Musical Musings, Video’s, Singles, Artists
Dressed in a golden embroidered jacket, sitting center stage on a bar stool and accompanied by a simple back up band, the heir of Pakistan’s qawwali legacy, Rahat Ali Khan performed before a sold out crowd at the London O2… Read More »Rahat Ali Khan at the O2 Concert Review
Pakistan’s most famous Qawwali singer Ustad Rahat Fateh Khan, the nephew of the late, world-renowned singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, will perform his greatest hits live for the first time at The O2 on Sunday 14 August 2016. Tickets… Read More »Win 2 tickets to the Ustad Rahat Ali Khan Concert at the O2, London
We’ve been having quite a few amazing acts lately at the O2 AR Rahman, Atif Aslam but we got very excited to hear that Pakistan’s most famous Qawwali singer Ustad Rahat Fateh Khan, the nephew of the late, world-renowned singer… Read More »Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – The Greatest Hits Live at the O2
Pritam has become an unstoppable force on the Bollywood music scene in the past few years. His steady flow of chart toppers and the frequency and ease he drops them on people is something that is pretty much incomparable to… Read More »Pritam Comes to Wembley (London) and brings a bunch of friends
For those of you who’ve seen the video I posted on here last week – Without You by Lapalux – that may give a clue as to the music I like to listen to. Down-tempo, not with a 4:4 (or,… Read More »Cuttooth by Cuttooth
If in my last post I said that the video was way cool, then this video has to be way weird. It’s brilliant…but ever so weird. Directed by Nick Rutter and featuring Natalia Tena (better known for starring in Harry… Read More »Highly odd but highly brilliant: Without You – Lapalux
Check out this video of The Greeks by Brit band Is Tropical. It’s ages old (2011), but worthy of a post I’d say. In fact, the video is so bloody good I can’t tell you anything of any note… Read More »Way cool video: Is Tropical – The Greeks
We’ve been fortunate enough to have been covering the London Indian Film Festival for the past couple of years and we just received exciting news that in July the festivities in London are starting again! Previous years we chatted with… Read More »The 4th London INDIAN Film Festival Launches in July
*Before you start reading, I would suggest you scroll down and start listening to the embedded episode of the Curry Smugglers below, even more so if you have never heard the show before. Done? Let’s go. The Curry Smugglers… Read More »Curry Smugglers Chill 6 is Finally Upon us!
Although Jab Tak Hai Jaan has been creating the most waves in terms of promotions, the movie we are most looking forward to this year is Amir Khan’s Reema Kagti directed suspense drama Talaash. The buzz has been building up… Read More »Muskaanein Jhooti Hai Song Promo from Talaash
The US has Honey Boo Boo and before that Jersey Shore, India has Rakhi Sawant and Pakistan has Veena Malik. Some enjoy her antics ironically, but we can’t disregard the fact that she must have some genuine fans out there?… Read More »VEENA MALIK RELEASES HER FIRST LOOK FOR HER SINGLE DRAMA QUEEN
The Awesome Roop Kumar Rathod (I still regularly rock “Tujme Rab Dikta Hai” From Rab Ne Banadi Jodi) and his wife Sonali Rathod will be touring the UK and picking up some selected songs throughout the 100 years of Bollywood… Read More »Celebrating the Legends from 100 years of Bollywood UK Concert Dates Announced!
We usually don’t dabble in obituaries as it seems a bit tasteless but Kuly was such a nice guy we wanted to at least post this. Here is the tribute track by Smooth featuring Nindy Kaur (his sister in… Read More »Tut Gaya Dil- RDB’s Kuly Tribute Track
Yesterday evening between 6 and 7 UK time, Internet Explorer 9 hosted a Brandon Generator webchat. For those of us lucky enough to have been reading the random adventures of Brandon Generator it wasn’t just any old webchat, as creator Edgar… Read More »Edgar Wright & Tommy Lee Edwards – Brandon Generator, webchat
It’s always saddening when talented, young people pass away, here are some tribute fan pages, links to RDB’s work and the official press release of his passing. Our deepest condolences to the family and close ones. We also had the… Read More »Tribute and Official Press Release for Kuly from RDB’s passing
The renowned illustrator for Marvel and Lucasfilm, Tommy Lee Edwards, has joined forces with Edgar Wright, – award-winning director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz – to create a world first innovative animated story with Internet Explorer called… Read More »The Random Adventures of Brandon Generator
It’s been a long long time, although not in a galaxy far far away sadly. Returning to Upod with some content, I thought I’d kick-off with an intro to director Nima Nourizadeh. A London born British-Iranian, he is probably most… Read More »Nima Nourizadeh
We had a chance to speak with Kuly, one third of the biggest Bhangra band of the moment RDB or Rhythm Bhangra Dhol known for their massive songs, international collaborations with acclaimed rappers like Snoop Dogg and Ludacris and their… Read More »Ep 38 RDB Interview with Kuly for Sheera Di Kaum
