The Great Ganesha

Uber geeky blog BoingBoing links up to a video mashup of Rafi’s ‘Jaan Pehechaan Ho’ (from Gumnaam) with a Primus number on the WFMU blog. I can’t say that I’m a Primus fan, but I’ll tell you – it appealed to some primal part of me, because I couldn’t stop watching it.
Meantime, also on [...]

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I heard on NPR yesterday, that an Italian DJ named Gaudi (a namesake of the original, obviously) has remixed some of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s early work to a reggae beat. He got some forty-year-old reel-to-reel of tapes of unreleased sessions from Khan’s record label and spent two years wading through all of it, isolating [...]

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[Originally on Blogcritics]

Ever since I have known him, Shirzad has been involved in some kind of musical activity. From threatening blows to defend the Beatles’ early years in the fifth or sixth grade, to singing Herman’s Hermits’ ‘Leaning on a Lamp Post’ in the eighth-grade talent contest, to conducting his school-house choir singing Billy Joel’s [...]

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[Originally on Blogcritics]
Sometime in the 1980s (or thereabouts), I heard ‘De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da’ for the first time. It was on my father’s Sony stereo system, which was covered with a custom-made plastic case and occupied an exalted position on his bedroom shelf. I had just been given “stereo privileges” which [...]

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As promised, for people in the Bay Area – The Police will be playing at the McAfee Coliseum in Oakland, CA on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 at 6.30pm. Tickets went on sale at 10am on Sunday (2/25) on Ticketmaster. Did you get yours yet?
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[Originally appeared in Thirsty Magazine here and crossposted at Desicritics.org here.]
Shoreline Amphiteatre,
Mountain View, CA.
October 10th, 2006.
As we walked into a packed, sold-out stadium, you could almost smell the excitement in the air. Judging from the miles-long line of cars extending on to the freeway and the throng entering the venue, this was clearly no [...]

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Continues from Day 1.
We were greeted at our entrance into the park with a common sight.

Then we walked by the banjo twanging and rhythmic fiddling of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. The only appropriate response to these guys is this one.

But we didn’t stick around there for too long. We were headed to [...]

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So this last weekend, the RXGeek and I were jogging in the Golden Gate Park and realized that the one of the biggest bluegrass festivals in the country was going on in the park, right under our very noses! Well, we live half a block away, so I guess we have pretty long noses. Ok, [...]

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So Apple Computers won the lawsuit brought on them by Apple Corp [it's not actually a functioning webpage, but a placeholder], the company that looks after the interests of the Beatles’ music. This editorial in the NYT talks about the case, Michael Jackson (he co-owns their song catalog – which is also part of [...]

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Amit Pitaru has created something which absolutely blew my mind: The SonicWire Sculptor. It’s something which combines drawing and sound. You actually draw sounds and can create all kinds of funky noise.
It doesn’t look like this the first time Amit has tried to combine music with visualization. He also created this tool, which he calls [...]

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