My country, I will build you again, / if need be, with bricks made from my life.”  That line from Iranian poet Simin ...

The founder of the famed Tehran band Kiosk says the album addresses the failures of uprisings in Iran while incorporating ...

NEW YORK – A musician shot and killed two members of an Iranian indie rock band and a third musician early Monday, and wounded a fourth person at their Brooklyn apartment before killing himself on the ...

The music of Iranian composer Emanuel Melik Aslanian will be performed by one of his former students at a free concert at the Rancho Bernardo Library. Homa Massih Yazdani, who has lived in Rancho ...

Members of Iranian band Confess have reportedly been arrested for playing metal music. According to a message received by a metal news source, two musicians from Confess were arrested back in November ...

The Iranian metal band Confess, who in 2018 were jailed in their home country for lyrics that are anti-religious, atheistic, political, and anarchistic — ya know, metal — successfully fled Iran in ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 19 -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned all Western music from Iran's state radio and TV stations -- a throwback to the 1979 Islamic revolution, when popular music was outlawed as ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have approved a plan for concerts by an Iranian pop group and singer Chris de Burgh in Tehran, the group's manager said on Saturday. The concerts, set for the ...

Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian is awaiting trial for working with female dancers and singers after being arrested earlier ...

It has been three months since protests broke out in Iran against the country’s Islamic regime. This resistance movement was sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the government’s ...