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Throwback Thursday: Twenty One Pilots Made Us Speechless At The MTV Movie Awards!

June 1, 2017

The powerful performance manages to give you the ultimate feels. Things were not too different back in 2014 but the world buzzed in awe at the mysterious band, Twenty One Pilots, who took the stage of the 20...

Throwback Thursday: Daft Punk Sets Coachella On Fire!

Risa Desa

April 6, 2017

MS Features, Music

What makes Coachella the king of all festivals? Well, performances like these might have something to do with it. As the highly popular and much-loved festival draws close, we take a look at one of the fes...

Throwback Thursday: The OG Electronic Music Documentary

Ayesha Tamboowalla

March 30, 2017

MS Features, Music

Go back in time to see where the current tech for techno came from. Director and writer of Discovering Electronic Music, Bernard Wilet, originally created this film to educate young viewers who might have be...

THROWBACK: Take A Walk Down Memory Lane With A Day Of sLick!

Risa Desa

December 15, 2016

FS Features

We take a look at the crazy memories of one the coolest music festivals in India. With less than two weeks left for A Day of sLick! to hit the Goan shores, the excitement is already growing. With an amount o...

Was The Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival The Worst Music Festival In History?

Meher Manda

January 18, 2016

Culture, FS Features, Music

The whimsically named festival, organised way back in 1972, was such a disaster that festival pundits still refer to it as the worst music festival ever. Bad music festivals are aplenty. In fact, even iconic...

Music Festivals In 2015 : Our Year In Review

Meher Manda

December 30, 2015

Culture, FS Features

Much has begun for much to end so much could pass. The Sherp reviews how music festivals have fared in the year of 2015. The year of 2015 was one defiant year when it came to music festivals and change in tr...

Throwback: To The Time Madonna Kissed Drake On Stage At Coachella

Sanjana Ajith

December 23, 2015

FS Features

It was surprising, it was strange, but the image is pretty much imprinted in all our brains now. During Drake's performance at Coachella 2015, Madonna made an appearance to sing a few songs. Drake sat down i...

Prince Covered Radiohead’s Creep At Coachella 2008 And The Video’s Back Up!

Meher Manda

December 9, 2015

FS Features, Music

Remember that iconic moment when Prince covered Radiohead's Creep at Coachella 2008, before blocking the said video on YouTube? Yes, the video's back, and we have it right here. Prince and Radiohead are, bot...

Throwback Stories To Prove That Woodstock ‘69 Was The Most Special Music Festival Ever

Meher Manda

November 19, 2015

Culture, FS Features, Music

Music festivals today cannot hope to match the intimacy, authenticity and legend of Woodstock Festival, 1969. Some beautiful, timeless stories from the festival are testament to the same. It was the era of t...

Throwback: When Radiohead Created Musical History At Glastonbury ’97

Anupama Khedkar

November 12, 2015

FS Features, Music

This set demonstrated that there is and never will be anything like Radiohead in their prime. Two weeks after the release of their third album OK Computer, which would later be recognized as the foundation ...

Throwback To These 5 Memorable Music Festivals That Never Made It To The ’00s

Anupama Khedkar

November 4, 2015

Culture, FS Features

These festivals embody the quintessence of the era of love, peace and music. The sixties and seventies were the golden decades of rock n roll, giving rise to music festivals that would be spoken about rever...

7 Of Kanye West’s Most Memorable Moments In Music Festival History

Anupama Khedkar

October 21, 2015

FS Features

From being booed off stage to proclaiming himself the greatest living rockstar, Kanye's festival history is definitely colourful. The eccentric rapper is known for his untimely and often unthought-out rants ...

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