This is meant to be accompanying notes for the playlist I made. I hope you’re enjoying it! Remember, it’s a collection of my favourites, not necessarily a “best of”. Use my playlist as a starting point to jump off and explore more of this band. …

The playlists: Spotify | YouTube I really don’t want to write a long intro about Floyd, why they are so important to music, and why they mean so much to me. Maybe some other time, for this article is just meant to be a companion to the playlists I made, to provide…

The risk of working in advertising / marketing / branding these days is you’re eventually asked the C-question. What do you think about CRED? I’ve been asked this by students of courses I teach (including 20 year olds). Some Whatsapp groups I’m a part of can’t call it a day…

Intro note: I run a podcast called The Origin of Things. It’s a short-format show where each episode talks about the origin of a certain brand. But I reveal the name of the brand (and often, the category!) only at the very end. I’m putting up the scripts for each…

On the “fade out” vs “stop” debate, I am team end the damn song with a bang! Nothing against a quality fade out — I think it fascinating that there are portions of the Comfortably Numb or Hotel California solos we’ve never heard — but I just love a flourish…

With music venues closed and congregation discouraged, virtual gigs have become the way we consume “live” music in 2020. Who knows, they might still be a thing even post-vaccine, given the easier logistics and global audience. Sitting in Mumbai, I’ve seen several acts I never thought I would in the…

Every industry is going through Covid-infused change right now, often long-overdue, often reluctantly implemented. One such industry: concerts. For many music fans, live-streamed concerts (or e-gigs / virtual shows / digital concerts) have become a staple of weekend nights, though they are far from perfect in their current avatar. These…

I’ve often been asked for recommendations, possibly because I’m a “curator” of sorts: I author a newsletter on digital miscellany (Things of Internet), used to author a news-based one (The Third Slip), co-run Telegram channels where I share a song a day or an article a day, and started three…

Find a rock music fan of any shade and chances are they will be a fan of psychedelic legends Pink Floyd. At the very basic level, Another Brick In The Wall — 2 & Wish You Were Here is as much part of an engineering college’s curriculum as Thermodynamics is…