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Folk punk firebrand Billy Bragg has joined up with a coalition of musicians including REM, Pearl Jam and Rage Against The Machine in supporting president Obama’s efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. Many of the artists who have signed up are angry that their music was used as an interrogation tool in the jail. In one case interrogators played records to “stress” a prisoner who believed music was forbidden. He was questioned while being “exposed to variable lighting patterns” and repeated plays of a song called “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor” by the metal band Drowning Pool. (now if that isn’t torture…)

Read the full BBC story here.