This is a super week for gigs; I’ve no idea when I’m going to get any rest! Bangalore folk-rock band Swarathma play Hard Rock Cafe. They’re collaborating with Old Man River, a one-man act visiting from Australia and putting a new spin on popular tracks like Ee Bhoomi and Bolo Hai Kya. With colourful costumes, [...]

You gotta love the whole Indie music vibe that’s picking up big time in Mumbai. (Especially when some of the city’s most fashionable glitterati deck up for the do!) Ashutosh Phatak launched his new dance album, Petri Dish along with Arjun Vagale + Ash Roy (Jalebee Cartel) at Blue Frog on Friday. Apart from the [...]

Pentagram has just released PentaTV, the band’s own online show. Pentagram is easily one of the best live acts in the country, a lot due to the sheer energy they have on stage. They have no mercy though, if they’re working the stage, you’d better be jumping along as well. Sitting [...]

So that’s the question I set out to answer on Saturday night when Sita Wadhwani from CNNGo.com asked me to write a feature on it (I like them, they put me on their Mumbai 20 hotlist remember :) Did I succeed? I guess you could say so. Although it’s clear that your best bet is [...]

I’d like to introduce you to Neysa Mendes, a girl of many talents (and pretty too!) with a huge love for indie music. She volunteered to keep me up to speed on the indie music scene by contributing blog posts to missmalini.com and I am actually quite excited! So please give a warm welcome to [...]

You gotta love Ash Chandler; Funny guy, infectious personality and all heart. (So fine, I’m a little partial but I love my peeps what can I say!) Which is why it was entirely my pleasure to introduce his band at Jazz on Friday night (time-line: B.B. – before Bachchan lol.) Crazy thing is I’ve been [...]

One of my favorite Bombay bands is currently on tour in Edinburgh and their dishy saxophonist Ryan Sadri agreed to send me a tour diary, in case you too were missing the eye candy, enjoy :)
Hey M!!
How’s you doin?!
For the past 3 days we’d been split up staying with friends in 3 separate locations. Now [...]

I kid you not I grew up on these guys. Had you asked me 17 years ago what was in my cassette player undoubtedly it would have been MLTR blasting “25 minutes too late” It is both impressive and ever-so-slightly disturbing that a) they are still around b) continue to be HUGE in India when [...]

I know I’m several blogs behind but hopefully today’s “Bombay bandh” is going to give me time to catch up on a lot of it (since there is sweet F-all else I can do anyway!) So here we go; before I left on my epic World Cup trip I had a blast at Blue Frog [...]

Don’t miss this Tuborg Fun Starter Night with the fourth edition of Tuborg Vh1 Hip Hop Hustle at Blue Frog tomorrow night featuring DJ Drama and the Aphilliates (the DJ behind the likes of Akon, Snoop Dogg, Outkast, Ludacris, Lil Wayne etc) Sounds wicked!
Mumbai: Blue Frog – Wednesday 23th June
New Delhi: F Bar [...]