The first time Arson Fahim saw a piano is seared into his memory. He was a young boy, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, when he saw the film The Pianist. "I saw this movie and I was, like, 'Wow, how can ...

Soon after seizing power in Afghanistan, the Taliban outlawed music and publicly beat and humiliated musicians. Now the militant group is intensifying its clampdown on Afghans playing and listening to ...

The Afghan Whigs are working their way back to greatness. Fans have been promised a new album, the band's first since 2022's somewhat underwhelming How Do You Burn? So far, the group has released two ...

KABUL, August 15 (UNHCR) - His songs evoke the harsh beauty of his native Afghanistan, a country he fled more than 12 years ago, but they were composed in a green and tidy suburb of Toronto, Canada, ...

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 ...

AMHERST — On Friday night, Afghan traditional music virtuoso Salar Nader and his Afghan Music Project played The Drake in Amherst. The tabla artist and another traditional master musician, Quraishi, ...

As is tradition, please enjoy the savior of misbehavior Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs and Twilight Singers singing a hauntingly beautiful rendition of the 1943 holiday standard "Have Yourself A Merry ...