I don’t remember when I last bought an album by a new band from a store. A few weeks back on a stroll through a Gurgaon mall, I browsed the CD shelves in a bookstore and picked up a copy of Radiohead’s In Rainbows. That doesn’t count because I’d already got the album, having downloaded it when the band put up all the tracks on the Internet in October 2007, letting down-loaders decide what they’d like to pay for it. Read more
This column has been getting some flak. Some friends as well as complete strangers have been telling me I write about obscure music and that I have no idea what young people are listening to these days. “Go to nightclubs and pubs,” advised someone, “and check out what they’re all grooving to instead of pulling out funny sounding bands and getting ecstatic about them.” Read more
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