“I’m quite a coward,” Rahma Riad admitted with a laugh. “I mean, I like taking risks in general, but I avoid reckless ones when it comes to my music career.” It’s a surprisingly candid confession from ...

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The Iraqi doctor sat on a corner of the stage, listening and smiling as Seattle grade-schoolers sang for the orphans of Baghdad. We are children of peace. We are the children of the world. But when ...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A Marine who wrote and performed a song about killing members of an Iraqi family has temporarily shelved the tune, a record producer said Monday. Cpl. Joshua Belile planned to record ...

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Boots Riley, the outspoken mastermind behind Epitaph hip hop act The Coup, has launched a new campaign against the war in Iraq. Riley is encouraging people to download the incendiary, anti-war song ...

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Cindy, Jan, Marsha, Greg, Peter and Bobby. Probably about 90 percent of the people reading this knew right away that these names were the children on the "Brady Bunch." Here’s another one: the square ...

Duran Duran have scrapped a song about the Iraq war from their forthcoming album. 'Criminals In The Capital' was originally included on the Red Carpet Massacre LP, but the band decided to stick to ...