As students spend hours listening to the same playlists on repeat it’s difficult to imagine what may lie beyond their typical ...

In 2021, pianist and composer Arson Fahim left Afghanistan to study at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge. Less than two weeks later, the Taliban shut down his alma mater, the ...

Nolan Arthur "Cowboy Slim" Rinehart, one of the earliest singing cowboys, was born March 11, 1912, in Comanche County, Texas.

Not every country artist knew they were recording their final songs when they cut their last record, but these feel uncanny nonetheless.

For Iranians, cassette tapes have long been conduits of communication and change. An underground network of tapes carried Ayatollah Khomeini’s A recently released collection of subversive Iranian pop ...

This weekend, we’re thinking about the stories that we don’t often hear. An opera company that uplifts the voices of ...

The passing of celebrated Malian flautist, composer and arranger Boncana Maïga at the age of 77 truly marks the end of an era ...

The Taliban has released a video of an interrogation of a girl who passed as a boy. It's an age-old practice in this ...

Th Afghan rapper's journey is a call to action, urging women to support one another and the world to take responsibility for ...

They feel imprisoned “like a bird whose wings have been torn off” but struggle on, defiant in their own way.Five Afghan women talked to AFP about the ...

Five Afghan women talked to AFP about the things that help them cope with their lives tightly controlled by Taliban government rules, from singing to going up into the mountains to scream. They are ...

On an away-day in Powys – a rarity since the Princess’s illness – they took a gamble on letting the people of Wales take the ...