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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
Shaastriya Sangeet Vol. II is the Tabla-Techno Crossover You Never Saw Coming
Runt’s eponymous album Is a Gritty, Honest Debut Rooted in Alternative Rock
Sambit Chatterjee’s ‘Letters for Inca’ Is a Labour of Love and Genre – Fluid Experimentation
Khokkosh.’s ‘Public Fluid and Digital Remembrance’ drowns you with unhinged sound design and graphic writing
From Folk to Dissonant Electronica: Shashwat Bulusu’s Sonic Confessions in ‘Pinocchio’
- Industry Insight
Your ears are the biggest liars: Psychoacoustics for musicians
The Colour Of Music aka Synesthesia: Inside the Minds That See Sound
20 sound engineering terms musicians need to know for their next soundcheck
11 Ways How Independent Artists Are Growing Through Digital Music Marketing in 2026
AI Music: How Big Is It, What Are the Laws, and Why It Matters to You
- Featured
“We weren’t simply building a pressing plant; we wanted to build an ecosystem” – In-Conversation with Saji Pillai – Founder of Samanvii
From Shabad to Trap: The Unstoppable Evolution of Rashmeet Kaur
“You can’t really fake curiosity or love for a language or culture just to chase an audience” – In Conversation With Damini Bhatla
“Our vision today is to create original music that stays deeply rooted in Indian musical traditions” – In Conversation With Tarana
Are We Turning Concerts Into a Fandom Entrance Exam and Killing the Vibe?
Opinion
Put on five different Rashmeet Kaur songs back-to-back, and you could be forgiven for thinking you were listening to five different artists. There’s the...
Opinion
There’s a conversation I’ve had a hundred times this year. Someone mentions an artist playing in the city and before anyone can get excited,...
Opinion
Through conversations with Vasundhara Vee, Arjun Sagar Gupta of The Piano Man and Rajesh Punjabi of the Bombay Jazz Club, we unpack the current...
Opinion
There is something quietly radical happening in Indian hip hop right now, and you might miss it if you are only listening in Hindi...
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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...
Opinion
My mother (Amma in Kannada) is from a family where everyone learnt to play an instrument or sing. A great grandfather spent his time...
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At the heart of India lies a city bustling with clanks of iron and steel, Jamshedpur. A city so busy and diverse that it...
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Hip-Hop by brown people popularly known as ‘Desi hip-hop’ has quickly become the most sought after genre of music in India, so much so...