We don’t need to find the meaning of life in dark, artistically shot films with cryptic dialogue and (brilliant!!) directors with unpronounceable names. We live reality and we’re not very keen on it. So do us all a favour — don’t be all condescending, patronising, etc. We need the unreality.

“You’ve got to change with the times,” they say. In my reply, I say that I haven’t come this far to leave my heroes behind. For me, the juxtaposition of the words — DEEP and PURPLE — will always set off an explosion inside my head. And, I will remain true to this band. Always!

Being angry is fashionable. Hapless rage is in vogue. Being ‘miserable’ is trendy. Kids these days, in their search to be ‘different’ from everyone else joyfully lap this up, much to the glee of record labels. What these kids don’t realise is that if everyone tries to be different; all it creates is a different sameness.

If you were a child of the early ‘80s, then chances are that you either loved Guns N’ Roses with an obsession that is reserved only for a few degenerative pastimes, or you hated them so much that you currently dig New Age Metal. Of course, if “November Rain” was all you knew of the band, then you wouldn’t have even come this far.

Yeah. Heavy music has finally arrived in India. And it’s definitely here to stay. Perspective really does play the strangest tricks, doesn’t it…

Here’s to Rush, the band that defined a sound 30 years ago that still mesmerises people. A band that’s lasted 35 years on the road and in the studio and is still going strong.

Here’s to beauty in complexity; to Rush, the Gods of Rock!

Perhaps the greatest tribute one could pay to the Beatles is to prove just how much people can make of their songs, not only in terms of the music, but also the ideas, films, and books that have developed around their work and their lives.

Vast, desolate terrain, occupying hundreds of square meters of snow filled landscapes, with minimal flora and fauna, and many months of cold seasons—a region like this, with its arid landscape and epic desolation, cannot be imagined as a fertile ground for any kind of any kind of life, leave alone music.

MyndSnare is one of the few bands in India at the moment, who more than deserve an international record deal, among other things. They plan to record a full-length album by the end of the year, if everything goes to plan. I wish this band the best of everything, and sincerely hope that they do make it big. God knows, they deserve it.

We have been witnesses to NASA sending rockets and bringing back coffins (administrative failure they say,) terrorists and religious fundamentalists declaring war based on distorted ideologies (in the process causing death to people of their own religion), plagiarism becoming so common that it might just become a rule in the book some day (breeding more impotent audiences) and a whole lot of complex mind-numbing developments which would make a drunk sound smarter. The time has certainly come for the flower to again pollinate.