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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
Ekum Vows to Takeover with Sincerity and Grit on Debut Album ‘Likhe Jo Khat Tujhe’
Fields of Sound: 20g Maps Indian Left-Field Electronica Experimentation Into A Tape
Baijoo Bawra Gets Empathetic and Gritty on the Jazz-Infused Storytelling of “Billu Barber”
Through her first-ever written Telugu album, Lady Skavya carves out a name you won’t forget
RAJ ‘Weather Changes Moods’ is A Genre-Fluid Jazz-House Journey
- 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
“We wanted to bring abstract hip-hop to Kerala, that was the whole idea” – In Conversation with bunnyboo
Where is Sky Rabbit? – Obscurity’s Favorite Child
6 Indian Bands Defining the Metal Underground
Why the Groundbreaking Soundtracks of Khanwalkar, Trivedi, & Sampath Still Define a Generation
Who Gets to Stay Indie? The Struggles Behind the Indian Independent Music Scene
Interview
Varun and Rengan (also referred to as Ren throughout the length of this interview) are unabashedly honest. Going by the artist monikers of 14thindian...
Interview
Rushil Aswal, a dynamic 25-year-old singer songwriter and producer from New Delhi is an artist whose music transcends conventional boundaries. Since 2022 when he...
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Twin sister musicians Tara and Trisha, 17, from Bangalore, India, are quickly establishing themselves in the entertainment world. Trisha recently joined the cast of...
Interview
I stumbled upon Tripti Arora, aka BadTrip, through her DHH mix on YouTube, and her sound immediately drew me in. A guitarist and songwriter...
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Since time immemorial, music has been described as a universal language. Artists, scientists and technocrats, have shared a love for it. It is the...
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Unless you were born in the streaming era, which we’re told some of you were, burning mix CDs and recording mixtapes was an essential...
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In a country, whose the biggest contribution to the global musical landscape has been bollywood, starting an independent label to promote anything that is...
Interview
They say that good art is inspired by the world. That it looks deeper into the cause and effect of our actions. In the...
Interview
Whether one intends it to or not, the music an artist creates will be labelled – by genre, by country, by era, by ‘vibe’....
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Apart from being an essential element in education, expression, and influence- environmentalism has been an integral part of music since antiquity. From ancient Greek...
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The history of queer discrimination in various spheres of the global music and media industry has been largely dominated by the stigmas attached to...
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The west has been an influential region for the Indian market since the British colonial era. Post-independence there was a movement in the music...
Industry Insight
For the overwhelming majority of Indians, commercial music would imply songs from the movie industry and a select few regional megastars. As it stands,...