 Another year is over. And it is time to compile the best of the Music that was featured on AI over the last twelve months. My output last year was low due to myriad personal reasons. But starting this year that might change for the better – I am going to be joined by a [...] |  We have earlier featured the first 4 volumes of The Great Indian Rock – the annual compilation of the best of the underground Rock scene in India. And now we would like to present Vol. 5 of the series. This volume included the usual suspects – Orange Street and Parikrama – trusted veterans of the [...] |  “What else should I be, All apologies…” For suddenly doing the disappearing act on AI. Fact is, a momentous event took place in the interim – the birth of my son! And I can see all of you who have gone through above-mentioned trauma nodding your heads quietly in sympathy! Nah, who am I kidding! [...] |  ‘the Buddies’ are an amalgam of two bands, Welcome to Ashley from Chicago and Pale Blue Dot out of Nashville. On AI we have covered Welcome to Ashley before and so when this opportunity came I was definitely very eager. I wasn’t disappointed! The band is made up of Coley Kennedy (Voice), Kim Collins (Drums, [...] |
 If you think you’ve heard it all, you’re about to realise that you are (sadly) mistaken! Unless of course you have heard the Diablo Swing Orchestra! Then you would know what I am talking about. Before I describe their music, bear with me while I copy-paste the long history behind the band – 500 years [...] |  Agni was one of the bands of the first wave of Indian Rock, back in the mid-90s, when they released their debut album Wind Dance with Fire in 1995. The album was well-received despite the somewhat poorly-produced videos, a testament to the inherent musical quality of their compositions. Their video for Darkening Light, a brilliant [...] |  If you have been following AI, you may have come across the ‘Rock Roundup I’ post (here). Then you will probably know that this roundup thinggie happens when I haven’t been posting for a while, although I have been searching the web and listening to new music all the while and then suddenly one day [...] |  [UPDATE: The Slytones have a new video of one of the tracks featured here - Goldie Locks. Scroll right down to the end to see it. It's really crazy, like everything else about this band! ] After having picked up all the pieces of my mind which was blown away by The Psychedelic Sounds Of [...] |
 One fine morning, this album landed in my Inbox, with a request for a review! Imagine my surprise! Me?! Good ol’ me?!! I took upon the task in earnest, since I was getting the album for free, legally. But I was so fascinated with the album, after giving it a few listens that now I [...] |  GIR IV was released in 2000, the fourth in this series of yearly compilations of tracks from Indian rock musicians. But it still sounds surprisingly fresh and there are undoubtedly some gems in there. By this time the phenomenon of GIR had grown – yearly concerts started happening, featuring the bands/artist who made it into [...] |  The year is over! For some of us, it just came and went – a member of a long list of other such candidates. For some of us it probably was an year of great import, a milestone in our lives in some way or the other. I am not one for grand new year [...] |  Welcome to Ashley, a funny name for a good band, is Coley Kennedy (vocals), Pete Javier (guitar), Jeremy Barrett (bass) and Sherrlia Bailey (drums). Their last album Beyond the Pale is available as a free download and is better than most other trash people pay good money for. Their sound has been compared to The [...] |
 (It was Hendrix’s birthday last Saturday and this post was planned on the day. But due to both unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances it has been delayed! But better late than never.) There’s nothing much left to say about Jimi Hendrix – all that had to be said has been said by all. A wizard who [...] |  For everyone out there who has been waiting for this, the wait is over! And my sincere apologies for making you guys wait. But recording from old cassette tapes to digital format, then editing each track to make them sound as best as possible and then finally converting to mp3s is a time-consuming process. So [...] |  This last month my already sporadic output almost died out! I had a few things going on in my personal life and also I was on a trip for a while. So to get things going again, I started surfing the waves of music on the net and hit upon many beautiful pearls from all [...] |  Blackstratblues is the music of Warren Mendonsa. Warren Mendonsa is a familiar name in certain circles in India – he was after all the guitarist of Zero, arguably one of the most popular bands in the restricted audience that exists for Rock in India. But to the dismay of the band’s many ardent fans, Warren [...] |
 It’s heavy metal! It’s Millennium! If you have ever been fans of this heavy metal band from the Silicon Valley of India, Millennium will need no introducing. But for the rest of us, they are probably the heaviest band that ever came out of India. Having opened for the likes of Deep Purple and Megadeth [...] |  Josh Woodward is an acoustic rock musician from Ohio, USA. He makes music and then he gives it all away for free and his reason for that is, in his own words, “because I want to”! All he asks from us is this, “if you enjoy it, please share it with your friends.” Now let [...] |  Iron Maiden released their 15th studio album last month, The Final Frontier, which has sailed to the top of the charts straight away. As most clever bands do in this digital age, they have released their first single, El Dorado, online for free download. There is nothing much to review about an Iron Maiden track, [...] |  Classic Rock fans rejoice! Amabilis Insania has just discovered the Wolf People! It’s not easy to find good, modern, old-fashioned classic rock music (talk about contradictions!) on the net. But tonight I discovered this British band whose original compositions are some very solid examples of classic rock. Wolf People is the real deal! And they [...] |
