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		<title>Down The Narco Corridor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody knows about Mexico’s bloody drug cartel wars, the narcotics mafia, executions and the state’s often inadequate attempts to curb the menace. But did you know about the controversial genre of music that all this has spawned? I didn’t till I heard my first narcocorrido or drug ballad. It was a song called Quiseron Tumbar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/download-central/2009/11/21/down-the-narco-corridor/</link>
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		<title>Of Covers &#38; Mash-ups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been fooling around for the past week with a website called Let Them Sing It For You. It’s a Swedish website (part of a radio channel) that lets you feed a phrase, a sentence or just arbitrary words and then spews them out as a song. Only, to create the final song for you, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/download-central/2009/11/14/of-covers-mash-ups/</link>
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		<title>Southern discomfort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take a stiff shot of the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Add some more grit, grime and edge. Shake it up well in an old cocktail-shaker and serve it straight up. What you’ll get is what a band called Drive-By Truckers serves up. I first came across the Truckers when I heard their two-CD epic, The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/download-central/2009/11/07/southern-discomfort/</link>
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		<title>What Makes Moby Tick?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not often that I think of choosing an album by Moby to listen to but when I do, it is usually Play, his hit album from 1999 that has a hint of melancholia but is otherwise quite upbeat electronica. 
Tracks from Play include Honey, Find My Baby and the sad Why Does My Heart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/download-central/2009/10/31/what-makes-moby-tick/</link>
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		<title>A Matter Of Taste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jazz legend Duke Ellington, who’s credited with many interesting quotes on jazz, blues and music critics is believed to have once said: “There are two kinds of music. Good music and the other kind.” But what’s good and what’s the other kind is entirely a matter of individual taste. Mentioning Ellington’s quote, a recent article [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/download-central/2009/10/24/a-matter-of-taste/</link>
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		<title>Why downloading doesn’t always do it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since last week when I first heard Pearl Jam’s Backspacer, their newest album, I’ve been obsessively listening to it over and over again. It’s a mighty fine album and if you read the review in last Saturday’s Rock ’n’ Roll Circus in Hindustan Times by my colleague Indrajit Hazra you’ll know what I mean. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/download-central/2009/10/16/why-downloading-doesn%e2%80%99t-always-do-it/</link>
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		<title>The Blues Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There were two reasons why I picked up an album a couple of weeks back and they had nothing to do with the music. The first, was the name of the band Dr. Fong &#38; Friends. I liked that. The second, was the name of the album Beethoven of Da Blues. I liked that even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/download-central/2009/10/10/the-blues-revisited/</link>
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		<title>The Best of 2009… thus far</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know we’re barely into the tenth month this year and November and December are still left, but 2009 has thus far been such a hyperactive period for music that I couldn’t help writing about the best that I’ve heard till now. It’s not easy to do a list of the best new albums but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/download-central/2009/10/03/the-best-of-2009%e2%80%a6-thus-far/</link>
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		<title>Pounding the Pavement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when the party is over, everyone has left, the empty glasses still stand about and I’m sleepy yet want to listen to one more album, it is Slanted &#38; Enchanted that almost invariably comes out. Instead of on the audio system, increasingly these days, in deference to the others that I live with, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/download-central/2009/09/26/pounding-the-pavement/</link>
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		<title>Under The Covers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Purists will hate me for it but I like covers. I know there&#8217;s nothing like the real McCoy but listening to cover versions of songs whose classic versions you&#8217;re familiar with has a different sort of appeal. I enjoy listening to covers, especially when they&#8217;re done in an unexpected way. In recent weeks there was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/download-central/2009/09/19/under-the-covers/</link>
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