Hindustan Times
When one of your favourite pieces of music becomes Muzak, piped into an elevator or played in the background at an airport, you can sometimes feel indignant. When I heard the Garcia-Hunter track, Crazy Fingers (off The Grateful Dead’s 1975 album, Blues for Allah) playing in a muted sort of way at an American airport, I was genuinely upset. I mean, come on, when we used to listen to that album it had to be in a darkened room, everybody had to be quiet and the use of additives was, well, let’s just say not actively discouraged. And here I was at a bustling JFK terminal and I could almost hear the late Jerome J Garcia’s voice going “Your rain falls like crazy fingers/ Peals of fragile thunder keeping time/Recall the days that still are to come some sing blue….” and so on. Only it wasn’t him singing but a synthesized, unreal sounding electronic tune of the song. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Airplanes, Always, argus48, B.B. King, Bandana Blues, Beatles, Best Coast, Blues for Allah, Bobby Bland, Bonnie Rait, Broken Social Scene, Charlie Musselwhite, Coldplay, Crazy Fingers, Crazy For You, Deadhead, Download Central, Fleetwood Mac, Forgiveness Rock Record, Frank Zappa, Garcia-Hunter, Gorilla Manor, Guns ’N Roses, High Violet, Indie Music Finds, Jerome J Garcia, Jon Bon Jovi, Kristian Matsson, Local Natives, November Rain, Pitchfork, Pitchfork TV, Sanjoy Narayan, Sgt Pepper’s, The Grateful Dead, The King of Spain, The National, The New Pornographers, The Revolver, The Tallest Man on Earth, The White Album, The Wild Hunt, Together, Twitter, X&Y, Yellow
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
When three bands that you like release their new albums on the same day, you have a problem of plenty and a difficult choice to make. So, on May 4, when The Hold Steady released Heaven is Whenever, The New Pornographers put out Together and Broken Social Scene popped out the curiously named Forgiveness Rock Record, their first album in five years, I went and bought digital versions of all three online. After some fretting over which one to listen to first, I chose Broken Social Scene. I was glad I did that. Read more
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Hindustan Times on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Babelonia, Boys And Girls In America, Broken Social Scene, Communist Friends, Craig Finn, Download Central, Emily Haines, Feist, Forgiveness Rock Record, Grateful Dead, Heaven is Whenever, Junior, Kaki King, Kevin Drew, Leslie Feist, Mama Tried, Merle Haggard, Sanjoy Narayan, School of Seven Bells, Stay Positive, The Hold Steady, The New Pornographers, Together, Twitter, You Forgot It in People
I have gushed before about The National’s Matt Berninger and his deep baritone voice and their songs with highly literate and intimate, if a bit self-absorbed, lyrics. The two albums of the Brooklyn-based band that I like—Alligator and Boxer—do routine overtime on my playlists. I like the sad (yet not soppy) undertone in many of their songs and the nice dose of intellectualism and wit. It would be fair enough to say The National is among my favourite bands.
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(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Friday, April 16, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 4AD, Alligator, argus48, Blood Bank, Bloodbuzz Ohio, Bon Iver, Boxer, Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: The Songs of John Prine, Bruised Orange, Carl Newman, Challengers, Chen Shinki, Dan Bejar, Deer Tick, Destroyer, Download Central, For Emma, Forever Ago, Glue & Shinki, High Violet, Indie, indie band, Jimi Hendrix, John Prine, Justin Vernon, Matt Berninger, Neko Case, Records, Sanjoy Narayan, Speed, The Best of March Compilation, The Crash Years, The National, The New Pornographers, Together, Twenty Miles, Twin Cinema, Twitter, Zumpano
