★★★1/2 Skrillex – Bangarang

Skrillex - Bangarang

Rising “brostep” star clobbers the club

★★★ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Original Soundtrack

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Trent Reznor’s new score is three hours of ominous, oddly alluring atmospheres

★★★ Sky Rabbit – Sky Rabbit

Sky Rabbit

The erstwhile Medusa deliver a game-changing album, starting with name change

Amy Winehouse – Lioness: Hidden Treasures

Amy Winehouse - Lioness

The first posthumous dip into Amy Winehouse’s vaults is a mishmash, but its best moments remind you of her huge voice and biting charisma This is a sad record. A grab bag of outtakes, unreleased tracks, demos, covers and song sketches, these recordings feel like a gut punch. They remind you, first and foremost, of [...]

Rihanna’s – Talk That Talk

Rihanna - Talk that Talk

Pop’s queen of the sexy single-entendre makes her catchiest, smuttiest record yet Four years and 10 huge hits ago, Rihanna released an album called Good Girl Gone Bad. She’s never gone back. Today, Rihanna is pop’s bad-girl-in-chief. You could call her the heir to the blues tradition of double-entendre salaciousness, except that, in Rihanna’s songs, [...]

Drake – Take Care

Drake - Take Care

Drake’s new album Take Care ups the ante

★★★★ The Black Keys – El Camino

The Black Keys - El Camino

The Keys turn their blues-rock beater into a sleek, shiny muscle car

The Travers Take: Six New Must-See Holiday Movies

Patton Oswalt and Charlize Theron in 'Young Adult'

Peter Travers gets a lot of criticism from readers who say he’s just knocking movies left and right, but this week he’s celebrating all the great films arriving in theaters in time for the holidays. In this week’s At the Movies, Travers raves about War Horse, The Adventures of Tintin, The Iron Lady, Albert Nobbs, [...]

The Travers Take: ‘MI: 4′ Is the Best of the Series

Mission Impossible1

Fresh installments of two familiar franchises hit movie theaters this weekend – Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Guy Ritchie thoroughly botched the latest Holmes by ditching the witty banter of the first movie in favor of generic action that doesn’t play to the strengths of its funny, charming stars [...]

Florence and the Machine – Ceremonials

florence-and-the-machine-Ceremonials

★★★ Brit singer puts in a bid for rock stardom with big tunes, bigger emotions

Reviews

★★★1/2 Skrillex – Bangarang

★★★1/2 Skrillex – Bangarang

Rising “brostep” star clobbers the club...

February 20 2012 / View Comments / Read More »

★★★ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Original Soundtrack

★★★ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Original Soundtrack

Trent Reznor’s new score is three hours of ominous, oddly alluring atmospheres ...

February 20 2012 / View Comments / Read More »

★★★ Sky Rabbit – Sky Rabbit

★★★ Sky Rabbit – Sky Rabbit

The erstwhile Medusa deliver a game-changing album, starting with name change...

February 20 2012 / View Comments / Read More »

Gig Calender

SPD-SX Sampling Pad Now in India

Musicians in India can finally make their music richer with the launch of the SPD – SX sampling pad in the country. To take it on a test-drive,  a free for all workshop and gig is being organized to highlight the qualities of this unique groove box.

Japanese percussionist Masaking and Sivamani will show the various applications and sound of the new sampling pad. The duo will perform on the TD- 20KX – V drums and use the SPD- SX to create live loops.

Be there on February 9th, 2.30 pm at Hotel The Mirage,  Andheri (E).

Masaking will be taking the same session solo a day before on February 8th, 2 pm at Hotel Golden Park, Kolkata.

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