Crescendo – A Learning Musical Experience
“Like every other usual day, that day also I was travelling by the metro, my home being my destination, but then something happened that brought me closer to my real destination. Seeing the guitar hung on my back, a girl approached me and started enquiring if I was a music teacher. That’s when the thought...
The Lungi-clad Superheroes: The Raghu Dixit Project
The Raghu Dixit Project burst on to the Indian independent music scene around 2007 with their hit single ‘Hey Bhagwan’ and a dash of colourful lungis. Having maintained a low profile in India for quite some time, it seems as if they’ve finally made a mark for themselves, gathering up a niche audience. They have,...
Pumping up the beats – An interview with budding beatboxer Tushar Prashar
Tushar Prashar is a regular guy from Delhi, pursuing B.A Program from Delhi College of Arts and Commerce. Looking at him you’ll be amazed how a rather lanky guy like him can do what he does. But this boy, blessed with a sound sense of music, an uncanny ability to imitate the roaring sounds of...
Led Zeppelin: The Greatest Band Ever?
Dinosaurs have supposedly been extinct for a million years but if truth be told, they did make a fleeting comeback during the 1970s. For how else can you describe a cultural phenomenon as humongous and anomalous as Led Zeppelin the likes of which the world had never seen and is yet to see again? They...
The Gig Week 2012
Pulsating music. Graffiti tees. Red light shining on guitar picks and drumsticks. The second edition of Gig Week had arrived and there was no music lover in Delhi who didn’t know about it. The organizers kicked off Delhi’s only contemporary music festival at the Stage, Manajsa with a highlight performance from Half Step Down, followed...
The Nightingales of LSR
A beautiful tune sails through the doors of a small green room packed with around 25 lively singers. Some touch high notes while others delve deep into lower scales. But despite the unique and textural differences in their voices, when strung together, they produce a beautiful melody that rings as one. This is the Western...
The Doppler Effect
The Doppler Effect is one band whose chords resonate with the sound of the youth. With their inception on 21st October 2010, the band members, Ashwin Nayar on lead guitar, Akshay Johar on bass guitar, Sherry Mathews on lead vocals and Suyash Gabriel on drums, initially came together to pour some new life into classic...
