We have discussed Kate Bush’s work on Culturazzi before, and here we are again - talking about the eccentric virtuoso from the UK. Kate Bush is an artist for all times, with her mad-hat antics, her spectacular music, her masterful use of language and metaphors. Hounds of Love started it all. Hounds of Love finds [...]

Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers made a successful run across various festival circuits in 2005 starring Bill Murray as a man running back into his past carefully picking up the flowers strewn across failed relationships and romances. On the road trip to absolution plays the fabulous Broken Flowers soundtrack. Headlining the versatile record is Ethiopian musician [...]

Frenzied like a explosive firecracker crackling inside a small birdcage, yearning to break free - A Fine Frenzy’s sophomore album, Bomb in a Birdcage is a delight. Spending two years on the road, Alison Sudol’s voice is now controlled and honed, and the music and instrumentation is more expansive yet tight. One of the best [...]

The cover of Fleet Foxes’ debut album Fleet Foxes shines light at the intricate yet simple beauty the band wants to convey through their art. The cover is a a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder from the 16th century. According to Wikipedia, ‘There are around 100 identifiable idioms in the scene (although Bruegel may [...]

The Kills’ Midnight Boom is a thumping energetic record; ostensibly seems to have been deliberately made all cool, and it works well. With haphazard guitars, sounds that burst out through quiet lingering moments into a cloud of shivering energy, and tip-topping reveries about random lovers and tornadoes - it endears itself to the listener.
Arguably some [...]

Madonna is more than an artist now. She is a brand. She demands attention, listening, fans, critics, and press. Arguably the only musician now who demands a sizeable fraction of following which the late Michael Jackson had; she unlike the latter has continued to “reinvent” herself, if reinvention is what she has done, especially in [...]

“Oh we flee the scene of our little crime
We feel so free
But the hounds of law they bite our heels
As we retreat
Up to the planets up to the bodies of the galaxy
Of the galaxy we fly we feed we suck we bleed we need…”

With these words, M83 takes you on a rapturous journey [...]

Buy a copy of Kala by M.I.A., select any song, and pump up the volume. And enjoy a rambunctious roller-coaster of sounds, electro loops, Indian sitar and Australian didjeridoo. Slumdog Millionaire was the movie that catapulted M.I.A. to a larger audience, if Timbaland’s efforts weren’t enough. Deconstructing who is M.I.A. is a visual and sonic [...]

I listened first to Mazzy Star only a few years back, and at once was enveloped in the dreamy blanket that the band weaved with their music. Songs like Fade Into You and Rhymes of an Hour were made for a lazy day on the bed. Sandoval’s smooth and intimate voice fit well with the [...]

Ellipse by Imogen Heap - Immie’s army of fans can rejoice because the singer-songwriter-composer extraordinaire is back with her latest album - Ellipse. It has been four long years since Speak for Yourself came out with its electric landscape of warm fuzzy music. Imogen Heap has the sort of friendly, familiar voice you want to [...]