Musejam Blog

Circa the 16^th of May, 2013. Right near the bend of St. Mark’s Church on M.G.Road stands the Hard Rock Café at Bangalore. On a seemingly regular day at the Mecca for Bang-lured Rock aficionados, we from the Musejam team were lucky to be audience to an amazing gig by Menwhopause (ya, Men-who-pause…duh!) – the alternative rock act from New Delhi.

Setting off the trend of distributing free music over the internet, the band uploaded their debut EP- ‘The Story begins…’ as a free download in 20...

Menwhopause, the alternative rock act from New Delhi has recently performed at the Hard Rock Café, Bangalore on 16th May, 2013. Being hailed amongst the most successful Indian Rock bands, the band recently entertained the ever-happening Bangalore with their music. The Musejam team could catch a pre-gig interview with the band members (our special thanks to the band manager Ritnika for co-ordinating the same)...

Delhi Metal Project played live at Attitude Alive, Gurgaon. Here are a few pics from the event.

Women’s day, the day to celebrate womanhood; on such a day, Musejam had to bring in a little bit of feminine touch to the world of music so we went out to cover a women’s day event. Let’s start by introducing a voice called ‘Shweta Iyer’. A young lady stepping in her second decade has a refreshingly promising voice. On the 8th of March we met this lady with her band “the Joint Family” in a place called Cafe 1730 Beans and Booze.

As we walked in, we saw this young lady in a little...

Last Thursday (28th Feb, 2013) was a madhouse of fun! It was a Fiesta of music and Celebration of the album launch of “The Circus”, a progressive/psychedelic rock band from Delhi. The ever spectacular, blue frog was full house including a number of bands and musicians who came to show their support. (Skyharbor,Parikrama, Half Step Down, Menwhopause, Cyanide, Faridkot, Barefaced Liar, Fire Exit, Guillotine, Frequency, Artillerie, Frame/Frame and more!).

The new album is called ‘Bats’...

For an undetermined world of music and accessibility of smartphones+internet, Team Musejam brings you the 5 music apps to explore the best of both:

1. SoundHound
It is an app that helps its users identify a song or music by playing/humming/singing the song. The music search engine available on the Apple App Store, Google Play and Windows Marketplace for Mobile...

The night of 7th at Zorba was rather special as a super line up of musicians and artists were present and performing for the opening of the UnBox Festival.

To kick things off, we had some special talent – Soumik Datta (UK) and Arif Khan (Kolkata) performing their collaborative project – Sounds Of Bengal...

Last Wednesday, 30th January 31, 2013, Adi Suhail Tarun painted the night with their tunes in Out of the box Café, New Delhi. Adi Suhail Tarun (A.S.T.) is a. an electro-acoustic world music act led by Suhail Yusuf Khan, Tarun and Aditya Balani, who have been playing and writing music together for over a decade...

So, yours truly went all the way from Mumbai to Coorg to catch the second edition of the Storm Festival 2013 which took place from February 1-2. The line-up sure looked promising with acts including The Raghu Dixit Project, Nikhil Chinappa, Vachan Chinnappa, Swarathma, Papon & The East India Company, Indian Ocean and Shankar Mahadevan, Raman Mahadevan and Jirka Mucha, Karsh Kale Collective, Anish Sood, Sidd Coutto, Dash Berlin and Siddharth Basrur...

“That’s what drew me to rock music in the first place – that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.” ~Stephan Jenkins

True to this spirit, the biggest rock band competition in the country –Wildfire was back again at Spring Fest’13, IIT Kharagpur. Spreading to more and more hearts in a pace as good as the name suggests, Wildfire continued its legendary journey for yet another year...