(artists) Dhanji

Hailing from Amdavad, GJ, Dhanji is building a base at the forefront of the Indian avant-garde. Shaking things up with his untouchable style and the...

(artists) Diggy Dang & The Fire Starters

Diggy Dang & The Fire Starters is a band comprised of India's finest reggae musicians. Blending musical versatility, instrumental prowess, and a...

(artists) Kala Kurta Gang

Kala Kurta Gang, also known as KKG, is a Hip Hop group from the Chandigarh-Tricity area which operates under the 0172 banner. The group has 3 members...

(artists) Lush Lata

A curious mix of old school hip hop, beats, monologues, baile, bass, R&B and trap pack a punch with Lush Lata's set, that borrows from the notion...

(artists) Mode7

Mode7 is an experimental playground for Raffael Kably - one of the three founding members of BBC (Bay Beat Collective). Trading triumphant bass drops...

(artists) Mutations

Set amidst the backdrop of East London, the unlikely union of three vastly different individuals created the band. Hailing from India, California and...

(artists) Oryza

Having delivered mind-boggling music sets at various clubs in New Delhi, Oryza breaks the commercially accepted norms of dance music, to take people...

(artists) Sid Vashi

Born and raised in Michigan, Detroit, Sid Vashi has been actively involved in music since his early teen years - playing and recording for jazz bands...

(artists) sparkle & fade

Based in Bombay, and possessing a talent that belies his age, Palash Kothari’s pedigree straddles something between the bizarre and the telling....

(artists) Su Real

Su Real is changing the face of bass music in India, one drop at a time. Possessing a rare talent to both appease the crowd with contemporary club...

(artists) Switch Bitch

What began with the shared passion of two people sitting around a laptop and making electro has over time evolved through sonic-scapes and grown as if...

(directory) Covelong Point Surf & Music Festival

With nothing more than a few old boards, a deep passion for surfing and teaching others to surf, the festival strives to nurture the awakening of a...

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(directory) RSJ Massive

The festival is hosted by one of India’s oldest music publications, Rock Street Journal, in collaboration with Sterling Reserve Music. Aiming to...

(directory) The Go:Madras Electronic Music Festival

The GO:MADRAS festival is an electronic music festival that happens every september by the beach. Founded in 2009, this festival has seen 8 successful...

(news) Tarbooze Release Indie Urdu Ode To Nostalgia For Beautiful Places With 'Dil Nazaray'

Karachi's husband-wife duo Tarbooze return to Alien Panda Jury's Cape Monze Records with the single 'Dil Nazaray'. The pair gets more serious than...

(news) Alo Wala & PAV4N Collaborate On 'Here And Now'

Punjabi-American singer Alo Wala and South Asian rapper of London's Foreign Beggars fame PAV4N have just released their collaborative single 'Here And...

(news) Innerworld Presents Dense Dance Soundscapes With Debut EP 'Vibrations'

Minimal techno pioneers like Jeff Mills have been espousing the view that dance music can be for more than just dancing but rather expressing more...

(features) 2022 In Review

2022 – the year that the world seemed to finally emerge out of the nightmare that was the COVID-19 pandemic. The year wasn’t without its tragedies...

(features) Review: Lifafa Shines Albeit Dimly In The Shadow Of His Previous Work On ‘Superpower 2020’

When Suryakant Sawhney aka Lifafa released ‘Jaago’ at the start of 2019, it catapulted him to become one of the leading alternative artists of our...

(features) Wild City Singled Out: February 2021

Wild City handpicks the most interesting tracks released by artists of South Asia and its diaspora in our monthly feature - Singled Out. If you’d...

(features) 2020 In Review

To fully grasp all that the year 2020 entailed, it’s important to briefly reflect on how things were at the start of it. India was seething with...

(features) A Library, A Time Machine, A Contact Zone: Natasha Noorani's Peshkash Maps Postcolonial Pakistani Music

Back in 2014, a bunch of rare Films Division-era films resurfaced online with Alexander Keefe’s 'Sarkari Shorts', calling my attention to the...

(features) Wild City Singled Out: August + September 2020

Wild City handpicks the most interesting tracks released by artists of South Asia and its diaspora in our monthly feature - Singled Out. If you’d...

(features) Wild City Singled Out: June + July 2020

Wild City handpicks the most interesting tracks released by artists of South Asian diaspora in our monthly feature - Singled Out. If you’d like us...

(features) APEX: SPRYK's Quest For The Ultimate Music Festival Experience

To understand how APEX came to be, it’s important to start with Tejas Nair a.k.a. SPRYK’s journey of discovering music and technology itself....

(features) Wild City Singled Out: April 2020

Wild City handpicks the most interesting one-off singles released by artists in South Asia in our monthly feature - Singled Out. If you’d like us to...

(features) Wild City Singled Out: Q1 2020

Wild City handpicks the most interesting one-off singles released by artists in South Asia in our monthly feature - Singled Out. If you’d like us to...

(mixes) Wild City #203: Amarrass Records

As we try to differentiate our mix curation with the inclusion of our first mix from a label instead of it being representative of a single...

(mixes) Wild City #202: Marbman

Aalhad Joshi aka Marbman makes a case for taking dance music to the energy of its early roots when the genre wasn’t replete with as much explicit...

