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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
Naman’s ‘Andhera’: A Psychedelic, Hindi-Inflected Electronic Exploration of Love, Isolation and Survival
Packers & Movers Bottle Their Twenties on Debut Album ‘Men and Their Major Chords’
From Rock to ‘Peacecore’: Inside Uday Benegal’s Gentle Solo Debut ‘Human Be’
Introspective Vocals Meet Expansive Beats on rohh & Mr. Doss’s ‘Sunset Bar’
Keane Cotta’s ‘redecorate’ is An Authentic Soundtrack for Mature Intimacy
- 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
All About Music Returns for Its 10th Edition, Thinking About the Next Decade, Not the Last One
“You lose money from indie, you make money from indie, you put money back into indie!” – In Conversation With Ankit
“Music Videos Let You Tell Stories Without Boundaries” – In Conversation With Director Yung Waris
Alan Walker and STING Energy® Capture the Sound of F1 in New Track “The Sting Within Me”
Everything Jazz: Insight From The Forerunners of Jazz In India
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“Andhera“, Hindi for darkness, is Naman’s most personal release yet, four self-produced tracks about love, isolation, and survival. “Darkness isn’t something dramatic or cinematic,”...
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Packers & Movers made their debut album in a bedroom. Not “bedroom” as a vibe or a genre tag, an actual bedroom, next to...
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For decades, Uday Benegal has been synonymous with Indian rock. As the frontman of Indus Creed and one of the pioneers of India’s independent...
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Sunset Bar is the latest collaborative project from Delhi-based singer-songwriter rohh and Mumbai producer Mr. Doss. Across five tracks, the duo explores the emotional...
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Kairvina’s debut EP reads a lot like a confession – fresh and unprocessed, like talking to someone who is describing anxiety. It unfolds like...
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Bhaveek Makan aka Skinny Local is a Calgary-based artist who makes music that feels like a half-remembered memory. Raised between South Africa and Canada...
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In the vast, ever expanding silt plain of Indian independent music, where vegetation is overrun by singular-word titles to albums that sound like banality...
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Meet Joshua Singh, a Mumbai-based polymath whose music is a playground of analog textures, acoustic warmth, field recordings, and instinctive artistry. From co-producing Spud...
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I remember being about seven years old and a woman in front of me was curled up in bed and crying about a fight...
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EP Review: Rascals of the First Order – Caged Authority Bangalore-based rock band Rascals of the First Order make a bold entrance into India’s...
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Miti Adhikari was behind the sound of some of the greatest acts ever. Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, The Strokes, Coldplay, Radiohead, Arcade Fire,...
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I have been listening to Sirf Paudhon Se Pyaar for a minute – I will be honest, it was the name that drew me...
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Recently, a video made the rounds online — of a man playing the saxophone, allegedly at a rooftop bar in Beirut, his notes rising...