Posts Tagged ‘RSJ’
A Weekend in Kasauli
A very wise person once told me, "There is a bright side to everything." There are proven instances that could possibly throw this statement out of the window, but they are more the exception than the norm. The bright side to enduring Gurgaon weather, dust and traffic (aside from all the good times one can actually have here) is that the NCR [...]
Rock Street Journal – My Column (April 2009)
I don’t know how many of you’ve noticed, but the pop music of the yesteryears is the muzak of today. It is quite surprising, but the gym I used to pretend to work out at had on its playlist so many pop songs I used to listen to when I was a kid, including that of boy bands, mentioning whose names within the pages of Rock Street Journal would [...]
Raghu Dixit Unplugged @ Swagath Garuda Landmarks (16th November 08)
It was quite a while since I'd seen Raghu Dixit perform live, even though I'd had a chance to pick his album up (and have him open the cover and autograph it thereafter, heh) and listen to it. The autographing was around the time I interviewed him for a cover story for RSJ, in April this year, which finally didn't happen for reasons I'm not [...]
Every Band Needs a Sound Engineer
Every band, big or small needs a sound engineer. This painfully obvious fact struck me like a thunderbolt (ok, I am exaggerating. It sort of just came to mind arbitly) when I was at a pub gig in Mysore. For those unaware - yes, Mysore has pubs. Shocking but true. Sadly, it is going the Bangalore way, and while the ban on live music in places [...]
Dirty Linen Washing
With reference to the below post on Independence Rock, which is seeing its 23rd year is something else that has had people watch with mouths agape. Things like these usually happen only on reality TV shows, with an element of stage-managing, but in this case people are washing their dirty linen in public and making a big deal about it, while the [...]
