After living for decades in exile, chased by war and religious bans, Naghma persists in singing to her people.

In the midnight hours after the Afghan Whigs brought down the Bowery Ballroom Wednesday night, I got an email from my date for the show. "I feel like I stole something that was so good," he wrote.

The Afghan Whigs‘ first new song in five years, “I’ll Make You See God,” is raw emotion. Frontman Greg Dulli’s lyrics don’t make much sense — there’s something about everything becoming “ebony,” and ...

Greg Dulli has a thing about cars. In his songs with the Afghan Whigs in the 1990s and with the Twilight Singers in the 2000s, the Cincinnati-born, New Orleans-based songwriter always has a ride ...

Trumpeter fled Afghanistan after the Taliban, who prohibit music, regained power. He's seeking asylum in the U.S. along with other refugees ...

— An unnamed landay, a traditional Afghan women’s song, recorded in Songs of Love and War, a collection of Afghan poetry. Watch the blue ghost as she glides through the market, sampling the ...

If you were a fan of Afghan Whigs in the 1990s and devoted an unhealthy amount of time to their amazing hat trick of albums — “Congregation” (1992), “Gentlemen” (1993) and “Black Love” (1996) — it was ...

The Afghan Whigs are back with a new single, “I’ll Make You See God,” their first track in five years since the release of In Spades. It’s also the first song the band has released since their ...

"We will either be bombed by the foreigners, or killed by the Taliban." Though love persists. Netflix has unveiled a trailer for a documentary called Three Songs for Benazir, an award-winning ...

As the band began playing a Latin-style beat, only Sahar Arian's silhouette was visible to TV audiences across Afghanistan. Slumped onstage, microphone in hand, she began singing cloaked in darkness. ...

Looking to prove that democracy is cool, a music contest in Afghanistan is giving the country's citizens a voice. "2014 Election Anthem" offers participants the opportunity to rock, rap, or chant ...