An evening of Bangla music. F ive miles of cables, forty vocalists and instrumentalists under eighteen, and a total of at least one hundred musicians, more than two centuries of music from the ...

From basement beats to stadium anthems, LA-based DJ Sanjoy spins a globe-trotting, Bangla-rooted sound that’s as restless as he is ...

Sukla, known for her timeless renditions such as “Amar Bolar Kichu Chhilo Na” and “Ogo Brishti Amar Chokher Pata”, is no ...

Eight albums, innumerable live shows across the country and abroad, and a huge fan following. Fossils, Kolkata’s first Bangla rock band, has travelled 25 years, gifting a unique sound in the Bengali ...

FILM MUSIC HAS AN EDGE Chandrabindoo frontman Anindya Chattopadhyay said the number of shows for the band has remained the same over the years. “Every year, in December-January , we do around 20 ...

“Bangla music is part of our culture, it’s part of our religion, it’s part of our whole ethnicity,” Athena Akram said. “It’s who we are. ...

So Bengali band music has a future, but more importantly they have a future commercially, since film directors and music directors are hiring bands today to write music for films,” Ishan said.

To revisit the rich heritage of Bangla music, Government Music College, Agargaon, together with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA), organised a unique musical programme titled “Hajar Bochhorer ...

Los Angeles based Bangladeshi trap group Bhanga Bangla has become the first Bangladeshi band to strike a deal with Sony Music, one of the largest record labels in the world. The group announced the ...

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 ...