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#Review Shaitan Ki Nazar: Jaiditya Jha’s Debut EP Confronts Delhi’s Vices, One Power Chord At A Time.
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For most of my brief career in music journalism, I have written about Delhi and its artists, attempting to map the soundscape of the ever-elusive city in compass-prick attempts. I have always...
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#Review Rushabh Roymon – Punk As An Embodiment Of What The Mainstream Skips.
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Roymon is an interesting character who fluctuates between long rants and intense pessimisms as much as his music oscillates between sounding like The Strokes and Green Day. He is part of a band...
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#Review ‘Brute Fact/Home Truth’: Rounak Maiti’s Triumphant, Unflinching Journey Into The Soul.
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Sonor that is disrobing and writing that is wrapped in a translucent membrane of mystery, on his third album, Rounak Maiti has let the listener come closest to his soul. Wasting no time after his...
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#Opinion Winston Balman: An Ode To Youth, Debauchery, Nostalgia, Love And Life.
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Winston Balman is an extremely soulful musician whose songs mix stories with hillbilly blues to create melodies worth singing along to. He has multiple incredible tracks up his sleeve but some of his...
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#Review Abhishek Gaur Navigates Past And Present On Poignant New Album “Guzra Hua Kal”.
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Discussing his new, 10-track acoustic-heavy album ‘Guzra Hua Kal,’ Abhishek Gaur states, “As the title suggests, Guzra Hua Kal is a reflection of my past – a collection of thoughts, emotions, and...
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#Review On ‘Five Foot Three’, Anika Confesses Desires And Embraces Her Existence.
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‘Five Foot Three’, the debut album by Goa based singer-songwriter Anika Bharwani, is a message to herself where she confesses her desires as a human, woman, lover & friend. Through the album she...
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#Review Rage And Edge : Hardbone Boy’s New EP ‘TOD’ Has Him At His Sharpest Yet.
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HARDBONE BOY, or Deepak Kumar — the rapper from Jaipur who boasts of being crowned the winner of Nexa Music Season 3 by A R Rahman himself — has a new EP to his name, TOD — or Total Overdose. The 4...
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#Review Grand Electric’s “Based Magic”: The Glorious Sound Of Not Giving A Damn.
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We’re big fans of singers who can’t sing, and bands that made it cool to not really know how to play their instruments. The band writes aptly over a mail. Grand Electric’s Based Magic is a really...
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#Review Dhanji’s ‘Drive-In Cinema 2.1’ Is A Desi Cine Experience.
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Dhanji is a master. Dhanji is a genre. Dhanji doesn’t just jump on tracks. He makes tracks bops. It’s a matter of conviction. It’s a matter of being honest, cocky and confident together. After the...
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#Featured: #SmirnoffLemonPop Non-Alcoholic's #WeDoWe India edition brings together Sez on the Beat, Shai, Agsy & Tabla Guy in a bold sound experiment—turning the Lemon Pop can into an instrument and reimagining it through their unique styles.
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#Opinion The Velvet Sundown Saga: AI, Fake Bios, And The Fight For Real Music.
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The Velvet Sundown, a band mixing 70s psychedelia and folk rock, has recently found itself at the center of growing controversy and speculation surrounding the use of artificial intelligence in music...
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#IndustryInsight AI Music: How Big Is It, What Are The Laws, And Why It Matters To You.
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To add to the already cluttered news cycles filled with opinions around AI-generated music, last week, the artist management agency, Collective Artists Network, announced “India’s first Spiritual...
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#Review ‘Begin Again’ By Skinny Local: A Desi-Dreamy Beat Tape For The Restless Mind.
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Bhaveek Makan aka Skinny Local is a Calgary-based artist who makes music that feels like a half-remembered memory. Raised between South Africa and Canada and shaped by a background in filmmaking, his...
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#InConversationWith “When We Sat Down To Create Together, We Were Very Aligned In Thoughts & Intentions”.
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Shrey is a 28-year-old Mumbai-based musician rooted in RnB, Soul, and Pop. Self-taught in Western music after early Indian Classical training, he’s a music marketer by day. Shrey won the India...
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#InConversationWith Surya Pratap - “I Was Just A ‘Kid’ Inspired By Kid A”.
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Fortunately, I am quite dead now. Mallarme the poet wrote after a spiritual experience. Such could be felt after a complete listen of Kirdar too. Kirdar is a concept album inspired by Radiohead’s Kid...
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#InConversationWith Tanmaya - one of the fee artists chasing the avant-garde sound in the independent music space.
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No one is doing avant-garde pop in the Indian independent music scene the way Tanmaya is. Combining elements from multiple genres, inculcating sentimentality and rage, she is crafting her artistry...
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#Opinion An Architect Bought A Rice Mill; And Accidentally Sparked Goa’s Jazz Comeback.
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In the sleepy village of Morjim in North Goa, not far from the tide-churned beaches that have long lost their charm to commercial noise, an old rice mill has been given a new life. One that doesn’t...
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#Review Arvasu’s ‘The Traffic Horn Orchestra’: Finding Harmony In The Urban Cacophony.
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In the vast, ever expanding silt plain of Indian independent music, where vegetation is overrun by singular-word titles to albums that sound like banality had to be liquefied and put into every line...
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