This feels weird. Okay, let’s do it. Will make this short and sweet, as it’s being written with a heavy heart. Revolver’s journey started in 2013, as a quest to discover the vast sea of music available around Planet Earth. It’s been a limitless learning experience since, for us and for many of our readers and listeners. It also felt good to share songs, albums, and playlists with strangers around the Internet. Obviously, music is made to be shared but it is also so much more. Music has a power that – you might say we’re biased – no other art has come to compete with. Music is everywhere, all t ..read more

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 strangers sits a guy with a cap twisted backwards, his elbows resting on his thighs and glasses helping his tired eyes get a better look at everything around him.  Drinks in hand, I walk and sit on the stairs across the street, red light nestled between the hanging plant still in sight.  Guy with the cap makes his way to the stairs on his way home. A chit chat filled with questions and spontaneous answers leads to an invite for a pos ..read more

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 music sound better. With effortless street styles and a feminine attention to detail Minymynx, Peem, Mulan, Cyanide, Jmine, Trippytung, Flamingam, Seedaa Thevillain, Icemaiden and Milli bring us some of the freshest female rap verses we’ve heard today (not judging by the lyrics). K-Pop (and the-entire-alphabet-pop) can take a well deserved break. These rappers want their voices heard.  As any Urban Dictionary can tell you, a ‘Cypher ..read more

Some songs are typical festival anthems. A catchy chorus, the way they play it, or because it feels summary. Here’s 10 of them you must have heard in a festival camping, or sang along with in a crowd. All My Friends – LCD Soundsystem “But if you’re worried about the weather, then you picked the wrong place to stay“. The perfect festival lyrics for a perfect song. James Murphy is a genius. And sometimes, all of the stars align: when he sings this sentence, under a pouring rain, at Hurricane festival. People don’t care about the weather and dance worry-free. The song also ends with ” If I could ..read more

I’m waiting for the day someone finally tells us that our current state is due to a nationwide Milgram experiment. Finding out that you are a lab rat is easier than admitting that you were/are a victim. Thinking that people are acting in their agentic state is easier than admitting that people in their autonomous state are capable of committing such atrocities. Until then, press play. Stream our Spotify and Anghami Best of 2020 playlists at the bottom of the article. 1. AaRON – Les rivieres 2. LAUREL – Scream Drive Faster 3. FUR – Waiting On You 4. Alex Kapranos & Clara Luciani – Summer ..read more

Beach House… Do they really need an introduction? What’s for certain is that they are not famous enough in comparison to their talent. Victoria & Alex, Beach House Beach House is Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally. Their artistic complicity is what drives the band. First, on record, of course, we feel it because there’s one consistency in their music: they don’t have a bad song. Second, you can also see that complicity in the way they are during their shows. Smiling, joking lightly… being humans. Also, check out how they answered the questions of Stereogum. Teen Dream, Bloom, Depression Che ..read more

2020 hasn’t been the best for everyone living in Lebanon, to say the least, but it did bring us closer together and it proved to us that we, the people of Lebanon, are always there for each other. Following the blast that destroyed Beirut on August 4, a lot of initiatives and fundraisers were put forward to help support the victims in different ways. If you want to help Lebanon and support its music scene but don’t know how or where to start, this list that we’ve put together might be just what you’re looking for.  1- BEIRUT MUSICIANS’ FUND Tunefork Studios got in touch with musicians, pr ..read more

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 in history. Mourning the hundreds of lives lost, thousands of houses obliterated, and the millions of souls taken by the system to this date, may this piece be a constant reminder of the many open hearts this city carried⁠—and still carries. Even though Lebanon’s October 17 uprisings were positioned as a collective force to terminate money-hungry governance, corrupt ‘leadership’ and colonial, sectarian, racist, and sexist constructs, real ..read more

Plenty of songs have the lalalaas, the dadadaaas and the nananaaas. Today we are taking you through some of our personal favorites, we can guarantee Inner Circle’s Sweat, Opus’ Live is Life, and Majida El Roumi’s latest remix are not included. The full Spotify playlist can be streamed at the bottom of the article.   Bob Dylan – The Man in Me The Beatles – Obla di, Obla da For Tomorrow – Blur Alt-J – Fitzpleasure The Smiths – Sheila Take A Bow America – A Horse With No Name ATC – All Around The World The Beach Boys – Heroes and Villains The Smurfs Theme Song The Who – La la lies ..read more

Let’s face it, no one’s traveling this year, so we are scratching the Latin American electronic scene with a selection of tracks that will either help you chill or shake what your mama gave you. The post Soupi Selects: Electronic from South America appeared first on Project Revolver ..read more