Hindustan Times
I don’t know how many people read this column regularly (four, perhaps?) but ever since Download Central began a little over a year back, I’ve heard one common response: “Why do you write about bands that we’ve never heard of?” This has become such a refrain that I’ve often felt a twinge of self-doubt. Am I really writing about completely obscure bands that no one knows or cares about? If that was indeed true, what was the point of writing the column?
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(11 votes, average: 4.82 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Actor, album Noble Beast, All Songs Considered, And You're Next, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Annie Clark, Backspacer, Bat for Lashes, Blood Bank, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, Camera Obscura, Cat Power, Dead Weather, Download Central, Far, Grizzly Bear, Hazards of Love, He War, Horehound, I And Love And You, internet, Jack White, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Middle Cyclone, Modest Mouse, My Maudlin Career, Natasha Khan, Neko Case, No Line on The Horizon, No One's First, NPR, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Speak For Me, Spiritualized, St. Vincent, The Avett Brothers, The Decemberists, The New Pornographers, Together Through Life, Tracyanne Campbell, Two Suns, U2, Veckatimest, White, Wilco’s Wilco (The Album), Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Just when I thought this year was going to end dull with nothing very new in music coming my way, I was jolted by a bunch of new sounds. Here are three musicians who’re doing overtime on my playlist this December.
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(2 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged A.A. Bondy, American Hearts, Auguste Arthur, Curse Your Branches, David Bazan, Doveman, Her Vanished Grace, indie Christian rock band, Nintendo’s Game Boy, Nirvana, Pedro the Lion, pop, R&B, Travelling Like the Light, Umphrey’s McGee, V. V. Brown, Vanessa Brown, Verbena, Vogue, When the Devil’s Loose
I hadn’t really heard the music of Delhi’s popular rock band, Them Clones, before getting a copy of their debut album, love. hate. heroes (EMI, Rs 195). One reason for not having heard them was, of course, the fact that although Them Clones have been a hot act on the gig circuit, I haven’t been to a rock concert in many years, preferring the infinitely more sedentary option of listening to music via downloads and most typically on my mp3 players with the phones stuck deep into my ear canals.
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(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Beyond Here Lies Nothin’, Bob Dylan, Clone This CD, Creative Commons, Download Central, Fitz and The Tantrums, free downloads, Frightened Rabbit, Glaswegian indie bands, In Rainbows, Indrajit Hazra, Living In Colour, love. hate. heroes, mp3, Nothing Like You, Nugs Net, Phish, Radiohead, Return of the Dead, rock concert, Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus, Sony Music, Stars of The Lid Horchata, Steal This Album!, System of A Down, Them Clones, Together Through Life
