Arushi Paul | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Bengaluru-based singer-songwriter Arushi Paul’s recently released EP Home is a heartfelt exploration of growth, transition, and self-discovery. Drawing from her own experiences of relocating to a new city as an 18-year-old, her EP delves into the complexities of leaving behind the familiar and stepping into the unknown. Home […]
S. Swarathmika with Chaganti Ramya Kiranmayi (violin) and Kundurthi Aravind (mridangam). | Photo Credit: VELANKANNI RAJ B It came as no surprise that S. Swarathmika’s concert, dedicated to the compositions of Gopalakrishna Bharathi and presented under the aegis of The Music Academy at the Kasturi Srinivasan Hall, was a reflection of the steady strides she […]
Billie Eilish gives acceptance speech for the Artist of the Year award virtually at the 2025 American Music Awards, in Las Vegas, Nevada | Photo Credit: REUTERS The 2025 American Music Awards held in Las Vegas saw generational powerhouse, Billie Eilish, sweep all seven categories in which she was nominated. Eilish took home the evening’s […]
Founder of Creative India Education Fund Lubomir Jabbanda (centre) with Gaurav and their students | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Bengaluru’s Lubomir Jabbanda has had a circuitous route into setting up Creative India Education Fund (CIEF), a non-profit which aims at providing music, dance, sports and arts education to underserved youth in the city and state. […]
Billy Joel performs at Allegiant Stadium on November 9, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP Billy Joel has canceled all his upcoming concerts across North America and England after being diagnosed with fluid buildup in his brain that has affected his “hearing, vision and balance.” Joel revealed on Instagram […]
Dave Shapiro, a groundbreaking music executive in the heavy metal and hard rock scene, has died in a San Diego plane crash. He was 42. Shapiro had a pilot’s license and was listed as the owner of the plane that crashed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The music agency Sound Talent Group confirmed Shapiro […]
All four members of Twin Strings are engineers — a default dream and requirement for every Indian. Twins Sagar and Sahil realised their musical calling early but dutifully completed their degrees before diving in. Their cousin, Mohit Deen, was always part of the plan. When they contacted Manav, another engineering graduate, he thought he was […]
EPIC Choir at Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Outside the transit gate at the Salt Lake City airport, 50-year-old marketing professional Bharadhwaj Lakshminarayanan was trying to perfect a gamaka, an embellishment applied to notes in Carnatic music. His 12-year-old daughter, Mahathi, corrected him. Moments later, a group of people waiting to board the […]
Jayanthi Kumaresh performing at the Cup ‘o Carnatic show in Chennai’s Narada Gana Sabha | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj What if a raga could unravel like a bedtime story, or a ragam tanam pallavi echo with laughter. Can humour find space between a veena phrase and a ghatam beat? And what happens when a […]
Pandit Bickram Ghosh | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The biennial Udupa Music Festival is breaking with tradition to present a concert this year to celebrate 10 years of bringing together Indian classical music and the performing arts. Helmed by Giridhar Udupa, Sandhya Udupa and Bhargava Halambi, this edition will feature a stellar line-up with the likes […]
