{"id":8737,"date":"2012-03-27T02:02:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T07:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/?p=8737"},"modified":"2012-03-27T02:37:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T07:37:20","slug":"top-ten-mutinous-music-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/top-ten-mutinous-music-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Mutinous Music Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/top-ten-mutinous-music-moments\/mutinous-music\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8756\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8756\" src=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Mutinous-Music.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Mutinous-Music.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Mutinous-Music-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Mutinous-Music-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>When I was a rebellious little punk teenager, the only Brown I saw on stage at shows was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Kanal\">Tony Kanal<\/a> playing bass in <strong>No Doubt<\/strong>. And he was dating bindi wearing Gwen Stefani, who was by far the coolest rock chick ever. It wasn\u2019t until I stumbled upon Sepia Mutiny as a reader that I noticed other punk, alterno, progressive musicians \u2013 the most prominent one being of course, M.I.A.<\/p>\n\n<p>Here we are in the last week of Sepia Mutiny. On these pages as a reader, I\u2019ve discovered some of my favorite songs and as a writer, I\u2019ve gotten to interview some of the most amazing people. I\u2019ve loved discovering new Desi music and examining musicians exploration of hyphenated identities through lyric, music and movement.<\/p>\n\n<p>Since I love lists \u2013 what better way to remember this then\u2026 a <strong>Top Ten Favorite Mutinous Music Moments.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ol>\n    <li><strong>M.I.A.<\/strong>&#8211; Maya has graced the pages of our site an innumerable amount of times &#8211; 100 posts to be exact. <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/05\/military_chic\/\">From her first &#8220;galang&#8221;<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/04\/mia_performs_he_1\/\">her so-called retirement<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/05\/sri_lanka_chica\/\">to a pregger M.I.A. singing at the Grammy Awards with A.R. Rahman<\/a>. She was the first things that drew me as a reader to the pages of the Mutiny. In the past 8 years peoples opinions of her may have waned, but she definitely has made her mark<\/li>\n    <li><strong>Das Racist<\/strong> \u2013 Despite <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/yo_das_racist\/\">Abhi\u2019s first post where he made his firesauce prediction that <em><strong>Pizza Hut, Taco Bell<\/strong><\/em> was going to be a Desi fave<\/a>, could we have suspected these guys would have exploded the way they did? They\u2019ve gone from a YouTube sensation to dropping <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Das_Racist\"><em><strong>Shut Up, Dude<\/strong><\/em> &amp; <em><strong>Sit Down, Man<\/strong><\/em> &amp;<em><strong> Relax<\/strong><\/em><\/a> to selling out shows as an international music sensation. But by far, PhillyGrrl&#8217;s interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/18\/qa_with_himanshu_suri_of_das_racist_part_i\/\">Part 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/21\/qa_with_himansh\/\">Part 2 <\/a>were my most favorite interviews to grace these pages. <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Das Racist - Who&#039;s That? Brooown! produced by Saba  [OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO]\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rP322FWfJWQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/li>\n    <li><strong>Vijay Iyer<\/strong> \u2013 He\u2019s gone <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/02\/an_oratorio_abo\/\">from <em><strong>Still Life with Commentator<\/strong><\/em> in 2006<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vijay_Iyer\">the #1 Jazz Album of the year IN 2010 for <strong><em>Historicity.<\/em><\/strong><\/a> Sugi&#8217;s interview with Vijay is one of the sweetest interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/in_conversation\/\">Part 1<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/19\/in_conversation_1\/\">Part 2<\/a>.<\/li>\n    <li><strong>The Kominas<\/strong> \u2013 Who would have known <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/19\/halal_punkers\/\">when I first blogged about these guys in 2006<\/a>, that my life as a blogger would get so intimately intertwined w\/ this band and the taqwacore scene? <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/24\/wild_nights_wit_1\/\">My first interview with Basim Usmani goes down as one of my favorites<\/a>. Following the growth if this band personally has been epic to say the least, whether<a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/up_the_taqx_nea\/\"> following them on cross country TaqwaTour<\/a> or as <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/11\/sundance_-_the\/\">my &#8220;camera crew&#8221; at Sundance for my Aamir Khan interview.<\/a> Epic, indeed.<\/li>\n    <li><strong>DJ Rekha &#8211; <\/strong>the infamous and legendary, <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/19\/dj_rekha_smacks\/\">we&#8217;ve talked about Rekha since she smacked Daler Mehndi down<\/a>. Whether <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/basement_bhangr_1\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Basement Bhangra<\/strong><\/em> (dance party AND CD)<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/desis_in_the_wh\/\" target=\"_blank\">DJing at the White House Easter Egg Hunt<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/21\/back_in_my_youn\/\">There&#8217;s a reason why she&#8217;s one of my Desi Women of the Decade. <\/a><strong><!--more-->\n<\/strong><\/li>\n    <li><strong>Mandeep Sethi<\/strong> &#8211; He came <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/21\/aisee_taisee_ou\/\">aisee taisee out of nowhere<\/a> and is a <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/23\/slumgod_mandeep\/\">hip hop artist<\/a>, filmmaker, producer, South Asian musical networker collaborating w\/ everyone and is now in India establishing the first Indian B-Boy crew, <a href=\"http:\/\/slumgods.com\/\"><strong>SlumGods<\/strong><\/a>. All before hitting the age of 24, of course.<\/li>\n    <li><strong>Sikh Knowledge<\/strong> &#8211; A queer Canadian Sikh dancehall beat-making MC and producer, <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/29\/the_absolutely\/\" target=\"_blank\">my interview with him is one of my proudest SM moments.<\/a> <em>Baas.<\/em> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with Sikh Knowledge in Sacramento\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6PIjoMtm5v4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/li>\n    <li><strong>Goldspot<\/strong> &#8211; These alterna pop boys have been on our pages and a Phillygrrl and Abhi favorite, <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/28\/hitting_the_gol\/\" target=\"_blank\">from 2006<\/a> to the<a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/16\/listen_to_golds\/\" target=\"_blank\"> 2011 KCRW live performance.<\/a> A golden find.<\/li>\n    <li><strong>Red Baraat<\/strong> &#8211; A baraat brass band? When I first met Brooklynwallah and heard about his band, I never suspected I&#8217;d become as big of a fan of it as I did. <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/red_baraat_bhan_1\/\">The interview w\/ Sonny and Sunny<\/a> made me <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/chaal_with_bara\/\">want to Chaal, Baby.<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><strong>Penn Masala<\/strong> &#8211; The longest running Desi A Capella group from UPenn, <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/penn_masala_lea\/\">they have been training generations of swooners<\/a> and it <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/desis_in_the_wh\/\" target=\"_blank\">even landed then in the White House.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>So there you have it &#8211; my top favorite musical moments of Sepia Mutiny, though there are many more interviews I conducted that I wish I could have included in this list. But these are just my personal faves &#8211; I&#8217;m sure you all must have your favorites too! Drop them in the comments. It has been an absolute pleasure finding music for the mutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a rebellious little punk teenager, the only Brown I saw on stage at shows was Tony Kanal playing bass in No Doubt. 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