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The Mahindra Blues Festival is an annual blues concert tour that takes place every year in the month of February, usually in the second weekend, at Mehboob Studios, Mumbai, India, which is a confluence of the greatest blues musicians worldwide, where music lovers from all over the world pour in.  is an annual blues concert tour that takes place every year in the month of February, usually in the second weekend, at Mehboob Studios, Mumbai, India, which is a confluence of the greatest blues musicians worldwide, where music lovers from all over the world pour in.  The music fest has been ruling hearts for hundreds of people for eleven long years and still counting. The coming year, that is on 11th and 12th of February, 2023, the Mahindra Blues Festival is back again to celebrate the genre with pomp and show.  The lineup includes Buddy Guy (a recipent of eight Grammy Awards, 38 Blues Music Awards,  The Billboard Magazine Century Award, 2015 Lifetime Achievement Grammy Aw...

The Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet is a festival of art and literature for bibliophiles across the city and around which is held every year. The tenth volume of the event is set to take place from January 21st to 26th, 2023 at six venues in Kolkata. The first venue is located at East Gate Kalam Lawn, Victoria Memorial Hall, the second venue is at Western Quadrangle, Victoria Memorial Hall, the third venue is at Main Steps, Victoria Memorial Hall, the fourth venue is at Skinny Mo's Jazz Club, the fifth venue is at GD Birla Sabhaghar and the sixth venue is The Bengal Club.  Kolkata Lit Meet is presented by Tata Steel in association with Exide, Greenply, EMTA Group Of Companies, WealthApp and Aashirvaad Svasti Easy Digest Milk as the principal partners,  Barrel Select as the film partner, The Telegraph as the media partner, Arun Sign as the outdoor partner, Taj Bengal Kolkata as the hospitality partner and organised and created by Gameplan.  One can go to meet and greet au...

The Soul Local is an initiative by a media & marketing company named Calcutta Cacophony which celebrates the flavours of West Bengal's capital city which we more often call, The City Of Joy, for the past three years with popular culture and expertise from the city's independent scene. This year, The Soul Local is set to celebrate the Yuletide spirit with music, games, flea market, food and Cosplay carnival.  The venue for the two-day event, 24th and 25th December, 2022, is Gitanjali Stadium, Kolkata. The lineup includes Underground Authority , Indian Ocean , Arko Mukherjee , Fossils and Anjan Dutt . The event partners include Smoke Inc. as the Co-partner, JamSteady as the associate partner, Pikturenama as the outreach partner, Play House as the youth partner, Make Calcutta Relevant Again, Saday as the creative partner, Paytm Insider as the ticketing partner, Pixelvise as the Website Design partner,  Foodoo's Reunion Cafe as Snack partner, Ishq 104.8 FM as the Radio...

  The International Indie Music Festival is a five-day multi-genre concert tour Organised by Jay N Pillai in association with Lazie Indie Music Magazine (an international publication on Indie Music)  at  Kerala Arts and Crafts Village, Thiruvananthapuram, India, which is considered to be the first ever international independent music festival ever happening in India comprising a total of nineteen artists from all over the globe. The event 5 place from 9th to 13th of November, 2022. The line-up was Oorali (Reggae,India), Roc Flowers (Hip Hop, Italy) and Anslom (Reggae, Papua New Guinea) on Day 1, Chandana Rajesh (Pop, India), Thamarassery Churam (Hard Rock, India), Job Kurian (Malayalam Rock, India) and Sami Chohfi (Rock, USA) on Day 2, RCleff, Lyia Meta (Blues Rock/Hard Rock/Metal, Malaysia), When Chai Met Toast (Folk Fusion, India) and Sherise (Pop, India) on Day 3, Chaos (Heavy Metal, India) , Inner Sanctum (Thrash Metal, India), Rudra (Vedic Metal, Singapore) and Agam ...

