News

June 2014

Jun 17, 2014
Nina Garenetska makes an unlikely rapper. Along with the two other women in the Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha, which performed on Monday night at Brookfield Place’s Winter Garden, she was wearing a white...
Jun 16, 2014
Wednesday night's major storms weren't enough to stop Poor Rich Boy and Plume Giant from taking the stage in Durham. The bands were supposed to play at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens for Duke Performances'...
Jun 11, 2014
Poor Rich Boy Brings its Pakistani Indie Rock to the Lincoln Center Atrium on June 19th By Rich Monetti Singer, songwriter keyboard player Shehzad Noor of the Pakistani Indie Rock Band Poor Rich Boy...
Jun 04, 2014
If you’ve been waiting to catch a concert at Sandywoods, the hip, artist-run arts center and music venue in Tiverton, this weekend may finally do the trick. On Thursday, it’s an intriguing double bill...
Jun 04, 2014
It's hard sometimes not to think that the Beatitudes were written about life in a rock 'n' roll van. From books that detail near-Odyssean conquests to documentaries that capture both the esprit and...
Jun 02, 2014
Hailing from Lahore, Pakistan, Poor Rich Boy sounds like a Merge Records mainstay. The group’s crystalline acoustic guitars and syncopated, airy percussion suggest a Middle Eastern-South Asian Bon...
Jun 02, 2014
Poor or rich, they’re definitely going places! All set to tour the US as a part of the Center Stage US exchange programme is Lahore-based indie band, Poor Rich Boy. Are we surprised? Not really. They...

May 2014

May 30, 2014
In conversation with Hind Benali, president of a contemporary Moroccan dance collective The Moroccan dancer speaks about her struggle to bring modern dance to Morocco “I get the feeling of [being] a...
May 17, 2014
KARACHI: Lahore-based band ‘ Poor Rich Boy’ will be heading to the US next month to take part in the ‘ Center Stage’ exchange program initiated by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational...
May 08, 2014
A boring and bureaucratic city no longer—that was the consensus of Islooites who attended the 2014 Music Mela Conference that rocked the city’s Red Zone at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts...