Interview with Iraqi oud player and composer Rahim AlHaj - a former political prisoner of Saddam Hussein who escaped Iraq and relocated to the US, New Mexico, in 2000
Composer John Adams told BBC he is now 'blacklisted' and followed by US security forces because he wrote the controversial opera 'The Death of Klinghoffer'
Author Mark LeVine asks the heavy metal band Motley Crue: "Why not really make rock history and open your Make Rock History contest to bands from around the world?"
British punk rock band Gallows were removed from the bill of The House Of Blues in California due to offence taken to their lyrics by the owner of the venue, the Disney Company
Pop stars Madonna and Britney Spears will have their "heads cut off" if they continue "spreading Satanic American culture", threaten militant groups in Palestine
Marcel Khalife often speaks for reconciliation, resulting in bans in the Middle East. Ironically one of his concerts was rejected in the US, accused of being "unbalanced".
