A Brief Efflorescence

In the late 1990s, sitting at my computer in New Delhi, using a sputtering dial-up connection, I discovered rollingstone.com, NME.com, pitchforkmedia.com, and the now-defunct wallofsound.go.com. Much of the music discussed on these sites wasn’t available in Indian music stores, which were in the thrall of quite random British exports (Def Leppard, Travis, Manic Street Preachers), […]