(directory) Kolkata Jazz Festival

Continuing Kolkata’s long history with jazz, the much-awaited 3-day festival returns to the city every year to host international names associated...

(news) IAMDDB & DJ Lag To Embark On A 4-City India Tour

South Africa's leading Gqom act DJ Lag and Manchester's urban jazz pioneer IAMDDB will tour across India to Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi and Goa...

(news) Jazz Weekender Announces Desmadre Orkesta, Tara Lily, Kayan & More

Returning for a winter edition after a sell-out inaugural edition last year, New Delhi's Jazz Weekender just dropped the lineup for its upcoming...

(news) Jazz Weekender Returns To New Delhi For Winter Edition

Earlier this year, New Delhi saw the first edition of Jazz Weekender. Bringing to the city artists homegrown and beyond alongside F&B experiences,...

(news) Hamza, Nash, Hiranya & More Announced For Jazz Weekender's DJ Garden

Jazz Weekender, the 3-day International Jazz Day celebration by boxout.fm, Wild City, Gatecrash, Jazz In India and Art Unites, is just around the...

(news) Jazz Weekender Announces Triorität, Tribemama Marykali, Gino Banks x Rhythm Shaw & More

Last week, Wild City, boxout.fm, Gatecrash, Jazz In India and Art Unites partnered together to announce 'Jazz Weekender', a 3-day live experience...

(news) Jazz Weekender: boxout.fm, Wild City, Gatecrash & More To Host 3-Day Event Around International Jazz Day

boxout.fm, Wild City, Gatecrash, Art Unites and Jazz In India have come together to host 3-day live music event called Jazz Weekender between April 29...

(news) Watch: Magnetic Fields Releases Portraits & Documentary From ‘Fieldlines’

In its 2019 edition, Magnetic Fields Festival hosted its first-ever in-house residency with ‘Fieldlines’. Supported via a grant from...

(news) Exclusive Premiere: 'See You In Berlin' By Tinctures

Every good piece of music carries with it a certain tactility. There's some music you can feel, some music that urges you to move, some music you can...

(news) Levi's 501 Friday To Celebrate International Women's Day With All-Female Lineup Featuring IAMDDB & More

In light of the growing momentum for women's empowerment across the world, Levi's had launched a unified global campaign #IShapeMyWorld. Inclusive of...

(news) Mount Kimbie, Aux 88, Roi Perez & More To Play Terminal 1 Music Festival

Taking forward their progressive musical programming, Milkman is curating the debut edition of their two-day music festival Terminal 1 in January....

(news) The Piano Man Jazz Club Celebrates International Jazz Day

In November 2011, the UNESCO officially designated April 30 as International Jazz Day in order to highlight jazz and its diplomatic role of uniting...

(news) Sony Music To Host Vinyl Pop Up On Record Store Day

Sony Music will host a special vinyl pop-up on April 21 - International Record Store Day at The Quarter, Royal Opera House in Mumbai. On what is...

(news) Boiler Room & Budweiser To Host ‘Bud X’ In Delhi This December

Boiler Room is coming back to New Delhi. This time around, they’re doing things a little differently. In partnership with Budweiser Experiences,...

(news) Emancipator, Youngr, Hilight Tribe & More To Play At Echoes Of Earth Festival

After a successful first year, India’s very first ecologically focused music festival Echoes of Earth have announced details for their second...

(news) Thank you: Magnetic Fields 2016

Our eyes are still droopy from sleepless nights and our muscles achy and knotted with all that running around and dancing – and yet, as always -...

(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) 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...

(features) The Evolution Of Sri Lanka's Alternative Nightlife

In 2018, popular British-Norwegian EDM artist Alan Walker graced Sri Lanka for a performance. The country’s foremost alternative electronic music...

(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) Wild City: Editorial Intent & Resource List

The music landscape in India and across South Asia has undergone massive movements and overhauls since we launched Wild City 9 years ago. Each day,...

(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) 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) 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) Peter Cat Recording Co: End Of An Era?

If you want to miff or bore Peter Cat Recording Co., a sure shot way would be to ask the band what genre their music belongs to. They're not the first...

(features) 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...

(features) A Comprehensive Guide To The Music At Magnetic Fields 2017

The countdown is well and truly on. Magnetic Fields Festival, one of the highly-anticipated weekends in the year, is fast approaching. With less than...

(features) A Comprehensive Guide To boxout.fm

India’s first-ever independent community radio station, boxout.fm has been steadily growing since its launch a little over 2 months ago. Having...

(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) Ben Walsh On ‘Remix Experiment’ & The Art Of Improvisation

New Delhi’s going to witness a very special performance this Saturday night with experimental percussionist Ben Walsh, who will be flying down all...

(features) Wild City's Essential 2014 Roundup

2014 had a lot going on. Homegrown artists churned out EPs like nobody’s business, festivals sprouted up at obscure corners of the country, grabbing...

(features) Deconstructing The True School Of Music

http://youtu.be/mAQlgXm-fx8India's musical education system - without reference to the more traditional training modules available for Indian...

(features) Review: SoundCamp At UnBox 2013

Forward thinking, art inspiring and learning oriented technology-meets-art-meets-design-meets-journalism (and more) platform: The UnBox Festival –...

(mixes) Wild City #080: DJ MoCity

Born in Baghdad, raised in New Delhi, and now expanding further around the world spreading his message of cross-cultural understanding through the...

(mixes) Wild City 005: Jazzsteppa

Jazzsteppa are an internationally acclaimed dubstep outfit based out of London and Berlin who combine cutting-edge digital production with acoustic...

(events) International Jazz Day

The Piano Man Jazz Club in New Delhi will be joining global celebrations next week, giving credence to one of the world’s most widely appreciated...

(events) Disrupt Festival

Zero 7 From backroom bods to the Hollywood Bowl, from tiny specialist shops to a million-selling album, Zero 7's story has always been about dreaming...

(events) Neon East Fest 2019

Mura Masa Mura Masa is a Grammy winning producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Guernsey, UK. In 4 years, he has risen from a Soundcloud...

(events) Far Out Left 2019

Thumb Image: UMFANG by Elizabeth Herring Banner Image: 'Roman Flügel' by Nadine Fraczkowskij DVS1 Immersed in the heydays of the '90s Midwest rave...

(events) Far Out Left 2019 - Bangalore

Banner Image: 'Roman Flügel' by Nadine Fraczkowskij DVS1 Immersed in the heydays of the '90s Midwest rave scene, DVS1 has gained a highly-respected...