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Indie Music Reporter: Smack My Bitch Up Live In India | MissMalini

The Prodigy just released this video from their tour of India earlier this year. They played Eristoff Invasion in Delhi and Bangalore in January and the

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Keith Flint, The Prodigy at Eristoff Invasion. Photo credit - Kunal Kakodkar

The Prodigy just released this video from their tour of India earlier this year.
They played Eristoff Invasion [http://https://www.facebook.com/invasionfest] in
Delhi and Bangalore in January and the gigs were incredible. Their sound and
light rigs were unlike anything I’ve seen in the country before, and they
brought such phenomenal energy to the stage.

The video features a live performance of ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ cut

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Pentagram

Indie Music Reporter: #HPBeatsMeet at Bonobo - MissMalini

According to Dr. Dre, “With Beats, people are going to hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should: the way I do." HP

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MissMalini looking very Geek ChicHP Beats Meet at Bonobo#HPBeatsMeatAccording to
Dr. Dre, “With Beats, people are going to hear what the  artists hear, and
listen to the music the way they should: the way I  do.”
HP organized a ‘Meet’ at Bonobo on Saturday afternoon for audiophiles and the
press to check out their Beats™ technology. I got invited as a ‘music
enthusiast’ and since Papal from Pentagram was talking about it, I thought I’d
go by and check it out.

Beats™ is actually audio technology

Jazz

Sony Music

Zenzi

Indie Music Reporter: Dust off your old Records, Bring them to Microgroove | MissMalini

You've probably heard that vinyl is back. Over the past few years, vinyl sales have been steadily increasing, labels have started manufacturing them

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Microgroove at ZenziYou’ve probably heard that vinyl is back. Over the past few
years, vinyl sales have been steadily increasing, labels have started
manufacturing them again, and friends have started pulling their parents old
records (and players) out of dusty boxes. Over in India, vinyl has moved out of
Chor Bazaar and is also available at regular music stores. Now Zenzi and NH7
have started a new vinyl club called Microgroove
[http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/microgrooveindia].

It’s a pla

Television

Ankur Tewari

Music Video

Shaair &amp; Func

Indie Music Reporter: MTV Roots - Brand New Show for Music Videos | MissMalini

News just in - MTV is starting going back to playing music videos. Yes, in this sad world of reality-television-taking-over-the-universe, when a channel

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The new show is called MTV Roots and will feature music videos from  ‘global and
local artists/bands of South  Asian origin’. The best part is that it’s open to
all languages, so you’ll be  able to watch everyone from Raghu Dixit
[http://www.facebook.com/#!/theraghudixitproject] to Scribe
[http://www.facebook.com/#!/scribecore] to Something Relevant
[http://somethingrelevant.org/] on one show. The show will probably start around
the same time (they  don’t have a confirmed date yet) as Coke Stu

Indie Music Reporter: The Week That Was - Ankur, Medusa and Red Ant | MissMalini

I was travelling for close to a month and really missed my regular dose of live music. So, I happily hit three gigs in the city last week. Ankur & The

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Indie Music Reporter: The Week That Was – Ankur, Medusa and Red Ant - MissMalini

I was travelling for close to a month and really  missed my regular dose of live
music. So, I happily hit three gigs in the  city last week.

Ankur &amp; The Ghalat Family
Ankur Tewari &amp; The Ghalat Family at Blue FrogOn  Tuesday night, Ankur and The Ghalat Family played an hour-long set at  Blue
Frog. Every time I hear Ankur, I feel like the band has got better,  and I warm
a little more to his brand of easy, acoustic-based pop-rock.  My favourite gig
of his, so far, is the lovely afternoon set they

Awards

Indian Ocean

Indie Music Reporter: Congratulations on the National Award, Indian Ocean | MissMalini

This is really big news. The film Leaving Home, about the life and music of the band Indian Ocean, just won a National Award, pretty much the highest

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Indie Music Reporter: Congratulations on the National Award, Indian Ocean - MissMalini

Poster for Leaving HomeThis is really big news. The film Leaving Home, about the life and music of the
band Indian Ocean, just won a National Award, pretty much the highest honour in
film-making that the country offers.
The film won the award for the Best Art of Culture Film at the 58th National
Film Awards.

