Archive for September, 2009

Cover Story: ‘Someone Great’

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Where would Indian indie be without covers? Back playing ‘Mustang Sally’ every August? Oh, wait. Indiecision scours the interweb to find you great (and sucky) covers performed by I

Human Abstract Give Away Debut EP Free

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Mumbai alternative act Human Abstract is giving away its debut EP Two Point Perspective as a free download. The six track EP consists of material the band has performed over the ye

Textures In India: This Is Not Tour News

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

There’s been a lot of talk about Dutch metal act Textures playing in India. It started back in January with RSJ’s poorly timed April Fool’s joke – the Great Indian Metal Fest ’09, that promised a lineup including Textures, Keep of Kalessin (Norway) and The Haunted (Sweden).

Growing Down Calls For Entries

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

“Sick of growing up? Then sing about growing down”

As tacky as that may sound Growing Down seems like a fun idea. An initiative by the folks over at City Spinning, Growing Down

Hungama Music Store: Impressions

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Hungama’s new entertainment store went live beta recently. Neeraj Roy (Hungama CEO) and Co have had this in the works for a while, but most of what it’s about has been hush-hush.

Pics: Advaita, Swarathma @ Taj Lands End

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Advaita and Swarathma played the close of the Nokia Music Connects conference held in Mumbai recently. While the conference had its ups and downs (mostly downs) both bands delivere

Watch: ‘Fence’ – Skinny Alley

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

When EMI released Kolkata rock act Skinny Alley’s debut album Escape The Roar in 2003, it was a big deal. What really made me take notice though was the fact that the album was on the CD player at one of Rhythm House’s (Mumbai) listening booths.

Eastwind Festival To Be Rescheduled

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

There are a lot of rumours about the Eastwind festival being thrown around. Here’s some of the talk we have heard over the past few weeks

- “Anthrax is playing”
- “Killswitch E

Pics: Great Society @ Blue Frog, Mumbai

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Lou Majaw and Great Society played a Bob Dylan tribute night at the Blue Frog last month. We were there, for one of the best gigs of the year so far.

Notes

Great Society playe

Beat Sessions v1: The Sets

Monday, September 21st, 2009

The Beat Sessions kicked off at Zenzi Bandra (Mumbai) on Thursday, Sep 17. Rolling Stone and Zenzi Bandra with Indiecision presented the first in a series of indie music parties an

Lounge Piranha New Gig Dates

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Alternative act Lounge Piranha has announced new gig dates for the coming week. Three dates have been announced for Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.

Dates
Wed, Sep 23, 8.30pm:

Technoholik And Indiecision Talk Music

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Remember that Nokia Music Connects conference we attended a few weeks ago? While we were there Indiecision editor Arjun S Ravi spoke with Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan, host of the show Technoholik on ET Now, about the current state of the mainstream of the Indian music industry. Yes, it is a little ranty, but not wholly undeserved. [...]