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1 day ago'Tehrangeles Vice' collects the sounds of LA's Iranian pop music era
Los Angeles' Iranian diaspora produced a flourishing Iranian disco and synthpop scene in the 1980s-90s, now collected on Tehrangeles Vice.
Many of singer D4vd's friends in the Los Angeles music scene had come to believe that Celeste Rivas Hernandez was his 19-year-old girlfriend, long before the 15-year-old's body was found dismembered in the trunk of his Tesla, which had been abandoned in the Hollywood Hills a month earlier. That's according to TMZ, which quoted music insiders who said they partied with 20-year-old D4vd, whose real name was David Anthony Burke.
moves through LA as if she's mastered the art of turning daily life into a slow ritual. Her mornings begin with Lavender Honey Spice at M Street Coffee, afternoons slip between art posts and studio sessions, and nights belong to The LA Flakes, her all-women rock band that plays like they've got something to prove but no one to impress.