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
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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
It’s always nice to meet someone who shares your tastes in music. You exchange notes, swap a CD or two or a few zipped files of new albums, maybe just exchange tips and leads on what blogs to follow, which bands to watch, or even bitch about musicians whom most others think are fabulous but you just want to avoid like the plague. But as you grow older and have less time to meet too many new people and often are finickier about who you meet, such encounters become rare. So I was pleasantly surprised last month when I met a new colleague in Mumbai who was not only as much of a podcast addict as I am but also a great fan of the NPR podcasts of which he is also an obsessive listener. Of course, although his taste in music and mine do intersect somewhere, he’s more loyal to latin jazz, while my interests veer more towards rock. Still, when we met for a drink recently in his town, we forged an instant bond about widgets, apps and downloads from the NPR website and of how our commutes have become so much more bearable. Read more
(6 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged #keepingitpeel, Alternative Latin, America’s National Public Radio, argus48, BBC’s Radio 1, Download Central, Fanfarlo, Festive Fifty, Hindustan Times, iPad app, iPhone, John Peel, Kurt Cobain, London’s indie band, Music, Nirvana, NPR podcasts, NPR website, Phantom Fifty, Reservoir, Rooms Filled With Light, Sanjoy Narayan, Simon Balthazer, Smells Like Teen Spirit
You are unlikely to find a rock musician who works harder than Warren Haynes. The 51-year-old lead guitarist and singer works in three bands – Gov’t Mule, which he fronts, The Allman Brothers Band where he plays the lead guitar along with, Derek Trucks, his own solo projects, as well as occasional stints with Phil Lesh & Friends. How the man manages to do all of that for outfits that tour like maniacs – most of these bands mainly play live gigs (sometimes more than a 100 shows a year) and record very few studio albums – is a mystery. Yet Haynes, who was featured at No. 23 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, powers on, shuffling his dates between bands and, as he did recently, makes time to record studio albums as well. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Friday, July 1, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, 2006’s Okonokos, Another One For Woody, argus48, At Dawn, Banks of The Deep End, Derek Trucks, Elmore James, Evil Urges, George Porter Jr, Gov’t Mule, Hindustan Times, Howlin’ Wolf, It Still Moves, Ivan Neville, Jim James, Luther and Cody Dickinson, Man In Motion, Meters’ bassist, Muddy Waters, Music, My Morning Jacket, North Mississippi Allstars, On Holdin’ Onto Black Metal, Phil Lesh & Friends, Raymond Webber, Rolling Stone, Sanjoy Narayan, Soulshine, The Allman Brothers Band, The Beatles’ Dear Prudence, Twitter, Warren Haynes, Yet Haynes, Z
