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Siddharta Mitter, writing for MTV Iggy, brilliantly assesses the history and future (if any) of Taqwacore, frequently mis-identified as ...

Free and timely download from the doom-crust punk band Al-Thawra, out of Chicago. Al-Thawra says on their blog: " In celebration of the...

Check out this terrific trailer for "The Taqwacores," courtesy MTV. It will screen soon at the Sundance Film Festival. Five chanc...

Hipsters. Orientalism. Qaddafi. Yusuf Islam. Rififi. Taqwacore. The Japanese Red Army. Any interest? Read on... Random stuff I've been g...

The Kominas Something happened to The Kominas since we last tuned in. They went on a nation-wide tour (although, for some reason, skipping A...

Taqwacore icons The Kominas are going on national tour! Go see them: all reports of live sightings are very positive. This is the latest, up...

Over the past three weekends I've traveled to NYC, DC, and Oslo. And I finished up the paper and exam grading for the semester. Now I...

Thanks to Carolina Gonzalez for sending along these photos, shot by Siddhartha Mitter, on Carolina's camera. (Carolina covers music for ...

Time to post, at least in shorthand, some of the items that I've been saving up. 1. This just in, from the blog Hipster Runoff: "Ar...

This just in: a Taqwacores concert at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, TX. Friday, March 20, 2009, 9 P.M. at Club 115, 115 S. Jacinto St. ...

1. Facebook Egypt: The New York Times Sunday Magazine yesterday had a very interesting article about Facebook politics in Egypt, focusing...

Very exciting news: Michael Muhammad Knight's novel, The Taqwacores , is being turned into a movie, with Mike serving as co-producer and...

Very exciting news (Thanks, John!)--the groundbreaking taqwacore ("Islamic punk") band, The Kominas, have finally released their f...

Glad to see that Islamic punk is getting more coverage and visibility. I've not heard all of the groups discussed here, but highly recom...