September 16 will mark one year since the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s morality police. The event sparked protests in Iran and across the world, activating the country’s ...

(CNN) — Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour, whose song became popular during mass protests in 2022, has been sentenced to three years and eight months in prison and ordered to write a song about US ...

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 ...

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 ...

The idea for a song came to Sarah Fard in the spring of 2023 while she was preparing for Nowruz, the Persian New Year. It also happened to be International Women’s Day. “It just struck me, like, ‘Oh, ...

Discotchari founders Zachary Asdourian, left, and Anaïs Gyulbudaghyan, right, with producer Farokh "Elton" Ahi, center, who has a couple songs on the label's compilation "Tehrangeles Vice.". (Emil ...

An Iranian court has sentenced Grammy winner Shervin Hajipour, who was first detained after his song Baraye turned into an anthem of anti-establishment protests in 2022, to nearly four years in prison ...

Jan 21, 2026 KCRW’s signature music program — defying format since 1977. On today's mid-week hang, we hear Flea return to the ...

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 ...

Creatives are particular targets of Iran’s dictatorial government whose uneven rule follows an extreme interpretation of the tenets of Islam. Musicians are even more harshly persecuted based on the ...