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How to spread a jam

India, March 29 -- There is a chapter early in Shabaka Hutchings's creative lore that feels almost mythological in retrospect. A young man with roots in Barbados, born in Britain and training at Londo... Read More


How to spread a jam: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the genius of Shabaka Hutchings

India, March 27 -- There is a chapter early in Shabaka Hutchings's creative lore that feels almost mythological in retrospect. A young man with roots in Barbados, born in Britain and training at Lond... Read More


Putting the rock in Ragnarok: Sanjoy Narayan writes on Nordic blues

India, March 13 -- It was one of those wonderfully wet Finnish summer days - unexpected, slightly comic, and, in hindsight, perfect. I was on the Kuopio leg of a bike-and-train trip through the count... Read More


Ghost notes: The gigs I missed

India, March 8 -- I t began, as reveries tend to begin for me these days, with a lazy afternoon and a pair of headphones. I had put on audio from the Monterey International Pop Festival of June 1967, ... Read More


Ghost notes: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the gigs he missed

India, March 6 -- It began, as reveries tend to begin for me these days, with a lazy afternoon and a pair of headphones. I had put on audio from the Monterey International Pop Festival of June 1967, a... Read More


Settling scores: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the audacious music of Fargo

India, Feb. 13 -- Now that Fargo, the engrossing TV series, exists as a complete five-season work (with Season 6 a distant hope), it felt like the right time to revisit the entire show. So that's exac... Read More


Turn it up to 11

India, Feb. 8 -- One night last month, I think I had a melatonin-triggered dream (melatonin being notorious for inducing vivid, cinematic dreams) in which Bob Weir, with his wild white beard and thick... Read More


Turn it up to 11: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the living legends of rock and jazz

India, Feb. 6 -- One night last month, I think I had a melatonin-triggered dream (melatonin being notorious for inducing vivid, cinematic dreams) in which Bob Weir, with his wild white beard and thick... Read More


Soul survivors: Sanjoy Narayan on the magic of a retro music movement

India, Jan. 16 -- There is something delectably anachronistic about watching a young band in 2026 commit themselves to the sound of 1968. Yet that's precisely what Thee Sacred Souls have been doing si... Read More


The controlled chaos of Geese

India, Jan. 11 -- In today's hyperactive rock landscape, where bands proliferate like wildflowers only to wilt just as quickly, Brooklyn's Geese are a curious anomaly. They are neither saviours nor ch... Read More