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From Indie Folk to Soulful Indie: Raghav Meattle, Swarathma & Suzonn Cook Up a Touring Feast
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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
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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?
“Part Of Our Legacy Would Be Having People Listen To Our Music And Follow It” — In Conversation With Run It’s The Kid
Release Spotlight #104 – Electronica, Pop, Metal & More!
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When Nikesh Hotchandani, Founder of NukeSound, and I, Akshay Kapoor, Editor at The Indian Music Diaries, started discussing possible partnerships between us a few...
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It’s been more than a year in India that the music industry had to put an indefinite halt on all live shows. These live...
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Drummers as composers and band leaders are once again finding their (rightful) place at the forefront of modern jazz, aided and abetted by the...
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Gully Gang Co-founder Chaitanya Kataria recently recorded a podcast with Pawan Rochwani of Pepper Content where he discussed how Hip-Hop is perceived in India &...
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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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It’s been more than a year in India that the music industry had to put an indefinite halt on all live shows. These live...
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It is a well acknowledged fact that there is a huge contrast between the Laws and the Industry practices in our country. This article...
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It’s been more than a year in India that the music industry had to put an indefinite halt on all live shows. These live...
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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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Banner Image Credit: Simlyn J/Feminism In India In a series of Instagram posts, Angela Deka, a visual artist based in Delhi, accused Vaibhav Chawla...
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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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It’s been more than a year in India that the music industry had to put an indefinite halt on all live shows. These live...
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There’s something that works particularly well when music becomes the medium of voicing one’s angst. And angst where it is justified, can do wonders...