Here’s listing the positives and negatives of why Bandish Bandits (released recently in Amazon Prime Video) is a must watch. Story in one line – Bandish Bandits is a musical love story between a YouTube pop sensation singer and a … Continue reading Amazon Series: Bandish Bandits is an in-depth musical journey into the rich traditional India
It is utterly ironical that at the time the national capital, Delhi, is reeling under riots, vandalism and killings, the deep impacts of a slap is being discussed in the Taapsee Pannu starrer Thappad. But Important. Continue reading Short Movie Review: Thappad is a thought provoking rap on a patriarchal world
Story or whatever.. A struggling band of ‘dhol bajane waale’ members pay forty lacs each (yes 40 lacs each!!!) to reach London and hope to ‘make it big’. There they find the streets frequently blocked by Indian & Pakistani immigrants … Continue reading Satiristic Review: Street Dancer is Sadak Chaap Nachaniya with Achhe Din
Story Gully Boy ki kahani hai, Dharavi 17 waali hai. Asli story Divine aur Naezy, inspiration, na sex na sleazy. Dono slumdog rappers ka apna jalwa, Rap lyrics hard-ich hote, no halwa. Apna Murad (Ranveer) aur Safina (Alia) pyaari, dono … Continue reading Movie Review: Gully Boy tu dekh zaroor
There are several traits which help you make a music album, the best of the year. The first listening has an immediate pull; at some point you start tapping your foot; then slowly you pay attention to the lyrics; then … Continue reading Music: Fractured is my Lunatic Soul’s Prog Rock Album of the Year 2017
I have always felt Indian film music is absolute world class quality and it’s presence makes our movies extremely unique to rest of the globe. In Jagga Jasoos, director Anurag Basu experiments making a musical thrill ride with exquisite visuals. … Continue reading Movie Review: Jagga Jasoos – Bollywood’s La La Land deserves Jaa Jaa Watch!
One of the premier architects of the 1990s grunge movement, Chris Cornell, breathed his last today at age of 52. In a recent time span that lost David Bowie, George Michael and Leonard Cohen, Chris’s untimely demise adds to the … Continue reading R.I.P. Chris Cornell: Best 20 songs with videos
2016 would be known more as a breakthrough year for rock music than a historical one. While big guns Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Radiohead, Coldplay, Opeth came out with good albums, it’s the dark horses which define this year. As the curtain on … Continue reading Music Countdown: Best 10 Hard Rock / Alternative / Progressive Rock songs of 2016
Artist to Artist, Confluence of music, freedom of expression“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” ― Kahlil Gibran Artist to Artist (A2A) is a quarterly musical event at Singapore meant … Continue reading Singapore Music Scene: A2A (Artist to Artist) Newsletter
Progressive Rock king Steven Wilson’s much acclaimed Hand Cannot Erase album is inspired by a massively tragic incident of death, solitude and human ignorance. British young lady Joyce Carol Vincent’s was lying dead for more than two years, in her one … Continue reading Music Review: Steven Wilson’s ‘Happy returns’ with yet another haunting melody
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