Author Lisa de Nikolits shares the songs that define the characters and moments of her latest novel Mad Dog and the Sea Dragon (Inanna Publications), a mob novel from the moll's perspective. Read on (and add Lisa's selected tunes to your playlists)!| Alllitup.ca
Coltrane Seesequasis, author of the four-part YA fantasy series A Wolf in the Sun shares the tracks that fuelled his writing of both the series’ first book and its upcoming second instalment The Threads of Time (Kegedonce Press), out this fall. Check out the playlist that helped shape his book's intricate worlds, charged moments, and emotional beats.| Alllitup.ca
A new month, a new mixtape! And this time, it’s sponsored. Who is she?! I think it is so fun that Natural Delights Medjool Dates is sponsoring this mixtape. Why? Because it’s a date night playlist! Get it??? Date night?? Medjool dates? Da . . . okay. Right. Guys, it’s a rock solid mix of […] The post Monthly Mixtape: Date Nights with Natural Delights Medjool Dates appeared first on Bev Cooks.| Bev Cooks
Azeri folk music remains a living, breathing cannon; music-making within Azerbaijan and in Azeri transnational communities remains informed by traditional melodies, which are constantly being creatively reworked. Old folk melodies become vessels for new story-telling through experimentation with Western musical forms, and new lyrics appended to the folk melodies, sometimes in languages different than that of the traditional version altogether. View Post| Ajam Media Collective