Interview: Hanni El Khatib

The LA-based artist shares how skate culture influenced his music

San Francisco-born, LA-based Hanni El Khatib’s new album Head in the Dirt—produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys—is perfect summertime listening. It contains more of that blues and garage-influenced rock that the singer-songwriter is best known for. Less known, perhaps, is El Khatib’s long-standing enthusiasm for skateboarding. With that in mind, instead of typical music-related questions, we asked the musician about the influence skateboarding …

Playbar

Sonos enters the home theater market with Playbar, a speaker which wirelessly syncs to your TV but also comes with all the benefits of any Sonos product, including smartphone or tablet control and the ability to stream “all the music on earth.” No more wires, ever.

The Joint Project, Nashville

Vintage cars and rock'n'roll in the Motor City's pop-up exhibition "Sensual Steel"

Nashville may be famously known as Music City, but a new event is helping to raise the presence of visual arts in the city.Joint Project is the brainchild of independent curator Susan Sherrick and social media consultant Libby Callaway.The project, which is now in its second edition, rallies together local and national artists to bring fresh artwork to Nashville.The Joint’s happenings operate around a theme …