Archive for February, 2009

Indian Rock Bands Stay Away From Baajaa Gaajaa

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

One would imagine that an expo on independent music would attract Indian indie rock musicians and record labels in droves. Considering that individuals from both these groups a

This Week’s Top Mumbai Gig Picks

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Your guide to the top gigs in town (Mumbai town), weekly.

Mumbai’s got another great gig week lined up.

Indiecision interview alums Sridhar/Thayil play two dates in Mumbai t

Live: Faridkot, Cassini’s Division, Reverrse Polarity, Workshop, The Circus @ Blue Frog, Mumbai

Monday, February 9th, 2009

The second gig at the Blue Frog for Channel V Launchpad III saw five bands battle it out playing two original songs each in front of a jury that consisted of Vishal Dadlani, Bo

Zakir Hussain Wins A Grammy, India Not As Excited

Monday, February 9th, 2009

With Slumdog Millionaire winning pretty much every award it is nominated for, and AR Rahman now living the Indian music dream, any recognition another Indian artist receives is

Back From Baajaa Gaajaa

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Back From Baajaa Gaajaa Hola dear reader! You may have noticed a conspicuous lack of updates over the last few days. We’ve been sipping overpriced, machine-made cold coffee at Baajaa Gaajaa, the three day indie music conference in Pune, soaking in the indie and the lovely (but strangely unpopular) surroundings of Ishanya, the venue of [...]

Shankar Mahadevan Pulls A WTF At The Allarakha Barsi Concert

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

It was all going so well. At the Allarakha Barsi Concert on Tuesday (Feb 3), visiting jazz men, saxophone player Charles Lloyd and drummer Eric Harland, were doing their thing

Live: Faridkot, Prachir, Cassini’s Division, Blank Noize, Workshop, The Circus, Reverrse Polarity @ Blue Frog, Mumbai

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

How real is Indian reality television? The American Idol-isation of talent hunt format shows has meant that at least one judge on the ‘panel’ has to be a complete bad-ass mofo

Watch: ‘Not My Kind Of Girl (live at Bonobo)’ – Zero

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

In their x-th avatar, Zero played a short set at the Mumbai press conference for Baajaa Gaajaa sans vocalist Rajeev Talwar. The set included ‘Hate in Em’, ‘Not My Kind Of Girl’

Watch: ‘The ‘59 Sound (live on Letterman)’ – The Gaslight Anthem

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Watch: ‘The ’59 Sound (live on Letterman)’ – The Gaslight Anthem We’ll be honest, we only just got into The Gaslight Anthem. Their brand of hard working, early Bruce Springsteen-punk rock is refreshing and energetic in a way that, though not entirely unique, is terribly sincere. The band recently brought the title track to 2008′s [...]

Live: South Delhi Block Party Part 2 @ Barcode, New Delhi

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

First off, we give major props to Delhi based label and promoters Aftershock International for attempting to import the ‘block party’ vibe to India. Next, we big it up for the

Amit Heri Group Release Old New Album Elephant Walk

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

All’s been quite on the Amit Heri Group front for over a year. The jazz guitar virtuoso is now out with a new album, Elephant Walk, which is not really a new album but new reco

South Asian Bands Festival Gets A Website, Lineup

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

The South Asian Bands Festival is a three day music festival organised by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (the same peeps who took The Raghu Dixit Project on a mini w

Surrogate Liquor Advertising Albums Do Exist, Bring Out The Bottle Water And ‘How To Speak Australian’ Coasters

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

If you’ve ever wondered whether all those ads for “CDs and cassettes” by Blender’s Pride, Bacardi and the rest were genuine – after all, you may have never really seen them in

Download: ‘R U Professional’ – The Mae Shi

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Download: ‘R U Professional’ – The Mae Shi LA punksters The Mae Shi are climbing up the indie A-list ladder on the back of 2008′s well received HLLLYH. The album essentially saw them break through to dance punk lovers of The Rapture and Atari video games. ‘R U Professional’ is a “song By The Mae [...]

Live: DJ Batuta, DJ Gareth, Kirti Das @ D.E.S.U. Phase 10, Cafe Morrision, New Delhi

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

D.E.S.U. – Delhi Electronica Supply Unit – is a sprawling DJ collective that borrows its name from the local government’s electrical power utility. Its semi-regular ‘Phase’ events