Hindustan Times
The box set comprising the entire second season of Treme had been lying on my bedside table for months without being watched. One reason for that was, of course, time. Watching a box set can become an addiction and even if you start by watching the first couple of episodes, before you realise it, you’ve spent the entire night, eyes glued to the television screen, watching the entire truckload of episodes and, in effect, killed any prospect of functioning normally at work the following morning. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 6:02 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Antoine Batiste, argus48, bebop, Before These Crowded Streets, Black Keys, Blues, Butch Taylor, Cajun bands, Crash, Dan Auerbach, Dave Matthews Band, Diwali, Download Central, Dr. John, Elvis Costello, From the Corner to the Block, funk, funk and jazz jams, Galactic, Henry Butler, Hurricane Katrina, Isabel, James Booker, Jelly Roll Morton, Jon Cleary, Locked Down, Mama Roux, Modest Mouse, New Orleans, Oye, R&B, soul musicians, Steve Earle, The Central Park Concert, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Iguanas, The Radiators, The Rebirth Brass Band, The Subdudes, Tom McDermott, Treme, Treme 2, Twitter, Under the Table and Dreaming, Warren Haynes, Wendell Pierce, Widespread Panic, zydeco
Sometimes it takes a re-issue of old albums to rediscover a musician that you’ve been out of touch with for a while. So it was with me last week. When a couple of re-issued Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums landed up, re-mastered and with bonuses such as DVDs in tow, I revisited Nick Cave and after the first couple of tracks on the re-issued Dig, Lazarus Dig!!! (originally released in 2008), I wondered how on earth could I have let so much time elapse before I re-heard Cave’s music. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged A Thing Called Divine Fits, argus48, author and actor, Babe, Blues, Bob Dylan, Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner, Dig, Divine Fits, Download Central, garage rock, gothic band, Grinderman, Grinderman2, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I’m On Fire, Jazz, Jim Sclavunos, Lazarus Dig!!!, Leonard Cohen, Martyn P. Casey, New Bomb Turks, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nocturama, pop-rock, punk, Sam Brown, Sanjoy Narayan, songwriter, Spoon, The Birthday Party, The Death of Bunny Munro, The Road, Tom Waits, Twitter, Viggo Mortensen, Warren Ellis, Wolf Parade
Outside of Italy, where he is a superstar whom everyone knows, singer Jovanotti is hardly famous. He ought to be. And probably will soon be. Ever since the 46-year-old played at the Bonnaroo festival in 2011, he’s been steadily building up a fan base in the US, a sure sign that he’s on the road to fame outside his native Italy. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, November 10, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged African beat, Alabama Shakes, Ana Sia, Andy Stott, argus48, Asheville, ATO Records, bistecca alla Fiorentina, Bonnaroo festival, classical, Download Central, Eastern beat, Flipkart, Flyte, funk, Gomez, Google translate, India, Italia 2008-2011, Jovanotti, KEXP, Lorenzo Cherubini, LyricsMania, Michael Franti, Moogfest, Morton Subotnick, My Morning Jacket, North Carolina, opera-infused songs, Palestine, pop songs, Robert Moog, Safari, Sanjoy Narayan, Seattle’s radio channel, T-bone steak, Trey Anastasio and Widespread Panic, Tuscany, Twitter
A couple of weeks ago, within days of each other, two of my iPods breathed their last. The 160 GB Classic (circa 2009) gave up the ghost first. It simply lost all of the 120 GB or so of music that it had on it. And then, my all-time favourite, the eight-year-old 40 GB went kaput. On both of these I’d stashed away loads of songs, many of which were un-backed up; there were carefully (at least that’s what I think!) curated playlists: clustered according to genres, live recordings, year of recording, favourites, and so on. And then poof! All gone. Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Sunday, November 4, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!, argus48, Bandcamp website, Butter, CMJ Music Festival, Download Central, Echo Kid, F#A#, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, GY!BE, I got moe., I Wanna Be Sedated, indierock, ipod, iPod Playlist, Kickstarter, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, moe.rons., People Get Ready, Pitchfork, punk, Ramones, Sanjoy Narayan, Turbo Fruits, Twitter, Warts and All
