Blog: Indiecision

As the weekend fast approaches, shed yourself of your work attire, don your weekend lazy-pants, and cook up some popcorn... it's time for Movie Montage, The Weekend Film Guide. We help s atiate all your film cravings, queries and confusions to ease you into the ultimate debate of, "What should I watch this weekend?" The Ladykillers (2004) DIRECTOR: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen CAST: Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Irma P Hall, JK Simmons PLOT: An eccentric professor rents a room in an old widow's house, and his [...]

Only a few months after the release of their first album 1 ( stream here ), Delhi rock band Sifar have announced the release of their new EP. The band announced that the EP will be titled 2 and will feature four new songs by the band. The songs have been performed live but have not yet been recorded. The band has also announced a contest asking people to remix their track 'Mita Do' from 1 . The winning entry would be given a chance to be featured on the new EP. We [...]

This week's tantalising offering to all you music lovers is an international one from New York producer/DJ duo The Knocks, with their personal take on French electropop act, M832s song 'Midnight City'. The song comes from a six-track EP called Magic , that is due to release at the end of the month. Also, the electro house cover features the vibrant vocals of young New York singer, Mandy Lee. After the success of their singles, 'Make It Better' and 'Dancing With The DJ', The Knocks are currently working on their debut record which will be out in [...]

I'm waiting outside the ticket window at Edward Theatre behind a man in a green and yellow t-shirt who smells of country liquor and tobacco. I want to buy a balcony ticket for the show that will start in a few minutes. I have been talking to the usher who waits outside the window when the man walks up to me and hands the ticket over to the usher. As he does this, he starts staring at me quite creepily. Suddenly, the prospect of the balcony does not seem very inviting. The usher tears off the man's ticket stub, he [...]

I am a big fan of progressive and psychedelic music - Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree - but never really researched it enough to get to know many more bands than what I've listed. However, I am tired of listening to the same old stuff, so I want to discover more bands from this genre. Help me, Captain Awesome! Anvith *** Anvith, Not a problem my awesome friend. I must admit, I've never actually heard of Porcupine Tree, but I am a huge [...]

Chennai-based publishers Blaft have gained a lot of notoriety and acclaim for their anthologies, namely The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 1 & 2 . So when they announced the release of their new anthology The Obliterary Journal, we immediately decided to get in touch with Blaft editor Rakesh Khanna to get a lowdown on what readers can expect from it. Rakesh, a mathematician from U.C Berkeley and IIT-Madras, moved to Chennai in 1998. After almost ten years of being fascinated with the lurid covers of pulp magazines at local tea stands, he established Blaft with [...]

The fourth edition of the Shubha Mudgal and Aneesh Pradhan curated music festival, Baajaa Gaajaa is set to kick off today, at Ishanya Mall in Pune. The festival is divided into two sections - musical performances and the music conclaves. The wide array of musicians slated to play the festival are from across the country, with the focus being on traditional and classical Indian music. Each of the evenings, across the three days, will see a concert at the magnificent, open-air Ishanya Amphitheater. You can check out the entire schedule for the music performances here . [...]

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All Your Base reviews games created by independent developers. A game with a score of 10 Bases is pretty much the OK Computer of video games. Download (40 MB) Developer: Puppy Games Platform(s): PC, Mac, Linux Genre: Shoot 'em up (fixed shooter) Price: $4.99 (roughly Rs. 245) Titan Attacks! is a heart-felt tribute to retro shoot 'em up games like Space Invaders and Galaga . Aliens attack from the top of the screen, you [...]

Chennai grunge act Null Friction emerge out of hiatus that lasted nearly two years with Be Calm & Bring Ice, the band's planned second album which will be released this March. Null Friction's debut album, Madras, was released in 2009 and following a music video , a tour and sporadic gig performances, the band went on a break as individual members of the trio pursued personal careers. Then, earlier this year, the band reformed for a performance at the recently concluded Chennai Global Music Festival . Now, the band is [...]

Kishore Krishna is doing for Chennai what The Melvins did for the Washington indie scene. The Melvins were at the centre of a tight-knit group of musicians and hangers-on who went on to take the world by storm. In much the same way, Krishna is the central figure in Chennai's emerging alternative singer-songwriter scene. Not only has he put out some of the most exciting music we've heard all year, he's also been a strong influence on a number of his contemporaries. One of his protégés is 19-year–old multi-instrumentalist Harsha Iyer. Harsha Iyer approaches music with a [...]

