A new compilation sifts through the pop music of the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles in the 80s and early 90s Iranian pop ...
1979’s Iranian Revolution saw millions of citizens fleeing the country in its aftermath. Amid this Iranian diaspora, many of ...
An Iranian Grammy winner was ordered to write an anti-US song as punishment for his award-winning track, which slammed the Islamic regime, a human rights group said. Shervin Hajipour, 27, was ordered ...
The music of Iranian composer Emanuel Melik Aslanian will be performed by one of his former students at a free concert at the Rancho Bernardo Library. Homa Massih Yazdani, who has lived in Rancho ...
It has been three months since protests broke out in Iran against the country’s Islamic regime. This resistance movement was sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the government’s ...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Iranian pop star Googoosh has released a video that addresses homosexual love — a major gesture by one of the country’s top cultural figures in exile — causing a stir in the Islamic ...
The Hollywood Walk of Fame celebrated international singing star Andy Madadian by honoring him with his very own star on Friday. His career spans 40 years, selling millions of albums along the way.
On Sunday, Houston trio Khruangbin played a second night at San Antonio’s Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, treating the sold-out crowd to its trippy musical kaleidoscope that draws inspiration ...
Iran's hard-line president has banned all Western music from the country's state radio and television stations. It's a reminder of the 1979 Islamic revolution, when popular music was outlawed as ...
Jayalalithaa critiques Khomeini's music ban and AIR's censorship of Ilaiyaraaja's song in a 1979 article, defending cultural ...