Ruptured News // Postcards European tour // Sept.-Oct. 2025

Sep 18 Brussels, Belgium โ€“ Studio Marcel Delcourt / Toaster, Ixelles @ 7:00โ€ฏPM
Sep 19 Holzminden, Germany โ€“ Horstberg @ 8:00โ€ฏPM
Sep 20 Offenbach Am Main, Germany โ€“ Hafen 2 @ 8:00โ€ฏPM
Sep 22 Berlin, Germany โ€“ Kantine am Berghain @ 8:00โ€ฏPM
Sep 23 Kiel, Germany โ€“ hansa48 @ 8:00โ€ฏPM
Sep 24 Dresden, Germany โ€“ Ostpol @ 9:00โ€ฏPM
Sep 25 Thu Neu-ulm, Germany โ€“ GOLD @ 8:00โ€ฏPM
Sep 26 Schorndorf, Germany โ€“ Club Manufaktur e. V. @ 8:30โ€ฏPM
Sep 27 Dachau, Germany โ€“ Old cinema of the KKD @ 7:30โ€ฏPM
Sep 28 Karlsruhe, Germany โ€“ Kohi cultural area e.V. @ 8:00โ€ฏPM
Sep 30 Bern, Switzerland โ€“ ONO – Das Kulturlokal @ 8:00โ€ฏPM
Oct 2 Kreuzlingen, Switzerland โ€“ Apollo Kreuzlingen @ 8:00โ€ฏPM
Oct 4 Paris, France โ€“ Folia @ 8:00โ€ฏPM
Oct 9 Nantes, France โ€“ Stereolux @ 8:00โ€ฏPM 



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Ziad Nawfal Mix for Stegi Radio with guest JULIA SABRA // 06 January 2024

A monthly selection of alternative, ambient and experimental music from Lebanon and the MENA region, selected by music promoter and label owner Ziad Nawfal โ€“ this broadcast features a guest mix by Lebanese musician JULIA SABRA, from dreampop trio Postcards and ambient duo Snakeskin. This broadcast was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of Stegi Radio.

Julia Sabra is a Lebanese musician, songwriter, composer and sound engineer. She co-founded Postcards in 2013, a dream pop/shoegaze trio, and is the bandโ€™s lead singer, lyricist, co-composer and multi-instrumentalist. Postcards have released two EPs and four albums and their fifth is set for release in the fall of 2024. The trio has been regularly touring Europe and the Middle East since 2015.

Sabra is one half of Snakeskin, an ambient/electronic duo with long-time collaborator Fadi Tabbal. They released their debut self-titled album in October 2022.ย She is also the manager of Tunefork Studios since 2017, where she works as composer, VO artist and live sound engineer.

  1. Charbel Haber & Fadi Tabbal- Enfin La Nuit
  2. Postcards- Fall From Grace (unreleased)
  3. Marc Codsi – The Wait
  4. Interbellum – Flotsam
  5. Mayssa Jallad – Kharita
  6. Marwan Tohme – To Begin Again (unreleased)
  7. Yara Asmar – Come Back Later
  8. Fadi Tabbal – You Were Right (unreleased)
  9. Anthony Sahyoun – Untitled (unreleased)
  10. Snakeskin – In Our Garden
  11. Farah Kaddour – Khuzama (unreleased)
  12. Youmna Saba – Akaleel
  13. Charif Megarbane – Souk el Ahad
  14. Sary Moussa & Charbel Haber – An Atom of Your Love
  15. Sanam – Ya Nass
  16. Sam The Dog – Pulling It Off (unreleased)


Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // 19 October 2022

Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem, Palestine, with music from Lebanon, Egypt, and the USA.

  1. Heroes and Villains – Snake and feather [LB]
  2. Cosmic Analog Ensemble – S’aventurer [LB]
  3. Interbellum – Another day [LB]
  4. Prรฉfaces [Charif Megarbane, Salim Naffah & Pascal Semerdjian] – Embarator [LB]
  5. The New Year – Snow [US]
  6. Kid Fourteen โ€“ Blood thick silence [LB]
  7. Toni Geitani – Raboukom [LB]
  8. Nadah el-Shazly – Afqid ad dakhira [EG]
  9. El Rass & Munma – Return of the penguin [LB]
  10. The Bunny Tylers – Hello your grace [LB]
  11. Oiseaux-Tempete & The Bunny Tylers – Little known ending fading away [LB/FR]
  12. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh – Ya dam’at al ‘ain [LB/CA]
  13. Tony Elieh & Sharif Sehnaoui – Woe to him [LB]


Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Ma3azef // 13 April 2022

Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Radio Ma3azef in Tunis, featuring artists from Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and Iraq:

