Hindustan Times
Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon in 1973 and it became an instant hit, selling 45 million copies and remaining on the Billboard charts for 741 weeks, which is a record that is still unbroken. I don’t know how many million people have tripped on Dark Side over the past 37 years. I know I did back in the mid-1970s. And although I don’t really like Pink Floyd very much (except maybe for 1967’s The Piper At The Gates of Dawn, the only album released while the band was still helmed by Syd Barrett), it was de rigueur in my high school days (yes, yes, in the 1970s) to own a copy of the album, which, incidentally, I still do—on vinyl, on cassette and on CD. It’s a different matter that I can’t recall when was the last time I took any of these out and played them. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Friday, July 9, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Alligator, argus48, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Boxer, Dave Matthews, Download Central, Fluxblog, High Violet, Kris Kristofferson, Local Natives, Lotus, M Ward, National Public Radio, No-Neck Blues Band, Phish, Pink Floyd, Sanjoy Narayan, Stevie Wonder, Summer Tours, Syd Barrett, The Dark Side of the Moon, The Flaming Lips, The National, The Piper At The Gates of Dawn, The Temper Trap, Tim Reynolds, Twitter, Wayne Coyne, Yonder Mountain String Band, Zooey Deschanel
If there is one band that has steadfastly stuck to its indie-ness, despite huge success and critical acclaim, it is The National. Till last week, the Brooklyn-based band of some 10 years or so had four full-length albums out, two of them – Alligator and Boxer – catapulting them to popularity (make that popularity in indie terms and not multi-platinum sales). Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Hindustan Times on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Aaron, Alligator, Berninger: Bryan, Bon Iver, Boxer, Bryce, Dessner, Devendorf, Die By the Drop, Download Central, Great New Blues, High Violet, Jack White, Justin Vernon, Karen, Matt Berninger, Sanjoy Narayan, Scott, Sea of Cowards, Sorrow, Squalor Victoria, Sufjan Stevens, The Dead Weather, The Fader, The National, The Roadhouse, Twitter
I have gushed before about The National’s Matt Berninger and his deep baritone voice and their songs with highly literate and intimate, if a bit self-absorbed, lyrics. The two albums of the Brooklyn-based band that I like—Alligator and Boxer—do routine overtime on my playlists. I like the sad (yet not soppy) undertone in many of their songs and the nice dose of intellectualism and wit. It would be fair enough to say The National is among my favourite bands.
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(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Friday, April 16, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 4AD, Alligator, argus48, Blood Bank, Bloodbuzz Ohio, Bon Iver, Boxer, Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: The Songs of John Prine, Bruised Orange, Carl Newman, Challengers, Chen Shinki, Dan Bejar, Deer Tick, Destroyer, Download Central, For Emma, Forever Ago, Glue & Shinki, High Violet, Indie, indie band, Jimi Hendrix, John Prine, Justin Vernon, Matt Berninger, Neko Case, Records, Sanjoy Narayan, Speed, The Best of March Compilation, The Crash Years, The National, The New Pornographers, Together, Twenty Miles, Twin Cinema, Twitter, Zumpano
A friend called up the other day to say he remembered me because he was in London and had just gone for a concert where Seun Kuti and his Egypt 80 band had played. “You wrote about Seun, remember? I just caught his concert and it was fabulous.”
I’m sure it was, I thought to myself, sitting here in the sweltering heat of Delhi where the mercury routinely hovers above the 40-degree mark during summer. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 1975 concert, Atlanta, Bon Iver, Boxer, Download Central, Eels, Egypt 80 band, Feist, Fox Theatre, Little Feat, Lowell George, Miles Davis, Music, Nirvana, Okkervil River, Paul Simon, Philharmonie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Seun Kuti, Talking Heads, Tauthal, The Allman Brothers
