Global Hit
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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