We stopped in Buffalo, TX, after leaving Austin en route to Shreveport. The diet on the road has been a bit more Arby’s than we would have liked. We tried [...]
Tags: Atlanta, Bands on Tour, Desi, Guest Bloggers, Live Music, Mississippi, Music, Muslim, Prop Anon, Punk, Rakesh B., sarmust, Sleep, taqwacore, Texas, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the kominas, the taqwacores, Vehicular Mishaps
The ride from LA to Austin was longer than the line to see GI Joe at the multiplex last weekend, but we made it to the Lonestar State in one [...]
Tags: Austin, Bands, Bands on Tour, Desi, Guest Bloggers, Live Music, Music, Muslim, Prop Anon, Punk, Rakesh B., sarmust, the kominas
OK, not really. But ants did attack US all the way to Austin! We left LA super early last Friday morning and drove for 7 hrs before crashing in Phoenix, [...]
Tags: Austin, Bands on Tour, Desi, Guest Blog, Live Music, Music, Muslim, Punk, Rakesh B., taqwacore, the kominas, the taqwacores, Venice Beach
YoYoMa, that show at LA’s Silver Factory Studios was off the rails!! Khalifornia’s been coming out in full effect for The Kominas, lighting up SF, Oakland, and now LA.
Sexy ladies [...]
Halfway between San Fran and LA, my “smart” phone gave out. Fortunately Harry at the Sprint store on Sunset got me back up and running, and I chilled with the [...]
Tags: Bands on Tour, Guest Bloggers, Live Music, Los Angeles, Music, Prop Anon, Punk, Rakesh B., sarmust, taqwacore, the kominas, the taqwacores
Tahoe citaaaaaaay. City of darkness. It may not be Gotham, but Tahoe’s got an underbelly that the locals like to scratch…especially on Thursday nights at the Sawtooth cafe on River [...]
Tags: Bands on Tour, Guest Bloggers, Live Music, Music, Oakland, Prop Anon, Punk, Rakesh B., San Francisco, sarmust, Tahoe City, taqwacore, the kominas, the taqwacores, Toilets
The road to Salt Lake took us through the kind of America you usually see in Rob Zombie horror movies. Gas stations simply called Gas Station were boarded up in [...]
Tags: Bands on Tour, Guest Bloggers, Live Music, Music, On the Road, propaganda anonymous, Punk, Rakesh B., Salt Lake City, Salt Plains, sarmust, Tahoe City, the kominas
It’s July 28th, 7 pm central standard time and we’re 120 miles outside Omaha. The band was up all night cutting a track at Pop Senations Studio in Madison. Check [...]
Tags: Bands on Tour, Guest Bloggers, Iowa, Live Music, Music, NPR, Pakistan, propaganda anonymous, Punk, Rakesh B., Road Trip on 'Roids, Salt Lake City, taqwacore, the kominas, the taqwacores
Long time no blog. Our apologies, Iggsters. In the past six days we’ve gone from NYC, to Cleveland to Chicago. (That’s about 820 miles, if you’re counting.)
Tags: Bands on Tour, Desi, Guest Bloggers, Live Music, Music, Muslim American, New York City, Pakistan, Prop Anon, Punk, Rakesh B., Salt Lake City, sarmust, taqwacore, the kominas, the taqwacores
Sup internets! Today we’re setting off to document (sorry, ROCKUMENT) the North American tour for the punk band from Bostonstan, The Kominas!
Fortunately for all of you, this is the [...]
There is a lot of self-righteous chatter about the phenomenon of the bifurcated identities forged by the children of immigrants in adopted homelands like America. But it should come as [...]
Tags: Mumbai, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, ThanksgivingPopular hip-hop MC, Zeyar Thaw, of the Myanmar-based group Acid was arrested and sentenced to six years in prison by the Myanmar government on Thursday, news outlets are reporting. The [...]
Tags: Acid, Generation Wave, Myanmar, Zeyar Thaw
Unless you’ve been subletting under a rock for the past three years, it should come as no surprise when I say that Asia’s artists have gone international. Takashi Murakami teaming [...]
