Hindustan Times
Sometimes it takes a re-issue of old albums to rediscover a musician that you’ve been out of touch with for a while. So it was with me last week. When a couple of re-issued Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds albums landed up, re-mastered and with bonuses such as DVDs in tow, I revisited Nick Cave and after the first couple of tracks on the re-issued Dig, Lazarus Dig!!! (originally released in 2008), I wondered how on earth could I have let so much time elapse before I re-heard Cave’s music. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 6:06 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged A Thing Called Divine Fits, argus48, author and actor, Babe, Blues, Bob Dylan, Britt Daniel, Dan Boeckner, Dig, Divine Fits, Download Central, garage rock, gothic band, Grinderman, Grinderman2, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I’m On Fire, Jazz, Jim Sclavunos, Lazarus Dig!!!, Leonard Cohen, Martyn P. Casey, New Bomb Turks, Nick Cave, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nocturama, pop-rock, punk, Sam Brown, Sanjoy Narayan, songwriter, Spoon, The Birthday Party, The Death of Bunny Munro, The Road, Tom Waits, Twitter, Viggo Mortensen, Warren Ellis, Wolf Parade
A couple of weeks ago, within days of each other, two of my iPods breathed their last. The 160 GB Classic (circa 2009) gave up the ghost first. It simply lost all of the 120 GB or so of music that it had on it. And then, my all-time favourite, the eight-year-old 40 GB went kaput. On both of these I’d stashed away loads of songs, many of which were un-backed up; there were carefully (at least that’s what I think!) curated playlists: clustered according to genres, live recordings, year of recording, favourites, and so on. And then poof! All gone. Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Sunday, November 4, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!, argus48, Bandcamp website, Butter, CMJ Music Festival, Download Central, Echo Kid, F#A#, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, GY!BE, I got moe., I Wanna Be Sedated, indierock, ipod, iPod Playlist, Kickstarter, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, moe.rons., People Get Ready, Pitchfork, punk, Ramones, Sanjoy Narayan, Turbo Fruits, Twitter, Warts and All
I don’t remember waiting for any album as eagerly as I have been for The Black Keys’ new album, El Camino. In October, I heard a track from it, Lonely Boys, and ever since I have wanted to lay my hands on the blues duo’s seventh full-length album. Seven albums in less than nine years is a staggering achievement by any standard but not only have guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney been relentless with their releases, each of which is followed by hectic touring, but on each of their albums, they have tweaked and evolved the minimalist, near-purist blues sound that has become their hallmark. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4.2 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Attack & Release, Blues, Brothers, Cee Lo Green, Chevrolet, Chrysler Town & Country, Dan Auerbach, Danger Mouse, Download Download Central, El Camino, Ford, garage rock, General Motors, Gnarls Barkley, Jack and Meg White, Lonely Boys, Magic Potion, Patrick Carney, punk, R&B, Ranchero, Rubber Factory, Sanjoy Narayan, The Big Come Up, The Black Keys, Thickfreakness, Twitter, White Stripes
I’d never have thought songs about breaking up could be so sonically joyous if I hadn’t heard Fitz and The Tantrums’ debut extended play album titled Songs For A Break Up Volume I. Fitz And The Tantrums are a Los Angeles band and their debut work is actually downloadable for free off their website. They’re a soul band that recreates the purity of the sound of that genre as it was in the nineteen-sixties and seventies.
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Barefoot Soul, Bitte Orca, Black Flag, Blues, Damaged, Dave Longstreth, Dirty Projectors, Fitz and The Tantrums, gospel, Michael Scott, Motown retro, Noelle Scaggs, Paris Delane, Pitchforkmedia, punk, Rise Above, rock, Sam Hogan, Songs For A Break Up Volume I, Sonia Dada, soul, Test Pattern, Thao Nguyen, The Mclovins, Truman Peyote, You Don’t Treat Me No Good
