(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) 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) Winter Jazz Wave 2019 To Bring Down 7 Bands For Over 50 Shows Across India

Mumbai-based music agency Gatecrash has just announced Winter Jazz Wave 2019, for which they will be bringing down 7 bands to play over 50 shows...

(news) Details Announced For New Kolkata Festival - Jamsteady`s Big Sunday

Kolkata based event management company Smoke Inc. has just released details of an exciting new day long music and art festival called Jamsteady’s...

(news) Tour Preview: Malcolm Braff's Greenwoman

Citizen of the world and renowned jazz musician Malcolm Braff is bringing his smooth sounds and idiosyncratic band to India. The pianist, born in...

(news) Magnetic Fields Festival Announces Full Line Up

Already featuring some of the most exciting names handpicked from across the musical spectrum, Magnetic Fields Festival is packed to the brim with an...

(news) Watch: Kolkata Tapes #2

T.L Mazumdar is an experimental electro artist who straddles his time between Germany and India. He has played with Nelly Furtado, toured with Ravi...

(news) Troikala: Bickram Ghosh, Papon & Rachel Sermanni To Collaborate

Three folk artists from very diverse backgrounds are currently working together in India to create an album that will follow with a tour across...

(features) Spotlight: Varun Desai On Bringing Out India’s Ambient Music From Obscurity

The ambient music scene in India is scattered, to say the least. Artists remain on the fringes and it has not grown as much as other forms of...

(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) 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) Spotlight: Emmanuelle de Decker (Gatecrash / Music Mulakatein Foundation)

Dedicating the month of March to the immensely talented women in our music community and to spreading awareness about female representation and...

(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 The Music At Magnetic Fields 2019

The music lineup at Magnetic Fields Festival is bigger this year than ever before. Not only does the festival have a vast array of art and experiences...

(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) 2018 In Review: The Artists That Defined The Alternative Music Sphere In India

2019 has barely taken its first steps, and there have already been a host of exciting releases, events and music festivals. Before we launch...

(features) 5 Minutes With: Smoke Inc.’s Nishit Arora

Kolkata – land of Tagore, Sandesh and all the other stereotypically Bengali things we can think of also shelters some of the most forward thinking...

(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) Ziro Festival: The Music

After four days at the Ziro Festival of Music, a few words on some of the most noteworthy acts. We’ve largely stayed away from the straight up...

(events) ArtAloneTogether: Mixed Arts Festival

Image courtesy: Suryan & Dang for Pulp Society 9am to 10pm on Zoom. Head here for tickets. ArtAloneTogether is an am-pm online mixed art...