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dosahunt: foodisthenewrock: This week’s podcast guest is…...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:48:24 -0400

foodisthenewrock:

This week’s podcast guest is…

Stereogum Executive Editor and “Dosa Hunt” Director Amrit Singh

He joins Chuck and Zach to talk about Dosa Hunt, the short film he made last year featuring members of Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer, Das Racist and more in a van looking for dosa in Manhattan and Queens. We talk about what it was like to grow up as a brown indie rock dude in America and more importantly how hot Anand from Yeasayer’s mom is.

Download the episode for free on iTunes or by putting our RSS FEED into a player of your choice. You can also stream the episode below through Stitcher:

This is a fun hour, this Food Is The New Rock podcast — in which Amrit spreads a lot of love for DOSA HUNT, NYC & LA, and in which Zach and Chuck (the hosts) say a lot about the things they love. LISTEN UP (above, in that player)!

Reminder to NYC: DOSA HUNT will screen at Tribeca Cinemas on Friday 5/3 as an official selection for New York Indian Film Festival. Come enjoy lower Manhattan with us!

Here is one hour of me saying a lot of words! FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE.

yoisthisracist: Get down Wednesday style! Amrit Singh, the...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:02:43 -0400

yoisthisracist:

Get down Wednesday style! Amrit Singh, the creator of Dosa Hunt, is back on the Yo, Is This Racist? podcast as we talk country music.

PS. OH DIP, if you like that sort of thing, now you can subscribe to the podcast on Soundcloud!

We work a hearty shoutout to the wonderful Southern Poverty Law Center into this one, which is a proud moment. They are good! Country music talking about the “good old days of yore,” though, is problematic. Listen in.

yoisthisracist: SHOUTOUT TO ALL MY DOGGS. Amrit Singh, the...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:53:54 -0400

yoisthisracist:

SHOUTOUT TO ALL MY DOGGS. Amrit Singh, the creator of Dosa Hunt, is back on the Yo, Is This Racist? podcast today, as we talk racist dogs!

PS. OH DIP, if you like that sort of thing, now you can subscribe to the podcast on Soundcloud!

DOSA HUNT @ New York Indian Film Festival 2013 @ Tribeca Cinemas (Friday, May 3rd)

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:49:02 -0400

DOSA HUNT @ New York Indian Film Festival 2013 @ Tribeca Cinemas (Friday, May 3rd):

dosahunt:

NYC! Proud to announce that DOSA HUNT is an official selection for 2013’s New York Indian Film Festival! We’ll screen at Tribeca Cinemas on Friday May 3rd. Ticket info, and the full schedule, is here. THIS IS A NICE THING!

Bringing DOSA to Tribeca. Come through!

yoisthisracist: This week on the Yo, Is This Racist? podcast,...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:00:36 -0400

yoisthisracist:

This week on the Yo, Is This Racist? podcast, Amrit Singh, the creator of Dosa Hunt, joins me in the studio! Today we get a weird question about Closed Captioning.

PS. OH DIP, if you like that sort of thing, now you can subscribe to the podcast on Soundcloud!

All week this week I am the guest on the internet’s #1 podcast for laughing at racism, Yo, Is This Racist? It is the podcast-cousin of DOSA HUNT, basically. Five episodes, so please brace yourself for five reblogs. STARTING HERE!

DOSA HUNT's Los Angeles Premiere @ The ArcLight Hollywood (Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles)

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:35:00 -0400

DOSA HUNT's Los Angeles Premiere @ The ArcLight Hollywood (Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles):

dosahunt:

Southern California friends: DOSA HUNT is finally ready for its LA premiere, as an official selection to the Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles. We’ll screen TWICE — at 7PM on Wednesday 4/10 and Friday 4/12 — at Hollywood’s ArcLight Cinema. HOW NICE. Tickets are available at this link.

In addition to our film, IFFLA will screen a Yash Chopra retrospective, projecting the legendary Bollywood filmmaker’s finest directorial moments — like Kabhi Kabhie and Silsila — on the ArcLight’s big screen. We’re proud to play a part. SEE YOU SOON.

LA friends, I will be with you for two weeks around these two DOSA HUNT screenings at the ArcLight in Hollywood on 4/10 and 4/12 @ 7PM. Would love to hug you there, I will be administering many hugs. Come have one!

