Archive for December, 2006
A band is dead. Long live music!
Clocks
The last time I met Ali Azmat was back in 2000. So he made it a point to tell his audience (in his hyperactive talk show, Pappu Yaar), that “the moment Junoon got signed by Coke, this guy stopped meeting me.”
The truth is that the whole idea of a band like Junoon falling prey to [...]
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Kill Darwin
Why does the religious right hate Darwin?
Last Ramadan while galloping across the many channels on cable TV, I screeched to a sudden halt at one local channel that was showing a documentary on the “horrors of Darwinism and Communism.” A largely entertainment channel gladly basking in the trappings of the usual (read mindless) modern-day notions [...]
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2006 in albums: A shifty review
Abbas Ali Khan
Sun Re***
His awkward, lumbering frame and movements betray the fine musical talents he is blessed with. And if one is open to ignore the man’s prolonged adolescent fetish for vampires and assorted pop Goth nonsense, he can come across as a worthwhile find in the annals of modern-day Pakistani pop music.
His debut album [...]
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