Hindustan Times
Around 10 days back, my colleague in London mailed me a link with a short note that simply said “Yes they are back! And I can die in peace”. The link was to a lyric video (the kind where you can read the lyrics while listening to the song) of The Rolling Stones’ latest new single, Doom And Gloom. And the note from my colleague who’s obviously a huge Stones fan besides being an erstwhile (or, is he still one?) bass slapper himself, is an example of how much diehard Stones fans love the 50-year-old band. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 6:05 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Alex Chilton, Anant Rangaswami, And The Spiders From Mars, Aquarium Drunkard, argus48, Beatle Drums, Blind Faith, David Bowie, Doom And Gloom, Download Central, Eric Clapton, Exile On Main St., First Post, Flashing Light, Ginger Baker, Goats Head Soup, GRRR!, I Go To Sleep, Let It Bleed, Love Me Do, Metz, Music, Rabindra Sangeet, Rick Grech, Rolling Stone-ness, Rolling Stones, Sanjoy Narayan, Scotch on the Socks, Screaming Lord Sutch, Sidecar, Steve Winwood, Stones Jumpin’ Jack Flash, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Motions, The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust, The Shadows, Twitter, Wet Blanket
There was a time when I used to like rap. And hip-hop. I liked the attitude, the ever so often NSFW lyrics, the inherent anger and sometimes – not always, though – the wit and self-deprecation. Of course, the bass-lines and the scratching added to the experience. And I liked rappers’ willingness to collaborate with other rappers and feature them as guests on their recordings. It was like a whole different community, replete with intense, often violent, rivalry but also with a curious kind of camaraderie. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4.8 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Friday, December 31, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Aquarium Drunkard, argus48, Ashok Kondabolu, Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, Das Racist, DJ Premier, Download Central, Dr Dre and Ice Cube, Dude, Fake Patois, Gang Starr, Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal, Himanshu Suri, Jay-Z, Jim Carrey, Man, MC Guru, Music, Niggaz With Attitude, NME, NSFW, Pitchfork, PopMatters, Rapping 2 U, Sanjoy Narayan, Shut Up, Sit Down, Stereogum, Tupac Shakur, Twitter, Victor Vazquez
I first heard Flight of the Conchords on a blog. A music blog. The blog, one of those ubiquitous mp3-embedded kinds directed me to a hilarious seven-minute YouTube clip featuring the duo that calls itself “New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo. Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Anthony Volodkin's The Hype Machine, Aquarium Drunkard, Arctic Monkeys' Brianstorm, Bret McKenzie, Download Central, Elspeth Lomax, Fleet Foxes, Flight Of The Conchords Bowie, HBO series of songs of the Conchords, Jemaine Clement, Lypsynchsuck, Morrisey, Music, Pogoago-go, Rock City's Lovely Lady, Tame Impala's Half Full Glass Of Wine, The Arctic Monkeys, Vinyl Villain, YouTube
