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The Goa Project , a crowd-funded "unconference", is scheduled to take place this week between March 28 and 29 at Marbela Beach Resort, Morjem, Goa. The event is an excellent opportunity to soak in knowledge, with workshops, talks and interactions and more, based on six major tracks - Performing Arts and Music, Society, Entrepreneurship, Visual Arts and Design, Film, and Fringe, spread over the two days of the event. Of these, only Performing Arts and Music has been divided into themed sessions (more on that below). Funding for the event has been almost completely crowdsourced through the event's funnel page, and this [...]

The Goa Project is an unconvention that is being organised in Goa between March 28 and 29. The event will take place at the Marbella Beach Resort in North Goa and will see attendees from various walks of life attending in order to promote an ideological exchange that can affect how we view the world, which is probably why you should attend. The conference will feature six broad tracks in the fields of Music and Performing Arts, Society, Entrepreneurship, Visual Arts and Design, Film and Fringe. The conference will feature speakers who will present theories and ideas on each [...]

Wild City  has partnered with gig venue CounterCulture  and HUB, India's first anthology of electronic music, to launch Epoch, an annual gig that will showcase the best new alternative Indian music of the year. The first edition of Epoch will take place on December 31, 2012, (provided the world hasn't ended before that) and will showcase artists from New Delhi, Mumbai Bangalore and Hyderabad. Munbir Chawla, editor of Wild City, spoke to us about the event We're hoping to make this a yearly event, maybe even quarterly if it goes well. The idea is [...]

IndiEarth, the EarthSync initiative that connects Indian independent artists to different forms of media around the world, has just announced IndiEarth XChange 2012, a series of discussion sessions to be held from November 30 to December 2 in Chennai, between key figures of the Indian independent music and film industry, and delegates from developed and developing markets from around the world. Making things sweeter, will be the world music festival that IndiEarth have programmed into Xchange 2012. The festival will feature more than 20 Indian and international musicians, performing at The Park Hotel in Chennai. IndiEarth [...]

The Ziro Festival of Music featured a host of artists from Delhi, Mumbai and the North East. We've got a great set of photos by photographer Shiv Ahuja.

Have you ever looked at a gig/festival lineup and felt complete confusion as to what performances are worth your hard-earned cash, time and precious auditory sensibilities? Well have no fear, we preview gigs here. It's the start of the festival season, and the first one of many to come takes music lovers away from concrete jungles to the Ziro valley in Arunachal Pradesh, approximately 175km away from state capital Itanagar. The Ziro Festival Of Music  takes place from September 14 to 16, and boasts a lineup that includes acts from Delhi and [...]

The final lineup for Arunachal Pradesh's Ziro Festival Of Music has been announced. The three-day festival in the picturesque town of Ziro (approximately 175km from Itanagar) will be held from September 14-16. The following acts have been confirmed to play menwhopause Blek Lou Majaw with Friends Alisha Batth Frisky Pints Bombay Bassment Peter Cat Recording Co. Teddy Boy Kill Off Tritha Electric Aftertaste Skyrabbit [...]

Arunachal Pradesh will host a three-day music festival this September. The festival is a combined initiative between Arunachal Pradesh Department of Tourism and a few local and out-of-state promoters. The festival will be held in the small town of Ziro (picture inside), which lies at about a distance of 150 kilometres from Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal Pradesh. We spoke to one of the organisers of the festival, Anup Kutty (also plays guitar for New Delhi alt rockers  menwhopause ) to find out more about how they set the festival up and decided upon the lineup [...]

Filmmaker Satyarth Singh's young venture  Lights on Films  has been working on a new documentary, called  Echoes,  about the underground music movement in New Delhi. Lights on Films was founded by Singh in January of 2012 and they focus on documentaries on art and music and have a special corner for short films. Echoes  is a 45-minute long documentary that looks at underground music and musicians in New Delhi and how they have been managing to leave their mark on audiences. The film also looks at the conflict between art and technology and what these artists have to do to [...]

Dog Day Afternoons has announced Dog Day 3 - Holi Guns. The event will be held on Thursday, March 8. The festival will feature two stages, one electronic and the other 'live' music. Featuring a large number of artists, the Facebook event page promises that it will be the 'craziest Holi ever'. As it did for Dog Day 1 and 2, it will take place in C12 Asola Farms, Chattarpur, New Delhi. Electronic stage lineup Electronic Lab ft. Rishi on Guitar (Electro Dance Anthems) Teddy Boy Kill (Hardcore) [...]