Tags: 2nd Annual Asian Contemporary Art Fair, ACAF, Akira Kurosawa, Almagul Menlibayeva, Asian Art, Beijing Olympics, Cai Guo-Ziang, China, Dai Guangyu, Dang Xuan Hoa, Guggenheim, Gwen Stefani, Harajuku, Hiroji Noda, Hype Williams, Kanye West, Kim Jimin, manga, Mariano Ching, N*E*R*D, New York, NYC, Pharrell Williams, Pier 92, Ratna Gupta, Recession, Ren and Stimpy, Robert Smigel, Seifollah Samadian, Seven Samurai, Takashi Murakami, The Grudge, Zhang Peng, Zhang Xiaogang
Thursday night, I forewent my weekly installment of 30 Rock to venture deep into Brooklyn to a place they call Bushwick. Off the Jefferson L, at the intersection of Wykoff [...]
Tags: Shilpa Ray, Shilpa Ray and Her Happy HookersThere’s a bizarre conceit going around that anyone can be a film critic. Walk into the MOMA, pass unfavorable judgment on a canvas of solid colored squares, and your [...]
Tags: Mira Nair, Monsoon Wedding, Rachel Getting Married, Rakesh BaruahOn Tuesday November 4th, I wallflowered an Election Night party in Fort Greene to see how BK would usher in the age of Obama under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. I arrived just past 7 PM, made my way down into a basement apartment on Clinton Street, and settled in for a night of intense emotions.
Tags: Bangladeshi, Barack Obama, Brooklyn, elections, Erykah Badu, Fort Greene, hipster, Indian, Middle Eastern, Mos Def, ODB, Richard Wright, South African, Spike Lee, Talib Kweli, Truman Capote
Last week saw two videos climb the YouTube charts by dance-pop acts Lady GaGa and Hillary Duff. Beautiful, Dirty, Rich by Lady GaGa is a video of a writhing girl in an empty mansion celebrating the liberty to indulge. Reach Out by Hilary Duff is also a video of a writhing girl in an empty mansion celebrating the liberty to indulge. Each video stars a blonde white girl; each video accentuates the sexuality of a woman’s mouth; each video features intimate moments between a young girl and a statue. Two highly stylized videos by two nearly global artists released in the same week with such clear content overlap? What follows: a head to head analysis of the two vids, their directors and a verdict on who calls dibs in this Blonde on Blonde ‘hodown.
Tags: Depeche Mode, Fiona Apple, Gossip Girl, Hilary Duff, Jimmy Eat World, Lady GaGa, Lenny Kravitz, music video, The Who
Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say, but nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish, but [fizzawup] that ’cause they forgot about Jin. It’s okay. I almost did too. Almost.
Tags: Jin, Kanye West, Love Lockdown, Miss Info, Russell Peters
There is a station marked ID Check. We stand in a short line to receive our bracelets to gain admission to the 21 and up beer garden. In the background the lead singer of the British rock group Your Vegas yells something like, “We hear you only get 5 beers out there. Make ’em last! You got to pace yourselves!” Turns out he’s right. We find out we’re only allowed 5 beers for the whole day and that we can only drink them within the confines of the beer garden. No stage is visible from any one of the beer gardens. Drink beer or watch live music is the decision we have to make as 25-year-olds who paid $100+ dollars to attend an outdoor music festival. I’m beginning to think All Points West isn’t going to be as much about liberty as I initially imagined.
Tags: Africa, African, All Points West, America, Animal Collective, Arab-American, Asia, Asian, Beastie Boys, Bob Dylan, Bonaroo, British, Burning Man, Central Park, Chinua Achebe, Chromeo, Coachella, D'Angelo, Denzel Washington, DJ One Time, djembe, Do Lab, Dubai, Girl Talk, Grizzly Bear, Jersey City, John Varvatos, Jr Gong, K'Naan, Kings of Leon, Korg, Lincoln Center, Lollapalooza, Manhattan, Maxwell, New Jersey, New Pornographers, P-Thugg, prog-rock, Radiohead, Salman Rushdie, Slim Shady, Somali, Somalia, Soulji Boy, Soviet, The Band, The Black Crowes, The Felice Brothers, The Rapture, The Roots, The Strokes, Thom Yorke, Tony Shalhoub, Underworld, Vietnam, Wally World, Woodstock, Wyclef, Your Vegas
