Amrit Singh Is A Person
@amritsingh
Filmmaker, DOSA HUNT (Trailer, EPK)
Executive Editor, Stereogum.com
CEO, ASP
Esq.
A photo, if you need one, by Laura June Kirsch
Amrit Singh has served as Executive Editor of Stereogum.com for seven years, writing and producing the website into a leading voice in independent music. And now, he is writing his bio in the third person. Amrit's video journalism has appeared on ABC, MTV, and Fuse. (A collection of these clips, including that time he hosted 20 all-star indie comedians and musicians bowling for charity, are on his Vimeo page.) He also served as Editor of the University of Wisconsin International Law Journal, and is a NY State Bar certified attorney, but we try not to remind his father of this. Most recently Amrit wrote, directed, produced, and appeared in his first film, DOSA HUNT, featuring members of Vampire Weekend, Das Racist, Neon Indian, Yeasayer, and the Vijay Iyer Trio on "The Greatest Hunt For South Indian Food In NYC Ever Committed To Film!" (Here's the trailer, and here's the EPK, if you're curious.) Called “sharply funny” by New York Magazine, “part No Reservations, part Big Brother, part something smarter” by Interview Magazine, and “a short film about the Indian community’s growth and search for cultural roots in the US” by The Times Of India, the documentary has also garnered kind reviews and profiles in BlackBook Magazine, Billboard Magazine, Huffington Post, FADER, Gothamist, The Awl, Hipster Runoff, IFC, PAPER, and Hyphen Magazine, amongst many others. (BlackBook said "Singh has the mark of a fanboy filmmaker not yet jaded by the Merchants Of Cool-hood of pop music." So, he has that going for him.) If you are a fan of the radio format, you can hear Amrit talk about making it, with Yeasayer's Anand Wilder and host John Schaefer, on NPR. Or you can listen to him talk for an hour about food, identity, LA, and NYC with Food Is The New Rock. Or you can hear him laugh in the face of racism on Andrew Ti's great Earwolf podcast Yo, Is This Racist? Somewhat more seriously, you can read Das Racist's Ashok Kondabolu interview Amrit about much the same, as well as the larger themes in their work and life stories, 9/11, hate crimes, working as a corporate attorney, and making sense of it all through art and blogging at the Asian American Writers Workshop. DOSA HUNT enjoyed a sold-out three-day premiere at Brooklyn's Nitehawk Cinema, with MTV legend John Norris moderating the Q&As. As these photos suggest, everyone wore suits and looked great. The film has been an official selection at CAAMFest, Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, Winter Film Awards, and New York Indian Film Festival, packing houses at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, the ArcLight Hollywood (twice), and in NYC's Paramount Screening Room, (le) poisson rouge, and Tribeca Cinemas. In writing, Amrit covered a tragic beat in 2012 music news: Most notably, an essay on the hate crime in Wisconsin and its musical implications, titled "Hate Punk & Kirtan: Musical Overtones in the Wisconsin Sikh Temple Killings." He also wrote eulogies to the great Pandit Ravi Shankar, and the great Williamsburg experimental music venue Zebulon, in addition to "Helping Beach House Plead Their Case Against Volkswagen" in response to the car company ripping off the band in a nefarious sound-alike ad campaign. It's not all blog-sadness, though: Amrit makes a Monthly Mix over at Stereogum which is a good crash course in the month's best new music. It's free and legal, just like America.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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"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.
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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!
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Interview Magazine: Amrit Singh Puts The Indie In Indian Food
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.
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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.
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DOSA HUNT TRAILER
THE GREATEST HUNT FOR SOUTH INDIAN FOOD IN NYC EVER COMMITTED TO FILM!
A film by Amrit Singh.
Starring: Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend), Vijay Iyer (Vijay Iyer Trio), Ashok Kondabolu (Das Racist), Alan Palomo (Neon Indian), Amrit Singh (Stereogum), Himanshu Suri (Das Racist), Anand Wilder (Yeasayer)
Logo by Anil Gupta.
(Source: dosahunt)
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DOSA HUNT First Look: Screen capture inside the dosa van with Vijay Iyer, Himanshu Suri, Rostam Batmanglij, Anand Wilder, Amrit Singh.
Official trailer coming soon via dosahunt.com.
This.
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This is my most recent (and favorite) appearance on FUSE’s Hoppus On Music.We hit some substantial topics: Stereogum’s process for making lists (vis a vis our Albums Of The Year So Far), and why some sorts of pop resonate with indie readerships while others languish. Plus I learned that people will laugh at whatever you say as long as you are describing a Björk project. LIFE LESSONS.
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DOSA HUNT: An independent documentary short starring Anand Wilder (Yeasayer), Ashok Kondabolu (Das Racist), Amrit Singh, Vijay Iyer, Alan Palomo (Neon Indian), Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend), Himanshu Suri (Das Racist). Featuring Manhattan and Queens. Presented by Amrit Singh and Himanshu Suri.
COMING SOON.
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