Author: Uday Benegal
In a little over a decade, Monte-Carlo Jazz Festival has earned its stripes as one of the world’s leading jazz gatherings. The most recent edition saw the likes of Bobby McFerrin and Gregory Porter perform ...
The 68-year-old troubadour from Shillong has been making music for five decades, and damned if he going to show any signs of slowing down
In the documentary Insurgentes, about Steven Wilson’s musical thoughts and journeys – and an unofficial “50 Ways to Bleed Your iPod” (Wilson explores creative ways to annihilate his music player) – the brain and soul ...
It’s a great time for live music in India. Clubs, pubs and other performance spaces are mushrooming like, well”¦ ’shrooms on a Kodaikanal hillside. There are more places to play these days than there’s ever ...
Who needs record labels anymore? The strangleholds they once enjoyed – finance, production, distribution and publishing – have given up the ghost. Modern technology has put paid to the hegemony of those corporate twats who ...
At a workshop in Bombay last year, Jonas Hellborg, the frontier-pushing bass player, is said to have decried the notion that Indian bands don’t explore their Indianness enough. They sound too Western, he said, subjugating ...
Delhi, it’s being asserted, has become the nation’s hub of rock and electronic expression. Other burgs may want to claim that crown, but they’re going to have to fight for it – it could get ...
