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Is Chappell Roan Right About Labels Supporting Developing Artists? Of Course! Is It Going To Happen? Probably Not.

Davesar's Single 'Sanjiv' Is A Charming And Heartfelt Tribute To Family

Akshitta Patel's 'Love Comes And Goes' Is A Classy Single

Delhi Band Kitanu Continues To Show Us That 'Fusion' Can Be Light And Fun

Murphy's Paradox Is Finally Back With A New Single After Four Whole Years

Smooth Tooth's 'Puppy Love' Is A Fantastic Indie Rock Single

Pune Artist faizal's Single 'Habibti' Represents A Complete Artistic Refresh... Or Does It?

Tarang Joseph Takes A Modern Songwriting Trend And Refines It For Indian Indie

Mary Ann Toes The Line Between Two Separate Decades On Her Single 'Bling Bling'
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A Conversation With Steven Wilson

Interview With Sanoli Chowdhury Of Indie Grrrl

Them Clones Returns (In A Sense)

Mrinalini Sen On Being Part Of The Art Team For Shakti's Grammy-Winning Album (And More)

Speaking To A Rapper Named Vish

Queendom Talk Music, Performing Live, Their Sound And More

Interview With Aditya Veera Of The 'Stalwarts Of Music' Podcast

Aditi Ramesh Returns!

Delhi's Shourya Malhotra Talks His New Single And More

The (Actually Potentially Useful) Deccan Alternative Music Conference Kicks Off This Week

How A WhatsApp Group Became The Town Square Of Indian Indie

Times Of Music Brings Together A Music Director And A Rock Band To Celebrate Their Art

A Rock Band And Film Composer Combine Hearts For Legends In Music

Times Of Music Is An Authentic Effort To Honour Indian Film Composers

A New Punjabi Folk Album Seeks To Rediscover Honesty In Music

New Gauley Bhai Video Is A Brilliant Piece Of Dark Comedy

Gary Cherone From Extreme Talks To Us About India, Industry, Streaming And More

The Problem With NH7 Weekender Is Not The Lineup. It Is Us, The Fans

Music Criticism Lives, Even If Music 'Discourse' Tried To Kill It

Artists Leaving Spotify: Can Indian Indie Afford To Care?

2024: On The Nature Of Opinion (Or The Fundamentally Broken Concept Of Objective Music Journalism)

Great Songs/Singles 2023: Part 2

Great Songs/Singles 2023: Part 1

Through The Cracks: 9 Honorable Mentions 2023

10 Great Albums/EPs That Came Out In 2023

People Are Angry With Music Festivals, But Everybody Wins

Metamorphosis Vol. 1 Presented Kolkata With Evenings Full of Fun, Music and a True Passion for Metal
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Parvaaz - 'Na Gul Na Gulistan': Good Things Come To Those Who Wait

Vatan Singh Rajan's EP 'Alone' Is A Good Example Of Making Modern Jazz Non-Pretentious

Skrat's 'Circus Act' Is The Classic 'Great Band's One Not-Greatest' Release

Chirag Todi's Detailed, Well-Rounded Album 'Bangers Only' Is The 'Least' Debut Of The Year

LAVI's EP '529' Comes Close To Being A Perfect Release

Coma Rossi Is A Completely Different Band On Their New Album

On Her EP 'In My Asymmetry', Frizzell D'Souza Levels Up

Tejas Looks Inward

Abhinav Srikant Lets His Creativity Fly On His EP 'Antifragile'

How 'Parklife' Is Bringing Something Fresh To Kolkata's Gig Scene

Enolaton, Pelican Shuffles and Josh & Dipan Sway Kolkata's Crowd in an Evening Of Eclectic Music

Vedanta Udaipur World Music Festival 2020 Brings Unity in Diversity Alive In The City Of Lakes

UWMF 2019 - A Cultural Event With Its Heart In The Right Place

Journey to the Other Ego with Ziba - A gig review

Budweiser X Sensation Rise 2018: Gig Review

EP Review of Just Some by Random Gyan

Live Music Arena Review: VH1 Supersonic Puts Money Where Its Mouth Is

Rearview 2014: Festival Of The Year
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10 Observations About Nariyal Paani Festival

RSJ's Guide to Festivals: Do's and Don'ts

10 Observations About NH7 Weekender Bengaluru

10 Observations about Bacardi NH7 Weekender Shillong

10 Observations about the Video for 'Modi, A Message to You' by The Ska Vengers

Rockstar Tweets from the Beyond

Cinemascope: Music Documentaries - II

Cinemascope: Music Documentaries

Cinemascope: Films about Music
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Reviews

Album Gig

The Riot Peddlers - Sarkarsm

AKHIL SOOD Whoa. The expression of astonishment escapes my fingers since I just heard Sarkarsm by

album Sep 01, 2012

Blek - Hexes + Drama (& Other Reasons For Evacuation)

AKHIL SOOD I’m sorry, vocalist, but you suck. That’s OK though; Blek isn’t really about the

album Sep 01, 2012

Cloudkicker - Fade

AKHIL SOOD A spate of post-something (rock/metal/blah/blah) artists sprouting up every damn where in the world

album Aug 31, 2012

Monuments - Gnosis

SUHAIL DHAWAN Alas, it isn’t! Gnosis is an album below what was expected from such a

album Aug 14, 2012

The Noob's guide to Old School Metal (Part I)

Brush up your knowledge on heavy metal history with part I of our guide to Old School Metal. No twin-guitar posturing, no spandex. Only tr00 facts.

ODDITIES Jul 30, 2012

By RSJ Staff

Regina Spektor - What We Saw From The Cheap Seats

MEDHA SINGH Upon being questioned, one young listener of this album said to me ‘…she [Spektor]

album Jul 16, 2012

Sridhar/Thayil - STD

MEDHA SINGH Such is the measure of the eyebrows they’ve raised. Sridhar/Thayil aren’t the lot who

album Jul 16, 2012

Blakc - MotheredLand

YATIN DAWRA Mothered Land is an abandoned construction site. At a place where a magnificent building

album Jul 16, 2012

Sulk Station - Till You Appear

AKHIL SOOD At what point does trip-hop, with all its dreaminess and softness and lushness and

album Jul 16, 2012

Swarathma - Topiwalleh

MEDHA SINGH Topiwalleh is a jar of mixed pickle, where the primary ingredients are good vocals, tight

album Jul 16, 2012

Joe Walsh - Analog Man

YATIN DAWRA There is an Eagle and a Beatle on this record. A sober Joe Walsh

album Jul 12, 2012

The Rolling Stone Metal Awards: A 'Review'

Despite his whole pretentious ‘all music is one’ psychobabble, our self-professed metal hater, or anti-metalhead, as he likes to say, Akhil Sood, was forcefully dispatched to Blue Frog, Mumbai, to attend the annual Rolling Stone Metal Awards. He didn’t bother with the music much, but here’s what he had to say.

ODDITIES Jul 12, 2012

By Akhil Sood

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