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 ...

TEHRAN, Iran -- In 1980s Iran, the music all but died. Clerics banned secular songs as un-Islamic. Police stopped cars to check tape decks, and smashed offending tapes. Women were barred from singing ...

My country, I will build you again, / if need be, with bricks made from my life.”  That line from Iranian poet Simin ...

Visitors try out an installation at the SoundScapes exhibition that brings together early sound recordings from Iranian history — ATTA KENARE In a century-old building in Tehran, Saeed Anvarinejad ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Discotchari’s new compilation “Tehrangeles Vice” resurrects forgotten 1980s Persian pop songs made in L.A. by ...