The Iranian government has exerted forceful control over its citizens since the Islamic Republic seized power nearly 50 years ago. The pop star Googoosh has firsthand experience of opposition to the ...

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

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

Iranian pop icon Googoosh says she is ‘waiting for a change of regime to happen soon’ - In 2000, Faegheh Atashin was able to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...