This is Billboard India’s weekly editorial series No Skip. Every Monday, we tell you exactly what to listen to – songs handpicked by the Billboard India team from last week’s crop of music releases. Tracks from Indian artists across film, indie, regional and the diaspora community are eligible. Below are this week’s No Skip selections […]
From Amritsar to the U.K., Navaan Sandhu has steadily carved out a lane that blends Punjabi songwriting with global influences. Fresh off the release of his latest album, Bipolar, the singer-songwriter is embracing a more expansive sound, drawing from hip-hop, UK garage and folk while still telling deeply personal stories. As Punjabi music continues to […]
Rashmeet Kaur took her Punjabi and Bollywood tunes to six cities across North America for her ‘Rashmeet Kaur Live’ tour over the last month. She sat down with Billboard India to answer our On The Road questionnaire. 1. Where did you tour and how many stops were there? This was my first North American tour. […]
This is Billboard India’s weekly editorial series No Skip. Every Monday, we tell you exactly what to listen to – songs handpicked by the Billboard India team from last week’s crop of music releases. Tracks from Indian artists across film, indie, regional and the diaspora community are eligible. Below are this week’s No Skip selections […]
Farhan Khan did not have an average childhood. “My Walid Sahab (a term in Urdu to respectfully refer to one’s father) was very fond of writing poetry. Every weekend, all his poet friends would gather at our house in Fatehabad for a mehfil. I’d be walking around serving breakfast or passing plates, and in between […]
Kochi-based band When Chai Met Toast are set to perform in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Sydney, Melbourne, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto, Dubai and Vancouver – to name a few cities – for their ‘Joy Rooms’ tour from August – November 2026. The four-piece act comprises vocalist Ashwin Gopakumar, guitarist Achyuth Jaigopal, keyboardist Palee Francis, […]
This is Billboard India’s weekly Editorial series No Skip. Every Monday, we tell you exactly what to listen to – songs handpicked by the Billboard India team from last week’s crop of music releases. Tracks from Indian artists across film, indie, regional and the diaspora community are eligible. Below are this week’s No Skip selections […]
This is Billboard India’s weekly Editorial series No Skip. Every Monday, we tell you exactly what to listen to – songs handpicked by the Billboard India team from last week’s crop of music releases. Tracks from Indian artists across film, indie, regional and the diaspora community are eligible. Below are this week’s No Skip selections […]
It is a summer evening in Kathar, a village in Punjab’s Jalandhar district. Inside a local gym, a speaker no bigger than a shoebox, sits wired to a woofer thrice its size, propped up on a stack of weight plates. The bass cuts through the clang of barbells and the grunts of a final rep. […]
Anirudh Ravichander has worked with the same band since he was in school. The Chennai-based artist works with the same musicians on a daily basis at his studio. His latest single, on his label Albuquerque Records, “Aravindh” addresses the angst and journey of a “young, struggling independent artist”. Ravichander came up with the idea of […]
