Tag: Bangalore
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Coke Studio at MTV – Songs For Sale and Minicert Review
If you hadn’t already heard, the songs from the Coke Studio India are up for sale. iTunes US iTunes UK iTune Canada Flipkart If you want to check out reviews before buying, your best bet is probably Music Aloud. After my (ahem, hugely popular) post supporting by Coke Studio,…
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Of A.R. Rahman Concerts And Concert Venues
I attended my third A.R. Rahman concert yesterday at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore. Two things were very different this time – two things that made this show the most unremarkable of the three. The Concert My best Rahman concert was back in the winter of 2004-2005 in Cow Palace, Oakland. The warm and fuzzy…
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Music Wants To Be Free
Pirates (distributors and consumers) often invoke Stewart Brands’ iconic phrase “Information wants to be free” to justify piracy. In a recent discussion with a friend, I argued that Brand used this powerful phrase to suggest that information should be easily available to everybody, not that it should be available free of cost. My friend’s counter-argument…
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Bangalore’s Live Music Scene Making A Comeback
Bengaluru will not let go of the Rock Capital tag easily! Despite all that transpired in the city potentially spelling doom for music lovers, it appears that there is enough and more support going around. Here ‘s a link to a blogpost belonging to a local rising artist, Fidel Dsouza, who he talks about the new…