According to an interview with Siddhartha Khosla (the band's core member), the drink was very popular back in India at the time.

"Friday"'s video appeared in regular rotation on MTV, VH1, "The Hits", "The Box", Q, and Sky television networks.

[4] Goldspot also played the Glastonbury (headlined by The Arcade Fire and Björk), O2 Wireless, and V festivals throughout the summer of 2007.

The band has opened for Travis, Death Cab for Cutie, Franz Ferdinand, and Bon Jovi.

Follow-up album And the Elephant is Dancing, produced by Beach Boys engineer Jeff Peters and Siddhartha, was released digitally on November 2, 2009.

The band appeared on NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin in April 2010 as well as influential radio shows KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic with Jason Bentley and WTMD (Baltimore) in 2010, where they performed songs off the new album.

Lead single "The Border Line" received consistent airplay on US radio (including Sirius XM's "The Spectrum" and several other Triple A-format stations around the country).

He composed original songs for the musical film Basmati Blues and ABC series The Neighbors.

He also wrote original songs for the series, including a Bollywood musical episode that aired on March 17, 2014.