Artist: Bumbu Sauce
Song: My Punjabi Love For You
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This year’s Lux Style Awards were held at the Expo Center in Karachi. The awards started with an amazing rap performance by Entity Paradigm‘s Ahmed Ali Butt, who was also the host for the night. The highlight of the show was Ali Zafar’s tribute to the late King of Ghazal Mehdi Hassan sahab.
This year, the awards for music category, especially that for Best Emerging Talent, received deserving attention. The big winners at the awards were Ali Zafar, who received the award for the Best Music Album for “Jhoom” from Mekaal Hasan and Zoe Viccaji, and Quratulain Balouch, who received two awards – Song of the Year and Best Original Soundtrack – for none other than “Woh Humsafar Tha,” which was produced by Waqar Ali for the drama series “Humsafar.”
The award for Best Music Video Director as per LSA voting was given to Adnan Malik for “Mera Bichra Yaar” (by Zoe Viccaji & Strings).
Nominations for the 11th LUX Style Awards were announced in Karachi this week. The Awards office of Pakistan’s most credible and coveted Awards released nominations in 26 categories in the genres of Film, Music, Television and Fashion.
The LSA Film Jury voted for Bol across all three categories. Shoaib Mansoor’s Bol was the sole film that made the grade and qualified as a bonafide entrant for an Award that is given out for excellence in cinema.
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A New Generation of Rock
By Zeerak Ahmed
The rise of Bilal Khan, the Aunty Disco Project & Uth records has signaled the coming of a new generation of rock music from Pakistan’s renewed underground scene. After the rise of Noori and eP, along with Indus Music, the VJ generation and a post Junoon revelation, it seems that generation of rockers will take a new place in Pakistan’s rock industry.
The energetic rock anthems have since become somewhat hollow, and as Pakistan’s politics and society have hit new rock bottoms, rock has had to find new issues, new emotions to deal with. It seems the big guns have had to deal with social issues, and bringing audiences back together.
Bumbu Sauce – My Punjabi Love For You (Download Audio)
Band: Bumbu Sauce
Song: My Punjabi Love (for you)
The song is from the Bistee Proof EP by Bumbu Sauce.
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Music Machine is an organization dedicated to the development of the local music Industry. They have arranged some of the best underground acts in past few months with artists like Co-VEN, Malang Party, Poor Rich Boy, TakaTak, Shahzad Hameed, The Others, Odyssey, Bambu Sauce, Arieb Azhar etc and they thrive to hunt for more.
So, we sat down with them and asked them a couple of questions about them and how underground artists could really benefit from Music Machine in getting paid gigs.
What is the Music Machine?
It’s an organization dedicated to the development of the local music industry. We believe that a thriving local scene is the foundation upon which any healthy music industry rests, it is this sector of the industry, that we also find as being the most under-developed in Pakistan.
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Zeerak Ahmed
Today’s big acts have got their music out in the early 2000s in various ways, many made it big through Pepsi’s Battle of the Bands, and others rode the P2P sharing wave to become common names. However, the TV explosion and the presence of many average acts over airwaves and the internet often makes it difficult for quality acts to shine through the crowd. Recent exceptions have been the Cheapmunks, with their unique brand of East meets West music, and from the comedy world, Naked Tyrant Productions, whose unabashed take on Lahori life has taken the internet by storm.
Rock musicians have a harder job though, one might argue. As musicians and bands develop, they of course begin to create fan followings that will track releases and concerts, but it is breaking through an existent crowd of old timers, emerging rockers and new acts that makes it incredibly hard to try and reach audiences to begin with.
Bumbu Sauce – Bunnayn(za) (Download Audio)
Band: Bumbu Sauce
Song: Bunnayn(za)
Music by Bumbu Sauce
Lyrics by the Incredible Anwar Masood
The song is off the Bistee Proof EP.
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Bumbu Sauce – Mojambo (Download Audio)
Band: Bumbu Sauce
Song: Mojambo
The song is from the Bistee Proof EP by Bumbu Sauce.
More by Bumbu Sauce:
Jiggernaut (Download Audio | Lyrics)
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An American Accent to Pakistani Rock
By Robert Mackey
As Declan Walsh of The Guardian reported last week in an article headlined “Never Mind the Taliban,” away from the tribal areas that get so much of our attention, Pakistan has a burgeoning rock music scene that has started to address political issues.