According to US-backed Radio Ozodi, mayor Makhmadsaid Ubaidulloev signed a decree outlawing music that is "alien to national and universal human values".
The ban includes rock and rap music which "glorifies criminality, sexual content and music that propagates non-traditional Islam".
Apparently a public hotline has been set up to report transgressors. Speaking to the US-backed radio station, local minibus drivers said they were resigned to the ban. [BBC] Read more
