Two years after its “Passion for Peace” tour stop here rocked Miller Auditorium, Pakistani-American rock group Junoon is back in town with the same goal in mind: To use its music to unite people across ideological and religious divides. The trio, consisting of founding members Ali Azmat on vocals, guitarist Salman Ahmad and bassist Brian [...]

EP’s first release was reputed to be filled with weird electronic sounds, synthesizer magic and the poppish guitar-driven anthems, long before the album saw the light of day or the introspective title Irtiqa was associated with this ambitious effort. With all the hype surrounding the album, Irtiqa is certainly one of the albums that Pakistani [...]

While conducting a poll on the top ten Pakistani bands/soloists, I realized how ignorant of the pakistani music scene our expatriates are. For instance, the only bands they would know of were Junoon, Strings or EP…beyond that, most of them still thought that Awaz was making waves…ok, I’m exaggerating, come to think of it, our [...]

Rage is formed by four talented youngsters named Salman Haider on vocals, Ahmer Kenneth on lead guitars, Aamir Abbas on keyboards and Chris on bass guitars. Rage is not new to Pakistani music scene as it started the journey in 1986 as an underground band from Lahore. Rage – having matured up after their debut [...]

jB Productions presents, M:fesT’04.. featuring.. Jal (live question n answer session with them) , Call, Visaal, Dye Corduroy and ‘special’ appearences n performances by some celebrities. all live n unplugged [venue] SilverStar, Fortress. [date] 30th July,2004 [time] 7 pm * ticket also includes a free Bowling game. One per person. * best questions win voodootee [...]

Many new bands and singers are releasing their videos these days. Most of these could be watched on “Indus Music” or “The Muzik”. Some of the videos and songs are really impressive. One of the new singers is Shuja Haider who released video of song “Kiya Ho Gya”. I simply love this song because of [...]

India’s barbie doll and super actress Urmila Matondker is coming to Pakistan to take a part in the fuzon’s latest video that will be shot in the historical places of Lahore and Karachi. These days the hot topic in two cities is that who will recieve her and where she will reside for two days. [...]

As a six- year-old I could hardly understand music. But there was one tune, which I still remember humming in my class when I was in grade one. The song had a distinctly catchy tune and had taken the Pakistani Pop scene by storm. It started off as Sar kiye yeh pahar. Then suddenly the [...]

Sajjad Ali is back in the music scene with the big bang. Its none other than video of song “Koi Nahi” from his latest album “Rangeen”. The song has got very popular these days because of its excellent composition, great vocals and nice video. Do check it out on IM these days.

The pioneers of Pakistani rock music, ‘Junoon’ have been invited to perform at the finale of the MTV Awards ceremony in Bombay in December (known as the ‘Immies’, conducted jointly as the Indian Music Industry Awards). The star-studded awards show will feature leading Western artists as well as the crËme of Asia and Europe. These [...]