Hindustan Times
Around 10 days back, my colleague in London mailed me a link with a short note that simply said “Yes they are back! And I can die in peace”. The link was to a lyric video (the kind where you can read the lyrics while listening to the song) of The Rolling Stones’ latest new single, Doom And Gloom. And the note from my colleague who’s obviously a huge Stones fan besides being an erstwhile (or, is he still one?) bass slapper himself, is an example of how much diehard Stones fans love the 50-year-old band. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at 6:05 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Alex Chilton, Anant Rangaswami, And The Spiders From Mars, Aquarium Drunkard, argus48, Beatle Drums, Blind Faith, David Bowie, Doom And Gloom, Download Central, Eric Clapton, Exile On Main St., First Post, Flashing Light, Ginger Baker, Goats Head Soup, GRRR!, I Go To Sleep, Let It Bleed, Love Me Do, Metz, Music, Rabindra Sangeet, Rick Grech, Rolling Stone-ness, Rolling Stones, Sanjoy Narayan, Scotch on the Socks, Screaming Lord Sutch, Sidecar, Steve Winwood, Stones Jumpin’ Jack Flash, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Motions, The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust, The Shadows, Twitter, Wet Blanket
Sometime last year, when the Contrast Podcast, a weekly collaborative by a bunch of mp3 bloggers, first became irregular and then disappeared altogether, I felt like an addict who has been denied his fix. Contrast is a podcast that began in 2006 and every week, usually on a Tuesday, bloggers presented a theme which they spoke about and then presented songs relevant to that theme. It could be anything – from a body part (say, the brain) to something like Boiling and Steaming. Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Monday, January 24, 2011 at 11:14 am
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Achtung Bono, Ambleside, argus 48, Being Boiled, Black Sheep, Boiling and Steaming, Contrast podcast, CSI franchise, CSI: Ambleside, Download Central, Festive Fifty, Got the Water Boiling, Half Man Half Biscuit, Have A Cuppa Tea, I got your water boiling baby, I’m gonna cook a-your goose, Julian Cope, Liverpool, Music, Pink Steam, Sanjoy Narayan, Sonic Youth, The Beginning Stages of…The Polyphonic Spree, The Human League, The Kinks, The Modern Antiquarian, The Polyphonic Spree, The Regals, The Teardrop Explodes, Twitter
I don’t know why but a lot of the indie bands that I like are Scottish. I like the nervous anxiety of Frightened Rabbit, the shoe-gazing, understated sound of The Twilight Sad, the post-rock experimentation of Mogwai, the lo-fi appeal of Meursault, the irreverent playfulness of Dogs Die in Hot Cars, the cute yet edgy music of Belle and Sebastian, the instantly likeable pop of Camera Obscura…. I could go on. There’s nothing really common between all the Scottish bands that I like. Alright, there is. I like the quirky accent that is common between many of the vocalists of these bands—notably, Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison and The Twilight Sad’s James Graham — but the music of each of these bands is not very similar.
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Aidan Moffat, Arab Strap, argus48, Belle and Sebastian, British bands, Camera Obscura, Dogs Die in Hot Cars, Download Central, Frightened Rabbit, James Graham, Malcolm Middleton, Matt Berninger, Meursault, Mogwai, Packs of Three, Philophobia, Piglet, Sanjoy Narayan, Scott Hutchison, Scottish bands, The Cure, The First Big Weekend, The Kinks, The National, The Smiths, The Twilight Sad, The Week Never Starts Round Here
