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I remember having a conversation with a friend of mine, who also happens to be a visual artist, when I was visiting Goa. He...
The Indian Music Diaries - India's guide to contemporary music
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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...
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More than a decade after its beginnings in 2013, Runt, the alternative rock project led by Mumbai-bred singer-songwriter and producer Siddharth Basrur, arrives with...
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Music, to me, has always been a soft embrace, something that lulls me to sleep, listens to my woes, and offers a steady shoulder...
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According to khokkosh a.k.a. Yashomati Parveen, this is an electronic album presented with a pop lens and I would tend to agree. Just because...
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...
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Rhythm Shaw has been called a prodigy since before most musicians figure out what they want to sound like. Classically trained on guitar, formally...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Regional hip-hop projects in India often carry predictable expectations: to celebrate the language, showcase the pride, translate local identity into something nationally consumable &...
Opinion
We often hear that change is the only constant, yet when you pause and look around, it’s hard not to notice that some things...
Interview
Run it’s the Kid was one of those cult underground bands that all the music nerds knew of but never has the band ever...
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From the visceral gut-punch of modern metal to the shimmering, neon-soaked corridors of electro-pop, the Indian independent circuit continues to prove it has no...
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The first time I listen to Feeling So Good, a slow-engulfing, metallic, grueling form of dread grips me — tethering me to a kind...
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On his newest album, screamer turned media lawyer turned singer songwriter, Shourya Malhotra creates a body of work that can soundtrack a busy sunny...
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In the press material for keichyna, the artist describes the project to be “a conceptual record rather than a traditional debut, RHAPSODY OF THE...
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Chaar Diwaari is one of the most magnetic forces in the current music scene, the kind of artist you find yourself drawn to without...