About five years ago, Bruce Reddick bought an album of acoustic guitar music with harmonizing singers, not knowing it was in Sanskrit. The songs turned out to be Hindu chants about the various deities, set to music. At ashrams in India, chants are sung nightly in the original Sanskrit, and...

Grammy-nominated, composer-pianist Vijay Iyer and his band brought their version of the classic jazz trio, infused with cutting-edge new music and rhythmically intricate grooves, to the Berklee Performance Center in Boston on Friday, Dec. 9. Share...

In a country with more than one billion residents and more than 100 million Internet users, when a song goes viral on the web in India it really gets noticed. That’s certainly the case with bizarre broken English / Tamil language song “Kolaveri Di” – translation “Killer Rage” –...

As a lifelong Beatles’ fan, George was one of the most important and influential pop culture figures of my life — however, as a person of East Indian descent, my view of ‘The Quiet Beatle’ is rather complicated. For better or worse, George Harrison inadvertently became the...

Like any self-respecting Bollywood cinephile, Tenzin Jigdal was excited about the new Hindi movie “Rockstar,” which was scored by one of his favorite music directors, A. R. Rahman of “Slumdog Millionaire” fame. When the crew came to his hometown of Dharamsala to film a portion of the...

With just a few notes and melodies, music has the ability to transport listeners across the world. At Indo-Canadian vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia’s Monday performance at the Mint, she stoked up fiery wanderlust with sounds of Portugal, North Africa and India, enveloping the audience in the...

American rapper-singer Armando Christian Perez, popularly known as Pitbull, is coming to India in the first week of December for a live concert. The American songwriter-record producer will be performing at a concert in Noida on December 2, in Mumbai the next day, and in Pune on December 4. Sha

When students and aficionados of Carnatic music in America heard that Jaya TV and Maximum Media in association with the Cleveland Aradhana Committee were hosting Carnatic Music Idol in the United States in September, local organisers at the four semifinalist centers – Atlanta on September 9,...

The legendary singer, composer and director from the northeastern state died Saturday at the age of 86. When my mom told me, I was flooded with memories of his music playing on Sunday mornings as she fried lucees, during long car rides to family friends’ homes, as I learned to awkwardly...