sonologue's Podcast

Blue Frog - India's premier live music venue, voted among the Top Ten Great Music Venues in the World by the Independent UK, has teamed up with Sonologue to produce India's first music podcast series. Anyone with access to the internet - via a computer or a phone - can now download interviews and live tracks from the blueFROG website for free. http://www.bluefrog.co.in/music-store/podcasts.

"Live From the Blue Frog" - a series of artist interviews is a music/chat podcast forum on musicians and their music; made up of two parts: an audio interview about their musical journey, as well as an exclusive track download from the blueFROG archives - either acoustic in the studio or during a performance at the club.

In this episode of NRI’s=New+Returned Indians, we’re talking to Sarah Hine, who moved to India from Connecticut last year and has just started her own business in Hyderabad. We talked about what keeps her here, being able to make a difference, being a single, white female in small town India, and her advice for fellow “foreigners” who move to India.

In this episode of NRI’s=New+Returned Indians, we talk to activist Vivek Gilani who moved back to India after more than a decade in the U.S. – having taken a sabbatical from working on water issues in his beloved New York – to pursue his development projects in Mumbai. Vivek runs www.mumbaivotes.com and is building a carbon footprint calculator. We talked about jazz, alienation, the Mithi River, Central Park, being told he’s got a ‘foreign attitude’ and how the monsoon and mangoes make being back worthwhile even while he’s had to pick his battles. Download or stream the interview to learn why he’s back and the challenges he’s faced returning after so long.

The State of Radio looks at licensing, the FM spectrum and the much touted de-merger now allowed in India, some community radio action, as well as a promised look at the Literacy Bridge's portable recording device and what it's for.

This week, The State of Radio looks at ad revenues and online as well as mobile music and radio as well as the shift to digital radio in Europe, as well as university radio in Pune.