August 2011 | The Boxer Rebellion, with Daniel J. Gerstle | Humanitarianbazaar.org Q has described the music of the UK-based alternative rock band, The Boxer Rebellion, as “arena-sized rock music redolent of Bends-era Radiohead and full of shimmering grace.” Artrocker wrote that the band is...
July 2011 | By Nanzia Rhona-Mgaba At the 2011 Saint-Louis Jazz festival this June in Senegal, West Africa, I discovered an array of eclectic music fusions. Contemporary jazz integrated with ethnic and traditional West African sounds. The classical piano is played...
May 2011 | Travka, Ru, and Andronik Interview by Daniel J. Gerstle, edited by Sue Rissberger Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (originally called HELO back in the old days) We caught up with Travka, Ru, and Andreas of the Kabul-based rock band, White City, this...
SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2011 AT 07:52PM WITNESS | Stephan Said, directed by Matt Kohn, HELO Magazine, January - February 2011 As largely peaceful democratic movements take on repressive governments across the Middle East and North Africa, singer-activist and 'troubadour of the Altermondialist'...
January 2011 | Henry Rollings, interviewed by Daniel J. Gerstle Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (known then as HELO Magazine) Henry Rollins, best known for his role as the singer of American punk bands, Black Flag and the Henry Rollins Group, has long been...
November 2024 / November 2010 | Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine Singer Alsarah of the Nubatones in New York. Photo by Michael Marquand. When Sudanese-American singer Alsarah, of the African soul band, The Nubatones, joined HELO for a video interview about her music (Coming soon!), she first offered...
June 2010 | Amanda Palmer, Jason Webley, and Sxip Shirey Interviewed by Lachi, produced by Daniel J. Gerstle. Special Thanks to Yula Be'eri. Humanitarianbazaar.org There is a rapidly widening footpath between the worlds of punk music culture and youth in countries facing oppression, but...
May 2010 | Wussy: Interview with Chuck Cleaver, Lisa Walker, Mark Messerly, and Joe Klug, with Daniel J. Gerstle / HELO. Image: WOXY | Humanitarianbazaar.org Rolling Stone described the music of the American band Wussy as “mega-tuneful songs that can get under your skin something...
March 2010 | Archive | Written by Daniel J. Gerstle Photo by Daniel J. Gerstle while on mission with IMC in Chechnya in 2006. Humanitarian Bazaar (aka HELO Magazine) The wake-up is the easy part. You’re groggy and full of hunger but alive...
Global | Daniel J. Gerstle | August 2009 Republished November 2024 Welcome back! This story was published in our original first issue of Humanitarian Bazaar Magazine (originally called HELO Magazine) in August 2009. (Hours away from the road, Sanaag, Somalia. Img: Daniel...