(mixes) Wild City #197: Nayana IZ

Punjab and Manipur-origin North Londoner Nayana IZ’s (pronounced “eyes”, after her first name which means eyes in Hindi) trajectory as a solo...

(mixes) Wild City #196: Moses

There’s a lot of emotive ground and dynamic range one can cover behind the four-on-the-floor beat of techno. From the more spatial inward journeys...

(mixes) Wild City #184: DJ Ishani

Destiny’s Child, Beyoncé, Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott, Aaliyah – these are just some of the artists that feature on DJ Ishani’s mix for Wild...

(mixes) Wild City #161: Zero 7

It's festival season in India right now. No, not because of Diwali and any other religious holidays – we're talking music festivals. Nearly every...

(mixes) Wild City #144: Bézier

Robert Yang aka Bézier is a talented multi-instrumentalist, DJ and producer. He’s also a founding member of Honey Soundsystem, the San...

(mixes) Wild City #143: AGENT

Co-founder of Magnetic Fields Festival, Smita Singh, who DJs under the alias AGENT has been on a meteoric rise. Since she started hitting the club...

(mixes) Wild City #141: EZZYLAND

EZZYLAND is on the rise. After dropping arguably the album of the summer with ‘DEPS x ANXIES’, EZZYLAND has been continually releasing tracks and...

(mixes) Wild City #140: Didi Han

South Korean DJ Didi Han is one of Asia’s fastest rising stars. One of the forces behind Pute Deluxe; arguably Seoul’s best party and one of the...

(mixes) Wild City #130: Monophonik

Monophonik’s sound is fresh, uplifting and lively. The solo project of Mumbai-based producer Shatrunjai Dewan, Monophonik takes an experimental...

(events) The Madfingers Jam

Experience the best of Mumbai’s favourite homegrown artists- Aria Nanji, Sidd Coutto, Nathan Thomas, Prathamesh Kandalkar, Siddharth Shankar, Anurag...

(events) Drop The Needle - Vinyl Listening

DROP THE NEEDLE has been one of Social’s most loved and special event properties. Since it’s inception in 2016 this event series turned Vinyl...

(events) Ankytrixx & Rummy Sharma

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(events) 5volts, United Machines & more

Dropped Out (Bombay, India) In the hopes that writing this question may generate this conversation, I have no idea why he calls himself Dropped Out....

(events) DropTheNeedle at The Drawing Room

Drop The Needle, is a new series of monthly meetups which aims to bring together vinyl enthusiasts and record collectors from all over Mumbai and...

(events) Anthony Naples & Uday Dass

Anthony Naples A Florida native who was always more drawn to an impressionistic template of global house than to the ubiquitous Miami bass that...

(events) Anthony Naples

Anthony Naples A Florida native who was always more drawn to an impressionistic template of global house than to the ubiquitous Miami bass that...

(events) Monoloc, Stenny & Arsh

Monoloc Given his releases on some of techno music's most prominent labels, many will already be familiar with Monoloc. The German native rose to...

(events) Monoloc

Monoloc Given his releases on some of techno music's most prominent labels, many will already be familiar with Monoloc. The German native rose to...

(events) Daniel Bortz, Monoloc & Robby

Daniel Bortz So widely respected, so seldom acknowledged: Daniel Bortz is an enigmatic character. Besides that fact that he lives in Bavaria and is a...

(events) Vh1 Supersonic 2019

Bonobo Live Known by his stage name Bonobo, Simon Green hails from Brighton, England. Starting out with a trip-hop aesthetic, he has since branched...

(events) Monkey Safari & VRIDIAN

Monkey Safari Riding in with the power to deliver sunshine to world’s rainiest open-air events, Monkey Safari brings rays of light to whatever...

(events) Monkey Safari

Monkey Safari Riding in with the power to deliver sunshine to world’s rainiest open-air events, Monkey Safari brings rays of light to whatever...

(events) Monkey Safari

Monkey Safari Riding in with the power to deliver sunshine to world’s rainiest open-air events, Monkey Safari brings rays of light to whatever...

(events) Conducta & Ben Yugen

Image by Prexa Shrestha Conducta Conducta draws from a deep-rooted love of UK garage, hip-hop, soundsystem culture and more, Conducta has become one...

(events) Neon East Fest 2019

Mura Masa Mura Masa is a Grammy winning producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Guernsey, UK. In 4 years, he has risen from a Soundcloud...

(events) Spryk, Hanumankind, Kidshot & Roy

Hanumankind Suraj Cherukut aka HanuManKind won the 2017 Mic Drop Tournament which recognizes up and coming rappers. Originally from Kerala,...

(events) Fakear, (((O))) & Riatsu x Neil Gomes

Image: Sarah Yarmond Fakear Fakear, aka Theo Le Vigoureux, is the brightest star of France’s electronic new wave. A young producer whose music...

(events) Caroline Lethô & Butter Bunz

Caroline Lethô Caroline Lethô is a young artist with an old-school heart and a true raver's spirit. Her passion for turning dancefloors into a...

(events) Women in Labour presents A Way With Words

Venue: American Center New Delhi This event is part of an ongoing series of performances and conversations in collaboration with Wild City to support...