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Sanjoy Narayan

Last summer, while a debate over net neutrality was on in the US, in his very funny news satire show, Last Week Tonight, the comedian John Oliver used a typically risqué example to explain what a non-neutral Internet could do to small web-based entrepreneurs and startups.

Articles by Sanjoy Narayan

In neo-punk, rage finds an unlikely ally: Hope, says Sanjoy Narayan

Cover art for the album Love Like Snow by Candy.

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 17, 2025 04:38 PM IST

A wild muse chase: Sanjoy Narayan on the kinship of jazz and hip-hop

The Get Down (2016) on Netflix, starring Shameik Moore, Justice Smith, Tremaine Brown Jr, Skylan Brooks and Jaden Smith, reminded us of what the Bronx in the 1970s really was: a crucible.

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 11, 2025 12:47 PM IST

The 30-track album: Sanjoy Narayan writes on Jeff Tweedy

In an era of playlist culture and shortened attention spans, Jeff Tweedy’s latest 30-track album feels almost anachronistic. (Wikimedia)

Art and Culture

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 02:35 PM IST

Race to the Finnish: Sanjoy Narayan tries familiar flavours at Ravintola Indus

The Delhi papri chaat is cleverly served in a shell made of the papri, each piece designed to be popped whole into the mouth.

Art and Culture

Updated on Sep 20, 2025 01:39 PM IST

Masters of sound and silence: Sanjoy Narayana writes on the band Mogwai

Cover art for the band’s new album, The Bad Fire.

Art and Culture

Updated on Sep 12, 2025 03:35 PM IST

He left his wallet in El Segundo: Ryan Davis and the American archetype

Davis treats song-writing like furniture-making. His music is deliberate, tactile and built to last.

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 22, 2025 05:36 PM IST

Treble in the family: Sanjoy Narayan on Kamasi Washington and modern jazz

Washington on the cover of Heaven and Earth (2018).

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 08, 2025 03:09 PM IST

The nine lives of Cat Power: Sanjoy Narayan writes on a shape-shifting artist

From the 2023 live album Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert.

Art and Culture

Updated on Jul 26, 2025 02:49 PM IST

The reggae rebels of punk rock: Sanjoy Narayan on the legacy of Bad Brains

Bad Brains at a gig in the 1980s.

Art and Culture

Updated on Jul 19, 2025 01:02 PM IST

Toronto’s finest treblemakers: Sanjoy Narayan is live at a gig by BadBadNotGood

The cover art for Mid Spiral, released last July.

Art and Culture

Updated on Jun 28, 2025 01:05 PM IST

Beauty in the beast: Sanjoy Narayan on the joys of Deafheaven’s sonic paradox

The cover art for Roads to Judah (2011).

Art and Culture

Updated on Jun 14, 2025 06:50 PM IST

New ear resolution: Sanjoy Narayan on the iconic Sennheiser HD 600 headphones

These humble German cans that can be bought for about $270 are the audiophile’s equivalent of a beat-up Fender guitar: a tool that melts into the art instead of stealing the spotlight.

Art and Culture

Updated on May 24, 2025 06:04 PM IST

Do a little Sault-searching: Sanjoy Narayan writes on an invisible British band

Sault does everything their own way. The band’s latest album, 10, was unveiled on Good Friday, then disappeared until Easter Sunday, echoing its themes of death, rebirth and renewal.

Art and Culture

Updated on May 10, 2025 03:10 PM IST

Workout tunes: Sanjoy Narayan puts together a playlist to help you flex

The cover of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue.

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 26, 2025 03:10 PM IST

Bungle in the Nordic jungle: Sanjoy Narayan goes live, with Jethro Tull

Photography was prohibited at the Helsinki gig, but here’s Ian Anderson, now 77 (at centre), and the band, during the Prog Years tour in 2021. (Nick Harrison / Jethrotull.com)

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 12, 2025 04:22 PM IST

Grizzly midlife reflections: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the band Animal Collective

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 22, 2025 09:02 PM IST

How to beat the algo-rhythm: Sanjoy Narayan writes on curated playlists

Seek out the human-made lists and one begins to discover real gold, such as the 2022 album In Tense, by the New York-based composer and bassist Harish Raghavan.

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 15, 2025 02:52 PM IST

Funk dial: Sanjoy Narayan on the return of the ’70s band Cymande

A scene from the 2022 documentary, Getting It Back.

Art and Culture

Updated on Feb 22, 2025 04:43 PM IST

Early rock formations: Sanjoy Narayan picks his favourite music podcasts

What connects The Byrds, The Beatles, Ravi Shankar and John Coltrane? Andrew Hickey has answers, in A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs.

Art and Culture

Updated on Jan 18, 2025 07:10 PM IST

2024 wrapped: Sanjoy Narayan’s list of top 5 moments in the world of music

Ezra Collective’s album, Dance, No One’s Watching, is a 19-song punchy, groovy feast for the ears… and the feet.

Art and Culture

Updated on Dec 27, 2024 07:12 PM IST

The Last Poets: Sanjoy Narayan writes on the grandfathers of rap

The cover of The Last Poets’ eponymous debut album. (Wikimedia Commons)

Art and Culture

Updated on Dec 21, 2024 07:08 PM IST

Long-playing records: 5 albums that got Sanjoy Narayan started

Jethro Tull’s Aqualung blended acoustic and hard rock exquisitely and with complexity.

Art and Culture

Published on Dec 06, 2024 08:08 PM IST

For the love of Goat: Sanjoy Narayan writes on Sweden’s cosmic folk concept band

At a festival in Barcelona in 2016. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on Nov 09, 2024 05:29 PM IST

The return of Guitar Zombie: Sanjoy Narayan writes on Sturgill Simpson

Simpson performs in Austin, Texas, in September. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 19, 2024 02:32 PM IST

Finding a deeper register: Sanjoy Narayan on rising British star Nadine Shah

Art and Culture

Updated on Oct 05, 2024 01:44 PM IST

Folk, spoken word, jazz: Give the old mix a shuffle, says Sanjoy Narayan

Cover art for the album Veena by American rapper Heems (birth name: Himanshu Kumar Suri).

Art and Culture

Updated on Sep 21, 2024 01:29 PM IST

Rock’s prince of darkness: Sanjoy Narayan writes on Nick Cave

Art and Culture

Updated on Sep 07, 2024 03:06 PM IST

Sanjoy Narayan on King Gizzard, a lizard wizard and the chameleons of rock

The sextet comprises frontman Stu Mackenzie and Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Cook Craig, Joey Walker, Lucas Harwood and Michael Cavanagh, all now in their 30s.

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 24, 2024 04:18 PM IST

Headbangers’ ball: Sanjoy Narayan on the French band Gojira

At the opening ceremony. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 10, 2024 04:32 PM IST

What do new roots sound like?: Sanjoy Narayan on the rare sound of Ganavya

Art and Culture

Updated on Jul 27, 2024 06:58 PM IST

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