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The Indian Music Diaries
- News
From Indie Folk to Soulful Indie: Raghav Meattle, Swarathma & Suzonn Cook Up a Touring Feast
Music or Monolith? Why Spotify’s Audiobook Move Might Prove To Be A Disaster For Artists
He Said, They Said: ‘Enjoy Enjaami’ Creators and Maajja Label in Payment Standoff
Facepalm at SPXCEJXM: The Ongoing Festival Fiasco and What it Means for the Indian Music Scene
Puerto Rican Artist Melissa Otero Sends Legal Notice to Mood Indigo Team Accusing Them of Mistreatment
- Reviews
Shaitan Ki Nazar: Jaiditya Jha’s Debut EP Confronts Delhi’s Vices, One Power Chord at a Time
‘Brute Fact/Home Truth’: Rounak Maiti’s Triumphant, Unflinching Journey into the Soul
Abhishek Gaur Navigates Past and Present on Poignant New Album “Guzra Hua Kal”
On ‘Five Foot Three’, Anika confesses desires and embraces her existence
Rage and Edge : Hardbone Boy’s New EP ‘TOD’ Has Him At His Sharpest Yet
- Industry Insight
AI Music: How Big Is It, What Are the Laws, and Why It Matters to You
Setting Up Your Music Business: Registration Essentials
Collaborate, Innovate, Elevate: Inside the Exclusive Madverse for Managers Event
Shedding Light on the Evolving Landscape: Reclaiming Black Box Royalties in the Indian Music Industry
The DIY Musician’s Toolkit: Building a Home Studio Under 10k
- Featured
“All it takes is an act of courage to start” – In Conversation With BadTrip
Where Is Smoke?: A Six-City Hip-Hop Tour That Rewrote the Rules
Rushabh Roymon – Punk as an Embodiment of What the Mainstream Skips
Release Roundup #101 – Electronica, Pop, Rock & More!
Winston Balman: An Ode to Youth, Debauchery, Nostalgia, Love and Life
Review
For most of my brief career in music journalism, I have written about Delhi and its artists, attempting to map the soundscape of the...
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In the world of hip-hop tours, you usually need a label’s blessing, a sponsor’s logo, and a stage big enough to impress the Instagram...
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All About Music, India’s premier B2B conference for the music industry, returns for its 9th edition this year. The conference is taking place at...
Opinion
Roymon is an interesting character who fluctuates between long rants and intense pessimisms as much as his music oscillates between sounding like The Strokes...
Review
Sonor that is disrobing and writing that is wrapped in a translucent membrane of mystery, on his third album, Rounak Maiti has let the...
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Independent artists are constantly reshaping what music can sound like, often working on the fringes of the mainstream, where experimentation feels natural and necessary....
Opinion
Winston Balman is an extremely soulful musician whose songs mix stories with hillbilly blues to create melodies worth singing along to. He has multiple...
Review
Discussing his new, 10-track acoustic-heavy album ‘Guzra Hua Kal,’ Abhishek Gaur states, “As the title suggests, Guzra Hua Kal is a reflection of my...
Review
‘Five Foot Three’, the debut album by Goa based singer-songwriter Anika Bharwani, is a message to herself where she confesses her desires as a...
Review
HARDBONE BOY, or Deepak Kumar — the rapper from Jaipur who boasts of being crowned the winner of Nexa Music Season 3 by A...
Review
We’re big fans of singers who can’t sing, and bands that made it cool to not really know how to play their instruments. The...
Review
Dhanji is a master. Dhanji is a genre. Dhanji doesn’t just jump on tracks. He makes tracks bops. It’s a matter of conviction. It’s...
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What happens when distinct voices meet a shared rhythm? You get a campaign that’s as united as it is unapologetically individual. In today’s hyper-individualised...
Review
One fine day (or maybe not so fine, I honestly don’t remember), I came across a short clip of a beautiful instrumental on social...
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In a powerful testament to India’s thriving independent music movement, Madverse Music successfully concluded the second edition of its annual Empower Fund, a flagship...
Review
Kairvina’s debut EP reads a lot like a confession – fresh and unprocessed, like talking to someone who is describing anxiety. It unfolds like...