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

Her strength and unwavering commitment are the invisible threads woven into every beat Daijo produces. Her story is in ...

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

Meraj Tehrani is asking the international community to help the protesters in Iran who "want a better life." ...

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 ...

As protests continue across Iran, the regime has responded with lethal force and an internet blackout. German-Iranian artist ...

The weekly food festival is back. Here's your guide to more than a dozen new vendors, from Persian pizzas to plant-based ...

From Sinners to One Battle After Another (both of which received over 10 nominations), the competition is intense. The ceremony airs on Sunday, March 15, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, giving you plenty of ...

My name has been invoked many times in public since the Adelaide Writers Week literary scandal broke. Rather than remain a ...

Rapper Meraj Tehrani escaped deadly protests, describing machine gun massacres and bodies left as warnings in Iran.

India, Jan. 16 -- Known for famous songs such as Talagh (Divorce), Mano Tou (Me and You), Makhloogh (Creature), and Hamsafar, Iranian legendary singer Googoosh has announced that she will go silent.

The experimental composer Morton Feldman would have turned 100 years old this week. To celebrate, more than a dozen pianists ...