Hindustan Times
I think it was in Mumbai where I was living in 1996 that a friend slipped me a CD by Phish, a band that I’d heard of but had never heard. “Great stuff for former Deadheads,” he said. The album was Rift and its cover showed a man lying in bed diagonally, which I later realised was the depiction of one of the songs, Lengthwise, which features on the album. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Another Joyous Occasion, Aquarium Rescue Unit, argus48, Bill Nershi, Carnival ’99, Dana Monteith, David Welker, Deadheads, Double Live, Download Central, Dubbabuddah, Get Away, Hookahville, Jerry Garcia, Jimmy Herring, Kyle Hollingsworth, Lengthwise, Light Fuse, Live in the Classic City, Matinee Idols, Max Verna, Michael Kang, Mike Houser, Music, Ominous Seapods, Phish, Plattsburgh, Rift, Sanjoy Narayan, String Cheese, Take Five, The Grateful Dead, The String Cheese Incident, Tom Pirozzi, Trey Anastasio, Twitter, Uber Cobra, Vermont, Widespread Panic
Sometime last year, when the Contrast Podcast, a weekly collaborative by a bunch of mp3 bloggers, first became irregular and then disappeared altogether, I felt like an addict who has been denied his fix. Contrast is a podcast that began in 2006 and every week, usually on a Tuesday, bloggers presented a theme which they spoke about and then presented songs relevant to that theme. It could be anything – from a body part (say, the brain) to something like Boiling and Steaming. Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Monday, January 24, 2011 at 11:14 am
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Achtung Bono, Ambleside, argus 48, Being Boiled, Black Sheep, Boiling and Steaming, Contrast podcast, CSI franchise, CSI: Ambleside, Download Central, Festive Fifty, Got the Water Boiling, Half Man Half Biscuit, Have A Cuppa Tea, I got your water boiling baby, I’m gonna cook a-your goose, Julian Cope, Liverpool, Music, Pink Steam, Sanjoy Narayan, Sonic Youth, The Beginning Stages of…The Polyphonic Spree, The Human League, The Kinks, The Modern Antiquarian, The Polyphonic Spree, The Regals, The Teardrop Explodes, Twitter
I don’t know why I went into a sudden R.E.M. phase a few weeks back but it could have to do with the fact that a colleague had acquired their new box set of re-mastered (with bonus and live tracks) versions of their first three albums—Murmur, Reckoning and Fables of Reconstruction. I dusted off my old R.E.M. studio albums, all 14 of them, and began listening to them after ages. Then I tried buying that box set but I still haven’t located a music shop that has it. Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Accelerate, argus48, Around The Sun, Backspacer, Bright Eyes, Collapse Into Now, Conor Oberst, Dan Bejar, Dark Sunrise, Destroyer, Download Central, Eddie Vedder, Fables of Reconstruction, Guided By Voices, Jim James, Kaputt, Leaving New York, M Ward, Michael Stipe, Mike Mogis, Murmur, Music, My Heart, My Morning Jacket, Oh, Patti Smith, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Reckoning, Rikki Ililonga, Sanjoy Narayan, Shell Games, The People’s Key, Trouble In Dreams, Twitter, Zamrock
Late last month, as 2010 wound down and the usual end-of-the-year blues began clouding my mind, two missives brought a smile to my face. One was a compressed zip file, delivered digitally to my Gmail inbox and the other came via creaky, old snail mail in a packet delivered to my office. They were two new albums by two bands from two cities, Boston and Delhi, which are at least 11,400 kilometres apart. What is more, both the albums were sent to me by the bands much before they were scheduled to be released officially. Read more
(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Anup Kutty, Born With a Broken Heart, Carpenter Bird, Chuchumbe, Download Central, EMI, Everything Is Saved, Hard Rock Café, Hurricane Bells, menwhopause, Music, Newport Folk Festival, Sanjoy Narayan, That’s Not True, The David Wax Museum, The Least I Can Do, The Persimmon Tree, Twitter
