The great boundary-crosser of Iranian cinema, Bahman Ghobadi, purposefully steps over the line with No One Knows About Persian Cats—a quasi-documentary, highly unofficial panorama of Tehran’s ...

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Music has this wild way of starting in the most unexpected places. What begins in a dimly lit basement or a cramped warehouse can suddenly explode across the planet, reshaping entire cultures. These ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Denver’s long-running Underground Music Showcase will shut down following its 2025 event amid an alarming loss of national music festivals across the U.S.

For nearly three decades, Denver's Underground Music Showcase has presented thousands of performances by local artists from Colorado and surrounding states. The festival, which began in backyards and ...

The guitars screamed, the drums hammered and the crowd sang along—not in English, but in Bangla. That night in September, we pushed through the throng at Dr. Jeckyll’s Beer Lab in Pantego, Texas, ...

When Jaiel took the hi-dive stage for her Underground Music Showcase performance on Friday, July 25, the Aurora-born artist told the audience how she used to hang around Broadway with friends, going ...

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Local music scenes in big cities like Miami are dynamic. New talent emerges and stalwarts leave for new cities. That makes it difficult to capture its full breadth. A tight-knit trio of Miami-based ...