Author: Palash Krishna Mehrotra
Scenes from the New Delhi duo Calm and Encore ABJ's 12-city Lunch Break tour stops in the capital and Dehradun
If one has diverse tastes in music, art, cinema and books, it’s difficult to be a loyal fan
Eminem’s strength has been his relentless breathtaking uncompromising ability to talk...
I’ve never been too fond of fusion music. I’ve listened to my share of Shakti and John McLaughlin, and in school I discovered two lesser-known fusion albums: Divya’s Madras Café and Prakash Shetty’s Hard Notes, ...
Indian authorities have always been confused about the strange beast that is the rock concert. The general tendency is to approach it in the same way one would a Spic Macay recital. The first step ...
I hate bouncers. The bouncer, by virtue of his job description, attends more gigs than most of us. But music, in this one instance, consistently fails to soothe the savage beast. I have taken them ...
When my mother was growing up in the Fifties, her parents disapproved of their children listening to Hindi music. It was considered vulgar. She listened to Binaca Geet Mala on the sly on a neighbour’s ...
I remember a park. Bottles of thandai. A long car ride. A winding dusty lane that seemed to go on forever. A gang of girls, wet, skimpily dressed, standing by the roadside, jiggling their tits ...
Where are the people? This is a question I often ask myself at concerts and gigs. When the Israeli psy guru DJ Astrix played in Delhi, the organisers were hoping to pack a football field. ...
Exploring the burgeoning metal scene in the country
