Googoosh, the ‘Voice of Iran,’ has gone quiet – and that’s her point

The 75-year-old pop star is part of a generation of Iranians in the diaspora who are watching, with bated breath, as their ...
eTurboNews

When Music, Tourism & Peace Speak First: The Soundtrack of Iran’s Resistance

Music resurfaces at the heart of Iran’s protests as The Epic Symphony of Khorramshahr connects memory, resistance, tourism, ...
Yahoo

As '80s Iran convulsed, L.A. immigrants honed new sounds. This album lauds them - with warnings for today

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 ...
WUNC

'Tehrangeles Vice' collects the sounds of LA's Iranian pop music era

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 ...
NPR

'Tehrangeles Vice' collects the sounds of LA's Iranian pop music era

In the 1980s and '90s, following the Iranian Revolution, Los Angeles became the epicenter of Iranian pop music. A new album, Tehrangeles Vice, collects hits from some of the city's notable bands. The ...