News

8-Bit Culprit Launches New Label Earth Tapes With EP 'Feral'

Faraz Ehsan aka 8-Bit Culprit just launched a new record label called 'Earth Tapes', outlining its vision musically with a 3-track EP entitled 'Feral'. "Earth Tapes started out of need — a need to release music that felt personal, genre-fluid, and rooted in feeling rather than function. I’ve...

philterSoup With Karshni Releases Interactive Music Video Ahead Of Album Release

Mumbai-based music producer Sanjay Das aka philterSoup has just announced his debut album 'LIGHTS...

Sijya Releases 'I only want to crash' Ahead Of 7-Stop India Tour

Earlier in May, Sijya announced signing with Björk-fame label One Little Independent Records for...

Call For Application: IIMW Invites Performances For 2026 Mumbai Edition

India International Music Week, which debuted earlier this year in Goa and brought together 400...

RIVU Finds A Space Between Raw Indie Rock & Electronica On EP 'Dinosaurs'

Subhagata Singha aka RIVU just released his latest EP 'Dinosaurs', returning with a solo record...

Features

"Speaking Back To History In Real-Time": Tarun Balani On How The India-Pakistan Conflict Weighed On His Album Release

When the Hindus from the Sindh region left their homes in the aftermath of the blood-soaked partition of India and Pakistan, growing concerned about their place in the effectively non-secular new nation they suddenly found themselves in, they weren’t just displaced from their homes but also from...

"This Is House Music for House Heads": Hamza Rahimtula Brings Rajasthan Folkstars To The Dancefloor — Without the Fusion

Hamza Rahimtula was cutting his teeth in the New York house music scene during his college years, delivering DJ sets alongside live instrumentalists (percussionist Frank Bambara being a notable collaborator) when he first thought of how “our own cultural sounds would fit in” with the music. Upon...

Mixes

Wild City #251: Rajah Betta

The influence of Bombay sometimes comes through gently included but obviously present samples likely...

Wild City #250: Stick No Bills

All around the world in dance music, the South Asian diaspora is carving a space for the culture...

Wild City #249: Paloma

In its first quarter itself, Paloma's Wild City mix connects the low-end rattling bass of Joy...

Wild City #248: Sheral

New Delhi DJ Sheral doesn't wait for a build-up on our latest Wild City mix, entering above 140 BPM...

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...