Undying Inc announced the replacement of lead vocalist Shashank Bhatnagar and drummer Nishant Hagjer with Sunneith Revankar and Jerry Nelson Ranee respectively. Randeep Kaur and Madhusudan Raman go digging to find out more.
DAKART is a brand new effort towards a brighter, more exciting avenue for this scattered, independent arts industry (Music, Visual arts, or rather any form)
"Current Mood with John Mayer" is a fun 45-minute program in which he entertains viewers with musical guests, returned for its second season at 8:30 am IST today
Receiving its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, between January 24 and February 3, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile will have James Hetfield from Metallica making his acting debut
The first day of the year saw Kolkata bringing out its dormant love for independent music when so many turned up to see a two hour long set of Ziba, a new brainchild of guitar virtuoso Amyt Datta
Heartwork Tattoo Festival brings in an interesting mix of artistry in Tattoo art with some top-notch international artists, live music and bike stunts.
The Imphal based music festival reaches its fifth edition this year. Driven by Pete Seeger's compositions and ideologies, the organisers' efforts continue to ensure the festival sticks to its roots and grow despite the obvious hurdles.
Paradigm Shift makes highbrow music legitimately entertaining (crazy, right?)
YES. PROG CAN BE NOT PRETENTIOUS AND LISTENING TO SOME ALBUMS DOES NOT ALWAYS NEED A CALCULATOR.
A Sacred Bore — a concept album based around India’s caste system — is a piercing examination of the abusive treatment towards lower caste Indians, aiming to raise awareness of countless barbaric practices still prevalent among South Asian communities both in India and in diaspora
From creating an alternative universe (poetically speaking) to subtly distancing himself from direct or indirect engagement with politics, Johnny Marr's latest album offers greater insight to Marr 2.0 - or as the writer calls it, his best solo studio effort.
The Bangalore based singer-songwriter's bluesy effort from his upcoming EP 'Accept’ sees him expanding from his guitar-and-vocals roots, adding more instrumentation and studio-crafted lush production.
Nagaland based band showcases relationship with lover, friends and family in its recent music video release. The song also has a hint of long distance relationship and breakup story of a couple.
Prabhtoj Singh witnessed the evolution of Delhi's live music culture as a fan. Now, the singer-songwriter prepares to witness it once again; this time, as a performer.
Rapper Raoul Kerr prepares to release the second half of his studio effort 'No Flag', and similar to the earlier half, the album will continue to focus on one message: Make World A Better Place
Bhopal's singer-songwriter Samar Mehdi will release his ambitious and debut EP Urooj on 26 April. This is an attempt to understand this recent phenomenon and the meaning of Reinterpretations.
Singer-songwriter Abhinab Dan is neither a philosopher nor an adult with a tormented childhood. His songs revolve around the parts and incidents concerning his life that remain close to him.
Ever wondered how Ozzy Osbourne felt after biting the head off a bat during a live gig? Well, you may soon witness something similar. Just replace 'bat' with 'goat' and 'biting off the head' with 'paying a reasonable price to drink it'.
Alobo Naga released his second album ‘Kini’ last year. Post a very successful international promo-tour, the Naga pop-rock sensation has started an exhaustive India tour to showcase his newer electro-pop offering.
Between Perth and New York, several phones occurred thus resulting to the birth of the inevitable for two friends. But for the duo Avi and Ruz from Scratch, the logical evolution would be performing live in their now respective hometowns.
With the countdown to the release of the EP in its final stages, Second Sight kicks off the promotion with its most intense, elaborate and experimental line-up ever.
The new property aimed to foray into electronic music community will feature electronica/hip hop artist MALFNKTION, Curtain Blue, Kavya Trehan and more.
The New Delhi-based songwriter will hit the studio again to begin the process of a full-fledged studio album. The now released self-titled EP features Akshay Deolikar and Harshit Mishra.
The New Delhi-based songwriter will hit the studio again to begin the process of a full-fledged studio album. The now released self-titled EP features Akshay Deolikar and Harshit Mishra.
