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 ...
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Iranian Pop icon Googoosh refuses to perform until freedom returns to Iran

Iranian pop star Googoosh has returned to the cultural-political spotlight, announcing in an interview with "The Times" that ...
WLRN

'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 ...

Iranian pop icon Googoosh says she is ‘waiting for a change of regime to happen soon’

In 2000, Faegheh Atashin was able to leave Iran and perform in Canada, where she discovered that the decades of enforced ...
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As '80s Iran convulsed, L.A. immigrants honed new sounds. This album lauds them - with warnings for today

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 ...
WESA

Habibi's Rahill Jamalifard On Iranian Pop Music And 'Anywhere But Here'

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 ...
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 ...