Music Category
Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Sound City – Film Review
In 2012 when Foo Fighters picked up a Grammy for Best Rock Performance, frontman Dave Grohl said, “The human element of making music is what’s most important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do. It’s not about [...]
Thursday 29 November, 2012
World’s first music video made using Instagram
There is something romantic about stop-motion films. Something very primal that takes film-making back to its photography roots. I think its simplicity is what find I particularly charming. After yesterday’s stop-motion feature, The Dark Knightfall, our fascination for this format was begging to be taken to another level. And that’s when we came across this. [...]
Friday 05 October, 2012
Adele sings the 007 Skyfall theme song
Today marks 50 years since ‘Dr. No’, the first James Bond film was released. 5 decades and 22 films since 5th October 1962, Agent 007 has changed avatars and ignited the imaginations of so many screenwriters and audiences around the world. It is then most fitting that the theme song to Bond’s upcoming film, ‘Skyfall’ [...]
Tuesday 18 September, 2012
Morya!
Of the many things that tie me to this city is the festival of Ganesh Chaturti. As a rookie copywriter, my first released print ad was for a newspaper, celebrating the festival of Chaturti. As tradition goes, invoking Lord Ganesha’s blessings before performing any auspicious task leads to prosperity. With hand on heart I can [...]
Wednesday 29 August, 2012
Spotlight: In conversation with Warsha Easwar
Dark nimbus clouds gathered over Bandra as I rushed to Candies for a meeting. One quite unlike any other I’ve ever had to be a part of. I was to meet Warsha Easwar a.k.a. Warshhh, a young aspiring singer with an overwhelmingly sweet voice and a ear for music. Having a niche in jazz, blues [...]
Thursday 23 August, 2012
Fus Ro Dah, dah dah dah
RPG gamers, rejoice! Here are two really gorgeous ladies playing a medley of the Skyrim and Morrowmind themes. On their harps. Known as The Harp Twins, Camille and Kennerly Kitt are identical twins who perform pop, rock and contemporary music on their electric harps. Besides musicians, the sisters are also actors, models, Tae Kwon Do instructors [...]
Tuesday 14 August, 2012
Embrace the remix
I’ve always believed that ideas never exist in a vacuum, that they germinate from other ideas and concepts. Creativity fuels creativity, as seen in a lot of what goes up on art communities like DeviantArt. Unfortunately, copyright laws tend to misrepresent how creative works are perceived, and that often becomes a bag of trouble for [...]
Wednesday 27 June, 2012
The death of the superstar DJ
It’s an early Friday evening. I’m at the F Bar in Mumbai. The entire place is awash in green light. A visibly restless Mux Mool, dressed in an Iron Maiden tshirt is walking around the space, casually striking up conversations with people. Jornalists and bloggers start taking their seats around an LED-lit stage as the [...]
Thursday 14 June, 2012
Rock Of Ages OST – Review
Last night I attended the premiere of Rock Of Ages in Mumbai. It was a movie I was looking forward to, especially after hearing the soundtrack to the broadway musical. The theatre was full of starlets and rock music fans, not unlike a real gig. As the movie trailers played the opening act, the growing [...]
Monday 11 June, 2012
Holocene by Bon Iver
It was another of my many late nights at work, when a colleague offered to drop me halfway home in his car. The very first thing he did after we got in was plug in his iPhone and stream some music to the audio system. That’s when I heard the sweet sounds of Bon Iver’s [...]
