Live Music News Catch Sitar Queen Anoushka Shankar at Sydney Symphony Under the Stars for free!! by Tammy Moir Missed out on tickets to Anoushka Shankars sold out performances? Well, we’ve got you, you can catch her at Sydney Festivals new festival favourite program in Parramatta for FREE Renowned…
News Check out this rare psychedelic footage of Ravi Shankar teaching George Harrison the sitar by Luka Simonetti Rare footage has emerged of Ravi Shankar playing the sitar with George Harrison in a psychedelic ’60s environment. The short film has been released to celebrate what would have been…
Music WATCH: Dear Doonan – ‘Sweet Quiche’ by Happy Sun-drenched psych-gods Dear Doonan, have paired their latest single with a fabulously frivolous new video. Popping with the colours of the seventies, orange and green paint the vibrant sounds of…
Music Dear Doonan deliver another offering to the Gods of psychedelia by Happy Following the simmer-pot of psychedelia that was Dear Doonan’s self-titled album comes Sweet Quiche. Their latest single—all but for a whispered opening line—is purely instrumental and an ode to the Eastward…
Features A brief history of sitar in rock music by Luke Saunders The sitar has had an incredible history from medieval India to the cultural revolution of the ’60s, with a voice in music as unique as any fingerprint. While the sitar…
News Watch the new Richard In Your Mind video Love Grows by Shayen de Silva Sydney psych-poppers Richard In Your Mind have released a video for their song Love Grows. The video rightfully features kaleidoscopic imagery, sitar playing and plenty of other trippy imagery. The band are heading…
Music Introducing: Pepa Knight by Debbie Carr It sounds like an Oscar worthy movie: one man jets off to India with a serious case of wanderlust and finds himself learning the craft of music through local artists,…