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This festival season, Hyderabad is presenting its very own multi-genre eco music festival! Maruti Suzuki Windsong Festival – a two day weekend getaway music festival, will feature a wide choice of music genres including pop, rock, funk, folk, reggae & live electronica. It promises to be a holistic experience that offers enthusiasts a taste of quality music packaged with exhilarating adventure sports against the backdrop of the great outdoors. Featuring an eclectic line up of Indian indie acts from across the country, it promises to be a welcome addition to India’s growing festival calendar. The festival promises to showcase the best of homegrown talent coupled with state of the art experimental technology, making it a…
Parikrama celebrates its 23rd anniversary with a 15-city tour, starting Oct 29th 2014 making it one of the few organized rock tours in the country.They kickstart the proceedings with their gig in Bangalore and the attendees in every city stand the chance of winning a brand new Fender guitar by taking part in the on-ground competition. The Fenders will be handed over to the winners at the venue at every gig. Just 3 days to go! Tour details: 29/10/2014 – Hard Rock Cafe, Bangalore 30/10/2014 – Hard Rock Cafe, Pune 31/10/2014 – Hard Rock Cafe, Mumbai 1/11/2014 – The Park, Vishakapatnam 2/11/2014 – Hard Rock cafe, Hyderabad 5/11/2014 – FBar, Chandigarh 6/11/2014 –…
After making an impressive debut, Magnetic Fields returns to Alsisar Mahal, a 17th century palace, with the promise of the freshest sounds from India and around the world and an immersive experience for the music fan this December. The three-day music and arts festival to be held over December 12, 13 and 14 later this year with its blend of heritage arts mixed with contemporary culture was hailed for its curated approach to music, design and production and continues with that trend with the first wave of artist announcements. After introducing attendees to varied artists like Charanjit Singh, V.I.V.E.K and Robot Koch in its debut year, the second edition of Magnetic Fields will host…
Bengaluru based rapper Brodha V‘s new video for his single ‘Aigiri Nandini’ – a hiphop refix of the traditional durga chant – AIGIRI NANDINI was released recently. Check it out!
Prateek Kuhad, has released a live video of a new song he wrote recently titled ‘Tonight.’ The video was shot in New York while he was recording his upcoming album and features Melanie Rothman on keys. Check it out!
Rock music lovers can rejoice as Harley Rock Riders Season V returns this year, on November 15-16 in Mumbai, with a power-packed line-up of some of the biggest names in Indian rock music. With the sheer number of different genre music festivalsin the country, rock music fans have lately been left wanting for a festival that centers only on rock music. Harley-Davidson India and Only Much Louder will bring to fans Indias most definitive rock music festival over two days featuring 20 bands on two live stages along with hundreds of roaring Harley-Davidson motorcycles. The mayhem of music and motorcycles will take place in the heart of Mumbai at the iconic, Richardson & Cruddas…
The Great Indian Octoberfest that started way back in 2005 is now in its 10th year. Inspired by the German festival Oktoberfest, TGIOF – Indias biggest annual beer and music festival committed to celebrating music, beer and the love of a good time is all set to bring three days of live performances, endless beer, exciting stalls, fun games and delicious food. Designed as an experience for the whole family, the festival has grown over the last decade to become an anticipated event for beer lovers of all ages. TGIOF claims to have something for everyone and continues to draw fans year after year. Around 1000 early bird passes were sold out within 37 minutes and the next early bird offer goes live…
Reptilian Death have offered a free download of their debut album Total Annihilation to mark it’s 10 year anniversary. The album which was released in 2004 is now a decade old and speaking about it, Sahil Makhija says “It’s not a great album but it’s an important one given that it was released in a time where most bands in India were still playing cover music and those who played their own songs were almost at logger heads with the audience to get them to accept their own music. So for me this was something I always wanted to do and that was write my own music. The album has two parts, one being the slightly…
Singer-Songwriter Dilpreet Bhatia has been announced as the first Indian Grand Prize winner in the World Music category of the coveted John Lennon Songwriting Contest for his original song ‘Tere Bin Dil’. The song was selected to win the grand prize by an Executive Judges Panel, consisting of Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, Natasha Bedingfield, George Clinton, Prince Royce, Matthew Koma, Sean Paul among others. The song was chosen based on melody, composition, originality, and lyrics. As Grand Prize winner, Dilpreet Bhatia won an Epiphone John Lennon Casino guitar in addition to prizes from SSL, Genelec, Native Instruments, Properllerhead and more. Originally from New Delhi and now living in Mumbai, Dilpreet wrote and composed this song while…
