Hindustan Times
I don’t know about you but those rare Fri-Sat-Sun weekend holidays almost invariably end for me with an anxious and slightly depressed Sunday morning. First, there’s the ugly form of another work-filled week looming ahead and just a few quick hours away. Then, again almost always, the most pleasing part of the extended weekend is over before it extends to Sunday. So last week, when the Easter weekend rolled by and the all-familiar dip began on Sunday morning, I was determined to fight it off. With a playlist. I wanted some happy music. So, weeks after I’d acquired Crazy For You, last year’s debut album by Best Coast, a Los Angeles indie band, but hadn’t really got down to listening, I popped it in and sat back. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Ali Koehler, argus48, Baby’s Arms, Best Coast, Bethany Consentino, Bobb Bruno, Boyfriend, Bruce Springsteen, Consentino, Constant Hitmaker, Crazy For You, Dan Bejar, Destroyer, Download Central, Easter weekend, Fleetwood Mac, Kaputt, Kurt Vile, Maynard Ferguson, Music, Philadelphian, Randy Newman, Sanjoy Narayan, Serlift, Smoke Ring For My Halo, Steely Dan, The War on Drugs, Tom Petty, Trouble In Dreams, Twitter, Vancouverite, Vivian Girls, Zoloft
I don’t know why I went into a sudden R.E.M. phase a few weeks back but it could have to do with the fact that a colleague had acquired their new box set of re-mastered (with bonus and live tracks) versions of their first three albums—Murmur, Reckoning and Fables of Reconstruction. I dusted off my old R.E.M. studio albums, all 14 of them, and began listening to them after ages. Then I tried buying that box set but I still haven’t located a music shop that has it. Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Accelerate, argus48, Around The Sun, Backspacer, Bright Eyes, Collapse Into Now, Conor Oberst, Dan Bejar, Dark Sunrise, Destroyer, Download Central, Eddie Vedder, Fables of Reconstruction, Guided By Voices, Jim James, Kaputt, Leaving New York, M Ward, Michael Stipe, Mike Mogis, Murmur, Music, My Heart, My Morning Jacket, Oh, Patti Smith, Pavement, Pearl Jam, Peter Buck, R.E.M., Reckoning, Rikki Ililonga, Sanjoy Narayan, Shell Games, The People’s Key, Trouble In Dreams, Twitter, Zamrock