Xavier Institute of Communication's MADMA (or Madness in Mass Communication and Advertising) focuses on various aspects of media and, in it's 2012 edition, is on a mission to 'infect reality with oodles of madness'. The festival is very young and fresh and will feature musical performances, contests and workshops by various media professionals. Local band Something Relevant (pictured inside) will play the festival; a gig that might prove interesting due to the association band has with the college. The other act featured will be Pune rock act Ashwamedh. The performances will be held on Sunday, Feb 12 [...]

The 2012 edition of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Mangament - Gwalior's annual cultural festival has been announced. This will be the eleventh or twelth edition of the festival and it will be as magical as a Harry Potter-themed website can make it seem . Apart from the regular roster of college events, Aurora will also feature a college rock band competition called ' Corna ', on Saturday, Feb 25. The competition will be headlined by Pune-based rock band Ashwamedh. The pro-nights at the college will also feature performances by Bollywood songstress Shibani [...]

The 2012 edition of the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival runs from Saturday, Feb 4 to Saturday, Feb 11. As in previous years, the festival features a host of musical performances, art installations, film screenings, heritage walks and workshops. Contributing to the art installations in SoBo this year is renowned 3D street artist Tracy Lee Stum , who is on a tour of India sponsored by the American Centre of the US Consulate General. Stum has been creating interactive 3D artwork for the last 14 years and has gone on to gain immense critical acclaim and popularity. We caught up [...]

Kolkata experimental rock act PINKNOISE comes back to Mumbai to play at Hard Rock Cafe on Thursday, Feb 9 . We caught up with frontlady Jayashree Singh who filled us in on what the audience can expect from Thursday night's set. PINKNOISE's latest EP, called The Dance Of The Diaspora , will be the main focus of the performance. "The EP has never been performed in Mumbai," explains Singh, "so that will be something new for the audiences. Since Hard Rock requires a band to play for an hour and 45 minutes, we will also be playing [...]

Having recently launched their band at Star Rock, Chennai on Feb 4, ex- Junkyard Groove peeps Siddharth Srinivasan, Craig Maxworth and Hudstin Fernandez come together to create a new alt-rock band - The Captains of Hook . With their messy split from JYG, web 2.0 style-y, they unceremoniously bid farewell to Ameeth Thomas via FB . However, in their FB message they said, "This is not the end, but the start of something new." That 'something new' is TCoH. So you must be wondering, are they going to be an exact replica of JYG (as [...]

Have you ever had more money than sense and had the inexplicable desire to light matches, burn retinas and pop popcorn one kernel at a time from across the room? Well stop those tears right now, because Wicked Lasers have come up with the world's most powerful (note: 'dangerous') handheld laser. It's awesome. With an output of 1000 mW of power, the blue laser is able to burn through balloons and plastic from a reasonable distance. Honestly I can't think of any good reasons why anyone would actually want the S3 Spyder III Arctic Laser, [...]

Let's get one thing straight. Lamb of God have always been a formulaic band. With each record, they've made the smallest evolutionary steps, but none that could be discerned by an onlooker's ear. Despite, or rather because of that, they could ram their way out the underground and become such a massive centripetal force in the metal community. This unlikely rise could be attributed to a lone fact - the template set by Pantera was aped by a million bands at the time, but nobody did it like these guys. Lamb of God were more spiritual successors than clones. They [...]

The sixth edition of the quarterly electronic bass festival 'Bass Camp' has been announced and will cover Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, and Pune from Feb 9. This year's fest will be headlined by New Zealand electronic act Concord Dawn for this edition. Initially comprising of Evan Short and Matt Harvey, Concord Dawn burst on to the NZ drum 'n bass scene in 1999 and has since been gaining critical and commercial acclaim since. They established their own record label in 2004 and have made releases for several artists including the Australian band Pendulum . In its current [...]

"One, two, three. Fuck off Mikael" In its first edition in 2010, Overture's Summer Storm booked American metal giants Lamb of God to play Palace Grounds , Bangalore. Late last year, the organizers announced that Swedish prog metallers Opeth would be headlining the festival in its second edition, supported by two other bands - German metallers SuidAkrA (read our interview with them here ) and Maldivian metal act Nothnegal - with local acts , Eccentric Pendulum and Theorized . Summer Storm 2012 [...]