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Sunday, February 14, 2010

Rock and Roll Will Never Die...

...not even in Lahore. You can't say they aren't trying to kill it, though.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/28/lahore-rock-pakistan-conservatism

I don't know this Basim guy, but the writer he mentions, Michael Muhammad Knight, is the writer of this seriously strange book, which I reviewed for Dawn last year:

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/in-paper-magazine/books-and-authors/mixing-it-up

It's worth a look, especially for anyone more interested in the weird fringes of things than the well-trodden middle ground.

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