(news) Exclusive First Listen: Bamboo Mystics Ties Together Cultures With Acoustic Ambient Music On ‘Swara Suci’

Kacapi (Indonesian harp). Jal Tarang (Ceramic bowls tuned with water). Shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). Kendang Sunda (Indonesian drum). Djembe...

(news) Listen: The F16s Release Debut Album ‘Triggerpunkte’

Since they began making music back in 2011, Chennai 5 piece alt-rock band F16s have established themselves one of the more consistently prolific...

(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) 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) Mississippi To Meghalaya: How Soulmate Found The Blues In India

When an Indian band has been playing the blues for nearly two decades, does it become a native form? That is the question that Soulmate, the blues...

(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) 2019 In Review

2019... the year Donald Trump was (almost) impeached, the year Greta Thunberg woke the world to the climate crisis, the year citizens of India came...

(features) Twin Tape Decks, Detective Hunts & Cassette Digging: A Portal Into Awesome Tapes From Africa

It's 10 am on a Friday morning when I call Brian Shimkovitz. He answers the phone from California, where it's still Thursday night. I politely inquire...

(features) "No Expectations, Only Surprises": Inside Berlin’s Infamous Party Collective African Acid Is The Future

Dressed from top to bottom in all-black attire, wearing a mute expression and carrying a cloud of anxiety and anticipation, my friend and I stood in a...

(features) ‘There's Still Miles To Go, But This Is Me In 2018’: In Conversation With BLOT!

Flashback to 2007, when most of us were still slowly coming to terms with the imminent demise of rock as we knew it. Two friends sat in a park,...

(features) 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,...

(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) In Conversation With: Pardafash On Synthfarm

“I think this was [a] good trigger to jump back into music production,” said Sandhya Visvanathan. “It’s illuminating to see the processes...

(features) Wild City Singled Out: September 2016

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’s Most Anticipated Releases Of 2015

A new musical year has commenced and with it come the requisite lists, many of which you have undoubtedly seen floating around the Internet. To make...