Hindustan Times
Tomorrow is Monday. No matter how good or bad your weekend was, tomorrow is Monday. It’s been too many decades – far more than I would care to mention – since I left school, but the tendency to malinger on Monday mornings still lingers in me every time that first working day of the week looms ahead, precisely, invariably and without exception. So to dull the blow of Monday mornings, I try to put together a playlist for my commute to work, something to make it easier to get back to the grind. Last week, I surveyed my latest haul of albums, songs and podcasts and zeroed in on something that I hoped would be a good antidote to the Monday morning blues, the new Best Coast album, The Only Place. Read more
(10 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Best Coast, Bethany Consentino, Bobb Bruno, Bonnaroo festival, California, Crazy For You, Dan Auerbach, Dr. John, Hindustan Times, Locked Down, Mac Rebbenack, Music, New Orleans, Ohio bluesman, On The Only Place, Revolution, Sanjoy Narayan, The Black Keys, The Only Place, Twitter, Why I Cry
I don’t know about you but those rare Fri-Sat-Sun weekend holidays almost invariably end for me with an anxious and slightly depressed Sunday morning. First, there’s the ugly form of another work-filled week looming ahead and just a few quick hours away. Then, again almost always, the most pleasing part of the extended weekend is over before it extends to Sunday. So last week, when the Easter weekend rolled by and the all-familiar dip began on Sunday morning, I was determined to fight it off. With a playlist. I wanted some happy music. So, weeks after I’d acquired Crazy For You, last year’s debut album by Best Coast, a Los Angeles indie band, but hadn’t really got down to listening, I popped it in and sat back. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Ali Koehler, argus48, Baby’s Arms, Best Coast, Bethany Consentino, Bobb Bruno, Boyfriend, Bruce Springsteen, Consentino, Constant Hitmaker, Crazy For You, Dan Bejar, Destroyer, Download Central, Easter weekend, Fleetwood Mac, Kaputt, Kurt Vile, Maynard Ferguson, Music, Philadelphian, Randy Newman, Sanjoy Narayan, Serlift, Smoke Ring For My Halo, Steely Dan, The War on Drugs, Tom Petty, Trouble In Dreams, Twitter, Vancouverite, Vivian Girls, Zoloft
