Since its inception 13 years ago, the Great Indian Rock Festival, better known as ‘GIR’, has grown into this massive, nation-wide event that attracts hoards of Rock music lovers. GIR is the brain-child of Amit Saigal, also the founder of…
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The Great Indian Rock Festival 2008
Extreme with King’s X at the House of Blues
Extreme with Special Guests King’s X at the House of Blues, Chicago
Extreme’s Take us Alive 2008 tour is the bands first tour in 13 years. After an extended hiatus the band decided to take on the air waves again and…
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
In 1962, Duke Ellington joined fellow jazz great John Coltrane in recording an album that would be titled after the two legends. Duke was considerably senior than John in age and musical experience yet he temporarily became part of Coltrane’s…
Hagar-Anthony-Satriani supergroup hits the studios
The much rumoured supergroup featuring former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar, ex-Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani and RHCP drummer Chad Smith; tentatively titled “Chickenfoot” by fans has finally started recording its debut album. The band haverather…
Les Paul tribute album
While Les Paul may be more famous for the guitar he gave his name to, there is no denying that this legendary musician has had tremendous influence not just on instruments but on musicians too. The 93 year old jazz…
Junoon - Parvaaz
Junoon propelled the idea of an asian band, playing western music in a predominantly asian style, thus staying connected to their roots all whilst straying away from it. Parvaaz was the follow up to Junoon’s previous venture Azadi, which introduced the…
The Doors - Their greatest Part I
The Doors, had the one thing that no other band in the world had – James Douglas Morrison. With a style of their own and an unmatched stage presence, the band has undoubtedly left their mark in the world of…
Rabbi Shergill - Avengi Ja Nahin
In 2004, India was introduced to Rabbi Shergill when the music video to his hit song Bulla Ki Jaan was being splashed over network channels a zillion times a day. It was hard not to enjoy his music - marked by…
Brute Force - Force Fed
Brute Force is a four piece heavy metal band hailing from Pune. The youthful band has been in existence since 2005 and has already built a steady fan base of metal heads across the country in this short span. They…
Sanjay Divecha album launch
Bombay’s very own Jazz virtuoso guitarist Sanjay Divecha is to launch his new album ‘Full Circle’ on Blue Frog Records on Wednesday, 24th October at Blue Frog Lounge. A graduate of the prestigious Guitar Institute of Technology, LA from where…
Death Magnetic Out
12th September, was a day marked out on the calenders of metal fans around the world. The day marks the universal release of the much anticipated release of metal titans; Metallica’s 9th studio album - Death Magnetic.
The album is out…
Metakix - Connect and Inspire
Connect & Inspire, is Bombay based thrash metal band, Metakix’s second album, coming out in 2006, four years after their debut album. Though the band would be bear the thrash tag proudly, the album bears so much beyond and in between a…
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Out in 1973, Birds of Fire was the follow up to The Mahavishnu Orchestra’s debut album, The Inner Mounting Flame, which continues where it’s predecessor left off. While the band’s debut left jazz and rock audiences around the world in state…
Toto Awards 2009
In it’s fifth year of existence, the TOTO awards have gained, and continue to gain immense popularity amongst bands and individual musicians alike! For those of you who are unaware of what these awards are all about, here’s something that…
Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior
By the mid 70’s Return To Forever, was most definitely one of the most respected bands in the field of jazz music. But, it wasn’t until their sixth album, Romantic Warrior that the band was able to surpass other fusion bands…
Ozzy’s Greatest Part II
In 1982, when Randy Rhoads died in a terrible plane crash, everyone thought Ozzy had hit another brick wall and this time he wouldn’t be able to recover and make a come-back. After all Randy was Ozzy’s new found secret…
Ozzy’s Greatest Part I
Ozzy Osbourne is a man who’s name is synonymous with heavy metal. In a career spanning four decades now, Ozzy has adopted many forms. From being the wildest and darkest man on stage, to being a sober and sincere family…
Sceptre - Now or Never
On December 1st 1998, four metal-heads got together to play the music of their choice, music which was just music at the end of the day, but still was so much more than just music. Enter Sceptre. Ten years on, Sceptre…
The Official Launch Of Brute Forces New Album: Force Fed. And Sceptre’s long overdue: Now or Never.
Here’s something all you metal-heads wouldn’t want to miss! Next week,that is,on the 5th of September — -three of India’s most successful metal acts will be performing LIVE at D’Ultimate. The ocasion: The launch of Brute Force’s album, Force Fed & SCEPTRE’s Now…
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