Hindustan Times
Ever since iTunes opened up its store to customers in India, it has been bliss for me. I can now buy music at very reasonable prices – songs for as low as R12 and in some cases, even full albums for a dirt cheap R30. The opening up of the iTunes Store was the best thing to have happened for Indian music lovers but some of us, especially of the grey-haired (or, no-haired) vintage, the real deal is often all about buying the album in its physical, touchable form. There is a certain something about peeling off the plastic and opening up the jewel case of a new CD that digitally downloaded albums just can’t match. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 7:03 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Algiers, Allen Ginsberg, argus48, baroque pop, Ben Harper, Berlin, bhangra, Brooklyn, Bruce Springsteen, Calexico, cassettes, Charlie Musselwhite, Download Central, folk music, funk, Glühwein, Grizzly Bear, Handwritten, Here Comes My Man, Horn of Plenty, Howl, India, indie band, iTunes, Mr Dead & Mrs Free, Music, New York, Nick Hornby, North Indian, psychedelic rock, Red Baraat, Sanjoy Narayan, Shields, Shruggy Ji, The Gaslight Anthem, Twitter, Van Morrison, Veckatimest, vinyls, wedding, Yellow House
It’s only a few days into 2010 but I can’t wait to hear some of the new music that’s going to come along pretty soon. On my playlist are tracks of bands that I know are all set to put out new albums this year and some of the tunes that are doing overtime on my burgeoning playlist I know are precursors of what we’ll get from them in the coming months.
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(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged After Robots, An Orchid, Animal Collective, Atlas Sound, Berlin, BLK JKS, Bradford Cox, Deerhunter, DJ Diplo, Download Central, Embryonic, Feed The Animals, Flaming Lips, Frightened Rabbit, Fun Stuff, Girl Talk, Grateful Dead, Greg Gillis, In Rainbows, indie rock, Mystery, Powerless, progressive rock and African music, Radiohead, Ramesh Srivatsava, Scott and Grant Hutchison, Secretly Canadian, Sing The Greys, Swim Until You Can’t See Land, The Austin, The Midnight Organ Fight, The Winter of Mixed Drinks, These are My Twisted Words, Voxtrot, What Would I Want? Sky, Without Return…
