Tehrangeles Vice: Iranian Diaspora Pop 1983-1993 is available now exclusively on vinyl By Katie Bain 1979’s Iranian Revolution saw millions of citizens fleeing the country in its aftermath. Amid this ...

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 ...

in the years just after the 1979 Iranian revolution, immigrants here made music while their homeland roiled with ascendant theocracy. Discotchari’s new crate-digger compilation “Tehrangles Vice” ...

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.

"When they asked me where my father deserved to be buried as a national figure declaring his place in the nation's history, I said next to Ferdowsi," Homayoun said. Iran's greatest master of ...

This post was updated Oct. 27 at 9:45 p.m. UCLA’s commitment to celebrating and preserving Iranian music continues to expand. On Sunday, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music held a celebratory opening ...

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 ...

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 ...