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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
Modular Delirium: Inside the fractured sonic landscapes of Somnium Monkey’s ‘Vettam’
‘Moonbow’ by Neeharika Shyju: A 12-track Nocturnal Odyssey
A Coming-of-Age Triumph via Brijesh Sarin’s ‘End of Teenage’
Danish Sood’s ‘everyone’s a baby’ is An Indie-Pop Mixtape for the End of Summer
Surrender, Myth, and Electronic Sound: Analyzing Sumedh K’s ‘Tulasidala’
- 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 Shabad to Trap: The Unstoppable Evolution of Rashmeet Kaur
“You can’t really fake curiosity or love for a language or culture just to chase an audience” – In Conversation With Damini Bhatla
“Our vision today is to create original music that stays deeply rooted in Indian musical traditions” – In Conversation With Tarana
Are We Turning Concerts Into a Fandom Entrance Exam and Killing the Vibe?
Documentaries Around Indian Music You Should Definitely Watch
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Opinion
Put on five different Rashmeet Kaur songs back-to-back, and you could be forgiven for thinking you were listening to five different artists. There’s the...
Review
Australia-based Indian-origin artist Neeharika Shyju is a classical vocalist and composer whose work bridges cultural divides. Grounded in both Indian and Western classical traditions,...
Interview
If you’ve been paying close attention to India’s independent scene, you know a chunk of the freshest sounds are coming from artists who experiment...
Review
Ahmedabad-based singer-songwriter Brijesh Sarin is already a well-known name in the Indian indie music space for his songwriting and production skills. He gained immense...
Interview
Born out of a casual jam session during the Covid lockdown, Bengaluru-based seven-piece fusion rock band Tarana has evolved a sound that brings together...
Latest
Sithara Krishnakumar is a playback singer, composer, dancer and an occasional actor, known predominantly for her work in Malayalam cinema in addition to Tamil,...
Review
Writers of instrumental music get one opportunity to play word association with their listeners, via the song title. With the opening (and title) track on...
Review
‘ If you think Rave Deprivation is a myth invented by those who party often, then you’re only half right. It is true that...
FEATURED
2020 has been brutal to everyone in the music industry. One thing which kept us all going these past few months, or in fact...
Review
What role does cultural education play in the creative life of an individual? We often find that people who have lived in many places,...
FEATURED
Apart from being an essential element in education, expression, and influence- environmentalism has been an integral part of music since antiquity. From ancient Greek...
FEATURED
The history of queer discrimination in various spheres of the global music and media industry has been largely dominated by the stigmas attached to...
Review
India is currently in the midst of a musical revolution. Indian independent music is breaking onto the world stage and at the centre of...
Review
Delhi has been home to a plethora of quality artists pushing out experimental projects in the past few years. Artists from the city that’s...
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Debut edition of Magnetic Fields Nomads is scheduled to be held in Ranthambore from March 19-21 with a limited capacity of 400 attendees. Information...
Review
While a whole lot of working professionals were attempting to cope with the pandemic last year, musicians saw this as an opportunity to hone...
FEATURED
After a successful second year of TIMD awards, of celebrating, recognising and exploring talent in the Indian music industry, we finally have the winners...
News
In the eye of the storm that is the isolation, which was handed to us so generously by the pandemic, we often felt like...
FEATURED
2020 has been brutal to everyone in the music industry. One thing which kept us all going these past few months, or in fact...
FEATURED
What started as a protest against gender bias at the workplace in 1908, where women gathered in thousands in New York City, has now...
FEATURED
The west has been an influential region for the Indian market since the British colonial era. Post-independence there was a movement in the music...