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Review: Gauley Bhai’s Sophomore Album ‘Sunbari’ Bridges Community Roots With Sonic Refinement
It’s remarkable that in the age when artists are constantly advised to punctuate every few months with a release (and it seems like most big names do) to keep bending audience and industry...
Review: 'Kali' Sees Ditty Blending Protest With Intimate Truths
Evidently, it’s tricky to carry the torch from protest-driven beat poetry-inspired folk singer-songwriters like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan without sounding like a tribute to the said acts and their...
A Guide To The Key Experiences At Magnetic Fields Festival 2024
Prominent experiential festival Magnetic Fields Festival is gearing up for its 10th edition in Alsisar between December 6-8 this year. To mark the milestone, the music and arts event is...
Review: Vinayak^a Finds A New Artistic Voice On 'Towards The Unknown'
Chennai's Vinayak Karthikeyan, better known as Vinayak^a, has long been a fixture in India's electronic music scene. However, it's only in the last year and a half that he's embarked on an ambitious...
Review: Raj Aims to Extend His Musicality Beyond Passive Enjoyment On 'Culture & Opinions'
After nearly 4 years of regularly offering well-received releases, Rajkanwar Sodhi aka Raj is not a novice at conjuring emotive soundscapes that easily fit into the lo-fi hip-hop playlists and streams...
Wild City Singled Out: Q1 2024
Wild City handpicks the most interesting tracks released by artists in South Asia in our monthly feature - Singled Out. If you’d like us to listen to your music, send the relevant info to...
2023 In Review
2024 is well underway and shaping up its own identity. However, no year is immune to the shadow of its predecessor and no change of digit has ever put a break on the continuity of trends, talent or...
"The Atmosphere That We All Create Together": Jeff Mills On His Legacy, DJ-ing As Non-Verbal Storytelling & More
“A legacy isn’t something I can really direct or participate in,” Jeff Mills writes back to me on a week that started with the now-considered-dying Pitchfork rating his 1996’s ‘Live at the...
My First Release: Shantanu Pandit
“These past few weeks… They have been some of the best weeks of my life.” It was optimism-inspiring to hear these words from Shantanu Pandit on my 27th birthday as I sat cross-legged on the...
“There Was No choice But To Make Room”: Ruhail Qaisar On Centering The Spectres That Haunt Debut LP 'Fatima'
Three years in the making, Ladakhi multidisciplinary artist Ruhail Qaisar’s 'Fatima' predates even its creator. Rooted firmly in geo-personal histories, the noise album which happens to be the...