Music

Popular singer Kumar Biswajit is busy recording songs for his upcoming 27th solo album. The album, containing tracks for the audience of all age groups, will feature different genres of songs including romantic, sentimental, traditional and others, shared the singer in an interview with New Age. ‘More importantly, the audience

The two-day rock music fair organised at the Drik Gallery in Dhanmondi got positive response from the rock music lovers for its atypical characteristics. Besides enjoying music performed by the underground bands, viewers enthusiastically participated in interactions with the rockers, lyricists, sound engineers and music video makers.

Eminent Tagore singer Sadi Muhammad will be performing in live concerts in three Scandinavian countries of Europe – Sweden, Denmark and Norway. He is leaving Dhaka next week for a fortnight tour in the three countries. The celebrated singer has been invited by the Bangladeshi expatriates living in the Scandinavian countries and they will be ... Read more

Talented musician Swani Zubayeer will direct the music of a film for the first time. The film titled Ghashphool directed by Akram Khan contains two songs namely – Shomoy theme giyechhilo, lyric by Mohammad Rafiquazzaman and composed by Lucky Akhand; and Bohudin por, lyric and composition by Swani Zubayeer herself. ‘I have lent my voice for

Only a few out of the 70 audio and video albums released in a week during the Eid-ul-Azha could make profit, said sources at the production houses of the country. The production houses admitted that their strategy of releasing huge number of albums to resurrect the slumped trade audio market had actually failed. They further admitted ... Read more

Shahartoli came to discussion after releasing a song on Felani tragedy that made the people protest against such barbaric border killings by Border Security Force of India. In fact, most of the songs of its debut album, Borabor, released by the band in 2011 were social message oriented. The band, which has also

After a long hiatus, popular singer Samina Chowdhury’s solo album titled “Cholo Banchi” has been released. The album, featuring a total of 10 songs was unveiled at a function in a city hotel with AKM Arifur Rahman, chairman of Laser Vision, in the chair last week. Among others, lyricists Md Rafiquzzaman, Kabir Bakul, music director Ahmed ... Read more

Indian classical musician Saurav Kumar Nahar presented a solo music recital on Friday at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in Gulshan. A music teacher of the centre Saurav Kumar presented a number of songs set on different ragas. He began with the song Tero chab nyara based on raga shree. He also presented two other ... Read more

Noted Nazrul singer Dalia Nausheen was greeted by her fellow singers and family members at a programme at the Radious Center, Gushan 1, in the capital on Thursday. The album titled Dol Purnima Raate, which is the first solo album of Nausheen in her long and eventful singing career, features ten timeless songs of the National ... Read more

Popular band Chirkut will perform live at the phono-live concert Close Up 1 Call-er Gaan on Desh TV at 9:45pm today an Eid-Ul-Azha special musical programme. Besides presenting its popular numbers, the band will perform in response to the viewers’ request. Earlier, the band appeared in the similar programme aired on GTV on Thursday. ‘To give ... Read more

Eid Music Albums Producers prefer quantity  A large number of audio and video albums are going to hit the market during the Eid-Ul-Azha and Durga Puja many of which are already in market for the music lovers. Around 70 audio and video albums will reach the market during the Puja and Eid festivals. But the ... Read more

Maliha, a schoolgirl from Khulna, was named this year’s Khude Gaanraj at the grand finale held on Friday at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. Sajib and Rahul respectively secured the first runner-up and second runner-up positions in the fourth season of the reality show of children’s singing competetion named Meridian-Channel-i Khude Gaanraj. Apart from the ... Read more

Popular band Pentagon is going to celebrate its 20th founding anniversary at a programme today at the Café 33 at Baily Road in the capital. The band was formed on October 12 in 1993 by Mohammad Ali Sumon, Shouquat Ali Imon, Ranjan, Shelly and Babu. Since then the band has presented many popular songs and ... Read more

Classical music students under different music teachers and from different schools have demonstrated their skills in classical music at a two-day classical music festival at the Biswa Sahitto Kendra in Bangla Motor, on Wednesday and Thursday. Young classical artistes below sixteen years performed at the festival organised by Suddho Sangeet Prasar Goshthi to inspire the young ... Read more

The popular Indian singer and song-writer Kabir Suman has expressed his deep condemnation on the verdict of Felani murder by the Indian Border Security Force through his latest song titled Felani Khatun, which is posted on the singer’s personal website. The song talks about how Felani lay dead hanging on the barbed-wire at the borders ... Read more

On a humid Friday afternoon, the driveway of Ruposhi Bangla Hotel was abuzz with excited music lovers; some were donning Iron Maiden tee shirts, a few of them sporting Led Zeppelin tees and all of them gathered to attend Rock Nation II. Organised by Live2, RockNation II turned out to be one of the biggest and ... Read more

Different genres of Nazrul were presented at a musical programme organised by Bangladesh Nazrul Sangeet Sangstha at the Chhayanaut Auditorium on Sunday evening. The show began with a chorus presentation of the Nazrul song titled Jug jug dhori loke loke mor by the artistes of the Sangstha in fast tempo revealing the zeal of the ... Read more

Popular rocker and also the founder of the leading band LRB, Ayub Bachchu has decided not to release any more albums in CDs unless the disheartening and off-putting scenario of the audio market/industry changes. The singer is ready with around 35 new numbers for his audience. But, as the country’s audio market/industry is suffering from ... Read more

The popular rocker of the country James has proved his success in Bollywood again. His new number Bebasi in Gurmeet Singh’s upcoming film Warning has already created a stir among the music lovers of India and Bangladesh. A separate music video has been released to popularise the film, and the music video itself has got ... Read more