AMERICA

Business

Modern music has the tendency to sound like it's been influenced by older styles of music. It is improbable that you will come up with something unique. However, to downright plagiarise music is a crime.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN

INCUBUS

It just seems like yesterday. But it isn't. While East Pakistan TV had started and my friend Shimul Billah (Yousuf) would take part in a drama serial called Ghoroa. The handsome gentleman starring as her father was Mr. Abdur Razzak.

FALL

Progressive rock or progressive metal is either mediocre cacophonies of technical gibberish, or moments when all the stars align to produce the most mind-blowing bands. Thankfully, Earthside is a part of the latter.

I'm one of those people who could listen to Josh Homme scratch a chalk board with his nails and then go, “This is the sort of innovation that makes Joshua a musical genius.”

RADIOHEAD

Ulver's 2017 release, The Assassination of Julius Caesar, includes in its lyric booklet the celebrated painting Bonaparte before the Sphinx. A great myth, the relic of a lost civilisation juxtaposed against a man who was building his own legend. A man who styled himself after Caesar, whose name bookends an entire era.

Nintendo Blood

Science & Faith

The 22 year old singer, Halsey, rose to fame with the release of her debut studio album, Badlands, in 2015. On June 2 of this year she released her second studio album, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom. The album hit number 1 on iTunes as soon as it was released and stayed there for the next couple of days.

If you have heard of K-pop, you must be familiar with the term “EXO”. EXO is one of the most popular boy groups in K-pop. They debuted in 2012 with 12 members, and now have 9.

‘Safa’ got her name from the two hills in Mekkah Sharif. She is the daughter of former Minister Late Mr. Hafizur Rahman and Begum Anwara Rahman.

PINK FLOYD

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE

She was the best friend of my sister Naeela and the two of them chuckled and cackled all the time in our Purana Paltan house (in Dhaka, Bangladesh), which also happened to be the neighbourhood of Shakila Ahmed alias Torah.

FENSTER