Hindustan Times
By the time you read this, South by South West, arguably the largest music festival held each year at Austin, Texas, will be winding down. Thirteen hundred odd bands would have performed at more than 90 venues. And festival-goers—I envy them all—would have discovered tons of new musicians, many of them obscure but many among them that are likely to make ripples in the coming months. For several years now, I have had a long-standing objective of making it to the festival and drowning in the non-stop gigs for four consecutive days. I haven’t managed to fulfill that objective yet. Sigh! Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged AC/DC, Alabama Shakes, argus48, Austin, Boys and Girls, Brittany Howard, Download Central, Hold On, I Found You, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Kishi Bashi, Led Zeppelin, Madness in Miniature, Mr Gnome, Music, Nicole Barille, Otis Redding, Room For Dream, Sam Meister, San Francisco, Sanjoy Narayan, South By South West, Space psychedelia, Split 7, SXSW, Texas, The Independent, Twitter, You Ain’t Alone
I’m in a once-familiar city that has changed in weird ways. The weather alternates between muggy and hot or wet and rainy. I know few people in town now and everything seems new, strange and even a bit complicated. The fact that I’ve had to make the trip in not very happy circumstances doesn’t make things any better. So, lying down in bed in the dark one night, I reached into the innards of an old iPod for something familiar.
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(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged AC/DC, Aeroplane Over the Sea, Anne Frank, argus48, Bobby Jenkins, Doors, Download Central, GarageHangover, Gloria, Good Love Never Dies, Holland, Horses, India Tobacco Company, Jades, Jeff Buckley, King of the Slide Guitar, Liz Phair, Neutral Milk Hotel, No Tears Left to Cry, P J Harvey, Patti Smith to Jimi Hendrix, R&B, Robb London, Robb London and the Rogues, Roy Buchanan, Sanjoy Narayan, Simla Beat, Style Style Council, The Jam, The Last Goodbye, Tribute to Elmore James, Twitter, Van Morrison, Wake Up the Nation