  1. Alko B [LB]
  2. Wake Island [LB]
  3. Loopstache [LB]
  4. Interbellum [LB]
  5. Ramly [LB]
  6. Filter Happier [LB]
  7. Sandmoon [LB]
  8. Alif [IQ/UK/EG/PS/LB]
  9. Kinematik [LB]
  10. Gurumiran [LB]
  11. Kid Fourteen [LB]
  12. Maurice Louca [EG]
  13. PanSTARRS [EG]
  14. Maryam Saleh + Zeid Hamdan [EG/LB]
  15. Rust [LB]
  16. Muqata’a [PS]


Ziad Nawfal with Wafa Khochen on Micro-Ondes // 29 June 2021

Quite the honor to be interviewed by Wafa Khochen for her weekly show Micro-Ondes.
We spoke about the early days of Ruptured Records, the creation of the label with Fadi Tabbal, our series of radio compilations, and recent spate of physical and digital releases.

1. Scrambled Eggs – Bleeding Nun (2006)
2. The Incompetents – Cannibal Blues (Ruptured Session, 2011)
3. Safar – Wa Namshi (2017)
4. Postcards – Revolvers (2018)
5. Interbellum – Ready to Dissolve (2018)
6. The Bunny Tylers – One of These Days (2017)
7. Munma – Muse (2016)


Ziad Nawfal Guest Mix for Radio Alhara // 20 January 2021

Ziad Nawfal’s monthly mix for Radio Alhara in Bethlehem – featuring music from Lebanon, Armenia, Egypt, Sudan, Morocco and Italy:

1. Sufyvn – Rupture [SD]
2. Bergsonist – Otology [MA]
3. Khoum – Ke [AM]
4. Ziad Moukarzel & Tony Elieh – Jon Black [LB]
5. Tony Elieh – It’s Good to Die Every Now and Then (Part 2) [LB]
6. Marc Codsi – Invocation II [LB]
7. Sary Moussa – In Praise of Shadows [LB]
8. Upperground Orchestra – Ghebi [LB/IT]
9. Raed Yassin – A Fistful of Stardust [LB]
10. Praed – El Khawaga [LB]
11. PanSTARRS – Z 3aleko [EG]
12. Interbellum – Somersaults [LB]


Ruptured News // INTERBELLUM On Tour // November 2019

The intrepid Interbellum have been in the midst of a European tour for the last couple of months, and will be playing several shows in The Netherlands (and Belgium) this November. Check out their dates below, and be sure not to miss them!

07.11 Enschede, Tanksation
08.11 Den Haag, Villa K
09.11 Hoorn, Uptown Records (afternoon)
10.11 Utrecht, Le Mini Who (afternoon)
11.11 Maastricht, Kaleido
13.11 Antwerp (BE), Cfou
14.11 Den Helder, de Bliksem
15.11 Amsterdam, de Peper (OT301 20th Anniversary)
16.11 Haarlem, The Irrational Library HQ (afternoon)
16.11 Breda, Het Hijgend Hert


INTERBELLUM // “Ready to Dissolve” // Video

New music video by Interbellum!
โ€œReady to Dissolveโ€ is the new single off Interbellum’s sophomore album Dead Pets, Old Griefs, released by Ruptured in October 2018.
Filmmaker Camille Cabbabรฉ and the two leads snuck into the dilapidated Grand Theatre in Beirut on a sun-streaked April day – watch the haunting result below.
The album can be purchased via Bandcamp here.

Ruptures Radio Show // December 2018

Featuring artists from Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, Morocco and France:

1. Interbellum – Ready to dissolve
2. Postcards – Revolvers
3. Alko B – Elephant in the room [Ruptured session, to be released Xmas 2018]
4. Mme Chandelier – Exodus
5. Oiseaux-Tempete + Bunny Tylers – The little known ending fading away [Live]
6. Munma – Eole
7. Kid Fourteen – Ice in my eyes
8. Cosmic Analog Ensemble – Phoenician rose
9. Heroes & Villains – The rest is history
10. Tapeman No. 1 – Le coeur sec
11. Ziad Qoulaii Allstars – Mystique [Unreleased]
12. Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh – Nefsif akli
13. Panstarrs – Dor el fo2 [Unreleased]


Press Review // Interbellum // Dead Pets, Old Griefs

A few weeks following the release of Lebanese indie bandย Interbellum‘s sophomore album “Dead Pets, Old Griefs”ย on Ruptured, here are some of the reviews that were written about this unique collection of songs:

x Readย Lie In The Sound‘s review here

x Read I Can Guarantee‘s review here

x Readย We All Want Someone To Shout For‘s review here

x Readย Barrygruff Music Blog‘s review here

x Readย Arab News‘s review here

x Readย Scene Noise‘s review here

x Readย Various Small Flames‘s review here

x Readย The Revue‘s review here

x Readย Indie For Bunnies‘s review here

x Readย American Pancake‘s review here

x Readย Mp3hugger‘s review here

x Read L’Orient Le Jour‘s review here

x Readย GQ Middle East‘s review here

x Read We Love That‘s review here