‘B’wood overshadowing solo music’
Sufi impresario Rabbi spills over wisdom on the state of indie music in India, and how Bollywood’s repetitive nature is squashing unique music.According to him, independent singers and composers need to develop avenues to rival multiplexes, we can do more live shows as television channels are also not helping much in our cause,” he says.

Indian music bands innovate
Cyanide, Jalebi Cartel, Midivial Punditz, Indian Ocean tlak about musical innovation and how its changing the music scene in India. There has definitely been a drastic change in the music industry outside of Bollywood that Amit Kilam of Indian Ocean describes as a “new style of music”.

Onstage might solve your band’s labour pains
The OnStage Foundation, which was to be launched on the 1st in partnership with MySpace seems to offer gramin bank style loans to indie artists. Gigpad has a detailed article here. It is the 2nd today, and there’s no sign of the website. Lets hope they aren’t planning on treating us as 2nd grade citizens á la  MySpace - “India has always been the sideshow freak”.

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Zaib Siddiqui is a Jazz aficionado, and he preaches that no matter how much of it one experiences, one would always be a "Jazz Virgin". George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” is his ticket to nirvana, though he does experiment with his music a lot.