Coke Studio S03E02 ‘Will’ Gets Disappointing Tweets

Coke Studio has been the most awaited show of Pakistan with largest fan-base. As soon as the episode starts, music fanatics go crazy expressing their opinions on the episode on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Episode 2 “Will” of Season 3 however has been a disappointment for most of the listeners online. Listeners have […]

Music aids women in making bold moves

By Rehan Ansari [Published in Canada’s leading daily newspaper, “The Globe and Mail”] While the war trucks on in Pakistan, citizens are trying to go about their daily business. And some, such as two young women named Zebunnisa Bangash and Haniya Aslam, are even making bold moves outside their gender and ethnic boundaries. Zeb and […]

The beat of his drum

By Amar Ayaz [Originally Published in Instep Magzine] To most people Louis J. Pinto is known as Gumby, a musician on his way to cementing his name in our entertainment industry’s music history, if he hasn’t done so already that is. When he was starting out as a wee lad dreaming about thrashing his drums […]

Radiance All Over With Coke Studio 3

by Sadaf Fayyaz The coke studio season 3 is all in the air and a hot topic these days. The exciting season marks with Noori, Meesha Shafi, Karavan, Arif Lohar, Arieb Azhar, Abida Parveen, Zeb & Haniya, Saba Shabbir, Zoe Viccaji, and Sanam Saeed. Sanam and Zoe could be seen as the backing vocalists this […]

Coke Studio Season 3 Episode 1 goes on air tonight

A dustland fairytale The first episode from Coke Studio III goes on air tonight. This opening episode includes performances from Arieb Azhar, Abida Parveen, Arif Lohar with Meesha Shafi, Karavan and Zeb and Haniya. Instep gives you a sneak peak… By Maheen Sabeeh [Original Article Published in INSTEP] Catch all hot stuff of Coke Studio […]

Music Management at It’s Best, Two Five Right

May 14, 2010

There has been a bizarre yet highly followed trend in the music industry of Pakistan of picking up the artist managers based more on random reasons than logical. From all the reasons why branding an artist and selling music hasn’t been going really great, I say one of the drastic ones is picking up the […]