Iranian singer Morteza Darestani releases new music reflecting Iran’s social climate while continuing his global ...

For Iranians, cassette tapes have long been conduits of communication and change. An underground network of tapes carried Ayatollah Khomeini’s A recently released collection of subversive Iranian pop ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MAUREEN NEHEDAR (photo credit: MICHAEL TOPYOL) Nehedar will bring her new music to life in a performance on June 19 at FeelBeit in ...

Last month, well-known Iranian singer Mehdi Yarrahi released a song titled “Auschwitz,” about the regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters earlier this winter, which estimates suggest killed between 7, ...

When Sadegh Nojouki fled Tehran for California in the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, he assumed he’d be back home before long. At 29, he’d already established himself as an innovative force in ...

Daughters of Persia is a new evening of music and words, created by British pianist Margaret Fingerhut and rising Iranian ...

Mohammad-Reza Shajarian performs at the Durham Performing Arts Center Saturday, April 28, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5–$55. See Duke Performances. Amir Rezvani pauses a moment before he can talk about it.

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 ...

A compelling Julius Caesar leads this critics’ wrap of all the latest shows around town.