The late rock legend, whose guitar riffs defined a generation, has been posthumously awarded the country’s second-highest civilian honour, ...

Every year, the Ekushey Padak arrives not merely as a list of names, but as a quiet reminder of the lives, labors and legacies that have shaped Bangladesh’s cultural imagination. In 2026, the ...

The names of the recipients of the Ekushey Padak, the country’s second-highest civilian award, for 2026 have been announced. This year, the award will be conferred on nine distinguished individuals ...

Chondona also shared a personal insight into her late husband’s deepest artistic pride. “My personal feeling is that Ayub Bachchu would have been happier if his band LRB had received the award,” she ...

Amidst its ongoing stand-off with the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Trinamool Congress (TMC) launched its campaign song, with a focus on Bengali identity and language, for the forthcoming Assembly ...

How do you sum up a year in music when the song of the summer was a travel commercial? If “Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday” proved anything, it’s that the music landscape is in unprecedented territory in ...

Kolkata: A man was arrested for allegedly harassing Lagnajita Chakraborty, a popular Bengali singer, for not singing a “secular” song at a concert in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district on Saturday, ...

Just when the Internet was getting over Jahangir's Hawa Hawa - the breezy 1980s Pakistani pop hit used to introduce Sanjay Dutt's character SP Aslam in Dhurandhar - yet another musical connection has ...

The guitars screamed, the drums hammered and the crowd sang along—not in English, but in Bangla. That night in September, we pushed through the throng at Dr. Jeckyll’s Beer Lab in Pantego, Texas, ...

A Bengali rock concert titled "Ghor Chhara Ek Shukhi Chele" will be held on November 7 at the Falls Church auditorium in Virginia, USA, commemorating the legacy of legendary musician Ayub Bachchu.