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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
Nadaka & Keshava’s ‘In Candescence’ delivers an East–West fusion that feels natural & refreshingly joyful
The Yellow Diary’s ‘In Case We Forget’: An Indie-Pop/Rock Time Capsule of Poetic Nostalgia and Layered Sound
True to its title, “Jewel Tones” showcases Jatayu’s most refined nu-jazz sound yet
The Skin and Its Pulse: Skulk Makes Art-Pop Interventions Memorable On Sophomore Album
Naalayak’s ‘Marammat’ Masterfully Blends Gritty Rock, Sufi Flair, and The Art of Self-Healing
- 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
Cultural Imperialism or Collaboration? Western Influences on the Indian Indie Scene
Ten Years of G5A: The Artistic Wave Shaping Contemporary Culture
Bloom in Green: A Transformational Journey of Self-Discovery in the Heart of Nature
“We believe that we could cross boundaries and break barriers globally” – In Conversation With RNZX
Seedhe Maut’s 10-Year Journey: 10 Ways They Revolutionized Indian Hip-Hop and Mirrored Its Rise from sub-culture to Mainstream
Opinion
The Indian indie music scene today is a fascinating mix of rebellion, reinvention, and rediscovery. In a country where Bollywood has long dominated the...
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Ten years ago, in the heart of Mumbai’s Shakti Mills, an idea began to take shape for Anuradha Parikh — to create a space...
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Every so often, a festival arrives that feels less like an escape and more like a return. A return to nature, to creativity, to...
Interview
Emerging from the misty hills of Aizawl in 2021, RNZX has rapidly become Mizoram’s most vital indie export. The sibling duo – multi-instrumentalist, songwriter,...
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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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,...