Something Relevant or or ‘STR’ as they are called by most fans and indie music hounds, are one of the class acts to have walked the indian rock road with a unique, original and mature sound which does not resemble or emulate any identity except its own. The band’s formation goes back to 2004 and [...]
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Something Relevant – Feels Good To Be Live
Monday, July 26th, 20105 acts to watch out for in 2010
Monday, July 26th, 2010With a couple of months to go for heavy duty gig season to start off in the country, we focus on 5 of the many acts who wait behind the curtain to blow your minds this year. These bands have been constantly growing by making and releasing quality original music over the past months or [...]
Indian indie evolution a myth?Says Who?
Monday, July 26th, 2010The indie scene is finally looking at making a breakthrough into the listeners’ narrow mindsets in our country with the aid of social networking, online publishing and availability of better recording facilities over the past few years. It is now that we have three to four gigs happening every week in most metros and an [...]
Favourite breakthrough of 09?
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010With boy bands headlining rock fests and the mainstream continuously pushing us to the limits of sanity, indie music thrives and provides hope to people who believe in true joyful listening here in India. In our attempt to provide you with the freshest sounds from our country, we have showcased quite a few artistes and [...]
Q&A on audio mastering with Alex Wordsworth
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010What is mastering and why do we need it?
Mastering is something that has always been regarded as a ‘dark art’. Engineers and producers spend weeks, months or years perfecting the sound of their tracks, listening to every fine detail and making sure it’s right. Then along comes the mastering engineer and somehow makes it better. [...]
Rosemary
Monday, January 11th, 2010Who: 3-piece alt.rock outfit
Where: Mumbai
India’s indie scene has been filled with metal acts for the past couple of years. Could 2010 be India’s time to shine in the alternative rock space? It sure seems so – bands such as The Circus (review here), Drones From The Turbine, Plunge, and The Bicycle Days have been feeling [...]
The New Album – BlackStratBlues
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009Blackstratblues is a project pretty well known to anyone who has been following the indie scene here in our country for the past couple of years. We say this because it filled a cold void left behind by a great guitar player in the country’s rock scene when he returned to give us some [...]
Adam and the Fish Eyed Poets
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009Who: One-man band Kishore Krishna’s pop projectWhere: Chennai
How: Krishna is only 20, but shows a wealth of songwriting skill. Influences include heavy hitters who can write timeless classics – Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Sonic Youth, Nick Drake Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and Johnny Cash to name a few.
What: AATFEP is [...]
We’re Back!
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009Work pressure, sickness and travel have kept us away for a couple of weeks, but we are BACK with new reviews and juicy fresh music off the radar. Also coming soon are some new stories as well. The next couple of weeks will see a number of reviews since many killer albums have just hit [...]
New Updates!
Saturday, November 21st, 2009We’ve been updating our posts pretty regularly since we started out a month back or so. Those of you who have been listening and reading, we hope you’re having a good time and getting to know more about our indie scene and the kind of music thats doing the rounds out there.
We had started out [...]
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