(directory) Locals DISTRICT

Locals DISTRICT carved its niche by bringing a focused lineup to the scene settings of Castle Kalwar. Having featured the likes of Kevin Saunderson,...

(directory) St+rt India Foundation

Non-profit organisation and collective St+art India Foundation rose to prominence after transforming New Delhi’s Lodhi Colony into India’s first...

(news) Locals DISTRICT Brings Armen Miran, Catz 'N Dogz, Natascha Polké & More To Alwar

Locals DISTRICT just released the full lineup for its 4th edition which sees the boutique techno festival move away from its previous base in Jaipur...

(news) Boiler Room's First-Ever Pakistan Edition To Feature Jaubi, Natasha Noorani, Tollcrane, Ustad Noor Bakshsh & More

Prominent event platform Boiler Room announced its first-ever edition in Pakistan, which will take place on June 20 in Karachi. The host and...

(news) Locals Moon Rabbit: Traveling Micro Festival Heads To Goa For 2022 Edition With Drumcomplex, Bullzeye, Anina Owly & More

Also known for DISTRICT, a boutique techno festival, event and artist management agency Locals A&R recently announced the 2022 edition of its...

(news) Watch: Magnetic Fields Releases Portraits & Documentary From ‘Fieldlines’

In its 2019 edition, Magnetic Fields Festival hosted its first-ever in-house residency with ‘Fieldlines’. Supported via a grant from...

(news) Non Linear Offers A Pulsating Reflection Of Mumbai On ‘This City Swells’

Out of the countless hours I have spent in front of the TV since the lockdown, Castle Rock’s episode ‘The Queen’ is one of the best hour of any...

(news) DJ Hell, Black Merlin, Terr & More Announced For Locals DISTRICT 2020

Locals DISTRICT, which returns to Jaipur’s Castle Kalwar from February 21-23, has revealed the first wave of names for its 2020 lineup. For its...

(news) St+art India & India Art Fair Announce Curated Night Tours, Performances, Installations & More

After transforming localities around the country into open art districts and hosting a very successful Lodhi Art Festival last year, non-profit...

(news) BFR Sound System To Play Shows In Assam & Meghalaya With Mr India, Prabh Deep, Ahmer & More

BFR Sound System, one of the most socio-politically active musical collectives of the country, are taking their revered sound system to Diphu,...

(news) A Brief Guide To St+art India's Lodhi Art Festival 2019 + Singapore Weekender

After turning New Delhi's Lodhi colony into India's first open public art district, non-profit organisation St+art India Foundation is back with the...

(news) A Snapshot Of NEOPOP 2018

Everything is low-key at NEOPOP, except for its line-up. As Portugal’s premier pelagic techno festival, NEOPOP returns to the charming littoral...

(news) FunkinEven & Chaos In The CBD In New Delhi

On Saturday, 12 May, Delhi based events agency and curators District are bringing down house music producers - FunkinEven and Chaos In The CBD. What...

(news) BLOT!, Arjun Vagale, Ash Roy & Many More Announced for District

In celebration of completing a year of ‘Locals’, the music community and party, India’s first-ever techno-focused festival has been announced:...

(news) Listen: SickFlip Releases ‘Dark Ages’ EP As Free DL

Mumbai based producer Sarvesh Shrivastava a.k.a SickFlip has just released his new two-track EP ‘Dark Ages’ as a free download. It’s been well...

(news) St+Art Delhi Announces Massive Exhibition 'WIP - The Street Art Show'

St+art India Foundation is back in the capital for its fourth edition of St+art Delhi, which kicked off in December last year and will continue till...

(news) Watch: ‘India’s Coal Rush’ on AJ+ Feat. Music By Frame/Frame

A powerful new film by Enrico Fabian and Vikram Singh (who recently reviewed the Dekmantel festival for us) out on Al Jazeera’s digital news channel...

(news) Details Announced For Pettah Interchange 2015

Goethe Institut and Border Movement have just announced details for the fourth edition of the Pettah Interchange, which will (like last year) take...

(news) Boom Town Festival 2014: Preview

BoomTown fair is a temporary mini-city erected in a field deep in the heart of Winchester, South East England. It’s a festival unlike no other with...

(news) Soundclash: India's Best Go Head To Head In Mumbai

This Thursday (6 February) a 4 month long series of events will kick start at Mumbai's IBAR. Titled 'SoundClash', it hopes to have some of India's...

(features) Spotlight: Emmanuelle de Decker (Gatecrash / Music Mulakatein Foundation)

Dedicating the month of March to the immensely talented women in our music community and to spreading awareness about female representation and...

(features) 2019 In Review

2019... the year Donald Trump was (almost) impeached, the year Greta Thunberg woke the world to the climate crisis, the year citizens of India came...

(features) A Comprehensive Guide To Music Festivals In India

Over the last decade or so, new music festivals of all styles and formats have sprung out of India’s transforming cultural landscape. To help you...

(features) Palash Kothari’s Sonic Sensibilities Shine On Hedrun’s Enthralling Debut EP ‘Drift’

Running through Mumbai like a labyrinthine network of nerves, the Mumbai local, with it's cramped compartments and the crowded, crawling stations, has...

(features) Digging Through The Roots: Amarrass Records

Ashutosh Sharma and Ankur Malhotra started Amarrass Records out of exasperation. The label looked inward towards India’s vast, rural lands at a...

(features) Getting It Right: An Interview With Bradley Zero

‘Be a very open individual - no pretention…no paranoia – no anything.’ Boiler Room’s Thris Tian and Nic Tasker along with British DJ, label...

(features) Pakistan - Through The Eyes Of TMPST

The alternative cultural space in South Asia is tiny, fragmented and limited to only a couple of metropolitan cities in an area that otherwise boasts...

(features) In Pictures: Diggin' In Delhi

Explore the dusty shelves of Delhi’s New Gramophone House. A photographer and videographer who’s worked for the likes of The Guardian, BBC News,...

(features) 5 Minutes With: SICKFLIP

Sarvesh Shrivastava has been on our radar since his debut release ‘Outburst’ dropped in 2012 under the avatar SICKFLIP. The young producer struck...

(features) Ziro By Shiv Ahuja

Sometime around June 2012, Anup Kutty and Randeep asked me if I'd like to accompany their rock act, Menwhopause to Ziro, a small region in the Lower...

(mixes) Wild City #183: Hedrun

Wild City's latest mix comes to us courtesy Mumbai-based producer and jwala co-founder Palash Kothari, also known by his moniker Hedrun (previously...

(mixes) Wild City #150: Zokhuma

26-year-old Arman Menzies played the guitar as part of the metal band Goddess Gagged before diving into electronic music production. He currently...

(mixes) Wild City #149: Small Town Guy

Formerly known as Sleepwalker, Small Town Guy - aka Shantanu Ghosh hails from the coastal town of Pondicherry. Known for his dancefloor selections...

(mixes) Wild City #094: Tollcrane

Karachi native and RBMA Tokyo alumni Tollcrane explores fringe electronica and left-of-centre dance in an exquisite mix for Wild City. In the last...