The conversation spans a sneak-peek into his previous song ‘Courtyards’, whether formal education in music is “advantageous”, and his musical journey so far. "Courtyards" is a beautiful and soulful acoustic ballad by Indian singer-songwriter Shourya Malhotra, featuring vocalist Rini Rajput. Varun Rajput, who is the…
When we first heard singer-songwriter Pragya Sodhani’s latest single, that’s exactly what the first comment said about the song. We then delved deeper into her YouTube channel and found some hidden gems. One being a sick mashup of the greatest Bollywood hits of the 90s.
We're back after a much needed break and we couldn't have asked for a better reboot than a "sit-down" with the omnicompetent Rohan Solomon, erstwhile frontman of the New Delhi alt-rock band Cyanide. (Well, him at his place and us at ours!) For the uninitiated,…
Back in 2007, a few years before the term ‘clickbait’ came into daily use, I’d been baited by one particular blog piece in The Guardian called ‘Why metal fans are brainier’ by one Ian Winwood, who counts Kerrang!, NME, Mojo, Q and Revolver among publications…
As a lifelong student of film, my first response when I hit play on Ankur Sabharwal’s Better Man was - ’It cannot be!’. I had to watch the video a few times over to spot the intricacies. As someone who has experimented with film stock for…
What do you say to a man who has produced 68 feature films, launched the careers of 206 debutants in his very first film, managed the careers of nine out of eleven national cricket players, incepted Asia’s largest and the world’s fourth largest music festival…
When I tell Anoushka Maskey she sounds like Doris Day meets Bossa nova, she stops me right in my tracks. “Was that you in the comments who said that?” She probes. “There’s someone who said exactly that!” I assure her it wasn’t me. In fact, I…
I can sense the enthusiasm in Madhav Krishna’s voice when we talk about his maiden collaboration Ennodu Vaa with composer Prateek Gandhi. Interestingly, this is also the first time he is singing in his mother tongue, Tamil. Krishna, who has a bevy of hits to…
If you’re part of the indie music scene in India, as a musician or a listener of music, there’s a slim chance you’d have missed the name David Britto. Over the last five-odd years, Britto, the music journalist, has helped us discover new acts, many…
If you were a rocker in Mumbai at any point between the late 80s and early 2000s, there’s little chance you would have missed the effervescent Ravi Iyer. In the glory days of rock-and-roll in India, the axeman stood apart from his contemporaries. So adept…