I hadn’t really heard the music of Delhi’s popular rock band, Them Clones, before getting a copy of their debut album, love. hate. heroes (EMI, Rs 195). One reason for not having heard them was, of course, the fact that although Them Clones have been a hot act on the gig circuit, I haven’t been to a rock concert in many years, preferring the infinitely more sedentary option of listening to music via downloads and most typically on my mp3 players with the phones stuck deep into my ear canals.
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Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Beyond Here Lies Nothin’, Bob Dylan, Clone This CD, Creative Commons, Download Central, Fitz and The Tantrums, free downloads, Frightened Rabbit, Glaswegian indie bands, In Rainbows, Indrajit Hazra, Living In Colour, love. hate. heroes, mp3, Nothing Like You, Nugs Net, Phish, Radiohead, Return of the Dead, rock concert, Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus, Sony Music, Stars of The Lid Horchata, Steal This Album!, System of A Down, Them Clones, Together Through Life
I’d never have thought songs about breaking up could be so sonically joyous if I hadn’t heard Fitz and The Tantrums’ debut extended play album titled Songs For A Break Up Volume I. Fitz And The Tantrums are a Los Angeles band and their debut work is actually downloadable for free off their website. They’re a soul band that recreates the purity of the sound of that genre as it was in the nineteen-sixties and seventies.
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Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Barefoot Soul, Bitte Orca, Black Flag, Blues, Damaged, Dave Longstreth, Dirty Projectors, Fitz and The Tantrums, gospel, Michael Scott, Motown retro, Noelle Scaggs, Paris Delane, Pitchforkmedia, punk, Rise Above, rock, Sam Hogan, Songs For A Break Up Volume I, Sonia Dada, soul, Test Pattern, Thao Nguyen, The Mclovins, Truman Peyote, You Don’t Treat Me No Good