WHO: Spook
WHERE: Mumbai
WHAT: This 5-piece alternative rock outfit has been rocking small Mumbai venues in the second half of 2009 and have been steadily moving their following northward. Their songs can either leave you totally floored(definitely if you’re female) or utterly disappointed(if you’re a bit early to judge music and like more involving arrangements). The [...]
Who: 4-piece indie-rockers
Where: Mumbai, with inspiration from Goa
What: The Beatles wrote music that worked for their generation and continued to enthrall listeners decades later. The past couple of years have seen The Mavyns attempt to walk down a similar path. Their music could be described as ’suitable for all ages’, with a sound reminiscent of [...]
Who: Five Little Indians (FLI) – 5-piece rock outfit featuring two vocalists
Where: Kolkata
What: Over the past couple of years, FLI have drawn up a delightful catalogue of what sounds like modern rock hit music. The five-track sampler available for listening online echoes Toad The Wet Sprocket, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Switchfoot. The band features [...]
Who: Electronica vocal project by Rahul Giri and Tanvi Rao
Where: currently based in Chennai.
What: Seems an odd trend to crop up – boy-girl trip-hop duos across the country playing with blips, bleeps and vocal cords. Who’d have thought? Sulk Station is one of the new kids on the block after forerunners like Sridhar-Thayil and [...]
Who: 3-piece alt.rock outfit
Where: Mumbai
India’s indie scene has been filled with metal acts for the past couple of years. Could 2010 be India’s time to shine in the alternative rock space? It sure seems so – bands such as The Circus (review here), Drones From The Turbine, Plunge, and The Bicycle Days have been feeling [...]
Who: One-man band Kishore Krishna’s pop projectWhere: Chennai
How: Krishna is only 20, but shows a wealth of songwriting skill. Influences include heavy hitters who can write timeless classics – Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Sonic Youth, Nick Drake Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and Johnny Cash to name a few.
What: AATFEP is [...]
Who : ShakthiSree Gopalan
Where: Chennai
What: Fresh, intelligent piano-driven pop from this talented Chennai crooner. Gopalan showcases her multi-genre influences including trip-hop, R&B and old-school whisky-bar jazz. However, the tracks she’s made available thus far sound like she’s playing it safe – there’s tremendous potential here to blaze some new trails and go places where Sara [...]
Who: Blue Breakfast
Where: New Delhi
How: Blue Breakfast are no newbees individually to the music scene. Gaurav Chintamani(Guitar) handles bass duties over in Advaita’s fusion world, while Adhiraj Mustafi(Drums) and Sid Mathur(Bass) have enough know-how of the indie music world playing gigs and sessions with well renowned bands like Soulmate, Radius etc. Their sound instantly strikes [...]
Who: The Circus
Where: New Delhi
How: Started around three years ago, made it to Channel [V]’s Launchpad finals, gigged around the country and are soon to release their album, ‘From Space’. Managed by Grey and Saurian.
What: The Circus sounds like everything you loved about old-school Incubus, but with their own idiosyncracies and love for funk. Guitarist [...]
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