An Afghan rock musician performs in front of a cheering crowd during Sound Central, a one-day “stealth festival” in Kabul October 1, 2011. Sound Central, the one-day “stealth festival” that organizers hope will draw 1,000 to 2,000 young Afghans, is the first music festival the country has seen since it plunged into three decades of violence in the late 1970s. In a country where music was banned for years under the austere Taliban regime, the festival is a daring venture which has been publicized largely by word of mouth, and the date has been kept deliberately vague. Messages revealing the time and venue will go out to music fans only on the morning of the event. (Reuters/Ahmad Masood)