From his journey with Feedback to founding his own band, Maqsood O' dHAKA, Maqsoodul Haque has gifted us with classic hits like "Telephone Jokhon Phish Phish" and anthems such as "Abar Juddho Jete ...

“The kids come here because their parents push them to come,” said Athena Akram, instructor at the Bangla School of Music. The tiny school, which nurtures the music, language and culture of Bangladesh ...

Coke Studio Bangla premiered on YouTube on February 7 with the debut single Ekla Cholo, a modern take on Rabindranath Tagore’s Ekla cholo re, performed by an ensemble of Bangladeshi artistes. The ...

The guitars screamed, the drums hammered and the crowd sang along—not in English, but in Bangla. That night in September, we pushed through the throng at Dr. Jeckyll’s Beer Lab in Pantego, Texas, ...

The Language Movement of 1952 is the result of our country's fight to identify as a liberated nation. The present-day economy and culture of Bangladesh are also a consequence of the independence that ...

In March 2012, London-based British-Bengali band Khiyo released an audio version of Amar Sonar Bangla, the Bangladeshi national anthem. “One of the people to hear it was Shahriyar Rahman,” says Sohini ...

For the first time in Bangladesh, Smart Electronics Limited (Sony-Smart), the official distributor of Japan’s Sony, organized the "Smart Bangla Karaoke Music Contest 2024." The grand celebration of ...

But when asked, what is more important - sticking to the storyline/theme or playing to the gallery to get the hits online, he has his own views, “The current Bangla music scenario is brimming with ...

The Bangladesh National Anthem, ‘Amar Sonar Bangla’ directly translates as ‘My Golden Bengal’ and is an ode to the motherland. Written in 1905, the anthem was composed during the first partition of ...