Hindustan Times
Sometimes it takes a re-issue of old albums to rediscover a musician that you’ve been out of touch with for a while. So it was with me last week. When a couple of re-issued Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums landed up, re-mastered and with bonuses such as DVDs in tow, I revisited Nick Cave and after the first couple of tracks on the re-issued Dig, Lazarus Dig!!! (originally released in 2008), I wondered how on earth could I have let so much time elapse before I re-heard Cave’s music. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged A Thing Called Divine Fits, argus48, author and actor, Babe, Blues, Bob Dylan, Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner, Dig, Divine Fits, Download Central, garage rock, gothic band, Grinderman, Grinderman2, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I’m On Fire, Jazz, Jim Sclavunos, Lazarus Dig!!!, Leonard Cohen, Martyn P. Casey, New Bomb Turks, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nocturama, pop-rock, punk, Sam Brown, Sanjoy Narayan, songwriter, Spoon, The Birthday Party, The Death of Bunny Munro, The Road, Tom Waits, Twitter, Viggo Mortensen, Warren Ellis, Wolf Parade
As I write this (and roughly a week before you read it), the mother of all music festivals is underway at Austin, Texas. It’s the South by South-West festival, commonly referred to as SXSW, and has been on for the past 23 years. In 1994, in addition to music, SXSW included film and interactive media conferences and has now become an important fixture on the world’s film festival circuit. But it is the music that is at the core of SXSW and what really excites me about this annual festival that happens in March. Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 100 Days, 100 Nights, BlueDisguise Records, Bob Dylan, Britt Daniel, Dark Eyes, David Greenwald, Dirty Projectors, Download Central, Free Energy, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Gimme Fiction, Holy Fuck, I Learned the Hard Way, Jim Eno, Latin, Local 638, menwhopause, Message to Garcia, National Public Radio, NPR, Rachel Flotard, Rawkblog, Sanjoy Narayan, Sharon Jones, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, South by South-West festival, Spoon, SXSW, Tom Ridge, Transference, Twitter, Visqueen, When The Saints Go Marching In
The first Sigur Rós album I heard was Ágætis byrjun, which means ‘an all right start’ in Icelandic. Sigur Rós are an Icelandic band that plays a genre of music that is classified (by those who love to classify such things) as post-rock, minimalist, ethereal music. I found Sigur Rós’s music mainly downtempo and soothing but also sad at times. I heard several of their albums, including the curiously named () (released in 2002), Takk (in 2005) and Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (2008). That last title translates into ‘with a buzz in our ears we play endlessly’. Nice, isn’t it? I don’t know why, but the band’s music sometimes reminded me of a huge, widescreen film where the camera is static and the visual is of a wide open landscape.
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(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged (), Ágætis byrjun, All Songs Considered, Audience of One, Behave Yourself, Bobby Charles, Boy Lilikoi, Britt Daniel, Cold War Kids, Contra, Daniel and Eno, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, David Edwards, ethereal, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, Gimme Fiction, Go, Hospital Beds, Jim Eno, Jónsi Birgisson, Loyalty to Loyalty, Martin Scorcese, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, minimalist, NPR, Pitchfork, post-rock, Radiohead, Roamin' and Ramblin Blues', Sigur Rós, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Street People, Takk, The Band, The Last Waltz, Thom Yorke, Transference, Vampire Weekend
