Ahlem Khattab is a freelance trilingual (Ar, En, Fr) multimedia journalist, a web designer and a web developer. In 2019, she founded Pop! Goes the Music, a bilingual webzine that aims to help people broaden their musical horizons and sheds light on the most fundamental part of what makes good music so powerful: the human experience.
In her career, she worked in Tunisia and mostly in France as a TV reporter/producer (France Télévisions), a writer (Les Inrockuptibles, Jeune Afrique), a translator (Elephant for Arte, Sparknews), a copywriter (Les Inrockuptibles), an editor (Sparknews), and more recently a radio host/producer (RTCI).
Ahlem has spent most of her life in Tunisia, where she was born. At 22, she moved to France to study at the Ecole de journalisme de Lille. She is currently based in Paris.
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Blond : Retour à la musique et acceptation de soi
Après avoir été la moitié du duo Bel Plaine, l’artiste français entame tout juste sa carrière solo, mais toujours riche en collaborations. Il nous en parle. Rencontre à Paris.
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How “Delilah” changed everything for Silvie
For our second episode of “Pop! Goes the Music (Radio Edit),” we sat down with the Nashville-based singer-songwriter to talk about her new single “Delilah.”
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Meet… Ask Elliot
Their names are Archie, Liam, Ream, and Tom. Together, they are Ask Elliot, a Liverpool-based band. We get to know them in the first episode of our radio show.
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Family Is at the Root of It All: Jackie Marchal Often Finds Herself Reflecting on That in Music
Born and raised in New York, the 22-year-old songwriter has just released her first EP, “Juniper”, a record as bittersweet as the promise its name bears. Her track “Rhubarb Fields” is our Song of the Week.
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Let Mouad Soothe Your Soul With His Melancholic and Dreamy “Lorraine”
The Moroccan singer-songwriter debuts his very first music video, filmed in Rabat’s Botanical Gardens, and tells us about his start in music and how he “dabbles in medicine”. His track is our Song of the Week.
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“Feels So Easy” Is the Perfect Post-Lockdown Song: Meet Ber, the Singer Behind It
The light and summery track by the Minnesota-born singer-songwriter is our Song of the Week. Over video chat, she told us all about it. We also talked about her first EP (currently in-the-making) and the influences that shaped her sound.
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“Dream Through Music” Is What June Cocó Aims to Help Listeners Do
“Neptune’s Daughter” by June Cocó is our song of the week. We sat down (over video chat!) with the German musician to talk about the track, and we ended up also chatting about her love for nature, her worries about climate change and the need for more female acts at music festivals.
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Rencontre avec June Cocó : “Je reste une optimiste qui aime créer de la musique réconfortante”
“Neptune’s Daughter” de June Cocó est notre chanson de la semaine. La musicienne allemande nous en parle, non sans évoquer son amour pour la nature, son inquiétude pour l’environnement et l’importance de voir des femmes rockeuses à la programmation des grands festivals.
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Regardez notre quatrième episode de “ChillChat”, avec Tiphanie Doucet
🇫🇷 chillCHAT est une série d’interviews “chill” de talentueux artistes. Pour ce quatrième épisode, Pop! Goes the Music a pu échanger avec Tiphanie Doucet. Comédienne, danseuse et multi-instrumentiste, elle écrit et chante en français et en anglais, mêlant naturellement et savamment les deux. Dans cet entretien, elle nous raconte son parcours : de la France…
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Hope Tala face à ses fantômes dans l’ensorcelant clip de “Mad”
Plus de sept mois après la parution de son deuxième EP, la chanteuse britannique démarre une nouvelle “ère” de sa carrière avec un titre envoûtant et un clip énigmatique.
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