Starting this March, Blue Frog and the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) will come together to bring quality live music from India and around the world to Indian audiences. The inaugural event will feature six-time Grammy nominated Jazz musician Mike Stern performing live at Blue Frog and the NCPA along with Bombay’s very [...]

While I was at Fashion Week I ran into this really funky crew of artists/dancers at the Grey Goose lounge and was intrigued when they told me they’ve even featured in Anurag Kashyap’s movie Dev D. (yup that trippy-trio at the bar during Abhay Deol’s drinking binge to the tunes of Pardesi) which I LOVED. [...]

Sure you’ve heard of the Sultan’s of Swing but make way now for the Sultan of Sound – the EDM sound. In the highly challenging world of DJs and producers, Sultan launched his international career in 2003 with the release of four of his original productions on “Global Underground 25, Toronto mixed by Deep Dish”, [...]

Nevil & Sahil Timbadia hosted ‘Airport’ (the awesome new band I told you about) at Bonobo on Sunday amid the glitterati which included Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Sapna Bhavnani, Manjari Phadnis, Renuka Kunzru (both of whom were in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na) the terrible twins Raghu Ram and Rajeev Laxman. Dang if only [...]

According the the history books, “The century-old bandstand culture is unique to Mumbai. Among the bands that played regularly from the 1850s were those of the Marine Battalion, 9th Regiment, the Mumbai Volunteer Rifle, the 113th Infantry, the GIP Railway Volunteers, BB & CI Railway and the Governor’s Band. The services of regimental and private [...]

I was gonna wait till tomorrow to post this but I can’t. Simply because the trip is so vivid in my memory and I want to share before I forget something. Also I’ve decided to let the pictures do the talking (like my Goa photo-journey inspired blog); but suffice to say the Sula Festival in [...]

Richard Bona sang everyone into a melodic high (especially his Bona-fied fans) at Blue Frog for his album launch – Ten Shades of Blue, presented by Carslberg last week. I don’t think I even have the words to describe it, but luckily his music really just speaks volumes for itself . So I took footage [...]

Heads up! Don’t miss the Kala Ghoda Art Festival starting 6th February 2010 to 14th February 2010, their schedule is up here and the best part is its free. I went last year too and loved it, check out my blog from this time last year. Gotta love Bombay man, gotta love Bombay :)
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I’m finally getting around to blogging about my most recent Goa escape. I love that every time I go(a) back I discover something new (and I double-love that I get to share it with you!) So this time I ended up on Morjim beach (in fairly “on” season) having wisely waited for the New Year’s [...]