The last time American thrash metal giants Megadeth visited these shores (with Machine Head), the idea of international metal artistes touring India was still a little alien. Sure, international performers had toured India, but very few of them were members of that heavier, louder, brasher spectrum of music.

With the economic climate the way it is, it’s difficult to go to more than one (music) festival. When the financial situation is a little more buoyant, things are obviously different, but when people can afford to go to only one festival, you’ve got to give them value for money,” says Andy Copping, the man behind the hugely successful Download Festival, now in its 10th year.

Once our first album (Resolve[d]) was released, people kept drawing incessant comparisons to the band Tool. It was always ‘Tool this and Tool that’.

Amidst the hailstorm of artistes/bands talking about how 2011 was one of the hardest working years in their collective histories, it’s very refreshing (in a strange way) to come across one band that a

The notion of crowd-sourcing or crowd-funding for artistic endeavours is by no means a new concept, but 2011 has seen major steps forward for the idea.

If your feet have ever taken you to a dance floor, you have, in all probability heard and maybe even danced to the music of Basement Jaxx. And you probably enjoyed it too.

Do you remember when Scribe triggered off an impromptu onstage moshpit last year?

Live performances, on the whole, are a difficult little animal to tame, especially while trying to cage them as audio or video recordings.

It’s difficult to say for certain whether or not the Indian rock and metal community has turned into a bunch of eager learners, but the fact of the matter is that music clinics appear

“The first time I did a guitar clinic was something of an accident. It was some sort of band promotion in Taiwan in January 2004 and I was asked to do it.