Al-Hajjaj: Keeping Punk Alive

March 23, 2012

Al-Hajjaj, founder of and , is arguably one of the key figures that helped give birth to the Saudi Arabian rock scene. Reading his replies made me realize how brave he was to try what he did during that time.

September 20th – October 2nd Recommendations

October 3, 2011

I really want to explore some more classical pieces so I decided to add quite a bit here in the now bi-weekly recommendations post. Aside from that, no real theme to this week’s post. As usually, enjoy the listen and

August 30th – September 19th Recommendations

September 19, 2011

I have some treats for you today from multiple genres and countries. Yeah, I’m all over the place this time and I’m also.. um.. two weeks late with this post? Damn, sorry about that. Life’s been kinda hectic, but I’ll

Al-Namrood Announces A New Release!

September 2, 2011

So I woke up to this awesome message in my inbox: Absolute Hails from Al-Namrood. We we would like to declare Al-Namrood’s upcoming fourth assault which will be one of the most assertive releases we will ever instill! We entitled

The Enigmatic Al-Namrood

April 25, 2011

In the deserts of Saudi Arabia, where ignorance reigns and religious doctrine is literally law, media is one of the things that was off the radar. It is quite a fortunate thing in some ways that the officials there are