Dosa Hunt + a special set by Indian Bastards from Hell (Das Racist)

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:57:03 -0400

Dosa Hunt + a special set by Indian Bastards from Hell (Das Racist):

asianartmuseum:

caamedia:

An event all about film, music, art and food that you don’t want to miss!

After the West-Coast premiere of Dosa Hunt, part of CAAMFest 2013’s New Directions, stay for a Q&A with filmmaker Amrit Singh as well as a special set by Indian Bastards from Hell (Heems and Dap of Das Racist)…

Get your tickets before they sell out like hot dosas. This is happening next Thursday, 3/21, at our place. The perfect event for art, music, food, and film nerds. Did you see this line-up?!

Amrit Singh of Stereogum, plus members from Vampire Weekend, Neon Indian, Das Racist, and Yeasayer.

And dosas.

The 5th Anniversary Of Big Terrific

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:15:18 -0400

My friends Max Silvestri, Jenny Slate, and Gabe Liedman are celebrating five years of their comedy show Big Terrific, a Williamsburg institution that owned my Wednesday nights for years and changed the way an entire city thought about comedy. During that time they’ve hosted everyone from Aziz to Galifianakis, Natasha Leggero to Kristen Schaal, Todd Barry to Pete Holmes, Nick Offerman to Reggie Watts, Sarah Silverman to Gabe Delahaye. The highlights have always been their sets, though, together and solo, through which they’ve honed lovably distinct voices, and what has always felt like a groundbreaking sort of collaborative synergy. This Time Out NY interview about the anniversary gives a glimpse into that rapport, which is as inspiring and brilliant onstage as it is off. They’ve changed the way I’ve thought about a lot of things! If you can’t make the 5th Anniversary show at MHOW, just turn your attention to showbiz.com for the next five as they proceed to take it over. Shoutout Goof Troop. ♥

DOSA HUNT Winter Film Awards Screening In NYC On Saturday, March 2nd

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:31:49 -0500

DOSA HUNT Winter Film Awards Screening In NYC On Saturday, March 2nd:

dosahunt:

NYC! DOSA HUNT has been selected to screen at the Winter Film Awards, a three-day non-profit festival recognizing excellence in independent film. Our screening is Saturday, March 2nd at the Hotel Pennsylvania’s Globetrotter Ballroom during the 2PM-5PM screening block. (The Hotel is near Penn Station.)

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here. Read more info about the other films in DOSA HUNT’s screening block. It’ll be a nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon in the city, come on out.

NYC friends, if you haven’t yet seen DOSA HUNT, this is a nice chance. Saturday, March 2nd!

dosahunt: NYC, we’re screening again for you! On Thursday,...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:51:34 -0500

dosahunt:

NYC, we’re screening again for you! On Thursday, February 7th at (le) poisson rouge in the Village, DOSA HUNT will play at around 8:30PM for Co-Lab, the earlier portion of DJ Rekha’s legendary Basement Bhangra dance party (which has just moved to LPR from S.O.B.’s). Arrive before 8PM and walk-up tickets are just $5. (Or buy them online now for $10; yes, you are paying a premium for insurance.) That gets you the screening, a DJ set from Dapwell, and the dance party that follows into the night. And if you don’t bhangra, don’t worry: There’s a free lesson that precedes the party. Info on the night’s other DJs and details at lepoissonrouge.com. This is going to be great.

DOSA HUNT + bhangra, another North-meets-South Indian production, from me to you. Come through.

stereogum: R.I.P. Ravi Shankar: A remembrance of the sitar...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:24:20 -0500

stereogum:

R.I.P. Ravi Shankar: A remembrance of the sitar virtuoso and cultural emissary, by Amrit Singh.

The night Ravi Shankar passed, I was unable to sleep until I wrote this remembrance, on Stereogum. It’s universal, but also highly personal; it speaks to Ravi’s broader legacy, and also to the night my brother and I had our baked minds rewired in his presence. I wrote it for perspective, and remembrance, and I hope it gives those things to you. He gave those things to us. He was true and great.

The other night, I was on NPR with Anand Wilder on John...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:52:00 -0500

The other night, I was on NPR with Anand Wilder on John Schaefer’s great WNYC programme Soundcheck to talk about my film DOSA HUNT, and then we made United States radio history by EATING DOSA ON THE AIR. This is a good chat! You can hear it at the Soundcheck page, or you can stream it below, OR you can have this MP3 forever. All valid options.

