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Nova Batida Review: What's Better - A New Beat Or A Good One?
This mid-September, Lisbon saw the first edition of Nova Batida come to life with nary a hitch. The meat of the festival was divided across two venues less than ten minutes’ leisurely walk from each...
Transcending Arbitrary Boundaries With Jitwam
Jitwam and his band were going to perform at Rockaway Beach on a Friday evening at 7pm. Not a lot of people make the trek from the more populous Manhattan/Brooklyn locales to Rockaway unless it’s...
Tom Trago: Breathing Music Into Life
Bappi Lahiri's gilded, gaudy charm isn't strictly limited to India. His affluence spreads as far as the glint of his gold chains, and it found its way across channels and continents; all the way to...
Wild City Singled Out: July & August 2018
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 listen to your music, send the relevant info to...
Review: Neopop Took My Shoes
Neopop is dark and dusty and grimy - everything that Viana do Castelo is not. The sense of discord created by the latter’s littoral calm against the former’s depraved aggression isn’t...
Asfandyar Khan: How To Build A Musical Home In Karachi
Islamabad likes to run slow. But having grown up in this city, musician Asfandyar Khan, who is also the artist behind electronic moniker TMPST, didn’t quite register the pace. This changed when he...
Novelty In Newness: MC Manmeet Kaur’s Journey From ‘Hip-Hop Bahu’ To ‘Neophilia’
The ordeal of marriage following her debut album ‘Hip-Hop Bahu’, led MC Manmeet Kaur to intuitively guide a thirst for newness on the road. Finding final closure in Goa, Manmeet has now compiled...
Wild City Singled Out: June 2018
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 listen to your music, send the relevant info to...
Sub-Z: New Delhi's Evolving Underground
Combatants of the underground and cultural bearers fascinated by sounds that find their roots in the UK, London returned Arjun Sodhi alongside his more forward-thinking accomplices have begun pushing...
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 Inquiry, has more tricks up his sleeve than even his...