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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
With ’27 CLUB’, RANJ’s Debut Mixtape Reframes Indian R&B Through a Woman’s Lens
‘Garhkumaon’ by Tarun Redefines The Sound And Soul Of Modern Indian Regional Rap
Ahuja and Mittal Explore Nauseating Spiritualism Through Hazy Synths In ‘Feeling So Good’
Shourya Malhotra crafts Indie folk tunes to sail through the day in Album ‘Everybody Knows, Everybody Understands’
Sacred Disobedience and Sonic Dissonance : Inside keichyna’s RHAPSODY OF THE EXILED
- 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
“You’d be blown away listening to Jakub in a completely new avatar” – In Conversation With Antariksh and Jakub on single ‘Naaqis’
RISE//DEL 2026: 3 Days That Brought India’s Creative Economy Into Focus
Revisiting ‘The Black Mamba I’: Suman Sridhar and the Art of Subversion
13 Hidden Indian Collaborators Behind ‘The Mountain’ That Deserve Your Attention
Are Payment Delays Silencing the Voices of Independent Music?
Interview
Few acts in India’s rock landscape have pushed boundaries like Antariksh. Blending odd-timed riffs with Hindustani classical elements, grand choruses, and emotionally charged storytelling,...
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The dust has settled at The Auditorium in Gurugram, but the energy from RISE//DEL 2026 is still vibrating through the creative corridors of the...
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Very few singers have a voice like Suman Sridhar’s, even fewer have not heard of her. Anyone who possessed a sense of gravitation towards...
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From bansuri virtuosos to studio engineers, the album draws on a deep network of Indian collaborators. Scan the tracklist of Gorillaz’s ninth studio album,...
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,...