Parvaaz is the Hindi/Urdu rock project of Khalid Ahmed and Kashif Iqbal. Formed in 2010, Parvaaz’s sound combines Kashmiri and Urdu poetry with an prog-rock aesthetic. They released their debut LP Baran in August 2014. The album, which was produced by Jason Zachariah, was cited by Pepsi MTV Indies as one of the best releases this year.
Two fantastic artists, one gig. Time to throw down!
Its been a great year of Chennai-based alternative/electro-rock band The F16s. Earlier this year, they beat artists from all around the country to win a chance to record their music at the Converse Rubber Tracks Studio in Brooklyn, played their first international gig, performed at the Bacardi NH7 Weekender, New Wave Festival and basically just kicked ass.
The band consists of Joshua Fernandez, Vikram Yesudas, Harshan Radakrishnan, Abhinav Krishnaswamy and Sashank Manohar. The band comes from a mixture of a variety of influences including garage rock, alternative and electronica. Influenced by artists such as The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Young the Giant, The Black keys and Jet among others and hailing from diverse musical backgrounds, The F16s are known for their high energy sets eccentric performances. They released their debut EP, Kaleidoscope, sometime during August of 2013.
Chennai-based Skrat is a three-piece alternative rock band known for their brilliant live performances. The band consists of Sriram T.T, Satish Narayanan and Tapass Naresh.
Formed in 2010, Skrat released their latest album Queen in earlier this year and have since been unstoppable in the Indian indie music scene. Theyve played at the Bacardi NH7 Weekender, Windsong Music Festival, Toured with the Red Bull Tour Bus and played multiple gigs across the country this year and are nowhere near stopping.
Ankur & The Ghalat Family is the Hindi rock project of singer-songwriter Ankur Tewari along with Gaurav Gupta, Sidd Coutto and Johan Pais (of Tough On Tobacco). Formed in 2009, the Mumbai-based act has been playing festivals and gigs and enthralling audiences with their fun and happy songs (that are best paired with a glass of whiskey) since. Get ready for some beautiful, simple Hindi lyrics packed with some intense whistling on both ends.
Mannfarid is an indie alt progressive rock band thats taking the scene by storm, having won the VIMA Music Award for Best Rock Song, Hoslo Ke Paro Mein, which was chosen from over 700 songs from across India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. Diversifying English lyrical themes to Hindi, while retaining and enhancing the sound of their band, Mannfarid brings to you a fresh new sound with a distinctive Indian feel. Theyve been part of various festivals, and their members have even judged Channel [V] Launchpad and Sympulse, to name a few.
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WTS NewsWTS NewsWTS NewsThe F16s play alternative dance music born out of frustration with a barren and flaccid cityscape. They write tales of love, redemption and the lives and concerns of young people like themselves and set them to music their listeners can dance to.
Their songs are heavy and euphoric, with a double guitar attack, drums, bass, synthesizers and a Macbook. While harnessing the sound of urban independent music, the group has stylistic leanings that cover a much wider palette including art-pop, ska and dance/punk.
‘Kaleidoscope’ is the band’s debut EP. Consisting of seven songs, the record acts as an effective acid test, laying the groundwork for an arresting live set.
The EP can be streamed in its entirety on the band’s SoundCloud page:https://soundcloud.com/
Plans are in motion for a full length follow-up to the EP. A release at the end of calendar year is on the cards.
Your Chin is the solo project of Raxit Tewari, front man of Mumbai based indie band Sky Rabbit – that’s been building a buzz in the Indian indie scene since releasing his first self titled EP mid 2012. The EP won the support of the scene’s dedicated fan base as well as rave reviews by music journalists. The momentum and the word of mouth helped Your Chin play a whole bunch of festivals and club dates through the rest of the year and the next one.
The journey started with Raxit’s love for bringing varied sounds together into a great composition. Your Chin has a danceable lively electro pop sound layered with muddy beats that lend his seemingly indecipherable urban lyrics a joyful complexity.
Your Chin released his second EP, Scatter Nature at the start of 2014 and embarked on a tour to support it in the following in the following months. Scatter Nature was a gradual progression of his sound and made more people sit up and take notice. It is more layered and handles themes darker and more mature than the first one.
Your Chin recently won the ‘Song of the year’ award at the VH1 Soundnation awards. He has opened for Grammy winner Gotye at the Oz Fest event in New Delhi at Blue Frog. Fall Someplace, a track from the EP was chosen as the promotional song for “A Summer’s Day” Festival headlined by Norah Jones in 2013. He has also performed at various festivals around India including NH7 Weekender, Magnetic Fields, Ziro Festival of Music, India Bike Week apart also being a regular at live gig venues across the country.
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Tonight’s set by Your Chin will be featuring Oblique on visuals.
Their signature sound comes from the unique blend of an Acoustic guitar in the background of all songs with a monstrous distortion sound in the foreground. This mixed with some unbelievable percussion and vocals make it one of the most unique Punk sounds to come out of India.
Recently they released a 8 Song EP Debut Album Surfer Girl followed by a video release on MTV Indies!
Doctor Zebra is:
Jay K Vocals & Guitar
Amit B Lead Guitar
Akshay M- Bass
Anant J The Count- Percussion
And wait We also got K-Ten ad Mojo doing a super banging closing set Swing by Jump around!
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