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Who's that? Brooown! Heems on Rap, Writing a Novel and his India Sojourn
I first heard Das Racist back in 2011, when I was an obsessive seventeen year old Pitchfork reader. Getting down with their discography was a pretty easy task, it being limited to a couple of mixtapes and only one commercial album. Despite that, their universe of hyper dense, hyper literate...
#BAJAAOTechWeek - Understanding feedback and how to deal with it
Feedback is the common enemy of every sound engineer, musician on stage or even the people in the crowd who are sometimes bombarded by an unbearably shrill high frequency sound. Everyone hates feedback! Many musicians have made feedback useful - or have successfully made it sound like a recording effect,...
8 Indian Bands To Watch Out For In 2016
While we all know of and love popular Indian bands like Demonic Resurrection, Shaa’ir and Func and Indus Creed, a new generation of young and talented artists is already waiting in the wings to take over. They’ve already built cult followings of fans as they work their way up the...
G-Shock Rolling Stone Metal Awards 2016
In all the talk of indie music and its meteoric rise over the last few years, heavy metal often gets left by the wayside despite the metal community playing a pioneering role in the indie scene’s D-I-Y roots. But not this week. On Sunday, Hard Rock Cafe Worli, Mumbai, plays...
Girls To The Front!
Girls! Have you ever been in the crowd at your college fest anticipating some Hindi cover band to make things alright between you and your boyfriend, and then been disappointed because a bunch of dudes in black t-shirts took over the stage, making strange sounds or playing noise? Or are...
9 Signs That Prove You Were Born To Be A Guitarist
Do you find yourself tapping your foot on a 7/4 time signature when a prog rock song comes on? Do you make ‘passionate’ (read: weird) faces with those sweet note bends? Do you catch yourself doing all of this in a public place? Well then, whether you know it or...
Opera House to reopen in 2016, will return to Concerts & Performances
Abandoned over 20 years ago, curtains will go up on the century-old Royal Opera House in the new year. But instead of screening films that had become its mainstay with the advent of cinema, the Opera House will come alive with the performing arts as in the days of yore.Standing...
Goa CM: EDM festivals banned in peak season from next year
The Goa government has said that the Sunburn and the Supersonic Electronic Dance Music (EDM) festivals, which the state hosts at Vagator and Candolim, respectively, won’t be held in the peak season of December 15-January 15 from the next year. The state Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, who on Saturday cleared...
Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister Dies at Age 70
rel="attachment wp-att-1203"> Lemmy Kilmister has died at the age of 70. Motorhead confirmed his death, saying their frontman passed “after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer.” The band added that they “cannot begin to express our shock and sadness; there aren’t words. We will say more in the...
The 10 best metal guitarists in the world today
Total Guitar 2015 readers' poll results: the players who put the heavy to the metal.10. Kerry King/Gary Holt (Slayer)After receiving over 50,000 votes across 11 categories, this year's Total Guitar readers' polls were fiercely competitive. Now, the results have been tallied, and we're ready to announce what you voted the...
Scott Weiland, Former Stone Temple Pilots Singer, Dead at 48
Scott Weiland, the former frontman for rock bands Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died, his Facebook page confirmed early Friday morning (Dec. 4). Scott Weiland, best known as the lead singer for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, passed away in his sleep while... Posted by Scott Weiland...
The Rockin' Priest Behind The Pope's Album Tells Us What It's Like Being God's Own Producer
News that the Pope has launched a music career poses so many important questions: Is God a DJ after all? Is there really a half pipe in heaven? Who's actually bigger - Jesus or Adele? The record - 'Wake Up', out today - bears the Pope's name and comes with...
