Tag: Articles / Reviews
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Live, breathe, sleep Junoon
LAHORE – The trio was the heaviest thing that the Pakistani youth had ever come across. The hard, electric guitar riffs had sunk their talons in the minds of confused, angsty youth. Ali Azmat’s voice – oozing with power and machismo, but tinged with a haunting and yearning at the same time – crooned away…
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Ayaan – May Be The Next Top Model of Pakistan?
In an industry that’s rife with camps and jealousies, Ayaan is clear that her allegiances lie everywhere … and nowhere. “I’m an all-rounder and have done everything from print to commercials to shows,” she says. “I’m a freelancer and have worked with all the photographers and they all give me work so I don’t like…
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Article: Ali Zafar From ‘Channo’ to charity
KARACHI: Our music industry’s blue-eyed boy has done it again! It is nothing related to Jhoom, his latest album, nor its songs and videos. It’s all about Ali Zafar being in the headlines and creating ripples not only on the Indian shores but on his country’s soil too.
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Love in the time of Slackistan
It’s mid afternoon in Kohsar Market’s Mocca Coffee and the temperature rises something fierce when the couple walks in looking frosty and unfrazzled; if looks could kill…
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Pakistan’s emerging rap scene [Article]
Rap has been called explicit, derogatory and sometimes uncouth, but its popularity worldwide is well documented. In Pakistan, with the rise of rappers such as Adil Omar, the country’s once hidden rap scene seems to be coming out of the shadows
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Promotional campaign of Khamosh Raho: Detail review
best. Leaving the talks about movie’s promotional budget far behind, not at least a proper trailer of Khamosh Raho came out on internet which now has become one of the most vibrant means of film promotion, and the only thing that people got to see to make-up their mind to go and watch the movie…
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Coke Studio: A trip through ‘Daanah Pah Daanah’
“It was not a song but a revelation that came to me while I was sitting in Kalat, a city which once held the throne of Balochistan,” Zahri told The Express Tribune. It was at a tailor shop in Quetta that the writer first heard a faqeer chanting the phrase “Daanah Pah Daanah” on a…
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Bol’s Music Failed to Attract Masses
Everyone remembers Shoaib Mansoor’s rocking music for movie Khuda Ke Liye but this time the music he released for upcoming movie Bol has unfortunately failed to attract masses.
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Will Coke Studio move out of controlled environment?
It is not about criticizing any positive thing happening in a country which is full of internal threats, but it is about raising the right point because we have seen quite enough of live music in the yester years and the same house band musicians have the capability of rocking a full house.
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Coke Studio Episode 1 Review
Coke Studio S03E01 Reason. If anything this episode could have been called reasons, purely because of the reasons to watch it. As I’ve said before, Abida Parveen and Arif Lohar are huge reasons why Coke Studio 3 will be nothing short of epic.
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Kinara Video Making Memories by Shahzad Aslam
Dear aadeez Thanks for liking the video of Kinara. Here is a list of some happening during the video making of Kinara. We were actually not having any specific plan to shoot this video but what ever happened in there was random. Normally on tours we are fully equipped with High definition cameras to record…
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Striking the right cods – Akash The Band Interview with Maha Javeria Ahmad
MAHA JAVERIA AHMAD talks to Akash about their music and upcoming project After rocking the local charts with the release of their album Aks, the band has been very busy making videos, performing live in concerts, composing and producing music. They have already released it in the USA and will soon be releasing it in…
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Hotstepper of the week: Sanam Agha
She’s young, she’s beautiful and with her very first collection launched under her newly established fashion label ‘Sanam’, she has proved that she is talented too. Sanam Agha isn’t a new kid on the block – she’s been part of the fashion and media blitz by juggling various roles.
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Review: Turning up the heat on the Lux Style Awards
In terms of high voltage drama, this year’s Lux Style Awards went up in flames as Shaan and Iman Ali went head to head on stage, Ali Azmat sparked off distaste with his crass sense of humour and short circuiting sent out smoke signals from an actual backstage fire
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Ali Azmat Is Not Dead by Madeeha Syed
The last Ali Azmat gig I attended was a Junoon concert sometime in 1998 at the Alliance Françoise in Karachi. Needless to say, I was pushed around, got an accidental bonk on my head from the danda of a policeman who was supposed to be a part of the security arrangements and saw people doing…
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Atif Aslam vs Jal – The Instep Article!
The inspiration behind this article is the video of ‘Mein Mustt Hoon’ which has been playing on music channels recently. One fails to understand how a group that came out with a fabulous video in ‘Sajni’ could put out such a monstrosity? The answer, of course, lies in India.