As opposed to the staggering popularity of anime and weird commercials, Japan has a fairly active indie music scene. While some of the artists might still be hard to access outside of Japan, artists that don't really abide by the conventions of major music labels have started to welcome the global audience.

DAFT PUNK, Digital Love

MARINA & THE DIAMONDS

This album is a project that fans have long anticipated, mainly due to the fact that for quite a long time, DT seemed to have lost their identity.

Ten years' back my two daughters and I took a vacation to Venice, Italy. I was the only earning member, both girls were students.

PRINCE, When Doves Cry

FLEET FOXES

Samia Mahbub Ahmad, a beautiful lady sang with us on the same stage in the Nazrul Mela held in Washington DC in September 2018. I had listened to her twice before, once in the Omni auditorium and another time in the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC), on both counts in Dhaka.

HADDAWAY - What is Love

STEREO HEARTS Ft. ADAM LEVINE

Even though creativity seeps into nearly every facet of life, one of the most prominent yet abstract pillars of it would be creating music. Music itself is not a tangible form of art and yet it impacts so many of us deeply.

Seek and Destroy

For some, dreams come true whilst for some, they don't. Take for example, my own self. As a child, I watched a procession of cinema actresses entering our house and leaving them.

BRITNEY SPEARS

GARY JULES

ALEX G

Crying Lightning

Dark on Me

Farzeen Huq is my friend from Holy Cross school days, 1970 to be exact. We were catching up in London where she lives, I admired her beautiful garden and every corner of her home had an exquisite piece of furniture which caught my fancy.

JINSANG