News

boxout.fm Hosts COVID-19 Relief Fundraiser With Leon Vynehall, HAAi, Nina Las Vegas & More

UPDATE, May 14, 2021: After raising INR 2 lakhs ahead of the broadcast and generating further support from the artist community, boxout.fm has raised its target from 5 lakhs to 10 lakhs INR and added new names to the lineup while increasing the runtime from 48 hours to 72 hours. Some of the new...

Call For Application: 'Pure Motives' Offers Mentorship For Creative Professionals

Critical Asia, the artist management and creative strategy firm behind the likes of Kumail, Sandunes...

Three Oscillators, Corridors & More Feature On Qilla Records’ ‘Forte, Vol. 8’

India’s premier electronic music label Qilla Records returned with the eighth edition of their...

SOS Compilation, Discostan Prints, Kerelief & More: COVID-19 Relief Efforts By South Asian Music Artists & Platforms

As India struggles under the extreme second wave of COVID-19, trying to survive with the help of...

Together For India

India is going through a devastating crisis that has already taken thousands of lives, overburdened...

Features

An Unlikely Marriage: Indian Classical Music’s Century-Old Flirtation With Jazz

I was recently asked if there was jazz in India, a question related to my life experience of 5 years living there. I received the question with a certain wariness almost as if I had to defend India from a colonialist or paternalistic position and explain to my interlocutor that, even if there was...

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 like us to listen to your music, send the relevant info to music@thewildcity.com. ‘chennai bliss’ By versus Known for his beats in online...

Mixes

Wild City #204: Sleepy Insomniac

boxout.fm-regular Jaskaran Rana aka Sleepy Insomniac is known to take to the internet radio every...

Wild City #203: Amarrass Records

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

Wild City #202: Marbman

Aalhad Joshi aka Marbman makes a case for taking dance music to the energy of its early roots when...

Wild City #201: Sublime Sound

Among the many styles of DJs, some selectors rely on the quality of their selections to create the...

Wild City #200: Discostan

As we reached the milestone of hosting our 200th mix, few artists felt as befitting as Discostan to...

Wild City #199: Natasha Noorani

Few individuals can be ascribed the descriptor “musical polymath” as justifiably as Natasha...