September at the Hard Rock Cafe, Mumbai is looking smoking hot. I’m most especially excited about Sean Kingston making an appearance and hoping I can get him to do a live rendition of “Bollywood Girls” (DJ Suketu’s mix that I love) for my blog :) Here’s the rest of the line up this month so [...]

Check it out! MissMalini and Tarana Raja Kapoor revisited our dancing days about a decade on! So fun :) I highly recommend you try a class. Big love to: Manik Bhatheja for a killer routine and oodles of patience, Ashwin Mushran for engineering our late start so he could be there and everyone who cheered [...]

Remember I told you I started taking a Lyrical Hip-Hop dance class with Manik Bhatheja (who’s an awesome teacher btw) at Kaytee Namgyal’s K-School of Performing Arts? Well they’re starting a new batch of dance classes this week and I urge you to try it cos its SO fun! (Tarana is gonna kill me for [...]

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 [...]

I’m back with another Microphon3 music sampler for you (and this time you can download it for free if you like it!) This one is called “Johnny B”. (Tanmay tells me, “it was originally named “The Song”, it came into being in the form of a poem while sipping rum in Manali. Months later a [...]

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 [...]

Oooooh excitement! Tough on Tobacco has an official music video out for their killer track “Taxi Song”. It’s SO Bombay  I want to be in the video (oye next time you better gimme a cameo boys.) Uff how I heart these guys! (Especially since Sidd made me my very own MissMalini theme song!) To the [...]