News

Champak Introduce Themselves As The New Alt-Rock Band On The Block With 'Feed The Clown'

Some familiar names from India's alternative music space, namely Shoumik Biswas aka Disco Puppet, Lakshman Parsuram aka February 31st, Aditya Bharadwaj aka Badie A, and Aman Chawla, have come together to form the band Champak. The 4-piece bedroom pop and alt-rock group has just released their debut...

Padmini Records Includes Monophonik, Shantam, Chhabb & More On 'Yaar–Dost | vol. 2'

Padmini Records, the label by Nikhil Kaul aka Frame/Frame and Sahil Mendiratta aka Inspector Maal,...

UKato Breaks Into Garage, Jungle & IDM On New EP 'Pay Attention'

Utkarsh Singh aka UKato has had a noticeable rise across India's dancefloors in the post-COVID...

Assam's When Hush Falls Keeps Natural Ambience At Par With Instrumentation On 'Migration'

Assam's Rajarshi Boro aka When Hush Falls has just released a new EP entitled 'Migration' as it...

Sultry Mist Returns For Its 3rd Edition With Auntie Flo, ART ATTACK, Laxmi Bomb, DJ Khobir & More

Sultry Mist returns for its 3rd edition between March 6-8 across Aldona, Corjuem and Olaulim in...

Features

Revisiting 'Women In Electronic Music' & The Role Of Ableton In Shaping New Voices

Nearly 7 years ago, Wild City hosted its latest iteration of 'Women In Electronic Music' (later to be prefaced as 'Selector Pro'), a series of music production workshops between 2017 and 2019 that were designed to make music-making more accessible to women and underrepresented voices in...

Review: RANJ Finds A Friend In Swaggering Rhythms On Debut Mixtape ‘27 CLUB’

Since the start of this decade, Ranjani Ramadoss aka RANJ has slowly risen as one of the leading new artists in the alternative music space of India, mostly in combination with producer Clifr. Starting from the confluence of indie-pop and R&B, and then occasionally dipping into hip-hop, the...

Mixes

Wild City #259: Chutney Mary

As the person behind the gender diversity-centring club night QRAVE and the informative gatherings...

Wild City #258: Vishal Unni

Though Vishal Unni's Wild City mix lands in the techno territory, it is hardly about slamming drums...

Wild City #257: Nida x Choksi x Rafiki (ParaDisco)

Our latest Wild City mix from the dancefloors of ParaDisco, the party series founded by Mumbai's...

Wild City #256: EBITDA

After closing for the likes of Joy Orbison on nights like The Warehouse Project and going B2B with...

Wild City #255: Femme Music

Musician Sanoli Chowdhury and her manager Vinod Gadher (with past experience managing Talvin Singh...

Wild City #254: Jay Drive

One of the steadily rising electro and house selectors of the country, New Delhi's Jaidev Kaushik...