Tag: music

  • Freaky Friday Playlist Jul-01-2011

    Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.

  • R.D. Burman’s Top 10 Lesser Known Songs

    If you hadn’t heard – yesterday was R.D Burman’s birth anniversary. Lata Mangeshkar tweeted a tribute to him yesterday and since it would be really hard to top her tribute, we are not trying! Instead, here is a translation of her Hindi tweet: Today, I remember a 13-14 year old boy wearing khaki shorts and…

  • Freaky Friday Playlist Jun-24-2011

    Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.

  • Coke Studio India Must Be Cheered

    Coke Studio debuted in India last Friday. Armchair critics did detailed analyses proving conclusively that the first episode sucked. “Loud and empty” said one post. Another post said it “veered dangerously close to cacophony at times.”.  There were some voices that attempted to tone down things a bit including this post, this tweet and this…

  • Freaky Friday Playlist Jun-17-2011

    Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.

  • iCloud in India

    Our website got a bunch of Google hits with various permutations of the “iCloud India” keywords. I guess that means that a lot of us are wondering if iCloud will come to India. Will it? I think yes, and here’s why. Apple says so! Apple’s US website is very well coordinated with product releases. The…

  • Freaky Friday Playlist Jun-10-2011

    Weekly feature of songs we are listening to – randomly.

  • Why Won’t Apple’s iCloud Stream Music?

    Since Apple’s big iCloud announcement a couple of days ago, the internet has been abuzz with people expressing disappointment at the iCloud not going far enough when it came to music (like here, and here). What did Apple miss? Streaming. Broadly, there seem to be two camps of people when it comes to music listening…

  • Apple’s iCloud Is Transformational

    What is iCloud? iCloud is Apple’s service that allows consumers to shift their storage hub from local hard-drives to the internet. iCloud takes care of syncing a variety of content and information (contacts, mails, calendars, music, photos, videos, documents, etc.) across multiple devices. The following apps are available on iCloud: Contacts, Calendar, Mail are available…

  • Mavrix Monthly Update May-2011

    We finished cataloguing information for 2 decades of Bollywood songs, from current day to 1991. Good news – We were making good progress! Bad news – We have to started listening to the songs from 1980s – probably the worst ever to come out of Bollywood. Please excuse our team members if they’re posting weird…