Arooj Aftab followed 2021’s fantastic Vulture Prince with a gorgeous collaborative album with Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily, Love in Exile, back in March. It’s been showing up on year end lists, and ...

Maybe you just need the perfect Urdu soundtrack for your villain era? If you answered yes to one or more of those questions, ...

Arooj Aftab has taken a well-known 80s song and given it a fresh, emotional spin. Her latest release is an Urdu version of ...

The genre-crossing songwriter’s introspective “Vulture Prince” was a pandemic hit. Now she is returning with “Night Reign,” an LP that reveals her many dimensions. By Sam Sodomsky In a remote studio ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arooj Aftab’s dusky and sonorous voice — not to mention the Arabic and Asian-inflected melodies in her songs, which are sung in ...

Every Friday, The FADER's writers dive into the most exciting new projects released that week. Today, read our thoughts on Arooj Aftab's Night Reign, King Hannah's Big Swimmer, Thou's Umbilical, and ...

Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter and composer Sheherazaad has announced a new album, Qasr, which will be out March 1 via Erased Tapes. It was produced by Arooj Aftab and the title means “castle” or ...

This week on Bullseye, we talk to Grammy-winning songwriter, composer, and musician: Arooj Aftab. When she was 18, Arooj Aftab was living with her parents in Lahore, Pakistan. She recorded a bare ...

The South Asian raat ki rani flower blooms on the hottest nights of summer. The tiny white petals punctuate the darkness and fill it with a thick jasmine-like scent that seeps through the windows of ...

W e are doing stuff that is indicative of fun,” Arooj Aftab says, quite seriously, in the flat staccato cadence of a test proctor. The Pakistani-born, Berklee-trained, Brooklyn-based musician is ...

While her previous album, “Vulture Prince,” garnered her mountains of rapturous press as well as the Grammy, its dark, hushed moods and melancholy melodies became all the more vivid when the listener ...