April 17 marks 40 years since the Khmer Rouge devastated Cambodia. It also tried to wipe out the country’s incredibly vibrant rock, soul, and pop music and performing artists. For the first time, ...

When Bay Area singer-songwriter Laura Mam asked her mother to translate lyrics into Khmer, it was as if she had laid a bridge between worlds. Mam knew her parents had fled the Khmer Rouge — a ...

A new live performance at the South Coast Repertory in Orange County spotlights the Cambodian music scene before the Khmer Rouge regime. People don't often consider how Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge ...

Laura Mam is one of Cambodia's biggest pop stars, but she wasn't born or raised in the country. She's American, and even though both of her parents are originally from Cambodia, she hardly spoke a ...

La Jolla Playhouse just opened the play "Cambodian Rock Band" by UC San Diego graduate Lauren Yee. The play serves up a redemptive tale of a father and daughter finding each other amidst decades-old ...

Throughout its history, Cambodia has been ruled by royalty and rogues. It has seen unparalleled heights, like those symbolized by the majestic Angkor Wat temple complex, and unspeakable lows, such as ...

Families, their histories, and family relationships always yield rich fodder for dramatic stories, a fact storytellers and playwrights have long realized. Playwright Lauren Yee adheres to that tenet, ...

SAN JOSE (KPIX) -- A Bay Area mother and daughter are leading the way, as an explosion of new music is coming out of Cambodia after being silenced for years. Laura Mam did not set out to become a ...

Cambodian singer Kak Channthy, the lead singer and songwriter of the Cambodian Space Project, died Tuesday in Phnom Penh. She was 38. Dubbed the Cambodian Amy Winehouse, Channthy was killed in a car ...

Psychedelic Cambodian surf music: Those words may seem like a random configuration, but they’re an apt description of the sound of Dengue Fever. The Los Angeles band was born 12 years ago, when ...