"Ashok & Amrit Go To The Movies" (A Conversation, Transcribed)

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:16:00 -0400

"Ashok & Amrit Go To The Movies" (A Conversation, Transcribed):

This came out really well: Das Racist nerve center/extraordinary human Ashok “Dapwell” Kondabolu interviewed me for his Asian American Writers Workshop column, The Cornering. We go in on making music, lawyering, blogging, filmmaking, 9/11, Khalistan, Wade Michael Page, Britney, and Bollywood.

BlackBook Magazine: Five Out Of Five Bobby Jindals For DOSA HUNT

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 08:35:00 -0400

BlackBook Magazine: Five Out Of Five Bobby Jindals For DOSA HUNT:

dosahunt:

BlackBook Magazine just filed the first proper DOSA HUNT review … and IT’S REALLY NICE. Some verbiage:

Singh contends, justifiably so, that “the film wasn’t just a vanity project,” but there’s certainly the mark of a fanboy filmmaker not yet jaded by the Merchants of Cool-hood of pop music.

The rest of the verbiage is also very nice to consume. Read it at Blackbook.

Blackbook’s review of DOSA HUNT is so good I literally almost passed out.

dosahunt: NEW YORK Magazine took the cast’s Indian contingent...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:56:00 -0400

dosahunt:

NEW YORK Magazine took the cast’s Indian contingent out to lunch at Pongal (and called the film “sharply funny”). Catch the piece in NYMag’s new print issue, or online right now.

NY Mag x DOSA HUNT. They said nice things about my movie!

Interview Magazine: Amrit Singh Puts The Indie In Indian Food

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:44:42 -0400

Interview Magazine: Amrit Singh Puts The Indie In Indian Food:

dosahunt:

If you are curious about the background and making of the film, this conversation between John Norris and Amrit Singh is the one to read.

John asks good questions.

dosahunt: thefader: FIRST LOOK: DOSA HUNT In a new short film,...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:25:20 -0400

dosahunt:

thefader:

FIRST LOOK: DOSA HUNT

In a new short film, Stereogum editor Amrit Singh invites six musicians on a hunt to find dinner. It debuts at Nitehawk Cinemas in Brooklyn this week; buy tickets for the premiere run here and click through to read our story.

A lovely piece on the official poster and its artist, Anil Gupta.

dosahunt: Announcing the opening run of DOSA HUNT @ Nitehawk...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:54:53 -0400

dosahunt:

Announcing the opening run of DOSA HUNT @ Nitehawk Cinema in Williasmburg on Friday 10/5, Saturday 10/6, and Monday 10/8!

Buy tickets now!

Each ticket comes with dosa and samosa (provided by the delicious Anjappar). After each screening there will be a Q&A panel moderated by music television great John Norris. The afterparties will have complimentary Kingfisher beer, with DJ sets by DFA Artist REWARDS (Friday), Jagjaguwar artist Small Black (Saturday), and Quinn Walker of Frenchkiss Records outfit Suckers (Saturday). Tickets are $15 — for dinner, screening, beer, and friendship. THAT’S PRETTY GOOD.

Friday and Saturday doors are at 11PM (with dosa at 12AM, screening at 12:30AM), while Monday is a Columbus Day matinee at 1PM, which will be a special time. Dosa and drinking is a great way to observe that holiday given how much that dude loved Indians.

We’re really proud of the movie and can’t wait to share it with you. These will be beautiful celebrations. We’d love to have you.

It’s time. Please come, this will be the best.

Hate Punk & Kirtan: Musical Overtones In The Wisconsin Sikh Temple Killings

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:13:06 -0400

Hate Punk & Kirtan: Musical Overtones In The Wisconsin Sikh Temple Killings :

I wrote this piece to provide some perspective on this weekend’s Sikh gurdwara killings for Stereogum.com. From the heart.

This was the most fun I’ve had on the Hoppus On Music...

Tue, 22 May 2012 10:20:00 -0400

This was the most fun I’ve had on the Hoppus On Music show, either despite or because of the production staff playing me at the end.

On holograms and folk, aired 5/3/12 on FUSE.