Th e Indian Open Air is an indigenous Guwahati-based Open-Air concert tour organized by Rockarolla Events, Urban Mantra & E365 Group of Companies at Jonki Panoi Khetra, Guwahati on 27th of November, this year. The lineup consists of DJ James (02:00 P.M. to 03:00 P.M. in the first slot and 7:25 P.M. to 7:50 P.M. in the second slot), Flying Cupid ( 03:00 P.M. to 03:30 P.M.), Serpents Of Pakhangba ( 03:45 P.M. to 04:15 P.M.), Voodoo Child (4:30 P.M. to 5:00 P.M.), Girish And The Chronicles (5:15 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.), Trance Effect (6:30 P.M. to 07:15 P.M.) and Michael Learns To Rock, the Headliner which is conducting it's Back On The Road Tour, 2022 (8:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M.). The online tickets are available for ₹1500/- onwards on Paytm Insider.  The offline ticket counters are available in the following venues : Urban Mantra (Zoo Road and Six Mile), Quick Shoppe (Nursery,City Centre Mall and Dighali Pukhuri), 11th Avenue (Dighali Pukhuri and Six Mile), Game Cave (Bora Service), J1...

Parx Music Fiesta is an event organized by Hrishikesh Kannan which usually involves a musical contest, a band battle for independent underground musicians from the country. The fest took place at Raymond Ground, Thane in Mumbai on 19th and 20th November, this year. The artist line up included HP14 (01:00 p.m.),Panic (01:30 p.m.), Skulptr (02:00 p.m.), White Vinyl (02:30 p.m.), Swarathma (03:00 p.m.) ,Indian Ocean(04:00 p.m.) ,Underground authority X Nikitha Gandhi (05:30 p.m.) ,Benny Dayal (07:00 p.m) and Salim-Sulaiman(08:30 p.m.) on 19th (Saturday) and Daira (02:45 p.m.), Parvaaz (03:45 p.m.), When Chai Met Toast (04:45 p.m.), Euphoria (05:45 p.m.), Papon (07:00 p.m.) and Amit Trivedi (08:30 p.m.) on 20th (Sunday).  The winners of the band contest included Panic (East-Zone), White Vinyl (West Zone), The HP14 (North Zone) and Skulptr (South Zone).  The beverage partner for the event was Asia's and India's first meadery, Moonshine. There was also an arrangement for easy means...

As 2k22 is slowly drawing to an end and it's November already, it's probably time to turn back in time and let our hair down to vibe to the independent music releases that kept coming in throughout the year. Soon after the pandemic took a back seat and things limped back to normalcy. It's that time of the year, when there's a nip in the air, the time to wrap ourselves up in the coziness of our warm rooms and let music consume all negativities away. Well, so let's talk about some of the top Indian independent artists who are putting relentless efforts to help the scene grow in the best way possible. Therefore, diving straight into the topic!  1)  ANUV JAIN :  An Indian-Indie singer-songwriter who is a twenty-seven year old Ludhiana guy who took over the hearts of music lovers across India with his songs : Gul, Baarishein, Alag Aasmaan, Riha, Maula, Meri Baaton Mein Tu and others, with over 33Lakh monthly listeners on Spotify and over 534K followers on Instagram. He r...

The NH7 Weekender is a three-day multi-genre concert tour organized by Only Much Louder (OML) and presented by Bacardi Experiences, in Pune, Maharashtra and is considered to be one of the biggest South-Asian music fests in the world because of the massive lineups it comes up with, every time.  The event for this year is going to take place from 25th to 27th November. The artist lineup on the first day includes Dirty Loops as the headliner and Bloodywood (folk metal), Gutslit (extreme metal), Jhalli, Kraken, Many Roots Ensemble, Pacifist, Peekay, Raman Negi, Shreyas Iyengar, Tejas, The Down Troddence, The F16s, Tiny Fingers, Trees For Toothpicks and Velvet Meets A Time Traveller.  On the second day, we have The Lumineers as the headlining act, along with other artists : Dappest + adL, Darshan Doshi Trio Ft. Hashbass and Rickraj Nath, Dohnraj and The Peculiars, Easy Wanderlings, Fox In The Garden, MC Altaf (Live), Parek and Singh, PAV4N, Reble, Rudy Mukta, Saachi and Yashraj...

