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From Indie Folk to Soulful Indie: Raghav Meattle, Swarathma & Suzonn Cook Up a Touring Feast
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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
Finding Comfort in the Noise: trick/switch’s Noizebaby Explores A Life Lived Online
Rajah Betta’s ‘Offcuts (SF021)’ imagines classic Indian tunes for the dance floor
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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
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“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
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Everything Jazz: Insight From The Forerunners of Jazz In India
Gujarati Rap Isn’t Emerging Anymore, It’s Here
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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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There is something devastating about growing up and realizing that love doesn’t always look the way movies promised it would. As children and teenagers,...
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Written, produced and mixed entirely by 20-year-old artist trick/switch over the course of a year and a half, the nine-track album sits somewhere between...
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Every once in a while, an artist releases a project that works its way through the fog of your headspace and gently wafts the...
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In the age of many tired attempts at a Y2K revival, no generation has found a greater kinship with the Y2K era than the...
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There is an inherent splendor to fusion music, something that has so tangible a quality of excitability that it prods at all your musical...
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Picture this: a dimly lit room, guitars leaning against the wall, a jumble of wires snaking across the floor, and a young musician, eyes...
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It’s been a good year for PCRC fans all around the world, with the band announcing a new album “Beta” for a 2024 release...
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2024 has seen a new batch of independent artists who create music using sounds that have not been explored before. Poorvaxxxpress, a multidisciplinary project...
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The modern audience dwells in a dynamic state of the music industry. As the chokehold of commercial projects, boosted by cash-rich contracts, sugar-coated with...
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Listening to records that traverse through routes of neo-soul, R&B chill and jazz especially when the creatives behind them are Indian, is always a...
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Breaking out onto the scene with his never-seen-before multilingual, vernacular hip hop “The Intro”, Yung Sammy has been a force to reckon with ever...