As December is upon us and the nip of the wintry wind sets in (arrey, it went down to 16 degrees celsius and all last night), Chhatarpur hosts some yuletide festivities. Presenting (drum roll please) - Dog Day Afternoon, "a day to chill in the sun, a day to have some fun, a day to put in the pun but please don't leave a mess after u done. A tasteful concoction of art, music & cheer; while you have your cake & sip your beer," says their event facebook page. A coming together of music and art, [...]

We've picked the 10 best photos from gigs we've attended so far in 2011. Photos by Shiv Ahuja , Prateek Biswas , Jason Manners , Naman Saraiya, and Kunal Kakodkar February:  Pentagram @ Sulafest 2011, Nashik April:  11th Hour @ Meghalaya Icon 2, Shillong [...]

A picture-perfect setting can only get you through the weekend, but making it a memorable experience takes a lot more. Anuj Gupta brings us an attendee's view of the recently concluded Escape Festival in Naukuchiatal. Advertised as " 3 Days. 3 Stages. Over 200 Artists. ", the Escape Festival's claims were much larger than reality. The festival wasn't exactly a multi-stage festival, but instead, each stage ran for a part of the day before all programming moved to another stage. The total number of artists performing was approximately 30, a sum total of [...]

The third edition of the Escape Festival was held at Naukuchiatal last weekend, between May 20 and 22. Escape is one of the few Indian "music festivals" that stays true to its claim - the experience for attendees isn't just about the music. Inclement weather meant that the seven-hour journey from New Delhi to Naukuchiatal took us 15 hours. It also meant that the first day of the festival was rained out completely, and the event was reduced to one stage down from three. The setting was picture-perfect; the lake, [...]

As previously announced , the Escape Festival of Art & Music will be held at the Lake Resort in Naukuchiatal in Uttarakhand between May 20-22. The three-day festival will feature three stages and over 30 acts. Tickets are priced at Rs 2,500 for a three-day pass and Rs 2,000 for a two-day pass. To purchase tickets for the Escape Festival on NH7, click here . Schedule Day 1 - May 20 Soul Garden 2.00 – 3.15 pm: Dhruv Sangari 3.30 [...]

The third edition of the Escape Festival has been announced. The three-day event will be held at The Lake Resort in Naukuchiatal in Uttrakhand between May 20-22. The festival will feature three stages for the genres of jazz/fusion, rock/electronica and "experimental/chill." The lineup announced thus far has some fairly prominent names like Ranjit Barot, Five8 , Teddy Boy Kill , menwhopause (pictured above), Indigo Children , PINKNOISE , and Ashwin (from Jalebee Cartel ). Aside from live music, adventure sports, film screenings, and workshops on subjects ranging from yoga to photography will [...]

Word, Sound & Power: The Bant Singh Project showcases legendary folk singer and dalit icon Bant Singh's music, his story, and a detailed look at his collaboration with DJ Chris McGuinness, Delhi Sultanate, and Samrat B aka Audio Pervert - meant to bring his music to wider audiences. We spoke with Taru Dalmia aka Delhi Sultanate about the project, the process, the experience, the future and journey of Indian hip hop so far. How did the project come about? Well it [...]

"It's been 30 years since I've been singing." Dalit folk singer Bant Singh, who spoke at last year's Unconvention in Mumbai , talks about finding his strength 18 days after his arms and legs were amputated. "I was lying in bed with doctors surrounding me listening in awe, and wondering how I found the strength to sing. But I never felt that way, because I still had my voice." Word, Sound and Power: The Bant Singh Project is: An attempt to showcase the legendary dalit icon Bant Singh and his [...]

The Indiecision Decade In Review is our retrospective of the last 10 years in Indian independent music. These are our picks of the best Indian indie albums of the last decade. #25: This Is It – Thermal & A Quarter It is perhaps a candid admission that Thermal & A Quarter chose to title their latest album This Is It. For a band that's been around over [...]

The Global Groove festival/convention is an electronica affair set to be held in New Delhi this December. Organised by RSJ and the Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan the festival will see some top Indian electronica acts perform in the capital alongside a bunch of German artists. The convention takes place at the Tivoli Garden on Dec 17-18, and the festival, at the same venue, on Dec 19-20. Those are the facts. And then there's the website . A treasure trove of kvlt gems, Global Groove's official website is, well... here's the first line from the General Information [...]