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Best Mooch Award and Waderai Ka Beta
Ali Gul Pir left the audience in fits with his performance at the PACC.
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Rolling Stones celebrate 50th, hint about tour
Rolling Stones will mark the band's 50th anniversary at a photographic exhibition on Thursday.
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Ready for ‘The Nabeel Nihaal Project?’
Former Aaroh and Karavan musicians collaborate on rock album.
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Chris Brown's ‘Fortune’ tops Billboard album chart
'Fortune' sold 134,000 copies in its first week.
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Sheila and Munni versus good old classics
Musician Wajahat Atray says Pakistani music needs ‘quality singers’.
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The winners of Coke Studio’s finale
Rohail Hyatt saved the better numbers for the final episode of season five.
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YouTube video of the day: Usman Riaz strikes the right chord with Preston Reed
Video shows Usman Riaz playing alongside Preston Reed at TEDGlobal 2012.
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I&J shake up the Pashto music scene
Dynamic duo Ismail and Junaid talk about their rise to fame.
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Flying solo: Nusrat Hussain makes a comeback after 19 years
Former Vital Signs and Junoon band member says his new album is politically-charged.
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Adele records nursery rhymes album for baby
Adele, whose release 21 stands as the best-selling album of the year in the US, announced her pregnancy a week ago.
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Rani Taj goes from commercial to classical
NCA students get a surprise from rising female dhol player.
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Did Abbas Ali Khan leave you stunned?
Khan releases new track, “Per Main Hun Ruka Sa”, after seven years.
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Lussun Fest: Aren't you sick of ‘Verse-Chorus, Verse-Chorus’?
“There has to be an alternative to mainstream music in Pakistan.”
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Not another Vital Signs cover
Should young artists be encouraged to do covers of famous songs?
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Ali Azmat's 'Bum Phatta' to feature in Hollywood flick
Song to feature in Mira Nair’s upcoming film The Reluctant Fundamentalist, based on Mohsin Hamid’s bestseller...
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Mariah Carey back to work
Her last album was Merry Christmas II You in 2010.
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Winehouse didn't like singing her hit songs
She said to me many times, 'I can't do these songs any more, Dad,' says her father.
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MJ’s handwritten lyrics, award auctioned
Lyrics to Michael Jackson’s chart-topping “Billie Jean” sell for more than $40,000.
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Beatles blamed for drug epidemics in Russia
'They travelled to Indian ashrams to expand consciousness, introduced idea of changing mental condition through drugs.
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Music blogs: ‘Social media is word of mouth on steroids’
Music blog owners talk about the age of virals.
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The best from ‘Coke Studio’ episode 4
The recent episode gives listener three tracks they are bound to remember.
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Terrible sound doesn't stop Lussun Fest
The three-hour long concert showcased different genres of music from rock to noise, from ambience to experimental.
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Asad and Jamshad: Peshawar’s musical twins
The Peshawar-based musicians talk about their inspirations and future plans.
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Don’t stop the music
Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad celebrate World Music Day with live acts.
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Classical concert: A night of soulful vocals with beats of dumbek and tabla
Bakshi Brothers perform to mark World Music Day.
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West tries music album with animal sounds
Kanye's telling mates this is his next ingenious plan.
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Khumariyaan: The sound of intoxication
Peshawar-based band talks about the exotic ingredients of their music.
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The last song: Ex-husband accused of killing Pashto singer
Police say murder was pre-planned; no arrests made so far.
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No violence, just violins
Music teacher celebrates 532nd anniversary of the violin by playing to a small audience.
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Circus in the Sky: All eyes on Usman Riaz
Musician Usman Riaz releases new album Circus in the Sky with a buffet of instrumental performances.
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Peshawar parties to ‘Chammak Challo’, Mussarat Mohmand
KMC summer night concert showed that visual appeal is more important to Peshawar than sound.
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Pashto music: Bacha steps forward
The Pashto singer discusses the release of his new album and the problems looming over K-P.
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Big B mourns ghazal singer Mehdi Hassan's death
Mehdi Hassan, an entire era of soulful ghazal singing gone, says Amitabh.
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Music industry leader Frances Preston dies, age 83
Preston was a driving force in music spanning six decades as she fought for songwriters' rights.
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Rihanna unhappy with size zero body
I went way too far, prefer myself a bit chunkier, says Rihanna.
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It's weird being single: Ronan Keating
We had 14 years together, says Keating.
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Justin Bieber stirs up Mexico City with free show
210,000 people came to see Bieber perform hits such as Baby, Never Say Never and his latest single Boyfriend.
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Bollywood remembers 'immortal' Mehdi Hassan
Hassan died after a prolonged illness. He was 84.
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Antennas to Hell: Slipknot reveals details of new album
Grammy-winning Slipknot are set to release their first album since the death of bassist Paul Gray in 2010.
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‘Coke Studio’ episode 3: A pocket full of surprises
That awkward moment when Bilal Khan outdoes seasoned singers like Hadiqa Kiyani.
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Gibb's dying wish to go home
The veteran singer died aged 62 in a medical centre last month.
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Jackson wanted normal childhood for kids: Daughter
Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris says her father did not want his fame to affect their personal lives.
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Carrie Underwood triumphs at CMT awards
The awards held Wednesday at Nashville, Tennessee, were attended by a host of country stars.
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Katy Perry gets comic book treatment
The 27-year-old will be depicted as a cartoon in 'Fame: Katy Perry'.
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Elvis Lives!: Oscar-winning US firm to create 'virtual' Presley
DDMG, CORE Media Group will produce "a series of 'virtual' Presley likenesses for a range of entertainment projects.
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Madonna: Queen of controversy
Madonna is in the limelight once again — but not for her music.
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Sheryl Crow says not worried by benign brain tumor
Tumor was discovered when Crow went to a hospital to be tested because she was experiencing memory loss.
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Whitney Houston's mother writing tell-all book
The currently untitled memoir billed as 'the definitive account of Whitney Houston's astonishing life'.
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Madonna may face lawsuit in France over Nazi symbol
Madonna used the Nazi swastika in depiction of party leader Marine Le Pen during a concert in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Madonna wows fans in first ever Gulf concert
An estimated 25,000 fans cheered and screamed as the Material Girl finally appeared on stage.