Great Eurasianet series on the Kazakh, Kyrgyz minorities' music on China's troubled western frontier

Surprising chinks of light in state-run press

To cash in on singer’s death, local publishing house gets two music critics to churn out a book in time for the funeral

Iran's rockers feel the brunt of recent clamp-down - musicians want out of a society that was already difficult for alternative music, art

CD Launch at D-22 will bring out China's close-knit folk set

Her cover of First of the Gang is remarkable, but the shy folk singer's own works are just as likeable

Alan Dawa went from hits in China to the big time in Japan

Sunday show: 10 minutes of Cameron Diaz, no mention of Jacko

Saving the city's sounds, a Frenchman and a British sonic artist

 Cream of local rock crop take to the boards to poke fun at all-dominant Chinese bubblegum pop scene