Shrinivas Kodape

Shrinivas is a writer and a journalist, and his love of all things musical started long before the little word at the end of his name. Raised on the technical ferocity of cult heavy metal titans like Testament, Overkill and Accept, then veering into the harmonious expanse of Wishbone Ash, Uriah Heep and Budgie, he started life as a thrash metaller. A Media professional by training, he is seasoned with experience from Asiana Times and Fashion TV and has worked as an assistant editor for L‘utopia Magazine, crafting long-form features, interviewing, and directing stories all the way through from paper to publication. A former rock star, he knows music from the other side of the stage and understands the feeling of seeing Megadeth in India in October 2015. Influenced by writers like Hunter S. Thompson, Joseph Conrad and F. Scott Fitzgerald, he lives by the ethos of ‘Classic rock is not just a genre; it is a lifestyle.'