Iranian singer Morteza Darestani releases new music reflecting Iran’s social climate while continuing his global ...
1979’s Iranian Revolution saw millions of citizens fleeing the country in its aftermath. Amid this Iranian diaspora, many of these people emigrated to Los Angeles, with some of them being the same ...
Prior to the 1979 revolution, the Iranian singer and actor was a pop superstar. But she was jailed by the Islamic Republic and forced to agree to never sing or perform in public.
The new album "Tehrangeles Vice" is a daring collection of Iranian disco and synthpop recorded in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s. The term Tehrangeles refers to the Iranian American diaspora in ...
All over Los Angeles, Zachary Asdourian hunted for the music of an Iran that could have been. The co-founder of the L.A. record label Discotchari scoured for dust-caked Persian pop records at Jordan ...
Last month, Habibi released Anywhere But Here, the band's first full-length album since its self-titled debut in 2014. Just like that first record and the EPs and singles over the past six years, the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Discotchari founders Zachary Asdourian, left, and Anaïs Gyulbudaghyan, right, with producer Farokh "Elton" Ahi, center, who has a ...