News

Abhibyanjana Emerges As A Singer-Songwriter with A Dreamy Edge On 'City of My Heart'

There is no shortage of singer-songwriters expressing their heart out over guitar plucks, and unless there is standout penmanship behind it, the repertoire starts to blend into monotony. While Gangtok's Abhibyanjana might start from the same tradition, she takes a cue from her influences like Angel...

Synths Back Interplays Between Retro Sounds & Modern Musicality On New EP 'Consumer Cooperative Society'

Abishek Chanda aka Synths Back takes inspiration from his roots in the Andaman to name his latest EP...

DJazz Returns With House EP 'Pale Criminal'

A month after launching his new moniker DJazz and his label All That DJazz, Aditya Malve (formerly...

Dolorblind Makes A Case For Leftfield Electronica With 'I Loved The Sun'

Patna-rooted producer Rohan Sinha aka Dolorblind just released 'I Loved The Sun', his first solo...

flux vortex Samples Asha Puthli On Breakbeat Track 'The Devil'

With the pitched vocal echoes and rising patterns on orchestral samples interplaying against each...

Features

Review: Gauley Bhai’s Sophomore Album ‘Sunbari’ Bridges Community Roots With Sonic Refinement

It’s remarkable that in the age when artists are constantly advised to punctuate every few months with a release (and it seems like most big names do) to keep bending audience and industry infrastructures in their favour, Gauley Bhai held back their sophomore album for nearly 6 years, offering...

Review: 'Kali' Sees Ditty Blending Protest With Intimate Truths

Evidently, it’s tricky to carry the torch from protest-driven beat poetry-inspired folk singer-songwriters like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan without sounding like a tribute to the said acts and their times – evident from the ever-refreshing list of acts that fall in that trap. Aditi Veena aka Ditty...

Mixes

Wild City #247: Roan Sable

Roan Sable's Wild City mix is the kind that makes listeners reach for Shazam time and time again....

Wild City #246: EveryNowHere

When T.L. Mazumdar aka EveryNowHere started the podcast series Tapasya Loading in 2020, one of his...

Wild City #245: Pale Blue Dotter

With field recordings of birds and frogs stitched between transient meanderings of synths and...

Wild City #244: SourFunk

Bangalore's Vaibhav S Narayan aka SourFunk's Wild City mix is for the point where the dancers for...

Wild City #243: Zequenx

Born in Kashmir and operating between Goa and New Delhi, Zainab Wani aka Zequenx is in the midst of...

Wild City #242: DJ Pants

Anyone regular to the upbeat lighthearted dancefloors in New Delhi over the past couple of years has...