The exhibition opened at the National Gallery of Iceland on 30 May and brings together three large-scale installations that explore grief, memory, technology and
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Long before streaming thumbnails reduced album artwork to a tiny square on a phone screen, record sleeves were physical objects with their own cultural weight. Across the 1960s, 70s and 80s, album covers became part of the identity of a musician, a band and sometimes an entire scene. In Morocco, record labels transformed sleeves into
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Taylor Swift has announced a brand-new original song for Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5, marking her first new music release since 2025’s The Life of a Showgirl. The singer revealed on Instagram that the track, titled I Knew It, I Knew You, will be released on 5 June ahead of the film’s worldwide cinema
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