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From Norway With Love: Sindresu's Music Has The Power To Give Tropical Vibes To Even The Tropical Folk!

In 2015, the Norwegian electronic scene was yet to explode when the then 23-year-old Norwegian DJ, Kygo, broke all records to become the fastest music producer to hit one billion streams on Spotify. In that way, Norway has always had their electronica heavyweights spread out…

By Rohan Sabharwal

Suspect208: Sons of Slash, Scott Weiland and Rob Trujillo Form a Band!

On one hand 2020 couldn't get any shittier, and on the other it couldn't get any better than what we're going to be talking about today. Yes, the sons of Stone Temple Pilots, Guns N’ Roses, and Metallica!   London Hudson (Drums), Noah Weiland (Vocals)…

By Flipsyde Staff

Meet Warner Music's First Continental African Artist

One of the silver linings of the lockdown has been the chance to do so much that we wouldn't usually have otherwise. For us, it has been the opportunity to listen to a variety of Indie artists from India and around the world. Today, from…

By Flipsyde Staff

Jazzy Nanu - Bringing Marathi Rap to the Forefront

Rap music has been around the Indian music scene for decades now, but I’m sure we can all agree that the renaissance of the 2010s is what most of us would now associate with desi hip-hop. What we have fondly come to refer to as…

By Rohan Sabharwal

Video: An Exclusive Interview with Prolific Film and Indie Music Producer Prateek Gandhi 

Prateek Gandhi can handle just about anything you throw at him. We noticed how many songs we hear on a daily basis that have been worked on by Prateek. We had to heart-to-heart talk with him about everything, his Bollywood music, how he picks his…

By Flipsyde Staff

Roshan Bhat and the Struggle for Indie-pendence

Ella Fitzgerald said, “The only thing better than singing is more singing.” This is what the lockdown has been like for most musicians I’ve spoken to. I can’t recall a time when artists produced so much music as they have in the last eight months…

By Rohan Sabharwal

Uniting against a war makes SYSTEM OF A DOWN release new music after fifteen years!

System of a Down, the Armenia-American band that we all came of age listening to have just released two brand new tracks to address the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and the unresolved conflict over the territory, internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, but mostly governed by…

By Flipsyde Staff

Siddhi Shah - Metal Drummer, Entrepreneur, Dreamcatcher

If you type Siddhi Shah (A common name, common surname) into Google, one of the first suggestions is ‘Siddhi Shah Drummer’. It’s also a temptation I did all I could to avoid. I wanted to go into this conversation knowing as little as possible about…

By Rohan Sabharwal

We’ve just discovered Air Apparent. Apart from the name, we love his music! 

What began as an attempt to review his latest single Dance has now led us down a different path, thanks to YouTube playing the rest of his tracks in no particular order. Ordinarily, we’re a team of rockers and metalheads. Indian metalheads. It means we’ve…

By Flipsyde Staff

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