Hindustan Times
It’s the curse of plenty. When collecting tends towards hoarding, choice becomes a real problem. And that has been happening to me. The rate at which I’m amassing music—courtesy the scores of feeds from mp3 blogs that I subscribe to and the huge number of podcasts that unfailingly land in my iTunes each week—is far higher than the rate at which I can listen to them all. Some weeks back, a reader and occasional admonisher, Sanjay Ghosh, while commenting on the web version of this column, observed how when you have hundreds of albums, your attention per album gets really small. I couldn’t agree more. Read more
(2 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 69 Love Songs, Alessandro Moreschi’s Ave Maria, argus48, Audrey Hepburn, Band of Horses, Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday’s All of Me, Bloodbuzz Ohio, Breaksfast at Tiffany’s, Check The Door, Dinah, Django Reinhardt, Download Central, Go, High Violet, In The Dark, Infinite Arms, Iron Maiden, iTunes, Jon Birgisson, Jon “Jonsi” Birgisson, Jonsi, Keller Williams, Keller’s Cellar, Killers, Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday, Moon Moon River, Moon River, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Ponys, Sanjay Ghosh, Sanjoy Narayan, Sigur Rós, The Beatles, The Contrast Podcast, The Magnetic Fields, The National, The Roadhouse Podcast, The Whigs, Tony Steidler-Dennison, Twitter
There aren’t too many radio disc jockeys that I am fond of. Much of the radio music that I listen to is by way of the internet — either streams off the web or podcasts of radio programmes from small and independent radio stations. And far too many of the DJs that I’ve encountered on such programmes talk way too much. Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Audioslave, Bob Boilen, Bright Eyes, Buzzcocks, Conor Oberst, DJ, Fela Kuti, George Harrison, Jim James, John Scofield, Keller Williams, Keller’s Cellar, M Ward, music. download central, NPR, The Magnetic Fields, Timmy G, Tom Jones
When I wrote a couple of months back about The Hold Steady and the lure of their frontman Craig Finn’s harsh, nasal, sometimes unmelodic, but totally endearing voice, I got an email from Rachel Tanzer who used to handle their artist relations before she moved out of the US to work in India. Rachel urged me to check out Lifter Puller, a band that Finn fronted in the early 1990s before The Hold Steady was formed. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Download Central, emusic.com, Keller’s Cellar, Music, Rachel Tanzer, Soft Rock, The Hold Steady
