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Artist Spotlight: Iron Maiden’s Top 10 Essential Tracks ⚔️
The East London band that turned heavy metal into literature, history, and theatre, and then took the show to every corner of the world for fifty years.
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April 2026
Music Discovery Digest #8 | Ghosts in the Machine
5 tracks haunted by the songs that came before them. Samples, ghosts, and the art of building new music from the bones of old records.
Apr 24
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Death | Voice of the Soul
Death’s “Voice of the Soul”, how Chuck Schuldiner’s most beautiful instrumental, written during the Symbolic sessions, became the emotional center of…
Apr 21
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Iron Maiden | The Thin Line Between Love and Hate
Iron Maiden’s “The Thin Line Between Love and Hate” - how Dave Murray and Steve Harris closed the band’s reunion album with an 8-minute meditation on…
Apr 21
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Music Discovery Digest #7 | Hidden Meridians Edition
5 human-curated world music discoveries from Cyprus to Afghanistan, Turkey to Iraq. Music that crosses borders algorithms don’t even know exist.
Apr 18
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Fahir Atakoğlu | Sarı Zeybek
The story behind Fahir Atakoğlu’s “Sarı Zeybek” - how a 7-year-old prodigy, Cemal Reşit Rey’s mentorship, and Atatürk’s last dance became Turkey’s most…
Apr 16
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Incubus | Drive
The story behind Incubus’ “Drive” - how a rejected TV theme, a fired producer, and Brandon Boyd’s relationship with fear created the band’s biggest hit…
Apr 8
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Maurice Jarre | The Message (Original Film Score)
The story behind Maurice Jarre’s Oscar-nominated score for The Message (1976) and filmmaker Moustapha Akkad’s impossible journey to bring Islam’s…
Apr 1
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March 2026
Dredg | Catch Without Arms
What is Dredg’s “Catch Without Arms” about? How a California art-rock band, a Soundgarden producer, and 14 original paintings became a manifesto against…
Mar 25
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Azam Ali | In Other Worlds
Who is Azam Ali? The story behind “In Other Worlds” from Elysium for the Brave, featuring King Crimson members and the voice behind Matrix, 300, and…
Mar 25
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Ulver | Forgive Us (feat. Nils Petter Molvær)
What is Ulver’s “Forgive Us” about? The death of the god Pan, a Norwegian trumpet legend, and the band that went from black metal to synth-pop in 30…
Mar 21
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Murcof | All These Worlds Pt. II
What is Murcof’s “All These Worlds Pt. II” about? How a canceled video game, a 17-year silence, and IRCAM technology created one of 2024’s finest…
Mar 19
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