Harry D’Souza is not your run-of-the-mill musician. I got the sense of it when I first listened to his music. And I was entirely convinced of it when I’d finished an hour-long conversation with him. One, he's learned the ropes organising gigs for other artists…
It should come as no surprise that Chantel loves the saxophone. One, Sade had the most memorable and soulful saxophone solo in Smooth Operator and two, Chantel's uncle was an amazing saxophonist who played the instrument at home while she sung freestyles. In fact the…
Remember our letter-writing exercises in school? We’re wondering where those skills had vanished in today’s workplace environments, where even the salutation ‘Dear’ seems to have retired from most written communications. If there’s anything I’ve learned from life, it’s the fact that if you’re asking someone…
On one hand 2020 couldn't get any shittier, and on the other it couldn't get any better than what we're going to be talking about today. Yes, the sons of Stone Temple Pilots, Guns N’ Roses, and Metallica! London Hudson (Drums), Noah Weiland (Vocals)…
Ella Fitzgerald said, “The only thing better than singing is more singing.” This is what the lockdown has been like for most musicians I’ve spoken to. I can’t recall a time when artists produced so much music as they have in the last eight months…
System of a Down, the Armenia-American band that we all came of age listening to have just released two brand new tracks to address the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and the unresolved conflict over the territory, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but mostly governed by…
What began as an attempt to review his latest single Dance has now led us down a different path, thanks to YouTube playing the rest of his tracks in no particular order. Ordinarily, we’re a team of rockers and metalheads. Indian metalheads. It means we’ve…
Today after having watched and listened to Abhigya - The Band's Himachali folk medley, I felt something that can only be described as a sentimental yearning. Ordinarily, I see shots of Himachal all the time. In movies, videos and pictures posted online. Sometimes I'm up…
Some of us here at Flipsyde are suckers for Indipop. We grew up in the days when MTV and Channel V were all about the music. Yes, before those dark reality-TV days! Tu Mila ft. Aseem, Shlok’s latest release is perhaps one of the most…
[Author note: This is not a review, it's a perspective] I live in a low cost housing society in Mumbai (MHADA). When the ‘hard’ lockdown began in March, we saw a reality no one had ever imagined, up and close. We all have fateful evening…