Dreaming of rock music in Kabul

[The Patriot]

As the rock music blasts the dust off the speakers in one of Kabul’s growing number of music venues, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you were somewhere other than Afghanistan’s capital city. But as the city has begun to get back on its feet, returnees like anthropology student Siddique Ahmed, his two band mates and their like, have brought an infusion of new and old musical influences to the city of their birth and have begun forging a growing music scene.

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