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fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

As '80s Iran convulsed, L.A. immigrants honed new sounds. This album lauds them - with warnings for today

Los Angeles Iranian immigrants created disco-influenced Persian pop in the 1970s–80s that provided communal solace and is preserved on a new archival compilation.
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fromwww.npr.org
3 days ago

'Tehrangeles Vice' collects the sounds of LA's Iranian pop music era

Los Angeles' Iranian diaspora produced a flourishing Iranian disco and synthpop scene in the 1980s-90s, now collected on Tehrangeles Vice.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Israel and Iran's governments aren't good. Neither is ours': Lowen, the metal band confronting a troubled Middle East

Nina Saeidi uses theatrical metal performance to express Iranian heritage, political dissent, and reclaimed cultural practices while evading censorship and honoring family history.
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months ago

'I want to go feel it. I want to smell it.' This Valley market is a ticket home to Iran

It hits me like a wall as the glass doors slide open: an unidentifiable scent - toasted, warm and slightly sweet. At international markets, smell, inextricably linked to our memories and emotions, is often a one-way plane ticket home. Imported laundry detergent, tightly sealed jars of hard-to-find spices, fragrant incense and loose teas are all olfactory postcards. At Q Market & Produce in Lake Balboa, this is no different. Its scent, while unrecognizable to me, is a reminder to others of life in Iran.
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