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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
‘Sediments’ by Sangram Malik: A Powerful Blend of Electronic, Rock, and Pop
Farhan Khan’s ‘Alif Laila (Part 2)’ Is Ambitiously Poetic
Delhi Rapper Smoke Drops New EP “Khel Kood,” Showcasing Evolution and Experimentation
Sanjith Hegde’s New EP Sunjuice Is An Ode To Brighter Things
Reeshabh Purohit and Shivaraj Nataraj’s New EP Ananta Combines Beatboxing and Hindustani Classical
- Industry Insight
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
Behind the Playlist: Decoding Our Fascination With Spotify Wrapped
Why Music Events Should Be More Inclusive and Need Reforms
- Featured
“I knew from that first theater show that this is what I wanted to do” In Conversation with Brinda Sreenivas
“I belong to a family of musicians, and I am the third generation to do so” – In Conversation With Divyam Sodhi
“I can never be bored in Chennai because you go outside and there are thousands of stories” – In Conversation With Dhee
Dive into the World of Jazz This Winter at G5A Warehouse’s ‘That Friday Jazz’
“It’s Truly A Dream Come True To See My Independent Music Featured In Mainstream Cinema” – In Conversation With Siddharth Pandit And Alok Ranjan Srivastava
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Chandigarh-based artist Sangram Malik is an emerging force in India’s independent music scene. As a singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, he has carved out a...
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Farhan Khan is committed to the art of the story. In his two-album spanning discography, he has created multiple characters, killed one of them,...
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Delhi rapper Smoke released his EP “Khel Kood” in December of 2024. This is his second EP of 2024, the first one being “He...
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Sanjith Hegde’s new EP, titled Sunjuice, glides right through you. A 5 song, 18 minute long record, it has the artist switching languages, maintaining...
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Ko-Lab is the debut 4-track EP by childhood friends and hip-hop duo, Irfana and Taslina. The ‘ko’ in Ko-Lab refers to Kodaikanal, the project...
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Working with other people in a team can often be a daunting process- particularly when you are representatives of a creative community. Our art...
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The Indian independent music landscape is flush with examples of exquisite bands that have sported the age-old genre of hard rock, introducing their own...
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We all yearn for ‘extraordinary’ in our lives. Extraordinary moments, objects, people and so on. But, sometimes we just need to look around us...
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Often, artists build a substantial reach and fanbase by traversing through a series of experiments and eventually settling on their distinct sound. Once they’ve...
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Vasudev arrived in the scene late last year with a massive and incomparable release. He dropped the Ghaziabad Mixtape (2020), a roughly thirty-minute mixtape...
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Upon first hearing ( and watching ) the thirteen minutes that comprise Mumbai based multi-instrumentalist and composer Jayesh Malani’s debut EP, I knew that...
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Cover Picture by Nidhi Lodaya QLA, 2019. A crowd of familiar faces – a mixture of NCR’s liberal arts college contingent and prominent faces...
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Mumbai based rapper Poetik Justis is undoubtedly a veteran of the Indian hip-hop scene who has been around since its early days. Between Poetik’s...