Playlist for August: Music

5 of my favourite tunes this August! 🎧

League of Fandoms: World Music Day Celebration || A Review

On the 1st of July, 2016, Jamsteady, International Music Day and League of Fandoms came together to create a power-packed event for the musical multitudes at Princeton Club in Kolkata. Here’s a quick breakdown of all that happened when the three joined hands! Key Notes: The Atmosphere The lights were mysteriously dimmed, the artists were…

Performance Poetry in Kolkata: A Review

As you all remember, on the 23rd of April 2016, Performance Poetry, Kolkata held their first event: Jukebox 2016. C’est la vie , then busy doing a bunk on the beaches of Puri, had supported  the event with all the love and admiration our little hearts could hold. Crouching beneath the benevolent indulgence of our resident slam-savants Ekalavya Chaudhuri…

Melodies: Ten Reasons to Love the Arctic Monkeys

I’m not going to give you ten reasons. I’m not even going to give you ONE reason. The headline was just to grab your attention, I’m sorry. According to a certain blogging workshop I attended lately (ahem), apparently that’s the thing to do. You can go nurse your betrayed feelings later. Right now, FOCUS, cz…

Melodies: The Sultan of Dire Straits

What does one write about a band which has stayed with him for a major part of his life, or an artiste whom one has grown to love in an affectionate way? Do I write about the guitar solo of “Sultans of Swing” or the bone-crushing opening riff to “Money For Nothing” or the touching…

Melodies: A Childhood at the Opera

I generally despise the small-talk question “So… what kind of music do you like?” because for the most part, I am inclined towards a large variety of things which, in addition to being stylistically worlds apart, tend to be fairly inaccessible, sometimes highbrow, to a casual listener. My fast-answer to this loathsome question is always…

Melodies: That Old Teen Spirit

“With the lights out, it’s less dangerous here we are now, entertain us I was stupid, and contagious here we are now, entertain us.” ~Smells Like Teen Spirit   Anybody who doesn’t recognize these lines must either be too young for this, or they have simply lived under a rock for too long. Sounds judgmental?…

Melodies: The Vampires in the City

“My ears were blown to bits, from all the rifle hits, but still I craved that sound.” –from “Giving up the Gun” Music has always been, for me, a matter of survival. It’s really quite simple. I can’t execute easy day to day activities (walking my dogs, travelling in buses, doing Maths in a not-so-distant…

Melodies: OK Radiohead

  Let’s chuck the highly original title aside.   I have decided to drop poetry, down-to-earth prose, the weaving of a story connecting all the images in my head into the trashcan residing in the back of my brain. It’s slightly brimming with my hopes and goals, but I’ll manage. This has been a journey…

Melodies: The Discovery

Why, hello there. You look good. You look amazing. In fact, you look FREAKING GORGEOUS, and I’m so happy to see you back! How has it been? I’m not going to lie, I’ve enjoyed this short break I’ve taken and forced you to take from me. I have stretched my mind until I felt like…