music

A collection of 25 posts

General

In praise of Raghu Dixit

Last night, I was privileged to attend another performance by Raghu Dixit at B-Flat. This would be the fifth time I am watching Raghu Dixit live – first was at Opus, second at a Nokia concert, third at foss.in, fourth at a TiE mixer, and fifth at B-flat yesterday. More

Books

Ideas are Cheap : IMDB of Music, Books?

What is it that I like about IMDB? * Shows me what are the movies that are popular in theatres right now * Shows what new movies are releasing this week * The first item on every movie page is the average user rating * It links to every individual artiste involved (actor, director,

General

Aware Songs

Is it just me or are there really so many “aware” songs out there in the past few years… And so many good ones at that too. From self-aware songs: * Meant To Live by Switchfoot * One Thing by Finger Eleven * Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan * Harder To Breathe

India

How about an Indian amateur music album?

My latest “power song” is the flagship song of the Colourblind band. Who are these guys? I have no idea. From what I read on their website, they were/are a couple of rockers who got their album recorded with Sony Music India in 1999. Not sure how many copies

General

Look out for the new RadioVeRVe

Shreyas, Gaurav and the gang have relaunched RadioVeRVe and it now rocks even more than before! Things they haven’t changed: * They play music by independent bands from India. That’s right, these are all Indian bands. Things I liked: * The new look feels good and is intuitive. How’d

India

Musical Weekend

Although it started with sports, it turned out to be a musical weekend. Saturday afternoon : Parikrma Senior Sports Day Parikrma had a sports meet of the senior children among all its various schools – from Jayanagar to Sahakarnagar, and it was amazing to see all the boisterous children compete against each

Running

Keep on Running

I chanced upon this wonderful song by Eliane Elias: I’m not afraid All is forgiven Coz after all What’s done is done Move on with grace Slippin’ to space And when I’m ready, I’ll sing my song Follow the silence far from the sadness Leave all

India

Just Tune In

I’m getting addicted to RadioVerve.  Keep up the good work guys!

India

Radio City Live

I voted for Swarathma and Phenom today evening, and these two were the most-voted bands today :-) I totally digged the Kannada song that Swarathma played.

General

Linux Can!

Watch the Linux Can! video (I took yesterday night) now! I just can’t get that tune out of my head … Update : The video is now available on Google Video.

General

A Podsafe CD

A while ago, we had a puja in our home and we were going to have a huge gathering of our close family. My mom wanted to give out music CDs to everyone as a mark of remembrance of the occasion. Dad reminded us that we can’t distribute songs

General

YPodcast

Podcasts.Yahoo.com went live today. It’ll help you find and listen to podcasts as well as create your own podcasts. Many of my friends in Bangalore are part of the team that created this. Kudos to them for converting a concept to a product launch in an amazing

General

A R Rahman Concert

The A R Rahman New Dimensional Tour came to Bangalore yesterday. ![50721766][Small][] ![50721704][Small][] It rained heavily causing the show to start late by 2 hours. Sivamani played a small display of his amazing drums capabilities that kept the crowd satisfied till Rahman entered the stage. When the show

General

Mano Murthy did it again

It’s been 5 days since I saw the movie, but the title song of Amrithadhare is still playing on and on in my head. As far as I’m concerned, it’s going to be one of those classic songs. Nee amrithadhare KoTi janma jothe gaathi Nee amrithadhare Ihaku

Tech

That Podcast Song

I’ll blame Adam Curry for getting me addicted to that podcast song. Just can’t get the tune out of my head. My favorite part of the lyrics is: You want it, you got it…just download it and pod it On a podcast…no one’s gonna stop

Tech

Podcast Awards

PodcastAwards is a neat site to find good podcasts. Maybe I’ll vote for CoverVille. I’m also downloading some podcasts that play podsafe Jazz music. It’s funny how podcasting is such a great brand word that is helping Apple even though it isn’t specific to iPods. After

Tech

When geeks rap ….

… you end up with this: My flow is so intense that I will overflow your buffer, Corrupt your stack pointer makin’ all your data suffer. I’ve got saturated edges but your flow is sparser, Real gangstas sip on Yacc; instead you generate a parser. While you’re busy poppin’

General

Ode to the Moonwalker

So, Jacko might leave America… he is no longer popular or admired but he’s still the King of Pop music. So, I wrote this following so-called ode on a whim. It’s up to you to decide what to make of it….. MJ has become a ghost of himself

Tech

The beat goes on

Yahoo’s First-Quarter Profit doubles! In the same announcement, you’ll notice this: In a bid for even more traffic, Yahoo plans to introduce a new digital music store later this year. In an interview Tuesday, Semel declined to provide details, but indicated it would include features that will compete

Design

The Apple bites back

The webosphere is all about design and aesthetics these days, which is of course, just what the doctor ordered and mainly thanks to Google and Apple (yes, I know you were waiting for me to say that). And when Paul Graham says we are now witnessing the return of the

Design

iPod!

My manager went to our Sunnyvale office recently and came back today. I had asked him to get an iPod Mini for me… when he gave it to me in the morning, I was grinning away to glory. I am not much of a gadget guy, but I was craving

India

Indian Music Online

Most music sites will work only on Windows and that too specifically IE – so I was glad to see that MusicIndiaOnline now works on Linux using the RealOne Player. Their FAQ answers about  how to get it to work on Linux. Btw, I really like this album by Om – The

General

Why is the computer against me ?

Aargh!! I’m having one of those bad days… As it is, I’m having major problems with SQL in my work and have a tough time with that … On an unrelated note, I am trying to install a package and rpm throws up with an error: $ sudo rpm -qa

Tech

Internet Radio

I’m doing a late-nighter at work today… so I thought of listening to some music while doing the hackathon, but I’ve got bored of the ones on my hard disk. So, how about internet radio? Well, I switched to FC2 on my office box, so I can’t

General

Bryan at the gate!

Yesterday morning, I attended the GATE exam. I did very well considering my (lack of) preparation :-) . Paper was quite easy actually considering that it consisted of what we have already studied … but I still feel that the probability of me solving a probability problem is …. I don’t know,