Iranian authorities have shut down a cafe in central Tehran, accusing it of promoting “satanic” activities, local media reported on Sunday (May 31). The cafe, located on the popular Valiasr Street, ...

Bahar Movahed is a practicing orthodontist in Southern California. She's also a classically trained musician with a solo career, something she wasn't allowed to have in Iran, where women are ...

Iran is expanding restrictions on the distribution of news content from the country. In a directive, it instructed ...

In an era where vocal pyrotechnics often take center stage, soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon has the goods, but she can deliver so ...

Lowen are one of the most exciting bands in British metal - and their frontwoman Nina Saeidi one of the scene's most ...

The destruction of Honiak Music Academy shows the devastating impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran’s creative spaces.

That's the question songwriter Rostam Batmanglij has been reflecting on in his new album,. Batmanglij, known mononymously as ...

This episode features four sets of music covering new releases and archival recordings in jazz, electronic, ambient, and points in between.

It has been said that Persian Gulf countries are both blessed and cursed by their vast oil and gas reserves. Geologic forces over millions of years have meant the region is an energy-rich global flash ...

The sounds of classical Persian music used to fill the rooms of the Honiak Music Academy in Tehran: the deft plucking of the setar, the ringing of the santur. It was the pride and joy of Iranian ...

In postwar America, an epidemic of heroin addiction swept the world of jazz. Greats who developed a habit included John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. Nowadays, jazz has an ...

An AI-generated animation by China’s state broadcaster satirising the US-Israel war on Iran has gone viral, triggering a wave of user-made sequels online. First posted by CCTV on Wednesday, the ...