Hindustan Times
After being rudely jolted by my latest credit card bill, I decided last week to put a stop to random purchases of music on the Internet. Buying on the web – especially when you’re buying downloads in mp3 or other digital formats – can become an addiction and god help you if you succumb to that. I looked at the entries on my credit card statement and wondered whether I was hurtling towards that kind of hell. So, I took the extreme step of cold turkey-ing my way out of any possibility of getting into such a trap. I would stop buying music off the Net, at least for a week, I told myself, and try to get my fix without spending a paisa. Of course, there was a caveat: I’d have to scrupulously ensure that every free download that found a place on my hard drive was kosher, i.e. 100 per cent legal. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Friday, September 3, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged ackwards Down the Number Line, argus48, Bands That Jam, Black Lips, Dear Summer: 33 minutes of Sunshine from DJ Mehdi, DJ Mehdi, Download Central, electro-rock band, Gumbo, Highsnobiety, Ithaca band, Jay-Z, Jimkata, King Kong, Look Out!, MC5, Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, Nina Simone, Obscure Sound, Phish, Phish Live Bait Vol. 01, Pixies, Sanjoy Narayan, Summertime, The Switchblade Swing, Tweezer, Woozy Viper
There’s a 1999 three-disc album called Everything Is Nice: The Matador Records 10th Anniversary Anthology. If you like indie, alternative bands, you ought to own that album of 43 excellent tracks by a bunch of super talented bands and musicians. If you’re a die-hard indie fan, I’m sure you probably have the Matador anthology or, at least, have heard of it. If not, here’s a sneak peek at that 12-year-old album. Artists featured on the album include indie star acts like Pavement, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power and Modest Mouse but also lesser known bands such as Chavez, Bardo Pond, Solex and Khan.
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(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Bardo Pond, Cat Power, Cate Le Bon, Challengers, Chan Marshall, Chavez, Chris Lombardi, Communist Daughter, Cornelius, Download Central, Dylan, Electric Version, Everything Is Nice: The Matador Records 10th Anniversary Anthology, If You’re Feeling Sinister, Keigo Oyamada, Khan, Mass Romantic, Matador, Mission of Burma, Modest Mouse, Obscure Sound, Pavement, Perfume Genius, Richard Hawley, Sanjoy Narayan, Shibuya-kei, Slanted & Enchanted, Solex, Sonic Youth, Stephen Malkmus, Take Belle and Sebastian, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, The New Pornographers, Together, Twin Cinema, Twitter, Yo La Tengo
Many people ask me whether I download music illegally. Whether whenever I download a file in mp3 or other digitally compressed audio formats I am actually hoodwinking the music companies and depriving musicians I like of a bit of their livelihood. Well, to be fair, I know many people who do just that. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 6:30 am
Filed under Download Central · Tagged All Things Go, Antony & the Johnsons, Bloc Party, Download Central, Mi Ami, Music, Obscure Sound, RCRD LBL, Rogue Wave, Swan Fungus, The Rawking Refuses to Stop!, Zach Schwartz
