Michael Jackson to tour India in November

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Michael Jackson, the erstwhile king of pop is all set to make a $50million comeback tour which will include a trip to India, courtesy Bal Thackeray. [link]
Michael Jackson is all set for a huge $50 million comeback [...]

Review: XM Channel 159 ATN Asian Radio

My search for desi music on radio led me to invest in XM satellite radio. Previously, I never drove that much and for the short drives between home and work, I had enough music on CDs to get by. But now that I moved and am driving more, it was time to get more venues [...]

Sanjaya - 20 Dumbest people of 2007.

In more American Idol news, Mad magazine’s list of the ‘20 Dumbest People, Events & Things of 2007 features our Papaya. While half the world and all the call centers were against Sanjaya, I agreed with fellow bloggers, that he was a kid and the media was being too harsh towards him. The same goes [...]

Sanjaya to release debut album?

Rejoice Fanjayas for on the horizon is the debut album from the Idol we affectionately refer to as Papaya. Quoting the man himself: “See, it’s going to be an R&B-rooted vocal style, but I want to integrate jazz emotion and rock energy and world beats, world sounds, So it sounds kind of schizophrenic, but I’d [...]

Rachna Maurya does a Janet Jackson

Rachna Maurya, the ‘item’ girl of Bollywood has redefined the standards for all her peers. And we would not be Über Desi if we did not have the video for you right?
According to Rachna, the unplanned incident occurred on the set of the music video ‘Desi Soda Whiskey’, as a result of a ‘wardrobe malfunction’. [...]

Dr. Balamuralikrishna receives Congressional recognition.

Dr. Balamuralikrisha performing. Image from balaji shankar.

Shame on all our readers and shame on us for having missed this piece of news.
For the noobs, Dr. Balamuralikrishna is one of most accomplished Carnatic Music vocalist and composer. He started out as a violinist, moved on to play the Kanjira, Mridangam and the Viola. With [...]

Goldspot goes to India.

Goldspot in concert. Image from tomdz.
Not often do you come across a band featuring Desis that makes it big in the west and it is even rarer for them to go back to their roots. Goldspot the LA based rock band is doing just that by simultaneously releasing its single ‘Friday’ in English [...]

The Thursday morning Boston Bhangra Blast

Komal Trivedi Photo from Boston Globe (Globe Staff Photo / George Rizer)
Ever so often we come across people in the entertainment industry who take the South Asian diaspora to the next level. With one foot inside the door, they make our cause of being heard and understood easier.
Meet Komal Trivedi, A British [...]