Interview
Punya Vashist, known to most people in music as pixlpxl, learned how to hold an air gun in the first grade and grew up...
The Indian Music Diaries - India's guide to contemporary music
Review
In Aadamkhor Vikas, Kaali Duniya samples an extract from an interview of poet Mahadev Toppo : “yeh dharti ko aadamkhor aur munafakhor vikas nahi...
Callback
I discuss Cornershop with my British friend at Chowpatty — someone I do not talk to anymore, but miss from time to time because...
Review
I remember having a conversation with a friend of mine, who also happens to be a visual artist, when I was visiting Goa. He...
Review
Mumbai/Bengaluru -based DJ and music producer DJazz (Aditya Malve) brings a distinctly intricate vision to India’s electronic music scene. With over a decade in...
Interview
In 2024, Samanvii commissioned India’s first new vinyl manufacturing facility after nearly four decades, contributing to the revival of vinyl culture and physical formats...
Review
In our collective consciousness today, Punjab often gets reduced to stereotypes. Happy, jolly, loud people. Struggling farmers. Rap music and fast cars. Drugs and...
Review
There are some records, which are blatantly, and quite charmingly young. This is not a dig at the artists behind Delhivision’s Day One, who...
Review
The new hardcore EP by Pacifist can only be described as straight edged. The EP spends very little time dilly dallying and is also...
Review
Midival Punditz are no strangers to the indie music scene with a healthy chunk of their experiments growing to define the larger music landscape...
Interview
Abhishek Shukla is an accomplished photographer in the Indian scene, renowned for his distinct visual language in the music and culture industries. What began...
Industry Insight
When you’re making music, it’s easy to think you’re working purely with sound. Frequencies, levels, plugins, arrangements. But what you’re actually shaping is perception....
Review
When I am sent the preview link to Champak’s debut release, A1, I am positively intrigued. The source of my curiosity, I admit, is...
Review
In a year where 2026 continues to see a surge of new artists and fast-moving releases, projects that choose to slow down and reflect...
Opinion
There is this very specific feeling of hearing a song for the first time and thinking, “this is exactly what I needed and I...
Interview
SINASH’s music feels like it’s been unfolding in chapters, each release building on the last while quietly expanding his artistic language. From Baalma to...
Review
I have spent a large part of my life somewhere in the hills. Tawang, Ladakh, Himachal, the specifics changed but the feeling never did....
Industry Insight
Have you ever heard a song that felt blue?Or a chord that somehow felt warm, like orange light? Most of us say things like...
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Set against the raw, untamed beauty of Himachal’s highlands, Voodoo Valley returns as a carefully constructed passage into something deeper. Now in its fifth...
Review
Josiah Ranpal is a guitarist from Gangtok, Sikkim, who runs a jazz fusion and jazzcore project called That’s Not Self Help. His music is...
Interview
Somewhere across the hills, forests, and villages of India, a bus travels from one community to another carrying more than recording equipment. Inside it...
Review
Albela is unlike an average rapper. He raps as radically as Eminem in his prime. His music is defined by an extremely honest approach...