 (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 [...] |
 Reggae Rock – that is a genre that’s ought to be unusual, I thought to myself. After a listen JoBu turned out to be more Rock than Reggae with a propensity for jamming. But that’s a good thing, right?! Jobu is Aaron VanVooren on lead vocals and guitar, Matt Hines on lead guitar, Andrew Neel [...] |  India may be well known for Bollywood and the music that is such an integral part of it but the ubiquity of Bollywood some times obscures the other genres of music that comes out of that billion-strong nation. Indian Rock MP3.com is a great website that serves to highlight rock music that is made by [...] |  Axial is a Brazilian band featuring, on voice and keyboard, Sandra Jimenez; on bass and computers, Julian Felipe; on saxophones and clarinet, Leonardo Muniz Correa; and on guitar Yvo Ursini. Their music is ethnic with a generous use of electronics, drawing inspiration from, as well as covering, traditional Brazilian, Haitian and African music. But do [...] |  [UPDATE: A new video from Circa Vitae called Awake. Please scroll to the bottom...] Circa Vitae is Latin for ‘About Life’ as their bio proclaims in a largish font! But over here, we are concerned only circa musica(!?) and so to keep it short, Britt Brady & Wesley Curtis on guitars, Thaddeus Moore on drums, [...] |
 It was last Saturday that the wifey and I decided to go down to Singapore’s only Rock N’ Roll and Blues pub – Crazy Elephant for a night on the town. The house band, Blues Machine had a new vocalist/guitarist and with the resident guitarist, John Chee in attendance we had a swell time. Now, [...] |  Triplexity, the name, comes from triplex and complexity. And this is a band which is completely “a virtual band consisting of 3 members who have never met each other face to face”! The story of this band is the story of three Jamendo users – SaReGaMa who lives in Israel, Nikila who is a Belgian [...] |  Another day, another exciting discovery! And this time its from the faraway, landlocked, Eastern European nation of Belarus. Stas on vocals and drums, Kostya on guitar and another Stas on bass are from Minsk, Belarus and are The Toobes! With influences such as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rage Against The [...] |  Its pretty hard to find decent Blues on the Net which is free to share. And after much digging I was ecstatic to find Gobodobro! Gobodobro – what a name?! It does have Dobro in it which is the primary instrument on their songs. Digging for information about the band proved even harder and this [...] |
 This time it’s acoustic Pop/Folk from Geneva from a band called The Postmen. Laurent Zito(Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals) & Julien Henchoz(Guitar, Bass, Piano, Vocals) got together as a duo in late 2008 and was soon joined by Louise Meynard(Cello, Vocals) and the seeds of The Postmen were sown. Julien Dinkel (Drums, Piano, Vocals) joined in April [...] |  The Seventh Alchemy is a one-man instrumental rock band, which is the creative outlet of guitarist Pedro Rousseau, who also fronts a band called Fresh Body Shop, which will surely be covered in a future post. But for now take a ‘listen’ to Ruins and tell me if it doesn’t hit you hard – amazingly [...] |  Paolo Pavan is an Italian pianist whom I discovered on Jamendo. He has two albums of Jazz available for free download out there. And that is what I feature today. The first of the two is called Inside and it is my favourite of the two. It has six mature jazz tracks born out of [...] |  If you like Evanescence, you are going to like Magdalen Graal. The voice of this U.K. lady and the music of her band reminds you of Amy Lee’s vocals and Evanescence’s music almost instantly. But, to be fair, their music is their own. And Magdalen does have an amazing range and power, in her voice. [...] |
