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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.

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