Hindustan Times
There’s been so much hype about Celebration Day, the name of the 2007 concert by the surviving members of Led Zeppelin, who reunited to play just one gig at London’s O2 arena as a tribute to the legendary producer and music industry executive, the late Ahmet Ertegun, that even after the recordings – both video and audio – of the concert were released late last year, I hesitated to check them out. Big mistake. I should’ve. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 6:29 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Black Dog, Bonham, Color of Glass, Dazed and Confused, Download Central, Eduardo Rodela, electronic band, Gary Clark, hard rock, heavy metal, II, III, In Through The Out Door, indie label, IV, Jason, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, John Varvatos, Jr., Kashmir, late Ahmet Ertegun, Led Zep, Led Zeppelin, London's O2 arena, Marisa Grotte, Matt Berninger, Misty Mountain Hop, Miyazaki, Music, New York, Omari Mayers-Walkerm, Parquet Courts, Physical Graffiti, punk band, Rob Hart, Robert Plant, Sanjoy Narayan, Stairway to Heaven, The National, Twitter, Washington DC, What’s Your Rupture?, Whole Lotta Love
I’m writing this with my headphones jammed on my ears and the volume cranked up high. It is an ill-advised thing to do. Because I’m listening to a band called Pig Destroyer. They’re from Washington DC and they play a genre of music that is known as grindcore. Grindcore is loud. LOUD. It is probably the heaviest, most distorted and abrasive kind of music that I have ever heard. I’ve heard various types of heavy metal–doom, death and thrash metal, Japanese bands that routinely blow out the audience’s eardrums and cause nosebleeds and heart attacks and others of their ilk from the US and Europe. But nothing comes close to what I’m getting fed into my ears via my headphones right now. Read more
(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 6:05 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged 151a, Agoraphobic Nosebleeds, American Idiot, America’s National Public Radio, argus48, Best Coast, Book Burner, Cody ChesnuTT, Cody live, Deathtripper, Download Central, Green Day, Grindcore, J. R. Hayes, Japanese Torture Comedy Hour, Kishi Bashi, Landing On A Hundred, Lesser Animal, Music, My Morning Jacket, Nine Inch Nails, NPR, Phantom Limb, Pig Destroyer, Radiohead, Relapse Records, Sanjoy Narayan, Scott Hull, Seattle FM station KEXP, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Headphone Masterpiece, The Only Place, The Roots, Twitter, Washington DC
