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- 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
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...
Industry Insight
For the overwhelming majority of Indians, commercial music would imply songs from the movie industry and a select few regional megastars. As it stands,...
Review
Aditeya Shukla’s latest EP “Just Wait, Sunshine” comes as a breath of fresh air. All the tracks in this EP are reminiscent of the...
News
SVKM’s Usha Pravin Gandhi College of Management in Mumbai is the only college in India to start a hip-hop certification course. Initially, the course...
Review
As Hip Hop has evolved through the years, it has diversified into multiple genres. From trap, to emo rap, this genre has branched out...
Latest
Delhi-Jaipur based DJ-Producer Reverse Osmosis is not a neophyte when it comes to the techno scene in the country. He has been playing for...
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
The inaugural IndieMusicFilmFest (IMFF) 2021 celebrates visual storytelling in music and is open to filmmakers across India who have made films on musicians and...
FEATURED
The Navi-Mumbai based group has released a new EP, five years after their debut. It features a new line-up, spans multiple genres and is...
Opinion
2020 has been brutal for everyone, especially the entertainment industry. From being the first ones to shut, to being the last to open –...
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
When Arsh Sharma, the frontman and one-man army for the electro-pop/rock/electronica project FuzzCulture entered into 2020, he had no intention to spend the year...
FEATURED
Despite what appears to be a clinical environment inside a recording studio, astounding wonders can happen inside such a room with proper equipment &...
Interview
As a musician it is often difficult to box yourself in a genre or even an art form. Music exists everywhere – from the...
FEATURED
Filmmaker Sanjna Krishnan depicts how the young cope with internal and external tribulations of information overload in the music video for SHOR’s new single,...
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
Sidd Coutto Dedicates Magnificently Composed EP To His Girlfriend, Plans To Release 12 EPs This Year
Siddharth Coutto (Sidd Coutto), the renowned multi-instrumentalist and one of the few musicians who has seen the indie music scene grow right from the...