The film, directed by Jaideep Varma is as much about the journey of one of
India’s biggest bands, as it is about the four men that came together to make
such incredible music. It was releas

Blue Frog

Gig Alert! Bass Heavy at the Blue Frog | MissMalini

Wear your bouncing shoes and get to Blue Frog by 9pm entry is 400rs, tonight (April 10th) If you haven't been to a DnB party yet, then I strongly

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Gig Alert! Bass Heavy at the Blue Frog - MissMalini

Nu:ToneNu:ToneWear your bouncing shoes and get to Blue Frog by 9pm entry is
400rs, tonight (April 10th)
If you haven’t been to a DnB party yet, then I strongly recommend coming to Bass
Camp tonight at Blue Frog. The music is great, it’s surprisingly easy to dance
(bop up and down) to, and drum n bass has such a dedicated following that it’s
going to be a fun party.

Bass Camp is a quarterly festival that features drum n bass, dubstep and other
bass heavy genres. This edition is headlined by Brit

Girl Tribe

Bollywood Gossip

Gaurav Kapoor

Genelia D`Souza

Karishma Tanna

Monica Dogra

Nikhil Chinapa

Rahul Bose

Sandhya Mridul

Genelia D'souza, Rahul Bose, Soulmate and Shaa'ir & Func at W.E. Rock Concert for Women’s Empowerment | MissMalini

Girl Power at HRC with Soulmate and Shaa'ir + Func Hard Rock Café celebrated International Women’s Day on Tuesday and I went by purely because of their

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Genelia D’souza

Rahul BoseGirl Power at HRC with Soulmate and Shaa’ir + Func

Hard Rock Café celebrated International Women’s Day on Tuesday and I went by
purely because of their selection of bands. They picked two great acts, Soulmate
and Shaa’ir + Func, fronted by two superb female vocalists Tipriti Kharbanga and 
Monica Dogra. Both women have strong, powerful voices, so much style and
ridiculous amounts of presence on stage. When they’re performing, it’s hard to
look anywhere else.  They’re 

Hard Kaur

Indie Music Report: Apache's Circus | MissMalini

I was ridiculously excited about this gig. Apache Indian at Blue Frog; I owed it to my childhood to make sure I was there. Blue Frog was packed when I

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Apache Indian at the Blue Frog (photo/videos courtesy: Roycin D&#039;Souza)



Apache Indian at Blue Frog; I owed it to my childhood to make sure I was there.



Blue Frog was packed when I walked in and the excitement in the air was pretty
palpable. Apache had two DJs open for him DJ Sa and DJ Jassim. I’m not entirely
sure who picked them, but really? Diana King‘s Shy Guy and a remix of Time Of My
Life by the Black Eyed Peas don’t really seem like appropriate build up music
for the Don Raja. But we 

Music. Art. Sea. Sand. Ujaan Festival for the Sunderbans. | MissMalini

Music. Art. Sea. Sand. Ujaan festival for the Sunderbans. Am loving the promo for the festival. This sounds like it’s going to the most beautiful

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Shaair+Func and Bay Beat Collective

Music. Art. Sea. Sand. Ujaan festival for the Sunderbans.

Am loving the promo
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiXL87qNIoE&amp;feature=player_embedded] for the
festival.

This sounds like it’s going to the most beautiful festival. Yes, it’s a bit of a
trek away, unless you live in Calcutta, but think about it – a festival in the
Sunderbans with some great music, set on a 7km clay and sand beach. I already
want to book my tickets!

