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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
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What is that feeling when a song reminds you of something that never was? Sometimes you hear an act and wonder why the views...
Opinion
For decades, the Hindi film music industry relied on a predictable, safe formula—familiar beats and songs crafted for instant success. But in the late...
Opinion
The word “indie”(short for “independent”) evokes the spirit of DIY creativity, artistic autonomy, and an ethos that resists commercial formulas. In India, however, the...
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The Evolving Landscape of Music Education in India : How Institutions Are Redefining Formal Training
India, and its landscape of music education, have always been in flux – and yet, it remains elusive. While popular understandings gravitate towards institutions...
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It’s said that an average individual is better destined to survive a tempestuous sea than the callous antagonism of the Delhi rap scene. The...
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I have always had an odd fascination with the title of a particular Kazuo Ishiguro book — “The Remains of The Day”. For reasons...
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One of the peculiar habits that I have picked up is the petulant urge to walk extreme distances after sunset — once having hit...
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Three years ago, when I had moved to Delhi from suburban West Bengal, the shift had felt monumental. An 18 year old who had...
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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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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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After releases of his singles like Sheeshmehal, Batti, Baaliyan and his EP, Lekh, all of which explored different areas of the musical spectrum, Karun...
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Music and dance as arts have long ceased to constitute a binary. If singing ambles out of the chrysalis of the self, dancing—being an...