The Swara Samrat Festival is an all-India musical tour dedicated to the birth anniversary of legendary Bengali-Hindustani classical musician and Sarod exponent, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Spanning four cities, Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru, the Concert is an initiative of Shree Ranjani Foundation Trust, powered by Incredible India and sponsored by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Indian Oil, Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum, co-sponsored by Senco Golds and Diamonds, Tata Steel, Tata Trynox Safes and Lockers, Life Insurance Corporation, Gainwell, State Bank Of India, Tata Me Talks, Peerless Hospital, Techno India University, Caring Minds, India Power and JIS Group.  The Kolkata-chapter of the event is going to take place at Nazrul Mancha, Southern Avenue from 15th December to 18th December and will involve musical geniuses from far and wide.  The programme is supposed to begin from 5p.m. on the first and second day and from 2p.m. on the rest two days. On 15th, the per...

Moitree Concert is a concert tour that takes place in Kolkata, India with a motto of uniting the two Bengals, rather the two countries India and Bangladesh as a whole, through music. Organised by the Gen-Next Cultural and Social Welfare Group, Bangladeshi Band Music Fans Community and Expotera Events and Exhibitions Pvt. Ltd., Moitree Concert was hosted for the first time on 25th December, 2018, at Santosh Mitra Square, Kolkata, India, as a musical tribute to legendary Bangladeshi musician, Ayub Bacchu, the frontman of the rock band, Love Runs Blind(LRB), who passed away on 18th October, 2018. The performing bands were Powersurge(Bangladesh), Avoid Rafa(Bangladesh), Half Major, The SNF, BAD TRIP, Bleed Bong and Calcutta Blues.  The second edition of Moitree Concert which included Artcell (Bangladesh), Powersurge (Bangladesh), Eeshaan, Prachir, The SNF, Atlas, Alo and Half Major. The event took place on first of February, 2020 just before the global pandemic began wrecking havoc....

Lollapalooza is an annual four-day multi-genre music festival that takes place in Grant Park, Chicago, that started as a tour in the year 1991.  Transcending boundaries of history, culture, language and geography, it brings together music lovers since Perry Farrell, the frontman of the rock band, Jane's Addiction laid the founding pillars in the 90s. Already spanning across seven countries : USA, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, France and Sweden, for three decades, it makes its maiden voyage to India on January 28 and 29th, next year, at Mahalaxmi Race Course, Mumbai.  The event is presented by Budweiser 0.0 Non-Alcoholic Beer and Johnnie Walker Refreshing Mixer (Non-Alcoholic), powered by Levi's and Bumble,  C3 Presents and Book My Show Live, supported by Maharashtra Tourism and the media partners include Mirchi, PVR and 94.3 Radio One International. The line-up includes forty famous acts from India as well as worldwide : Imagine Dragons, The Strokes, AP Dhillon, Gret...

   I-Rock has quite a history. It launched bands. It created legends. It defied the authorities. It shaped the music of many generations. And now, it’s back in a whole new avatar, ready to do its thing once again. From saluting yesterday's headliners to giving a stage to tomorrow's Welcome to Independence Rock 2022 I-Rock has quite a history. It launched bands. It created legends. It defied the authorities. It shaped the music of many generations. And now, it’s back in a whole new avatar, ready to do its thing once again. From saluting yesterday's headliners to giving a stage to tomorrow's Welcome to Independence Rock 2022 The Mahindra Independence Rock Festival, organised by Farhad Wadia is supposed to commence on 4th - 6th of November, this year at Bayview Lawns, Mumbai, India with Pentagram, Zero, Bloodywood, Thaikuddam Bridge and As We Keep Searching performing on the first day and Parikrama, Indus Creed, Avial, Parvaaz and The F'16S on the second day. The event...