“Girls aren’t really made of sugar and spice and everything nice.”

This is what Rupa Gulab’s I Kissed A Frog is all about. While “The Powerpuff Girls” may have taught us otherwise, I Kissed A Frog depicts the truth about relationships, friendships and people today.

Louis CK’s been a stand-up comedian for over twenty years, and won two Emmy Awards and a Peabody award for his show, Louie. A few months ago, HBO released the trailer for his new stand up special “Oh My God”. Since I’m a huge fan that’s seen most of his stand up performances, I was pretty excited.

Sigur Rós is an Icelandic Post-Rock band that has produced some of the most unusual music I have ever come across.Coming from Iceland, the band was formed in the year, 1994. The band uses some pretty standard instruments like the guitar, drums, bass and keyboards, yet somehow ends up creating a distinctive, extraordinary sound.

The National’s rise to international acclaim has been slow and traditional; they’ve produced some good albums, done many tours and have grown with each album. The reason I chose to write about this album in particular is because this one is possibly their best album yet and also because their new album Trouble will find me is up for release in the month of May.

The year 2012 came to a morbid end with the Delhi Gang Rape Case that shook people in the capital, the country and the world. While people may never be able to erase the memory of the incident itself, it is important to remember and analyse the after math.

As Warren Mendonsa plans to release his third album (possibly titled the Old New Album) during the monsoon season this year, I thought we could take a look at his previous album titled The New Album.

Simply put, Acapella (also pronounced A capella or Acappella) means singing “without use of any musical instruments”. Using only individual or group voices, it is usually associated with choir music. The artists use their voices to imitate instruments and their sound effects. It’s fascinating to see how this kind of music began (in churches and chapels) and where it is now (being used as song cover techniques).

I remember listening to a song of this album on my friend’s Ipod some months back. I had no idea who the artist was back then; I heard the same song once again last month. That sweet feeling of familiarity came rushing back to my head, and I realised that I just had to find out whose album this was. And it turned out that this debut album received the highly prestigious 2012 Mercury Prize and was also a part of The Guardian’s Top ten albums of 2012. And after listening to it, you will realise it as well.

For those of you who didn’t make it, last Saturday was one hell of a show at Blue Frog. The current student community may or may not have heard of them, but Euphoria was performing at the venue, and it was quite a performance.

First of all, technically, an EP (extended play) is like a mini album- with a bunch of tracks but not enough to be considered a full-length album. Generally, EPs are viewed as makeshift releases to keep a band’s momentum going between tours or album cycles. This one on the other hand, is a lot more than that.