"I am learning to call things disruptive instead of radical." (An Interview With Hazem Fahmy)

I am at a point in my life where the question most on my mind isn’t what am I asking from a place, but rather what I owe a place I have made a home.

Literature, Music, InterviewsKate WilsonMarch 13, 2022Hazem Fahmy, Frank Ocean, Zaid Khaled, Wegz, Sfire, Sheikh Imam

Frank Haunts Me Across a Decade (Hazem Fahmy on Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo)

By 2020, Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo had become a kind of phantom; a project that haunted me, yet whose future seemed illusive.

Music, LiteratureGuestMarch 9, 2022Hazem Fahmy, Frank Ocean

Introducing Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo

Take off your headphones, put down your hauntings, & come inside out of the heat. We’ve been waiting for so long.

Topaz WintersFebruary 6, 2022Frank Ocean, Hazem Fahmy, Hanif Abdurraqib, Shayla Lawson, Sara Elkamel

You Don’t Own Me: A Selection of Queer Music Before Stonewall

Though perhaps not as loud as what we know today, queerness has always been alive in music, hopeful and radiant and revolutionary and gentle.

Ode to Blonde

My freshman year dorm room was on the fourth floor, the highest point in the whole building, and in the evening it was impossible to see.

Music, Personal EssayLexi CovalsenOctober 30, 2019Frank Ocean

That Summer Feeling (a selection, a remembering)

The summer of 2016 belongs to “Self Control,” white brick walls, the rumble of the MARTA train—to the warmth and the horror of being alone in a city.

"When music comes to you as pure catharsis, it’s very dark, very beautiful." (An Interview With Taylor Robert Hawkins of Western Daughter)

Music can reveal itself as simply escapism or enjoyment, but it can also be something much deeper, more abstract and substantial.

"The rhythm of these words gives me hope that moments of such precise beauty will always exist." (S.K. Grout on Aubade)

Aubades take place in liminal space; they are ephemeral and, like the perfect melody or the exquisite lyric, they are robust in the moment.

Literature, MusicGuestApril 16, 2019Taifa Faizullah, Ocean Vuong, John Donne, Radiohead, Mamamoo, Frank Ocean, Spiritualized