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Music accompanies us through life—not only as entertainment, but as a way of understanding ourselves and connecting with others. In this issue, we explore the people, stories, and experiences that remind us how deeply music shapes our sense of belonging.

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Context Shapes the Dancefloor

You can find them bouncing to hard bass beats in parks or facilitating outdoor ...

Trombone Player

Beyond the Trombone: Hearing Yourself After The Music Stops

For most of his life, Jonathan knew exactly how to answer the question: Who ...

Discoball

When Music Speaks What Language Cannot

  A few weeks ago, I had the privilege to attend what, I believe, ...

Seven Minutes of Freedom: Why Does a Song Stay With Us?

  There was something uniquely exciting about Hungarian electronic music in the 2000s – ...

Sofa so Good: One of the Bands Ever

  Around me are roughly a hundred people, all of them full of energy, ...

Singer Maxx

Still Flesh and Blood – Making Music Beyond the Mainstream

From stage fright to self-expression: Berlin musician Maxx discusses songwriting, depression, streaming, and finding ...

Lana del Rey and Dolly Parton for Prime Minister

  I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but Dolly Parton and ...

Glitch 37

The Mask and The Mission: How glitch 37 is Redefining the Bulgarian Scene

What happens when you fuse a 25-year-old sci-fi cinematic classic with a live, original ...

Sunday’s Edge

I love silence. True, solitary silence. Like on a Sunday morning: there’s something unmistakable ...

The Meaning of Life

I watch birds rising and falling through the air. Sometimes one drifts alone—but only ...

A table laid with small bowls of various items

A New Kind of Nowruz

Nowruz – the arrival of spring, the quiet awakening of nature, and, for some ...

An open page in a book that reads "so she lied"

Elephant is in the Room

I’ve been lying my whole life.   I lied in kindergarten that I liked ...

Two empty swings on a sunny day

Ghosts of People

He was my best friend. Sometimes, when I’d run away from home, I’d come ...

Beach looking out to the ocean, with a ferris wheel at the end

All Streams Lead to the Ocean

Vibrations high and low, you were my sandbox. Soft water flowing nearby as i ...

A torn up sticker on a busy street that reads "no war but class war"

War Drums and Pamphlets

In the mail, a government blue letter arrived today. It told of a coming ...