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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
‘Sediments’ by Sangram Malik: A Powerful Blend of Electronic, Rock, and Pop
Farhan Khan’s ‘Alif Laila (Part 2)’ Is Ambitiously Poetic
Delhi Rapper Smoke Drops New EP “Khel Kood,” Showcasing Evolution and Experimentation
Sanjith Hegde’s New EP Sunjuice Is An Ode To Brighter Things
Reeshabh Purohit and Shivaraj Nataraj’s New EP Ananta Combines Beatboxing and Hindustani Classical
- Industry Insight
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
Behind the Playlist: Decoding Our Fascination With Spotify Wrapped
Why Music Events Should Be More Inclusive and Need Reforms
- Featured
“I belong to a family of musicians, and I am the third generation to do so” – In Conversation With Divyam Sodhi
“I can never be bored in Chennai because you go outside and there are thousands of stories” – In Conversation With Dhee
Dive into the World of Jazz This Winter at G5A Warehouse’s ‘That Friday Jazz’
“It’s Truly A Dream Come True To See My Independent Music Featured In Mainstream Cinema” – In Conversation With Siddharth Pandit And Alok Ranjan Srivastava
“Many rappers are programmed to produce songs that degenerate the conscious human mind”- In Conversation with Yelhomie and Moko Koza
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The inception of an ideology, dominant or otherwise, is as epistemologically slippery as it is phosphorescent. While the primary progenitor and locus of it...
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I have in the past, personally and professionally, expressed in no uncertain terms my attention to the curious case of eponymity in music. To...
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For artists and professionals in the Indian independent scene, Pritpal Sudan is a familiar name—based in Mumbai, the young musician has through the years...
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The adage of there being no ethical consumption under capitalism, like most adages, stands too true; the handy anticapitalist aphorism, beneath its radical sonority,...
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In art and in life alike, exposure is a notion more political than one might usually consider. To be acknowledged, accorded, and finally, hopefully,...
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To cover financial miscreancy in the Indian independent scene, especially in the present times, is to sound like a broken record. While the large-scale...
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Perfection in art—whatever the word might signify—holds a scarcely tested position. Revisions, redefinitions, reorientations and the myriad words emblematic of incurred change, perhaps justifiably...
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The realm of Indian music festivals has seen a huge boost in the global context over the last year or so. Homegrown talents have...
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Retrospective albums are somewhat of an oddity in music. While veterans in the scene understandably feel comfortable looking back, those with youth in their...