Tag: Music

The Coke Studio platform embarks on its fourth season starting 22 May 2011, bringing back a musical fusion of exciting elements and diverse influences,...

YouTube on Thursday began publishing a chart that tracks top music videos at the popular Google-owned website. A YouTube 100 chart online at youtube.com/music...

LAHORE - Punjab Arts Council PAC will organise a musical night on Saturday,April 16 at open air theatre, Bagh-e-Jinnah.
Classical songs will be presented by Muhammad Akhtar Khan,Asad Ali,Fozia Hassan and Kiran Amir and others.

MUMBAI - When Nasreen Munni Kabir first proposed writing a biography on composer A. R. Rahman, her editor was skeptical. How would she put together the life of someone who is famous for his reticence? Kabir did manage eventually but it took her eight long years to do it. During this time, Rahman had also changed, going from a popular Bollywood and Tamil film composer to an Oscar-winning artiste working with the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Danny Boyle. One thing didn't change -

ISLAMABAD - A musical evening was organised by the Islamabad Marriott Hotel (IMH) in collaboration with Mausikaar to entertain the guests and music lovers of the twin cities.
Other dignitaries also attended the programme which began with raag Aiman flowed by a performance of sitar by Amir Hussain, tabla by Ashiq Hussain and Kathak dance by Saima Khushnood. The performers mesmerised the audience.
IMH GM Hartmut Noack informed the gathering about the upcoming Terrace Cafe, an

KUALA LUMPUR - Two Sikh brothers nicknamed 'Malaysia's Bhangra Ambassadors' are trying to become international hit-makers in Punjabi dance music with the help of stars from Britain and India. The duo officially known as Goldkartz have released an album that is the first serious attempt by a Southeast Asian bhangra recording act to cross over to foreign markets.
The CD, titled "24 Karaatz," was launched simultaneously last Friday in Malaysia, Britain, India and other countries.

LAHORE - University of the Punjab has started an investigation against its faculty member allegedly involved in copying from an Indian professor's research paper. The university has asked Safdar Ali Sherazi, the accused professor, to file his reply to allegations against him. Sources said the university administration had decided to adopt a zero policy on the issue and it would soon set up an inquiry committee to investigation academic corruption. The administration has asked PU

KINSHASA - Two years ago, Papa Ricky slept in the streets of the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, but an album by a band he leads has opened the way to wealth for some handicapped Congolese musicians.
"Now I have a home of my own!" exclaims Papa Ricky in the house being built for him in Kinshasa. Papa Ricky Likabu, 58, heads Benda Bilili, which has gone in a few years from being a street group of handicapped people to a touring band with a successful first album, "Tres,

LAHORE - Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Music Society will be holding a music festival for the first time on March 4 and 5, and has invited all aspiring musicians from schools and colleges to attend. On the first day, a workshop will be held to sharpen musical skills through interactive discussions on instruments. It will be conducted by Farhad Humayun, Omran Shafique and Salman Ahmad among others. Even those who are not aspiring to be professional musicians are

MAYDAN SHAR - A more liberal Taliban group in an Afghan province of Wardak, southwest of Kabul, has stopped arresting women without burqas and is allowing some music, representing a new generation of militants, locals say. Although the situation varies across Afghanistan, Wardak highlights how the Taliban's newest recruits have of late shown greater flexibility over social issues.
It may also indicate that the Taliban are waging their own campaign of hearts and minds. "They don't

NEW YORK - A veteran music executive has lambasted the Grammy Awards as "a series of hypocrisies and contradictions," in a full-page advertisement that ran a week after last Sunday's annual ceremony. Steve Stoute's open letter to Grammy organizers ripped the organization and its 12,000-odd voters for snubbing Eminem and Justin Bieber at this year's ceremony, as well as Eminem and Kanye West at past events.
"Over the course of my 20-year history as an executive in the music

LAHORE - Around 400 families with children uptill age 5 were present at the launch of Gymboree Play and Music in Pakistan. Gymboree Play and Music is considered world leader in Early Childhood Development. It has more than 700 centres in 46 countries around the world. "97% children who attend Early Childhood Development Centres (ECDs) beginning birth to three years of age perform better during the early years of their life and in Preschool as compared to children who don't attend such

Two years ago, the Grammy Awards appeared to mark the end of Chris Brown's career. This year, it is serving as a new beginning. Life for the multi-platinum sensation dramatically changed on the eve of music's biggest night in 2009, when he assaulted then-girlfriend Rihanna and both were forced to bow out of the ceremony.
In the months that followed, he saw his reputation tarnished, he had to plead guilty to a felony, and his comeback CD, "Graffiti," was a commercial

Kim Kardashian and Kanye are rumored to be more than pals after being spotted side by side at the Dash store opening in New York this fall, have been secretly working together on a closed-set this week, shooting the music video for Kim's first single. The rapper and the reality vixen, who also spent her 30th birthday hanging out together, arrived and left separately from the shoot,
which took place in Los Angeles. Hype Williams, the mastermind behind "Empire State of Mind,"

ISLAMABAD - Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) hearing committee has closed cases of fifteen lawmakers who are accused of having fake degrees.
This decision was taken on Tuesday by the ECP hearing committee, which has been conducting hearings of fake degree holders for the last almost five months.
A senior official of ECP wishing not to be named said that during the first week of January, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) would refer the cases of those lawmakers to DPOs

LAHORE: At a time when neglecting classical music has been on the demise in Pakistan for the last several years, the All Pakistan Musical Conference organised a classical music night at the Alhamra Art Council, Lahore on the December 1.
The initiative was to create awareness about the importance of Pakistani musical heritage sporting the propagation of classical music. The leading organiser and secretary general of APMC Dr Ghazala Irfan opened the proceedings with a speech

MUMBAI: Indian actress Katrina Kaif has decided to appear in Ali Zafar's next music album. Incidentally, Ali and Katrina will share screen space in Yash Raj's 'Mere Brother Ki Dulhan'.
Ali has made a few music albums in the past. He was always keen to have Katrina in one of his albums. A source reveals, "During breaks, Ali is often seen playing his guitar. Katrina often joins him.
In the film, Kaif is supposed to play a guitar. She told Ali that if the film is a hit she will