Laura Mam is one of Cambodia's biggest pop stars, but she wasn't born or raised in the country. She's American, and even though both of her parents are originally from Cambodia, she hardly spoke a ...

La Jolla Playhouse just opened the play "Cambodian Rock Band" by UC San Diego graduate Lauren Yee. The play serves up a redemptive tale of a father and daughter finding each other amidst decades-old ...

Cambodia's 2020 foreign-language Oscar submission, 'In the Life of Music,' deals with the stories and songs that define the Killing Fields genocide generation, says co-director Caylee So. By Mathew ...

A new opera debuting this weekend in Lowell, Mass., features a blend of traditional Cambodian music, Western classical, and rock. The love story, sung in English and Khmer, unfolds in the horrific ...

If you play Dengue Fever’s “The Deepest Lake on the Planet” (For the record, that would be Siberia’s Lake Baikal, 25 million years old and threatened) on an off-brand .mp3 player with your crappiest ...

Cambodian singer Kak Channthy, the lead singer and songwriter of the Cambodian Space Project, died Tuesday in Phnom Penh. She was 38. Dubbed the Cambodian Amy Winehouse, Channthy was killed in a car ...

In 1974, in a town in central Cambodia, Keo Sinan hid his collection of records. Wrapping them in plastic bags, the musician stashed them in an outhouse. Through the years of war, famine and genocide, ...

SAN JOSE (KPIX) -- A Bay Area mother and daughter are leading the way, as an explosion of new music is coming out of Cambodia after being silenced for years. Laura Mam did not set out to become a ...

The play, in its world premiere at South Coast Rep, is centered around a rock band that is torn apart by the conflict — and what happens to the survivors decades later. “Cambodian Rock Band” is a play ...

Cambodia has chosen 'In the Life of Music,' a drama that follows the fortunes of a family across three generations, as its entry for the best international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars. By ...

You'll cry. You'll laugh. You'll dance. Despite all of the tragedy inherent to "Cambodian Rock Band," "dancing is heavily encouraged, especially at the end," says director Nelson T. Eusebio III. But ...