Hindustan Times
The Urbanears Plattans are fashion-forward, stylish and very trendy. And they deliver a sound that is nicely bass-heavy and, while not excellent, very pleasing to the ears. No, the Urbanears Plattans aren’t a band—although I can well imagine encountering a band with that kind of a name. The Plattans are my newest addition to an embarrassingly large hoard of headphones and earphones that I have collected over the years.
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(5 votes, average: 4.2 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Arcade Fire, argus48, Arular, Collapse Into Now, Download Central, Eddie Vedder, Imelda Marcos, Kala, Klipsch X10, Lenny Kaye, M.I.A., Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, Maya, Michael Stipe, Music, Patti Smith, Pitchfork, R.E.M., Rajiv Makhni, Sanjoy Narayan, SRH 440, Techilicious, The Suburbs, The Urbanears Plattans, Twitter
“The brashest, ballsiest, most beautiful women to ever step up to the mike,” screamed the strap-line on an article in GQ’s October issue (the US edition) that landed on my desk last week (you can see that I have seriously high-brow reading preferences). So, naturally, I went straight to page 175 to check out the story headlined, The 25 Sexiest Women in Rock. There were few surprises. It had everyone that you could think of. From the astonishing Tina Turner, who is 70 now and yet as sexy as she was 50 years ago, to Alexis Krauss, the tattoo-sleeved fourth grade teacher-turned-lead singer of the contemporary noise pop band, Sleigh Bells. Of course, there were other great women on the list: Marianne Faithfull, whose wild bohemian lifestyle and love-life in the sixties greatly overshadowed her patchy musical career; Cher, about whom there are unbelievable stories involving plastic surgery; Joan Jett, the edgy punk rock star, whose biopic was released this year (Dakota Fanning plays her in the film, by the way); and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac and one of the reasons why I tolerated the band even after it shed its bluesy past and embraced playing-to-the-gallery pop.
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(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 7:13 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged After Bathing At Baxter’s, Alexis Krauss, Alice in Wonderland, argus48, Blue, Buddy Guy, Cher, Crown of Creation, Dakota Fanning, Download Central, Exile in Guyville, Festival Express, Fleetwood Mac, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Jerry Garcia, Joan Jett, Joni Mitchell, Kim Gordon, Lewis Carroll, Liz Phair, M.I.A., Marianne Faithfull, Neko Case, Pearl, Sanjoy Narayan, Sha Na Na, Sleigh Bells, Sonic Youth, Stevie Nicks, Surrealistic Pillow, The 25 Sexiest Women in Rock, The Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Grateful Dead, The Great Speckled Bird, The New Pornographers, Thurston Moore, Tina Turner, Treats, Volunteers, White Rabbit
