A Celebration Not Rushed
Extravagant box sets – many richly done – are the norm for bands celebrating longevity landmarks. Re-worked material, outtakes, rarities, alternate versions, glossy booklets are all par for the course.…
Pop Goes This Note
There has been a steady stream of top-notch female musicians coming out of the UK these last few years that have taken the world by storm with the force of…
REMember
The past Thursday was not a happy day – cricketer Mansur Ali Khan ‘Tiger’ Pataudi moved to the great beyond, I got a note from my favourite restaurant/bar, known for…
Oh Joy
This week’s post was planned to be something else. And then as what can only be a coincidence, I played ‘You Got It In People’ by Broken Social Scene and…
Errata
In my post ‘Right Now (Sep 11 2011)’ I had incorrectly stated the name of My Morning Jacket’s album to be ‘Orbital’. My apologies – it should be ‘Circuital’. It’s…
Right Now (Sep 11 2011)
Right now, there is a set of 5 songs that are on infinite (till infinity tires and dies, which should be in a couple of weeks from now) loop in…
Saying Grace
There are records of high intensity which make a strong social/political statement and there are those that lay open the artist’s heart – bleeding and throbbing. Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’ belongs to the latter…
