“This is not the way we ever imagined the world would learn of our story,” the group’s surviving members said today in a gut-wrenching statement. “We will not let this disgusting brutality define us or become our story, but instead respond by creating music more passionately and with more intensity than ever before, embracing the freedom that we all dreamed would one day be ours back in Iran and play to honor those who should be playing next to us.” The rest is here.
