Sultry blues, rocking tunes, and genre-benders: with an eye on the true indie music queens of India, Ady Manral recommends some of his favourites.

Obama listens to Prateek Kuhad and DIVINE signs with Nas. What’s next? Ady Manral writes about how musicians and artists around India can contribute to the rapidly growing indie scene in the country. 

Looking back at the ups and downs, and dangers and desperation, of the Lucknow rock scene - by Prateek Santram

What it meant for 40,000+ people to watch U2 at their India debut - Anurag Tagat writes

What will be the dominant sound of Indian Indie Music in the 20s? Karan Madhok spoke to a number of established and up-and-coming artists to predict our sonic future.

With ‘Jaago’, singer/producer Lifafa (Suryakant Sawhney) released a modern ‘folktronica’ classic. Here is The Blue Magpie’s track-by-track review of this 2019 album.

How travel - and its discomforts - helped me become a better songwriter , writes Ady Manral in his latest column

A first-person essay on juggling rock music and college life in India - by Manik Oswal

“A shot-caller with that born tribal mentality” - How Shillong star Meba Ofilia evolved from gospel music to rap, and in the process, became one of the most exciting new voices in underground Indian Hip-Hop - here’s her story and interview by Nakul Yadav

Anurag Tagat explains how Bengaluru’s iconic live music venues are trying to survive in changing times

‘Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain’ was published in 2016 - here’s an excerpt from this Akshay Manwani’s biography on Husain’s musical inspirations and influence on the history of Indian films.

Landour-based singer-songwriter Ady Manral lists some of his recent favourite artists from the Indian hills