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,...
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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
Bengaluru’s prog metal band Fallen Letters’ Debut ‘Mindfractures’ Is Intricate, Dissonant, and Unmissable
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
- 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...
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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...
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There are nights when the music feels heavier than the walls that try to contain it. The air grows dense with distortion, the low-end...
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...
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2020 has been brutal to everyone in the music industry. One thing which kept us all going these past few months, or in fact...
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The inaugural IndieMusicFilmFest (IMFF) 2021 celebrates visual storytelling in music and is open to filmmakers across India who have made films on musicians and...
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The Navi-Mumbai based group has released a new EP, five years after their debut. It features a new line-up, spans multiple genres and is...
Opinion
2020 has been brutal for everyone, especially the entertainment industry. From being the first ones to shut, to being the last to open –...
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2020 has been brutal to everyone in the music industry. One thing which kept us all going these past few months, or in fact...
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Despite what appears to be a clinical environment inside a recording studio, astounding wonders can happen inside such a room with proper equipment &...
Interview
As a musician it is often difficult to box yourself in a genre or even an art form. Music exists everywhere – from the...
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Filmmaker Sanjna Krishnan depicts how the young cope with internal and external tribulations of information overload in the music video for SHOR’s new single,...
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2020 has been brutal to everyone in the music industry. One thing which kept us all going these past few months, or in fact...