Hakim’s voice on “QADIR” is rusty but soulful. His slow cadence and repetitive beat make the song hypnotic; it’s easy to leave this on repeat for a couple of plays. Hakim wrote the song as an ode to a ...

Nick Hakim, sitting in the cold outside at the Songbyrd Cafe, on the flat stretch of a hill in Washington's Adams Morgan neighborhood, laughs when I say his new record sounds like it's being played ...

One of the most distinctive qualities about Nick Hakim’s music is its fluidity—it flows freely between R&B, indie, psychedelia, and more to create a unique strain of experimental soul that takes shape ...

The music of Nick Hakim occupies a space and time that is faintly out of this world. The guitars and machinery that make up his music feel slightly askew, as though someone slowed down the tape ...

Nick Hakim openly admits it – as a recording artist, the 26-year-old was something of a late bloomer, especially considering his musical family. His kid brother – now proficient on electric guitar – ...

Music is renowned for its ability to evoke emotions, memories, sensations. Yet it’s hard to think of music that gives a contact high as powerful as Nick Hakim’s. And although his 2016 debut, “Green ...

Will This Make Me Good, the second album from Brooklyn musician Nick Hakim, begins with the Earth on fire. Cities crumble, tides rise, and yet “All These Changes” is a climate catastrophe dirge that ...

"R.O.Y.A.L.T.Y" is the name of a song. You might also say it applies to the songwriter — who goes by the regal name of Prince Hakim. It applies, as well, to his bloodline, which is R&B royalty: he's ...

Presented with the support of the Arlene and Larry Dunn Fund for Afrodiasporic Music, the Cheswatyr Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Fellows Program, the event ...

A little under three years ago, Nick Hakim released his debut album, Green Twins. And while the psychedelic soul of that collection garnered him plenty of acclaim, the years since have been ...

After speaking with Nick Hakim about the background of his debut album, Green Twins, you come away with the impression that he’d just as soon let the music do the talking. Hakim also doesn’t put too ...