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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
The long standing legacy of Midival Punditz is culminated into a celebration of Indian Classical, Folk & Electronic Music on ‘Love and Machines’
Champak’s ‘A1’: A Quirky, Intimate Bedroom Pop Descent Into Alt-Rock Doom
‘Maqsad’ by Faizal: A Reverse Journey Through Identity, Faith, and Everything In Between
Shubhank Sharma’s Himalay Se is A Progressive Rock Ode to Mountain Silence
Josiah Ranpal’s Latest EP Is a Late Night Jazz Fever Dream
- 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
“From small club shows to festivals, I realized this is where I feel at home” – In Conversation With Abhishek Shukla
One Song Out, Ten Thousand Fans: What OutStation Tells Us About Building a Fandom Before a Discography
In Conversation With SINASH -Tracing the Art, The Music and The Journey That Led to Bairaagi
Voodoo Valley Returns for a Three-Day Convergence of Music, Community, and Nature
Sound of Women: Preserving the radical & unheard folk voices Through a Mobile Studio
The Indian Music Diaries — India's guide to contemporary music
Review
Premik Jolly is a Bangalore-based guitarist and producer who builds worlds in electronic psychedelia and crushing metal using ambient soundscapes. Since picking up guitar...
Callback
My mother and I have a very few things in common, especially when it comes to how we have spent our days in the...
Review
Rhythm Shaw has been called a prodigy since before most musicians figure out what they want to sound like. Classically trained on guitar, formally...
Review
This is the first time I’m hearing Panther and upon listening to ‘shehro ke safed sadkon pe sehroon ke sangeen safar’ it was clear...
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,...
FEATURED
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...
Review
There’s an old superstition in popular music that haunts the age of 27, an age mythologized through tragedy, headlines, and the seductive romance of...
Callback
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...
FEATURED
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,...