Usually Martin handles the COW bringing you some great music but since I have been obsessed with the following track I wanted to have a home for it. From the soon to be releasing Rockstar starring Ranbhir Kapoor and Nargis… Read More »COW: RockStar- Kun FaayaKun
Clip of the week, Moooooo! So, another week, another clip. This is a particularly fine example of some excellently staged destruction, albeit in a quite arty way. This clip by Justice featuring Simian is reminiscent of the aftermath of an outstanding party… Read More »COW – Justice feat. Simian
Moooo, this COW is great This week’s cow comes from Wiley, a UK hip-hop artist. In the running for Best Video at the 2011 MOBOs this is a really clever video, perfectly complementing the lyrics. Whilst we can’t say… Read More »COW on a Friday – Wiley, Numbers in Action
It’s been fully 33 years since the UK band Pulp formed and 33 years since I’ve been around. A coincidence? I think not. Perhaps the most misunderstood of the successful Britpop bands in the ’90s, it’s not to say they weren’t popular…just… Read More »In praise of Pulp
Since its inception in 1947, as an alternative (on the fringe of) to the Edinburgh International Festival, the Fringe has grown to such gargantuan proportions that it is reportedly the largest arts festival in the world. No longer attracting… Read More »Edinburgh Fringe top 10 jokes 2011
No Hip Hop group inspired me growing up as much as A Tribe Called Quest. Unlike most of my friends (should I be calling them Homies since I am talking about rap) were into their Wu-Tang clan or NWA. Myyellow… Read More »Beats Rhymes And Life The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest
It’s that time of year again where we revisit the year that has passed and recap the best and worst moments. There will be quite a lot of “Best of”- lists appearing on the interwebz but Upodcast’s lists are obvisouly the… Read More »Best Bollywood Soundtracks 2010
More disappointment this week for Beatles fans when it was revealed that one of the most enduring records in pop history was broken. Having held the top spot for a non-solo artist with the most records in the top 100… Read More »HELP! Glee beats the Beatles!
I was going to write a huge long rant about Justin Bieber…but having just given out about Lady Gaga, I’ve realised I just can’t go on…basically I don’t have a problem with Bieber (OK, certain things DO annoy me) but… Read More »RANT: Justin Bieber…
Cee Lo has been dropping awesome tracks his entire career but his profile really got a boost since he started working with DJ Danger Mouse and created Gnarls Barkley. Together they dropped the massively succesfull album “ST Elsewhere”. His latest track from the forthcoming album has even more of that jazzy upbeat sound. And now 50 Cent has dropped a remix version. Check out both versions of Upodcast’s favorite track at the moment after the jump!Read More »Cee Lo Green and 50 Cent say ” F*ck You”
A bit of Friday fun,
The classic Wu-Tang video done with the help of Lego Blocks.
Don’t think I need to explain any further, check it out after the jump!Read More »Wu-Tang Lego: Da Mystery of Chessboxin’
You can’t have ears on the side of your head(or any other place on your body for that matter) and not love the Roots. The Philadelphian Hip Hop collective is dropping their 9th full studio album.
Check out their latest video from new album, How I Got Over released 22 june, after the jump!
 Read More »New Video! The Roots “Dear God 2.0″ video (dir. by Jason Goldwatch)
Get him to the Greek is releasing the 25th in UK, there’s a quite a few favorably reviews coming from the US where the movie opened up to moderately good numbers.
Altough viral video‘s are nothing new in the arsenal of movie marketeers, I wanted to post this as I do have a fondness for Russel Brand even though most English have now started despising him. But then again I’m not English.
Check out his video with some very funny altough NSFW lyrics.Read More »Supertight: Get him to the Greek! Music Video
Once in a while something comes along that ticks a lot of boxes in one go and takes you by surprise. Whilst trying to find an MP3 of Moby’s God moving over the face of the waters, (taken from the… Read More »Soundtrack to our Lives: Moby / UNKLE – God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters
Gifted Unlimited Rhymes Universal AKA GURU has left this world and left behind a legacy of albums and collaboration filled with wisdom and knowledge uncomparable to any rapper or hip hop Artist.
Here are some of my favorite tracks Read More »Soundtrack to our lives RIP GURU
 In this new segment to our site we will highlight some of the Music Albums or Artists that had a major impact on our lives. Imperial Asiatiques Men or Invasion Arrivée de Mars was known to most French rap… Read More »Soundtrack to our lives: IAM, Gods of French Rap
Ok, I got to admit until the 4th song I thought these were some very talented twins or an Ashton Kutcher cloning experiment gone horribly wrong and I’m still not entirely sure yet but the medley is really fun to watch. check it out after the jump!Read More »20+ TV theme song medley