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Global Hit
When Iranian rock musicians can’t get government approval to play in public, they jam and perform in friends’ basements. They call them “Kiosks.” And it’s a name adopted by an Iranian band in the U.S. Reporter Betto Arcos has the story.
When Iranian rock musicians can’t get government approval to play in public, they jam and perform in friends’ basements.
Musicians came up with a name for those underground spaces.
They call them “Kiosks.”
For today’s Global Hit, Betto Arcos profiles an Iranian rock band in the U.S. that goes by the name Kiosk.