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  Hiphopistan

  04.18.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  The rhymes were flowing and beat was strong. And I had a big, huge, grin through the whole night. It was the first night of Hiphopistan. I skipped the panel - as each panel skipped, adds 10 weeks to my life span - and showed up in the middle of Kabir’s set. I got to […]

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  Rhymes

  10.16.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Saira Banu weirds out the all-too precious ode to motherland by Manoj Kumar. All I know is that Pran and Prem Chopra are _both_ in it - the baddest bad men ever.
  Don’t believe me? Check this clip from the same, sampled and tweaked by Dan The Automator Nakamura and DJ Shadow in Bombay the Hard […]

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  Feistival

  09.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Feist with Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, The National and some other people.

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  South Siiiide

  03.05.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Does Kanye love chapatis? Hell Yeah, he does.

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  Outlaws

  02.19.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I absolutely demand that you read Samantha Shapiro’s Hip-Hop Outlaw from NYT Magazine. It is such a great read with asides like “(The Fox report on the DJ Drama raid included a shot of a grave-looking police officer saying, “In this case we didn’t find drugs or weapons, but it’s not uncommon for us to […]

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  Based on Tragically Limited Intelligence

  01.28.07 | Permalink | 13 Comments

  Toronota based desi band, Falak - who think therefore they resist - want you to know that at least one of the 9/11 hijackers was just a spurned lover. In their video for the song, Yadain II - Memories II - the band rocks, ‘how do I live after forgetting you?’ while the hijacker gets […]

• better with tablas, not baseball

  Mein Hindustani Larki Hoon

  01.12.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Brett Lee duets with Asha Bhosle in one of the more bizarre things I have seen in a while. I do commend Lee on his rolled R’s.

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  White Boy Blues

  04.04.06 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  I have issues with authenticity. 1 One of the best scenes in Terry Zwigoff’s brilliant Ghost World is the horrific date Seymour has at the local “blues bar” where the frat/club/blues band the Blueshammer gives a soul-crunching perfomance of “Pickin’ Cotton Blues”: I been pickin’ cotton all DAY LONG. “Aren’t they great?,” asks Seymour’s […]

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  Requests

  02.27.06 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  My readers are such lovely people. They know that I am just goofing off under the pretense of being busy. So, they do not hesitate to ask of me what they want. Here is gentle reader, Jeff:
  Dear Mystery Man,
  I see from CM that you are (a) hip and (b) someone who appreciates music. Perhaps […]

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  We Dig: Music of 2005

  12.08.05 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I was toying with the idea of doing a top 5 or so albums of 2005. Since, I, um, actually paid attention to music, this year [not dissertating, obviously]. Stuck in an office staring at the computer monitor for 8 hours a day - every day - does that to you. I also, happen to […]

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  Nerds Rock

  09.29.05 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Saw Arcade Fire at the Riviera last night with sven and rajeev. What an amazing show - def. one for my best of list. They play like maniacs and behave like ones too - rocking out in their band gear. So darn cute.
  I must admit that after keeping them in heavy rotation for most […]

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  Dancehall Insurgency, Tiger Style

  05.04.05 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  (written by dacoit)
  The British-Sri Lankan singer/toaster/artist/producer M.I.A. has been anything but missing in action lately, blowin’ up the (cyber)spot on a worldwide(web) scale for the last few months and garnering mention in the US, Britain and Canada (though she is nowhere to be found in the press outside of Europe or North America as […]

• better with tablas, optical character recognition, talkies

  The Best in 2004

  01.08.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Slate is having the yearly movie club that I enjoy tremendously. Everyone’s top ten is coming out in anticipation of award season. I didn’t get to the movies much this past year. Netflix was a heavenly savior. The best movie I saw was made in 2003 and won’t be released in America until later […]

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  The Russian Invasion

  11.22.04 | Permalink | Comment?

  Aimee’s book reading kicked off a most excellent weekend. She was great and I am looking forward to reading the short stories. Sunday, we went to see Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists play at a church in the north-western suburbs. This being the second weekend in a row that we were surrounded by hundreds […]

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  Travelling Tunes

  11.01.04 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  I have driven across continental US twice - once without any sound system and once with only a working radio in the car. No one, perhaps, can understand the horror that is radio broadcasts in Kansas.
  Here are some songs that I wish I was listening to…

  Magnetic Fields: Long Vermont Roads. Actually, one can pick […]