Hoirong is a four-piece rock band from India. Their music is very confusing, with traces of punk, post-rock, pop, noise, art-rock and disco(!) jostling for space and making fleeting appearances. Having excited audiences into a froth all over the world, they have now returned to focus all their energy on tapping into the Indian market
‘Omerta’ By Abhi Meer Omerta EP by Abhi Meer In the same week when he offered nearly 20 hours of live streamed performance, DJ, producer, synthesist and sound artist Abhi Meer dropped a short...
Our favourite noise/alternative rock band Hoirong sends flying kisses to the general listening public with their new LP ‘Mwah’, which is replete with the irreverent punk and offhand lyrics that...
NH7 Weekender a.k.a. the “happiest music festival in India” announced yesterday via Facebook (and live on stage in Pune) that they will be traveling to Shillong in Febuary 2015. The northeastern...
Already featuring some of the most exciting names handpicked from across the musical spectrum, Magnetic Fields Festival is packed to the brim with an extensive line up that now includes a showcase by...
Good news, fellow Bedouins - Magnetic Fields is back. Wild City, along with our friends at WeThePPL, Undercover Agents, THOT and Alsisar Mahal have got an initial line up for the second edition of...
It wasn’t a big surprise to anyone when the Internet erupted last Friday. I’m not just talking about the plethora of flag brandishing, anthem spouting patriots, all at their righteous peaks. This...
Around 350 monochromatic portraits were plastered across the external walls of the warehouses lined up on Mumbai’s nearly-150-years-old Sassoon dock. They overlooked the hectic rhythms of the fish...
Last night at Shaheen Bagh, a little after midnight, hundreds of people burst into cheer as the verses of Faiz Ahmed Faiz's 'Hum Dekhenge' soared into the night sky. I couldn't help but smile, just...
Hoirong is perhaps the only band that can cite memes as their creative stimulus and get away with it. From calling journalist Arnab Goswami as their mentor and the ‘pioneer of noise in India’, to...
“This is the fat and ugly step-sister of pop music, and it's basically sublime.” Hoirong (we’ve mentioned this before but it means ‘asshole’ in Manipuri, FYI) is one of our favourite bands...
You will be hard pressed to find a better connoisseur of independent music in India than Rishu Singh. Manager, organiser, compilation expert and mix-tape master, Rishu has done it all since arriving...
Almost half way into the year and we’ve seen a number of new releases - many in the form of EPs and remixes. We know it can be hard to keep track of every single one so it made sense to draw up a...