Is the Internet the future of music in Pakistan?

November 8, 2009

As Overload and Mekaal Hasan Band release their records without the backing of a record label and pull it off without a glitch, Instep takes a look at the burgeoning music scene, record label battles and how the Internet just might be the way out By Maheen Sabeeh Throwing out the blame Internet. The inescapable […]

Coke Studio Where Are You?

Okay.. so Coke Studio is hidden. Its not for general public and its not for intruders. No matter how much you look around you can’t find where does the fusion of classical and modern music happens. For the love of music, Madeeha Syed, an author of Dawn Images,  is the only one who found and […]

Kaavish – Gunkali [Album Preview]

July 21, 2009

InMusic: Kaavish: Full circle, at last Kaavish are finally ready to release the album that has been in the making for about six years. Once can only imagine the efforts put in by Maaz Maudood and Jaffer Zaidi (also former member Raheel Manzar Paul) for these past years, along with their current producer, Faisal Rafi. […]

Presenting the Coke Studio House Band

July 7, 2009

They are the players who help create the sound that echoes out of Coke Studio and beams into our homes via television screens, radios and the Internet. These are men and women who may not be in the starry spotlight but without them Coke Studio would be incomplete. Instep gets to know the faces behind […]

Naad-e-Ali – Barkha

July 2, 2009

Download: Barkha History: Naad-e-Ali is son of Great Legendary Pakistani Singer “Nayyara Noor” and Elder brother of Jaffer Zaidi, who is lead vocalist of the Band Kaavish and featured in Coke Studio as keyboardist. These days Naad-e-Ali is busy in cooking his Album in his younger brother, Jaffer, Studio