At a workshop in Bombay last year, Jonas Hellborg, the frontier-pushing bass player, is said to have decried the notion that Indian bands don’t explore their Indianness enough. They sound too Western, he said, subjugating ...
Bhuvan Sachdeva and Amit Bharadwaj are leading a new brat-pack that’s experimenting with an entirely different set of sounds.
Delhi, it’s being asserted, has become the nation’s hub of rock and electronic expression. Other burgs may want to claim that crown, but they’re going to have to fight for it – it could get ...
Motherjane tops, Raghu Dixit goes folk, and Shaa’ir + Func keep it groovy
Where are the people? This is a question I often ask myself at concerts and gigs. When the Israeli psy guru DJ Astrix played in Delhi, the organisers were hoping to pack a football field. ...
I have been familiar with the music of the Midival Punditz for some time now. The duo of Tapan Raj and Gaurav Raina have been taking their brand of electronic dance fusion music to the ...
Bassist Richard Bona speaks about Miles, blues and all that jazz
DJ Nasha and Udyan want to turn the new dark genre into a movement in India
Advaita, Indigo’s Children, Medusa and Swarathma get a headrush in the studio with UK producer John Leckie