Rock Raid Fest to Indie Feast
Rock Raid Fest 2024, an independent initiative featuring eight rock bands, was held on May 5 and 6 at Mumbai’s Glocal Junction. Read the SAundCheck review…
Events/Festivals
Covering music festivals in India.
Ed Sheeran’s musical arithmetic scores in India
…featured virtually every genre one could imagine: from rock to hip-hop, folk to pop, and love ballads to head bangers, and it was apparent that all those who attended the concert left with a smile and a memory. Read on…
Neil Mukherjee Trio brings flamenco to Prithvi
Having finally having seen him live, is that of missing out on listening to a composer/guitarist whose talent is of a rare breed of being innovative, enduring, endearing, and introspective (considering that the compositions are based on personal thoughts/experiences), all together….
Women in Blues
For some intriguing reason, this year’s Mahindra Blues Festival (MBF) had several regular fans skip the event, apparently – and unfairly – because it had an all-women line-up. However, those missing the festivities on...
Taking a musical byte out of Sting
It was almost 44 years ago since Sting’s first appearance at the now defunct Rang Bhavan amphitheatre in Mumbai when, on March 26, 1980 to be precise, this writer saw him (born: Gordon Sumner)...
Topics that ranged from generations to generative AI
Words spoken at All About Music 2023 cover AI to Gen Z. Read more about the 3-day AAM conference…