Ujaan takes place in Frazergunj,

Hard Rock Cafe

Cassini's Divison at Hard Rock Cafe, Mumbai | MissMalini

Cassini's Division, an alt rock band from Kolkata played at Hard Rock Cafe the other night and I went to check it out. It had been quite a while since I'd

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Cassini’s Divison at Hard Rock Cafe, Mumbai - MissMalini

Cassini&#039;s Divison (photo courtesy: Kunal Kakodar)

Cassini’s Division, an alt rock band from Kolkata played at Hard Rock  Cafe the
other night and I went to check it out. It had been quite a while  since I’d
heard them last in Singapore where they’d performed as a part  of Sutasi, a
talent hunt which featured bands and musicians from across  Asia (It was also
aired in India on Zee Cafe so you might know what I’m  talking about).

For a Tuesday night at HRC, the place was pretty packed. Besides t

Concerts

Pure Music with the Maestros! | MissMalini

I don't know a whole lot about classical or fusion music but I've always found concerts like this to be quite magical. Tonight Seagram's 100 Pipers - A

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Nishant Khan



I don’t know a whole lot about classical or fusion music but I’ve always found
concerts like this to be quite magical. Tonight Seagram’s 100 Pipers – A Sequel
to Melange takes place at the NCPA, Mumbai amalgamating six world-class
musicians to create the magic of a pure music concert series. Featuring the
legendary Nishat Khan on sitar, Trilok Gurtu on percussion, Larry Coryell on
guitar, Lili Haydon on violin, Frank Martin on keyboard and Itai Disreali on
bass guitar, Melange 

Vishal Dadlani

The Prodigy is slated to perform in India in January. With that simple statement, I’d expect most of you to have either fallen off your seats or to be

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The Prodigy (photo credit: Paul Dugdale)The Prodigy headlines Invasion festival
in India, a brand new festival that promises to bring the biggest, currently
relevant acts to India. I can’t remember who’d coined the term ‘Third World
Rock’ but for a long while, it perfectly described the kind of acts that toured
India. Sure, Boyzone, Bryan Adams and MLTR were big but they toured India, they
were well past their prime. Invasion festival, organized by OML’s new festival
division Motherswear (Pentag

Sidd Coutto

Tough on Tobacco

Indie Music Reporter: Gig Picks | MissMalini

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

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SwarathmaThis 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, a ghodi and plenty of stories, Swarathma is always
entertaining.

Date: 31st August 2010
Time: 9:00 p.m.
Venue: Hard Rock Cafe
Entry: Rs. 100

Tough on TobaccoSidd Coutto promises 

Indie Music Reporter: Pentagram Release Their Own Web Series. | MissMalini

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

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Pentagram shot by Ameet Mallapur. This is one of my favourite profile images of
an Indian band.

One of the things I’ve always wanted to know…why is Papal is so obsessed with
chai?!
Follow @neysaa [http://twitter.com/neysaa] on Twitter.

Neysa Mendes

Indie Music Reporter: Smack My Bitch Up Live In India

Indie Music Reporter: #HPBeatsMeet at Bonobo

Indie Music Reporter: Dust off your old Records, Bring them to Microgroove

Indie Music Reporter: MTV Roots – Brand New Show for Music Videos

Indie Music Reporter: The Week That Was – Ankur, Medusa and Red Ant

Indie Music Reporter: Congratulations on the National Award, Indian Ocean

Gig Alert! Bass Heavy at the Blue Frog

Genelia D’souza, Rahul Bose, Soulmate and Shaa’ir & Func at W.E. Rock Concert for Women’s Empowerment

Indie Music Report: Apache’s Circus

Music. Art. Sea. Sand. Ujaan Festival for the Sunderbans.

Cassini’s Divison at Hard Rock Cafe, Mumbai

Pure Music with the Maestros!

The Prodigy Invades India!

Indie Music Reporter: Gig Picks

Indie Music Reporter: Pentagram Release Their Own Web Series.