India, Sept. 13 -- There's a crackling video I return to on YouTube, whenever modern music begins to feel too sanitised. It is from March 1969, recorded in an abandoned linoleum factory in Staines, En... Read More
India, Aug. 23 -- In a flat in Manchester in January 1980, Ian Curtis (yes, that Ian Curtis, a few months from becoming post-punk's most mourned voice at 23) of the band Joy Division sat gluing coarse... Read More
India, Aug. 21 -- In a flat in Manchester in January 1980, Ian Curtis (yes, that Ian Curtis, a few months from becoming post-punk's most mourned voice at 23) of the band Joy Division sat gluing coarse... Read More
India, Aug. 9 -- I have become a born-again fan of Mick Jagger, 83, and The Rolling Stones. Last month, they released their 25th British studio album, Foreign Tongues and, during a promotional intervi... Read More
India, Aug. 7 -- I have just become a fan of Mick Jagger and his band, The Rolling Stones. How ridiculous does that sound? It's 2026. Jagger and his mates founded the band in 1962 - 64 years ago - and... Read More
India, Aug. 7 -- I have just become a fan of Mick Jagger and his band, The Rolling Stones. How ridiculous does that sound? It's 2026. Jagger and his mates founded the band in 1962 - 64 years ago - and... Read More
India, July 19 -- Around the middle of the third episode of For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music, I caught myself doing something I don't normally do while watching a YouTube video. I paused... Read More
India, July 17 -- Around the middle of the third episode of For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music, I caught myself doing something I don't normally do while watching a YouTube video. I pause... Read More
India, July 17 -- Around the middle of the third episode of For the Record: An Incomplete History of Music, I caught myself doing something I don't normally do while watching a YouTube video. I pause... Read More
India, July 12 -- Joni Mitchell, at 82, is having the kind of season many artists don't get at their peak. In March, she won Canada's Juno Lifetime Achievement honour. Weeks earlier, she won a Grammy ... Read More