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 […]
Welcome to Billboard India’s weekly Editorial series No Skip. Every Monday, we tell you exactly what to listen to – 5 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 […]
Following years of takedowns and copyright strikes, the viral bootlegs by Anant Ahuja and Neal Sekhri – the DJ/ Producer duo who go by the alias MadStarBase – have had their second label win with Saregama officially releasing four of their retro Bollywood edits. R. D. Buraman’s iconic “Dum Maaro Dum,” ‘90s anthem “Saat Samundar,” […]
Malayalam R&B artist Aksomaniac has watched his track “Amsham” rise and rise on global charts. The moniker of singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Aron Kollassani Selestin, ‘Aksomaniac’ was his way of flipping his initials with his Instagram username when he started making music. Featuring fellow Malayalam artists – singer Bhumi and producers M.H.R and Circle Tone […]
At his concert in Lucknow, when Diljit Dosanjh steps onto the stage and greets the crowd, the audience erupts in cries of ecstasy. As the set progresses, the crowd dances to every Punjabi beat. By the time Dosanjh closes his set with “Ikk Kudi” – the soulful ballad from film Udta Punjab – the same […]
Ankur Tewari’s upcoming album Mr. Faarigh, out August 20, features nine Hindustani language tracks. Across musings on late nights, anger, unsaid things, sukoon and unfinished ideas, Tewari writes about the strange pressure of living in a time where even rest has to explain itself. Faarigh – in Urdu or Hindustani – means free, idle, or […]
Barely a few seconds into the Main Vaapas Aaunga album opener “Kya Kamaal Hai” — composed by A.R. Rahman with lyrics by Irshad Kamil — something extraordinary happens. In a touch that’s almost Gulzaresque in its simplicity, playfulness and sheer unexpectedness, Kamil rhymes ‘Yeh… chehre mehke hai’ — delivered in staccato fashion by Diljit Dosanjh […]
Dressed in a shimmering black bodysuit and heeled boots, Sunidhi Chauhan descends slowly onto the stage, suspended by cables – soundtracked by the Dhoom title melody at her debut ‘I AM Home’ arena concert in Mumbai. At touchdown, she pauses just long enough for fans to cheer wildly before she slips into “Crazy Kiya Re” […]
