Uday Benegal

Jazz By The Mediterranean

Jazz By The Mediterranean

In a little over a decade, Monte-Carlo Jazz Festival has earned its stripes as one of the world’s leading jazz…

January 17, 2019

Lou Majaw: ‘Still Surviving’

The 68-year-old troubadour from Shillong has been making music for five decades, and damned if he going to show any…

November 26, 2016

Of Contests, Self-Worth

In the documentary Insurgentes, about Steven Wilson’s musical thoughts and journeys - and an unofficial “50 Ways to Bleed Your…

March 8, 2011

Singer-Songwriters and ’shrooms

It’s a great time for live music in India. Clubs, pubs and other performance spaces are mushrooming like, well”¦ ’shrooms…

September 26, 2009

Working Your Butt Off

Who needs record labels anymore? The strangleholds they once enjoyed - finance, production, distribution and publishing - have given up…

August 25, 2009

Local Heroes and Heroines

At a workshop in Bombay last year, Jonas Hellborg, the frontier-pushing bass player, is said to have decried the notion…

July 21, 2009

The Great Divide

Delhi, it’s being asserted, has become the nation’s hub of rock and electronic expression. Other burgs may want to claim…

June 21, 2009