Tag: review
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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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Leaving Home – The Life & Music of Indian Ocean – DVD Review
“Leaving Home” is a documentary by Jaideep Verma about Indian Ocean, one of the first Indian music bands. I have a lot of good things to say about the DVD, so let me get a quibble out of the way – The movie would have been extra special with 5-channel audio. Sadly, it’s just Stereo. The…
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R.D. Burman – The Man, The Music – Book Review
Book review – “R.D. Burman – The Man, The Music”
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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…
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Popular Is Not Always Good
Stung by poor reviews of “Ready”, and outraged Salman Khan asked – “Are my fans stupid?”. My answer – Not all of them, but the truth is that there is no correlation between people’s intellect and their taste. As the saying goes, “There is no accounting for taste”. I haven’t seen “Ready” but a number of…
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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…
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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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A.R. Rahman – The Spirit Of Music – Book Review
Conversations, Not Biography “The Spirit of Music” sets the readers’ expectation right on the cover by declaring “Conversations with Nasreen Munni Kabir”. Unfortunately, a lot of people have been referring to it as ARR’s biography. It is not. It is just a very long interview. It makes for a light and entertaining read but it…
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High Fidelity – A Movie/Book Review
You are probably not a music geek if you haven’t seen (the movie) or read (the book) High Fidelity. You are definitely not a music geek if you have seen or read High Fidelity and not enjoyed it. High Fidelity is the story of a single, insecure and rather pathetic man in his mid-30s who…