There are few truths in life. - Hugs are good. - Red wine and chocolate go together. - Everything’s better with music. Ahh, music. The… more
Seema Thakker amazing music and outdoor yoga? yes please - thanks for posting!…
Sure we have Adele (and her 6 grammy wins). Her songs speak of deep, pure, passionate love fraught with extreme highs and plunging lows. That… more
Here’s how Akon did it. And the finished product…… more
Question: What do Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Smashing Pumpkin’s 20th Anniversary Tour and Sundance Film Festival’s 2011 Audience Award Winning film Circumstance… more
(from left to right) Mario Padron – bass Raj Maddela - drums Vincent Mascolo – guitars, vocals Reena Shah – vocals, keys, percussion, dance Todd… more
Set your Pandora station to Thievery Corporation’s Satyam Shivam Sundaram. A chilled out groove to take you from day well past sunset. See A Snapshot… more
You take a sexy pop diva, some beautiful Sufi vocals and add one of India’s top DJs to put it all together and you get… more
Hope you don’t mind. This one’s a bit personal. A week or so ago I got a call telling me Cheb I Sabbah has Stage… more
Sometimes music is so good in its original form, you can’t imagine it could get any better. Then magic happens and great artists and great… more
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There are some great things to watch coming out of the UK. And we’re not talking Kate and William here. This one’s a little more… more
We’re loving the soundtrack from Everywhere + Nowhere. The fusion of popular Asian & Bollywood music, dub-step and urban beats “makes for a unique and… more
The Setting: An intimate dinner party with a group of twenty or so hipsters. Cocktails flowing. Laughter mixes with the head-bobbing music playing in the… more
We’re huge fans of Karsh Kale. We were excited to hear about the release date of his new album, Cinema. It drops on April 26,… more
As a young boy in New Jersey, Siddhartha Khosla was forced by his mom to sing Hindu bhajans every Sunday at temple. He hated it.… more
We heard, we loved, we got you a download. Enjoy. Hope featuring Natacha Atlas and Nitan Sawhney… more
You’re in the mood for a different kind of night. Not your regular vodka-infused top 40 club scene. Tonight you’re looking for something to transport… more
In 1998, one year after launching her Basement Bhangra party at the New York club SOB’s, the then-27-year-old Rekha Malhotra, aka DJ Rekha, was anointed… more
You know the story, son of Indian immigrant parents gets a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Yale College then goes on to get a… more
Abida Parveen at the New York Sufi Festival. Photo by Nigora Sachdeva. “Be overflowing with peace and joy, and scatter them wherever you stand, and… more
When we first heard Humble the Poet rap – the deep, scratchy-smooth voice, the liquid delivery – we detected echoes of Tupac. But then we… more
Let us tell you a story of The New India. A young girl in Maryland, daughter of Kashmiri immigrants, grows up listening to Hindu devotional… more
Indian fusion is everywhere these days. Just try to find a DJ who hasn’t sampled a Bollywood track. Tabla player in the percussion section? It’s… more
Producer, composer, artist, tabla player, DJ, songwriter, drummer, guitarist, programmer, remix artist, collaborator. All attempts to define Karsh Kale fall short of painting a complete… more
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