(artists) Blurry Slur

Previously well-established as a minimal techno artist under the moniker Qwiver, Lynston D'souza adopted the name of Blurry Slur upon his shift to the...

(artists) Da Saz

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(artists) Dopeadelicz

Dopeadelicz is a multilingual rap crew from Dharavi and has performed and represented Mumbai city at various places like IIT Delhi, Blue Frog,...

(artists) Dualist Inquiry

Dualist Inquiry is the brainchild and solo project of Sahej Bakshi, a music producer, guitarist and cerebral agent who graduated from the Thornton...

(artists) Joshua Singh

Joshua began composing and producing music at the age of 12. As a musician or producer, has worked with Hard Kaur, Dopedelicz and Taba Chake. Most...

(artists) Kenny Dope

In an age of quick gratification and the instant attention switch, Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez is a name respected for both quality and consistency....

(artists) Kiss Nuka

Kiss Nuka is the new evolved 
expression of Anushka Manchanda – a revered voice in the
 Indian music industry with almost 20 years of...

(artists) SickFlip

As a new age electronica artist, SickFlip’s driving force comes from an amalgamation of travel, music and collaboration. Known for his love for...

(directory) Udaipur World Music Festival

Celebrating world and fusion music in the scenic settings of Udaipur’s famous lakes, Udaipur World Music Festival brings a plethora of acts from...

(news) Naezy Reiterates His Presence With New EP 'Anti-Fitna' & Launch Shows

Mumbai-based rapper and a pioneer of the city's desi hip-hop style, Naved Shaikh aka Naezy has been in and out of the spotlight since being catapulted...

(news) Renao Offers Romantic Funk-Pop With 'BLIND'

Bangalore-born and London-based artist Renao has announced his double EP titled 'A Space Between Orange and Blue', set to release on June 2nd, with...

(news) Hamza Rahimtula Returns With 'Banjara Series' For A 'Spain & South America' Edition

As New Delhi musician Hamza Rahimtula continues to globe-trot musically to inspire his productive run of house offerings with 'Banjara Series',...

(news) Roy & Dub Sharma Tackle The Socio-Political State Of India On ‘Chowkidaar’

Following the release of ‘Baari Hamari’ last month, hip-hop musician and visual artist Sumit Roy has dropped the second track from his album...

(news) Listen: 'Lightwork' By NATE08

Mumbai-based bass player and musician Nathan Thomas has been playing in the Indian music circuit for some 6-7 years, though he started producing...

(news) Listen: 'TRICE' By Zokhuma

“Are our lives just a sum of memories made? Windows of experiences made measurable by a steady cycle of sunrises and sunsets. Almost at random, some...

(news) BFR Sound System To Host Block Party At Mumbai’s Dharavi

New Delhi-based artists Taru Dalmia aka Delhi Sultanate and Samara Chopra aka Begum X will take their Jamaican-style hand built BFR Sound System for a...

(news) Listen: ‘Ek Chhoti Si Umeed’ By Warboy x DEVM

Red Bull Spotlight 2019 winner Ashutosh Rai aka Warboy, with the help of producer Devam Pandey aka DEVM, chronicles the struggles of living in a harsh...

(news) Ciel & shesaid.so Announce CDJ Workshop

shesaid.so, the global network of women in the music industry, has just announced a CDJ workshop as part of their next meetup in Mumbai, with...

(news) Ciel Heads To India For A 3-City Tour

Toronto-based electronic act and a member of New York’s prominent female-identifying collective Discwoman, Cindy Li aka Ciel has just announced a...

(news) Jeremy Underground Announces 2-City India Tour

Acclaimed French selector Jeremy Underground has just announced an India tour that sees him play at Mumbai’s Kitty Su and Bangalore’s Kitty Ko on...

(news) Watch: 'Hold Tight' By Ape Echoes

A dark social commentary lingers at the underbelly of Ape Echoes' new music video 'Hold Tight', disguised under an affable essence and Jim Sarbh's...

(news) Berlin Clubs To Pave Way For Greener & More Sustainable Nightlife

Berlin clubs and politicians have recently joined forces to make the city’s nightlife more sustainable. In an effort to realise Germany’s...

(news) Control ALT Delete Reveals Massive 2019 Lineup

Crowdfunded festival Control ALT Delete has announced the massive lineup for its 11th edition, which will be held on March 9-10 at Roaring Farms,...

(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) Listen: ‘Computer Music’ By Mohit Rao

Mumbai-based nrtya imprint, Mohit Rao came out with a computational experimental track titled ‘Computer Music’. ‘Computer Music’ references...

(news) Listen: Those Who Wander By Parallel Highway

‘Those Who Wander’ is the result of a collaborative effort between Amal Ramesh a.k.a Liquid Memories and Arjun Venugopal whose adopted alter ego...

(news) RBMA To Host Sessions & Clubnights With Soichi Terada

Red Bull Music Academy are bringing Japanese house luminary Soichi Terada to India alongside Nick Dwyer, one-half of Weird Together. The 3-city tour...

(features) Spotlight: Varun Desai On Bringing Out India’s Ambient Music From Obscurity

The ambient music scene in India is scattered, to say the least. Artists remain on the fringes and it has not grown as much as other forms of...

(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) Creating Social Spaces That Celebrate & Honour Togetherness: Fieldlines

In his exploration of Panchatattva (five elements) — fire, earth, sky, wind and water, and its concepts within a socio-cultural and folkloric...

