Every so often I do sit back and marvel at where the world was the day I graduated college, two decades ago, and where we are now. Only one who has witnessed the birth, proliferation and eventual decline of the compact disc can regale you…
"He speaks to my soul" "Spellbound by his voice" "Reminds me of Owlcity" These are some of the comments about 20-year-old Shaan Kambli's single Postcard, a song about one’s lack of control over the outcome of a relationship and the resultant desperation in clinging to…
All hail Keenan Thomas' delicious new single Levitation (Laminus Flip) Feat. Taamara. And it's the perfect midnight drive track, especially if you're thinking of one of those Mumbai-to-Pune-Expressway drives. Keenan's done a lot, and at a very young age. From travelling the world, to managing…
Boy, do we love an industrial feel to everything! We grew up on rapcore and this music video, though rap/hip hop, has all the elements for an old school headbanger, just like Rage Against The Machine back in the day. The video begins with shots…
Message from the band: Parikrama to re-launch the video of But It Rained (2001), in celebration of our beloved, Sonam Sherpa. The FULL version of Sonam’s iconic Guitar solo will be featured for the very first time on video, that’s set to release on his birthday -…
It's no secret that Meastro Bickram Ghosh is one of the greatest contemporary Indian classical artists and a pioneers in experimental fusion. Having scored thirty-six feature films, including Little Zizou and Bengali cinema's latest offering, Asur, he's been keeping very busy during the pandemic. His…
At the beginning of the lockdown, we saw nature thrive. Blue skies, a massive drop in pollution levels and wildlife coming out onto the streets in ways we'd never imagine. Have we already forgotten? It was just a few months ago. This calming track by…
Remember the channel MCM? The French music channel we all switched to when MTV and Channel V stopped being about the music. It was the early 2000s and where else would we have gotten our dose of anything that came from across the seven seas?…
Panini, was an ancient Sanskrit philologist, grammarian, and a revered scholar in ancient India, often referred to as the father of linguistics. But the Panini we are talking about today is a musician who goes by the pseudonym AFKAP. I’ll get to the philosophy behind…
I remember listening to one of the first Indian hip hop tracks maybe fifteen years ago and I hated it. It was pretentious as hell. India has always struggled with certain genres in music because we simply didn’t tell stories that demanded the genre. Hip…