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Ready ! Seth ! Go !

Green Gig Night Review

INSTEP/ Daily News 21/10/2001

But Where Is The Rock?

Gulls Rock Festival Review

INSTEP/ Daily News 25/11/2001

In Search of Improvisational Brilliance

Mekaal Hassan Concert Review

INSTEP/ Daily News 03/03/2002

Why Junoon Must Breakup

Opinion Piece

INSTEP/ Daily News 06/01/2001

The Hair Metal Band That Wants To Be A Boy Band

Def Leppard 'X' Review

 

Money For Nothing

Power Trip Concert Review

 

Gotten Over It

'Tum Hans Diye' Shoot Report

 

Genius At Play

Beatles 'White Album' Review

 

No Rain, Good Food, Bad Music

JPGL Food Street Launch

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Crushed Beatles

'I Am Sam' Soundtrack Review

 

Lighting up the stage

noori Aptech (1st) Concert review

 

The Best Lyric Writer in Town

Review of Abrar-ul-Haq's lyric writing.

INSTEP/ Daily News 02/06/2002

A Legend Honored

Noor Jehan Music Festival Review

INSTEP/ Daily News 12/05/2002

Serious Masterly Music

Mekaal Hassan Concert Review

 

Underground Underground No More

Lahore 2001 Underground Music Roundup

 

Turn Up, Tune out, Sound Bad

Rafi Peer Festival Review

 

Lahore Music Community

Gig Night No. VI Review

 

Music on the Net

Pakistani Music available on the Net

INSTEP/ Daily News 07/07/2002

VideoPhiles/ Audiophiles ONE

Audio and Video Reviews & Rants

FACE ON, Issue One

VideoPhiles/ Audiophiles TWO

Audio and Video Reviews & Rants

FACE ON, Issue Two

VideoPhiles/ Audiophiles THREE

Audio and Video Reviews & Rants

FACE ON, Issue Three

Caught on the upswing

Oasis 'Heathen Chemistry' Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

Top 10 Junoon Songs &Why

Top 10 Junoon Songs and Why

 

Ten Greatest Movies You Might Have Missed

Missed movies Top 10

FACE ON, Issue Two

Get in Da Ring, Mu#%##%

Junoon Rant

FACE ON, Issue One

Amores Perros (Love is a Bitch)

Top 'Love is Shit' Songs

FACE ON, Issue Two

Love & Love is Poison Movies

Cameron Crowe Movies Profile

FACE ON, Issue One

Will the real Hadiqa Kiyani please stand up?

Hadiqa's Rung Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

The Love Album Without a Heart

Haroon Lagan Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

Studiedly Brilliant

Stereophonics Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

The Genius, the Englishman and Redemption through a Cuckoo Clock

Third Man Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

Pacino Or Deniro

Who is Better?

INSTEP/ Daily News

Mizzed Opportunity

Mizraab's Maazi Haal Mustaqbil Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

EP 1 Noori 1 Admin 0

EP/ Noori Concert Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

Do Believe the Hype

EP's Irtiqa Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

Sonorous Strings

Strings' Dhaani Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

Don't Believe The Hype

Ahmad Jehanzeb's Parastish/ Abbas Ali Khan's Tum Aa Jao Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

Reservations Only !

Cafe Aylanto Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

True Fusion

Mekaal Hassan Concert Review

INSTEP/ Daily News

 

Planet Restaurant Review

 INSTEP/ Daily News

 A Brave Little Venture

Ugly Duckling Restaurant Review

 INSTEP/ Daily News

Speeding Up the Motorway with Tan N Fuzon

Talking Music with Fuzion

INSTEP/ Daily News

Talking Music with Tan the Man

Talking Music with Tanseer Dar

INSTEP/ Daily News

Dissident

Edward Said remembrance

INSTEP/ Daily News

Sparks Fly

Talking Music with DJs Usman & Shahzaib Atif

INSTEP/ Daily News

 

Blade Runner Review

 

 

Blue Angel Review

 

Fused

Fuzon Live Concert Review

 

Marching to their own (Conga) Beat

Corduroy Live performance review

 

I was taught by a Nobel Laureatte too

Robert Mundell piece

 

Be A Wannabe

Offspring’s Americana Review

 

Crash

Crash Team Racing for PS2 Review

 

Guitar Players of the World Unite

Guitar Resources on the Web

Unpublished

The Art of Raymond Chandler

Appreciation piece

Unpublished

The Joy of Talism Hoshruba

Appreciation piece

Unpublished

How Tony Montana Met His Match

De Palma’s Scarface re-evaluated

 

 

 

 

Haroon Interview

 

 

 

My opinion is all that matters

(MAQ’s Manifesto)

None of my friends cared enough to talk music. So I started writing about it. Some readers started writing in. So I started fighting about it. But it is all in fun. Like skipping through CD tracks, one by one. If I can write so can you too. It really isn’t all that much of a deal to do. Just write what music does to you. If it’s crap it’s crap. What if it is Ahmad Jahanzeb, say that too. And it is not tough to make time. You don’t have to sleep. Keeping your mouth shut is really a crime. As regards anything in these here times.

Repeat after me: my opinion is all that matters. Before you write though, please do listen. But remember writing in 7/8 does not a great musician make. Communication is tough enough in 4/4 as is. The best musicians I find in my backyard. In a garage. And kids who air guitar. They mean more than any dozen notes a second maestro will ever do. What I mean to say is, it isn’t about the band. It is about the music. Not even about the Colas. The bucks they made. Ali Noor’s hair. Anarchy. What you read in the papers. Or spout on them forums. It really is all about the music.

(from BandBaja.org)

 

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