The New York Times is revamping its lineup of arts and entertainment critics — replacing four of the paper’s TV, music and theater critics, who are being offered “new roles,” according to an internal ...

LA-based Caltex Records represents most mainstream Iranian music released since the 1950s. A 25-year-old Iranian immigrant founded it after the 1979 revolution.

A federal judge says ICE has been racially profiling people it detains at raids in California. And a second judge says the ...

In research using Actor-Network Theory, for example, relationships between humans and non-humans are central: musicians, ...

Journey into the heart of Iran, where ancient traditions and rich culture meet the rugged beauty of the Zagros Mountains.

While the first three parts of the series explored the history of Shiite Islam and how the lack of an earthly imam formed ...

The story behind every music ensemble is always the music,” says Sina Fakhroddin. For Iranian-Kurdish composer and percussionist Fakhroddin, it’s also a place ...

Folk songs often narrate everyday struggles, joys, and communal life experiences. According to Li Hongfeng, a researcher at ...

At a World Refugee Day event in Delhi, Afghan musicians used music to hold on to memories of home and offer a glimpse of a ...

In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim chats with Franco-Egyptian-Iranian singer KUKII about her new EP "Rare Baby". The artist been part of France's avant-garde music scene ...

Passing on the soul While preserving traditional music heritage, a young generation of Chinese musicians are explor-ing new ways to bring traditional Chinese music to the global stage. Born into a ...

“Dùsgadh / Waking" is intense. It also confirms that Sunwise exists at the nexus of traditional music and the experimental. Rather than minimalist folk, this is a form of folk music drawing from, and ...