When Geoffrey Lyons listened to a qawwali for the first time, it changed his life. He was a teenager living in Nova Scotia, Canada at the time, looking for greater meaning. “I was immensely moved by ...

Pedrum Siadatian loves cold weather. This is a good thing because the band he plays guitar for, the Allah-Las, are about to get on a plane that will take them from their hometown of Los Angeles ...

Los Angeles quartet the Allah-Las approaches its 1960s-influenced music with studious care, so much so that it’s not surprising to learn that three of its four members met while working at Hollywood’s ...

What was once confined within the walls of select dargahs has moved into films, night clubs, rock festivals and parties. Sufi music is everywhere today. "When someone sings Damadam mast kalandar on ...

Surf rock has long been the soundtrack of Southern California, and rightfully so. After all, it was there in the early 1960s that Dick Dale and the Del-Tones introduced the groovy, spring-reverbed ...

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the World; and may His blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions. Music is absolutely forbidden. But, its prohibition ...

Mollusk Surf Shop’s third location opened a couple weeks ago on Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake, miles away from any decent surf spot or the ocean in general. But that doesn’t really matter in ...