Fahmim Ferdous

The names Shaju Kazi and Saef Al Nazi may not be instantly recognisable to the country's youth, but to anyone who followed urban Bangla music in the 2000s and beyond, 'Shaju and Shezan from Artcell' will ring a familiar bell. The drummer and bassist of the progressive rock band that inspired a generation of musicians and listeners left to pursue higher studies to Australia, and have been under the radar for a few years now. But when they announced a return to Bangladesh's music on Monday, it was very different in terms of capacity but potentially similar to their impact as musicians.

The third Dhaka Art Summit is in full swing at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, and will continue till 9pm tomorrow. The Daily Star caught up with the mastermind of this massive international event, the founder of the Samdani Art Foundation.

In Narayanpur, a quaint little village in Satkhira's Tala upazila, a small colony of a few families struggle with water-logging for eight to

David Bowie's love affair with music that began with listening to artistes like Little Richard and Elvis Presley took him on an unmatched journey that, if condensed, would still fill up entire pages of a newspaper.

Adit, the music-director-singer, has had some success in commercial films “Rajotto” and “Dehorokkhi” with his production banner Fatman Films...

Deepika Padukone has been at the top of the chain in Bollywood for a good few years now, and when Hollywood bad boy Vin Diesel posted a photo on Instagram in December with Deepika,

The biggest happenings of 2014 come up in the images: be it the political crises in Ukraine or Gaza, the dissolution of the Arab Spring...

Hollywood has just had its biggest year, with a mindboggling accumulation of $11 billion – the biggest ever tally, and it does not look

Dia Chakravarty is a serious person. Her Wikipedia page lists her as a 'political activist' living and working in the UK as the political director of British think tank The Taxpayers' Alliance. But there is another side to this Oxford alum barrister that many of her colleagues may not know of her: the deep-rooted love

It was 44 years ago, when a 20-year old Zakir Hussain watched on as his father, tabla great Ustad Alla Rakha, played in front of 40,000

The fourth edition of the Bengal Classical Music Festival came to an exciting close this dawn, but not before leaving indelible impressions on the tens of thousands of audience members.

On the second evening of the fourth Bengal Classical Music Festival, a captivated Dhaka audience was treated to riveting rhythms and

The fourth edition of Bengal Classical Music Festival, the biggest festival of classical music in the world, opened yesterday in the

“I'm sorry, Tony, you know I wouldn't do this if I had any other choice. But he's my friend.” “So was I.”

The Bengal Classical Music Festival 2015 (BCMF15) is at the door, and music...

Paban Das Baul, the legendary folk singer, yesterday filled the Army Stadium with his sonorous voice and wonderful melodies on the

The army stadium in the capital has long served more as a concert venue than a sports arena, but the sights at the venue on the opening night of the three-day Dhaka International Folk Festival -- presented by Meril -- were extraordinary yesterday.

Anjan Chowdhury speaks about Dhaka International Folk Fest.

The second day of the Jazz and Blues Fest Dhaka continued to draw crowds, and put some Bangladeshi talent to the fore along with a captivating set by Louis Banks, the 'godfather of Indian jazz'. Before and after him, a Bangladeshi-French cellist duo, a formidable all-Bangladeshi blues group and a Californian blues-rock act took stage, as did Arnob and his band, in a surprise cameo appearance.

“Jazz is not just a sound or a specific set of techniques; jazz is a mindset,” Vasundhara Vidalur, the new sensation of Indian Jazz, summed up the genre of music in a single sentence last night...