Jan 21, 2026 KCRW’s signature music program — defying format since 1977. On today's mid-week hang, we hear Flea return to the ...

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 ...

Prior to the 1979 revolution, Iranian singer and actor Googoosh was a pop superstar. But she was jailed by the Islamic ...

“The stage is my first homeland,” 75-year-old Iranian singer Googoosh tells Newsweek from her Los Angeles home, noting that her second is Iran. A child performer who became one of the defining voices ...

On first listen, you might think Eurovision has come early. Over a disco-fied adaptation of exotic Eastern melodies and rhythms – played out on Iranian lutes, dafs and santoors – a pop singer wails ...

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 ...