(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) Fatima: "I Always Do Me. Don't Know Who Else To Be"

“It’s so stupid, trading self for tripping on cupid / What we’re made of, so much sense in getting away now.” – the lyrics of ‘Dang’,...

(features) Jojo Mayer: ‘Nothing New Can Be Created Without Deviating From The Norm’

“NERVE sounds like electronic music, but it’s not. It doesn’t sound like jazz or rock, but it is,” states the bio of NERVE. To comprehend this...

(features) The South Asian Diaspora Finds Its Voice On Sarathy Korwar’s ‘More Arriving’

Sarathy Korwar is tired. He's frustrated, and he's largely exasperated. “I don't enjoy making records about being a minority,” he tells me over...

(features) Review: 'Dubfounded' By Ravana & Jumme Khan

Before you listen to Ravana's new album 'Dubfounded' with Jumme Khan, before you even comprehend the existence of the album, it's crucial that you...

(features) Review: 'Royal Almonds' By Burudu

As Burudu embraces a more club-friendly, deep house influenced approach on their new EP 'Royal Almonds', you may have thought that they would...

(features) You Thought You Knew Dualist Inquiry

You were wrong. But don’t worry about it too much. With his recently released single, ‘You & Me’, Sahej Bakshi, the man behind Dualist...

(features) 5 Minutes With: Roska

Known for his distinctive sound that blends garage, grime, house and UK funky London-based Roska is hands down one of the UK’s most accomplished DJs...

(features) A Comprehensive Guide To The Music At Magnetic Fields 2016

And we’re almost there – just 10 days to go for our favourite weekend of the year! Magnetic Fields will be back for its 2016 edition with a whole...

(features) Kenny Dope: The Legend In Profile

You could fill a book with Kenny ‘Dope’ GozalezMasters At Work easily runs into the thousands at last count, and his enormous collection of vinyl...

(features) In Conversation With: Flying Lotus

Good God, this interview made me nervous. I mean, it’s FlyLo isn’t it? The Los Angeles based experimental producer, rapper and DJ has released 5...

(features) Dekmantel 2015: Review

Dekmantel, which means cloak in Dutch, started as a series of underground parties in Amsterdam, run by two music-obsessed friends called Casper...

(features) In Conversation With: Pippin

Not a lot of people outside Delhi know the name behind producer Pippin (Pip), despite his debut EP ‘1010’ creating ripples within the scene after...

(features) 5 Minutes With: Kevin Knapp

Kevin Knapp has been around the block a few times. An eminent patron of Berlin’s distinctive dance music community, he has played all over the...

(features) A WORLDWIDE THING: #JULY

Radio Broadcaster and DJ IAMRISHA hosts a weekly show on Delhi-based online station Radio 79. It's called and showcases global underground sounds...

(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 #185: Jubilee

The first lady of Miami bass is an anglophile and resides in New York. As paradoxical as that statement may sound, it holds entirely true for Jess...

(mixes) Wild City #178: Abhi Meer

DJ, radio host and music critic Abhi Meer’s mix for Wild City might be our most dramatic one yet. Peppered generously with riveting moments, the mix...

(mixes) Wild City #173: TRAFFICC

Listeners familiar with Nihal Kanwar aka TRAFFICC’s boxout.fm show ‘Rush Hour’ know that this New Delhi DJ tailors his selections for an intense...

(mixes) Wild City #119: Nene Hatun

Turkish born German resident Nene Hatun, delivers an intense and darkly beautiful selection of tracks for mix #119. Classically trained musician and...

(mixes) Wild City #066: M.Mat

Driven by a relentless passion for electronic music from across the musical spectrum, Mathieu Josso a.k.a M.Mat, has, of recent, become an inimitable...

(mixes) Wild City 021: Kini Rao

"With rhythm in her soul and funk in her attitude, Kini has been steadily creating waves within India's house music scene." Starting off as resident...

(mixes) Wild City 012: Starfoxxx

Earlier this year we interviewed Ghettophiles, one of the leading players for the juke/footwork scene's movement and home to some of the most...

(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) CC:DISCO!, Guillaume & the Couto Dumonts & Arsh

CC:DISCO! Playing disco, house and boogie cuts with her heart at the controls, CC triggers a joyous feedback loop that infects the dancefloor....

(events) Lefto, Free The Robots & DJ MoCity

LEFTO Lefto has proven to be one of the most important tastemakers from Europe. This bearded early riser is consistently a couple steps ahead of your...

(events) Kevin Saunderson & Adam Rahman

Kevin Saunderson Kevin Saunderson is a ​platinum-selling​​ recording artist, DJ, label boss, festival promoter, ​true innovator​​ in the...

(events) Kevin Saunderson, DJ Bone & MoBlack

Location: The Lalit Kevin Saunderson Kevin Saunderson is a ​platinum-selling​​ recording artist, DJ, label boss, festival promoter, ​true...

(events) Prabh Deep, Nasty Ninja & FTS Crew

Nasty Ninja Nasty Ninja is a rap and R&B artist from Mumbai, India who writes in Hindi and English. Previously known as MC Shinobi, he adopted...

(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) dOP

dOP Damien, Clement and Jaw spent years working in the world of hip hop in their native Paris before being swept into the world of unconventional...

(events) Future Collective Conscious Collective Design Fair

Butter Bunz Butter Bunz is an electronic duo hailing from New Delhi. The moniker adopted by Zainab and Aryaman is a project stretching the...

(events) Animal Factory Amplifications & Butterbunz

7PM on REProduce's Twitch Artists Animal Factory Amplification Animal Factory Amplification builds guitar pedals and amps, among other things, in...