News

Rounak Maiti Taps Into The Grit Of Garage-Pop On 'Self-Medicate'

Mumbai-based Rounak Maiti has just released 'Self-Medicate' as the first single from his first album in 5 years, entitled 'Brute Fact/Home Truth', which comes out on July 25. Introducing the EXCISE DEPT and Small Forward member's first album independent of a label after he parted ways with Pagal...

Japan's Underground Festival Rainbow Disco Club Comes To Goa With Don't Forget To Go Home

Japan's prominent underground dance music event Rainbow Disco Club will mark its India debut on the...

Angad Berar & Jamblu Jam Out Guitars & Electronics on 'Sundae'

Angad Berar and Kartik Pillai aka Jamblu (also known as a member of Peter Cat Recording Co. and...

Call For Applications: Auster Launches 5 Lac Grant For Creators Across Disciplines

After nearly half a decade of spotlighting and educating the cross-disciplinary arts space, New...

Kush Arora aka Only Now Mixes Industrial Techno & More With Hindustani Drumwork On 'Timeslave III'

San Francisco-based Indian diaspora artist Kush Arora has just released his new album 'Timeslave...

Features

"Speaking Back To History In Real-Time": Tarun Balani On How The India-Pakistan Conflict Weighed On His Album Release

When the Hindus from the Sindh region left their homes in the aftermath of the blood-soaked partition of India and Pakistan, growing concerned about their place in the effectively non-secular new nation they suddenly found themselves in, they weren’t just displaced from their homes but also from...

"This Is House Music for House Heads": Hamza Rahimtula Brings Rajasthan Folkstars To The Dancefloor — Without the Fusion

Hamza Rahimtula was cutting his teeth in the New York house music scene during his college years, delivering DJ sets alongside live instrumentalists (percussionist Frank Bambara being a notable collaborator) when he first thought of how “our own cultural sounds would fit in” with the music. Upon...

Mixes

Wild City #250: Stick No Bills

All around the world in dance music, the South Asian diaspora is carving a space for the culture...

Wild City #249: Paloma

In its first quarter itself, Paloma's Wild City mix connects the low-end rattling bass of Joy...

Wild City #248: Sheral

New Delhi DJ Sheral doesn't wait for a build-up on our latest Wild City mix, entering above 140 BPM...

Wild City #247: Roan Sable

Roan Sable's Wild City mix is the kind that makes listeners reach for Shazam time and time again....

Wild City #246: EveryNowHere

When T.L. Mazumdar aka EveryNowHere started the podcast series Tapasya Loading in 2020, one of his...

Wild City #245: Pale Blue Dotter

With field recordings of birds and frogs stitched between transient meanderings of synths and...