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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...

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 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...

   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...

Countless grievances exterminated in the silence of darkness. Obnoxious agendas perpetually terrifying the souls of freedom. Brothers of blood surrounding in the mask of destruction. A total carnation amongst the flute of pessimists. A nefariously nether world of mob contemplated in the flesh of reptiles. We are the desperation!! A living contradiction amongst misery's cry Wailing the invasions of paradox. Death-Lore Reptilian DeathLore is a melodic death metal act based in North Kolkata, West Bengal, India which recently performed in the Moitree Concert 3 and shared the stage alongside the famous acts like Severe Dementia, Lakkhichara and Chronic Xorn. With Prothamesh Ghosh on vocals, Akash Singha on guitars, Suman Paul on bass, Barshan Dutta on keyboards and Samantak Kundu on drums, DeathLore has been doing a mesmerizing work. A year ago they released the official music video of their original composition named, "Forbidden Democracy" which received 9.3K views on YouTube...

BREEZE Listen/Stream/Buy   FuzzCulture, a one-man show by Arsh Sharma,   a renowned musical artist based in Mumbai, India, has recently released  the official music video named, "Breeze", on August 3rd, this year.The project has been produced by Arsh Sharma, himself and Savi Shrivastava, along with his other crew members, who have been mentioned in the description section of the YT video. Barun Kashyap, took charge of the production design, direction and the concept, Priyasha Bhardwaj has been cast alongside Arsh Sharma, Farhad Sheikh has dealt with the editing, the cinematography has been carried out by Saket Gyani and the VFX credit goes to VH Studios, the colorist of the project being Shashank Jha, Savi Shrivastava and Arpan Mehrotra have successfully dealt with the production and art and the costume for the same has been taken care of by Jennifer Albert, Pawan Kumar Team and Pallavi. "Breeze" has been released on the two popular audio streaming platforms as well...

Aandhar er Doshti Bochor (10 Years of Darkness) " A tmahatya ", a well-known death-metal band from the Kolkata metal scene, recently released their debut album which is named "Aandhar er Doshti Bochor" on 26th June, this year. The songs, written in both English and Bengali, talk about philosophy of life and death, existence and decay, the socio-political scenario, the independence struggle and the battles that were fought in the annals of history, striking a close parallel with human suffering, in general, and the battles we fight everyday, the pains of day to day life and coping mechanisms. With proper use of literary devices, a great sense of vocabulary and an emphasis on the universal truths, the whole album is a beautifully crafted piece. Each of the musicians have put in outstanding efforts which have resulted in the creation of this incredibly amazing project, which throws significant light on the darknesses and hardships of human existence. Listen/Stream/Purc...