Meet Pelenuo and Jonathan Yhome, two singer-songwriters and siblings, who have kicked off a musical journey - minus a lot of noise - have extremely honest and simple stories to tell.
While talking to women instrumentalists in the music scene across India, we find 8 stellar musicians who have smashed those gender barriers with their talent and are winning the world and our hearts.
A special editorial about the inception, evolution and the resulting experience revolving around the newest music festival entrant - Fangirl Live.
From the Horse's Mouth...Meet Bhatt.
Meet Pelenuo and Jonathan Yhome, two singer-songwriters and siblings, who have kicked off a musical journey - minus a lot of noise - have extremely honest and simple stories to tell.
The fifth edition of Radio City's effort to promote independent and alternative music acts draws 300 nominations so far, as the tour continues to attract more attention.
The Apex Court has upheld the 2005 Order that allows the Karnataka Police and District Magistrate to make orders, alter or rescind subject to caveat that it should not be inconsistent with the provisions of the Act.
VH1 Supersonic's 2018 line-up comes as a huge surprise for many, but looking at the gradual changes adopted in 2017, the festival has exactly delivered what the ecosystem demanded.
American metallers Veil of Maya will conclude its debut India tour with a show at Todi Mill Social in Mumbai. The band's vocalist called the week-long experience 'life altering' and look forward to dedicate 2018 to the new project 'New Industry' and enjoying life more than ever.
Delhi-based experimental instrumentalist outfit The Revisit Project released its debut album 'Here We Go'. The band spoke to RSJ on the evolution of the single into an album and the journey so far.
What did underground music concepts learn from 2017? What do they have to offer in 2018? This article sheds a light on the concepts that have not only grown but improvised in the previous calendar year.
What did underground music concepts learn from 2017? What do they have to offer in 2018? This article sheds a light on the concepts that have not only grown but improvised in the previous calendar year.
In this feature, we look into five collaborations that not only ended with a brilliant outcome but further opened the doors for producers to consider unlikeliest of combinations.
FTS Elementries feel the biggest reason behind the birth of the collective revolves around the four musicians' mild dissociation with the 'hip-hop scene'.
December 6-8 music conference to feature appearances by artists such as TEEBS, Kindness, Ash Koosha and Sarathy Korwar; music lab to end with a Detroit-to Delhi showcase featuring Omar S, Marcellus Pittmann and Indian talent like FILM and Kini Rao
Promising to go across 10 cities this year between November 30th and December 9th., Bass Camp Festival will cover Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Goa, Shillong, Guwahati and Chandigarh.
The fourth edition of “CAPTIAL CHAOS”, a series of annual music events, celebrating the rising rock and metal music is happening at the Nyokum Lapang Ground in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh on Nov. 24.
Promising a new indoor music festival experience, Disrupt launches with a hefty line-up spread across 3 stages at Khar Social also celebrating their 2nd Anniversary on Nov. 10
One look at the line-ups of New Wave Asia festival over its 3 editions – and there you have it- ‘consistent great programming’. Here is an insight into its fourth edition.
Making waves with her music since past 2 years in California, meet 24 year old Indian guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer and teacher, Janvi Anand.
Kolkata based Sambit Chatterjee is a drummer/percussionist working in mutliple projects. We talk to him about his journey, life as a musician and his belief in the arts.
Those who know, know the role of Amit Saigal and how he single handedly built, created, defined everything that we see or know about the independent music scene today.
Driven by a desire to spread positive conscious music with a message along the principles of social justice, equality, freedom and respect, a producer and two rappers get together to create the hip-hop outfit Rain In Sahara
We spoke to CEO of Only Much Louder (OML), Vijay Nair about Suyasha calling out on Bollywood actress Shraddha Kapoor being part of the NH7 Weekender Festival in 2016.
Some of our favourite rockstars, the ones we thought had departed far too early, have actually been alive all this while and been super active on Twitter. We managed to find their secret Twitter accounts on the dark web and have posted them here for you.
The Mumbai band, comprising members from the likes of Coshish, Spud in the Box and Winit Tikoo and more, on what’s going into their upcoming tribute to Porcupine Tree
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