Indie (114)

Where is the most innovative guitar music of the 21st Century coming from? Your guess is probably wrong!

(Topic suggested by Hansen R. R. ) Imagine the most insane guitar shreds, more original than anything you’ve heard. Imagine musicians that admit they may not know what rock is, and yet celebrated as Psych Rock maestros. Imagine hailing from small villages where secular music…

By Rohan Sabharwal

Watch: Himachali Folk Band Abhigya's medley is enchanting

Today after having watched and listened to Abhigya - The Band's Himachali folk medley, I felt something that can only be described as a sentimental yearning. Ordinarily, I see shots of Himachal all the time. In movies, videos and pictures posted online. Sometimes I'm up…

By Rohan Sabharwal

An Ode to the Future: Why Artists like Mayur Koli are important to Indian indie music

They are willing to work hard, build bridges and are wholly open to learning. If there’s one thing I’ve noticed, at least in India, and at least with those around me, is no one has been more busy during the lockdown than the Zoomers. My…

By Rohan Sabharwal

Shlok Chiplunkar AKA DJ Chips releases 2020's coolest love song!

Some of us here at Flipsyde are suckers for Indipop. We grew up in the days when MTV and Channel V were all about the music. Yes, before those dark reality-TV days!  Tu Mila ft. Aseem, Shlok’s latest release is perhaps one of the most…

By Flipsyde Staff

Grandma Mousey - The Return of the Singing Drummer

Think back to most rock bands you grew up on. You saw vocalists play the rhythm guitar, sometimes even the lead guitar but how many times did you see a drumming vocalist? My guess is, not more than a handful. Singing drummers have always fascinated…

By Rohan Sabharwal

A Beginner’s Guide: Can you become a Music Producer with little training and a tight budget?

[The good news is, you can!] What can we say about the lockdown? Artists who previously barely managed an album a year are now churning out two per month! We’ve seen people who were never traditional/trained musicians or even part of the music industry, produce…

By Rohan Sabharwal

YSP & Friends’ single Breathe is a thing of 2020 nightmares

[Author note: This is not a review, it's a perspective] I live in a low cost housing society in Mumbai (MHADA). When the ‘hard’ lockdown began in March, we saw a reality no one had ever imagined, up and close. We all have fateful evening…

By Rohan Sabharwal

Sci-Fi Diaries - Hautewulf’s debut EP Addicted is golden and delicious

[Alright, so I'm all over the place with sci-fi/dystopia/cyberpunk literature and cinema. I don't know if I'm the right person to be reviewing this EP. Nevertheless, I did enjoy it.] Contextually, having watched the Matrix when it first released (in the theatre, in Mumbai, in…

By Rohan Sabharwal

Looking for different? Meet the Mumbai Zoomers trying to bring Glam rock back

What killed Glam rock in the first place? Was it Grunge? Or excess? There's a bunch of theories, but most lead to some version the two aforementioned. In its heyday, the adage ‘party like a rockstar’ couldn’t have been a more blanket cliché for the…

By Rohan Sabharwal

Maroon 5 fans deeply thankful after band's support for dying Indie venues

The official Instagram account of the American Pop-Rock band Maroon 5 posted a video four days ago highlighting the beginnings of their career at independent venues and importance of indie stages. They urged the US Congress to pass the updated HEROES Act to save independent…

By Meenaz Amreliwala