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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
Angad Berar and Jamblu’s ‘Sundae’ Is a Sonic Walk on a Sunny Day
Kairvina’s Debut EP ‘Eternal’, A Solid Foundation And A Tribute To Her Favorites
‘begin again’ by Skinny Local: A Desi-Dreamy Beat Tape for the Restless Mind
Arvasu’s ‘The Traffic Horn Orchestra’: Finding Harmony in the Urban Cacophony
‘Bheegein’ by Joshua Singh: A Tender, Disco-Tinted Reverie
- 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
Release Roundup #100 – Folk Jazz, Acid House, Metalcore & More!
Why Vinyl Collectors in India Are Finding Community and Curating Culture
“When We Sat Down To Create Together, We Were Very Aligned In Thoughts & Intentions” – In Conversation With Shrey Jadav & Zeba Tommy
“I was just a ‘kid’ inspired by Kid A” – In Conversation With Surya Pratap
“I Am My Audience, I Am My Target.” – In Conversation With Tanmaya
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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...
Latest
The Velvet Sundown, a band mixing 70s psychedelia and folk rock, has recently found itself at the center of growing controversy and speculation surrounding...
Industry Insight
To add to the already cluttered news cycles filled with opinions around AI-generated music, last week, the artist management agency, Collective Artists Network, announced...
Review
Bhaveek Makan aka Skinny Local is a Calgary-based artist who makes music that feels like a half-remembered memory. Raised between South Africa and Canada...
FEATURED
Some songs pull you in with quiet honesty. Others arrive with a burst of energy, demanding your attention. This roundup has a bit of...
Opinion
The reason I got into vinyl was because there were these bands that I really liked but nobody around me listened to that kind...
Interview
Shrey is a 28-year-old Mumbai-based musician rooted in RnB, Soul, and Pop. Self-taught in Western music after early Indian Classical training, he’s a music...
Interview
Fortunately, I am quite dead now. Mallarme the poet wrote after a spiritual experience. Such could be felt after a complete listen of Kirdar...
Interview
No one is doing avant-garde pop in the Indian independent music scene the way Tanmaya is. Combining elements from multiple genres, inculcating sentimentality and...
Opinion
In the sleepy village of Morjim in North Goa, not far from the tide-churned beaches that have long lost their charm to commercial noise,...
Review
In the vast, ever expanding silt plain of Indian independent music, where vegetation is overrun by singular-word titles to albums that sound like banality...
Review
Meet Joshua Singh, a Mumbai-based polymath whose music is a playground of analog textures, acoustic warmth, field recordings, and instinctive artistry. From co-producing Spud...
Review
I remember being about seven years old and a woman in front of me was curled up in bed and crying about a fight...
FEATURED
Have your mornings been echoing with Aalaps or have you been refining every Raga, dreaming of that perfect performance? If Hindustani classical music is...
Review
EP Review: Rascals of the First Order – Caged Authority Bangalore-based rock band Rascals of the First Order make a bold entrance into India’s...