Indian Rap Metal and World Music group Bloodywood has been featured in the unlikely smash hit action movie Monkey Man! Directed, co-written, and starring Dev Patel, the biggest fight scene in the movie is backed by the tack “Dana Dana” – one of Bloodywood’s biggest songs. The film also features snippets of other songs such as “Roxanne” by The Police, also Tabla Master Zakir Hussain scored multiple scenes in the movie. Originally developed at Netflix, Monkey Man was acquired by Universal Films, premiered at South By Southwest in March, and debuted in theaters on April 5th, 2024. Continue reading
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Led Zeppelin’s Debut Album Turns 50
Led Zeppelin has few peers on record in their fiery but brief career. Born from the crowded blues-rock wave, post-British Invasion 1960s, the band expertly and cleverly guess the tastes and whims of the growing music world and capitalized on them. Long gestated in Jimmy Page’s brain as a way to create his own band with a distinct identity that could touch many music bases, but not be commercial and weak. Page created Led Zeppelin and the album Led Zeppelin I (Atlantic) on the back of years of writing, planning, and plotting. The marriage of Jimmy Page’s writing and Robert Plant’s voice, in particular, is the secret sauce of the album and the early era of the band and what makes their debut one of the all-time greats. Continue reading