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July 30, 2022

July 30, 2022July 30, 2022 8octaves Music

Lollapalooza in India – Music Festival to Make India Debut

A concert, a festival, an event of international significance. Lollapalooza is all of this and more. It is a celebration of music and art. It is also the most important event to happen in India in 2023.

Lollapalooza in India!

The first Indian edition of Lollapalooza will take place on January, 2023. The line-up has not been announced yet but it will be one that brings together the best bands from India and around the world. The concert will be held at one of the biggest stadiums in Mumbai on January 28th-29th, 2023.

Early Bird tickets sale starts from August 1st on bookmyshow.com

Lollapalooza is a music festival that has been around for more than 20 years. It is an annual event that takes place in Chicago, Illinois. The festival was founded by Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell as a farewell tour for his band.

The first Lollapalooza was held on October 12, 1991 at the Glen Helen Regional Park in San Bernardino, California. The lineup included Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Living Colour, Butthole Surfers and Ice-T’s metal band Body Count.

The music festival has been running for 27 years. This year, the event will be held in India and the line-up includes some of the most popular artists of all time.

December 18, 2013

December 18, 2013September 22, 2022 Abhiraj Ghosh

Submerge Presents DJ Skazi

India’s leading dance music portal – Submerge brings you Israeli Psychedelic master – DJ Skazi. The tour will be on 6^th, 7^th and 8^th September. Details about the tour and tickets to be announced soon.

About DJ SKazi – Asher and Assaf B-bass have been working together since 1998, producing a unique style of hardcore dance floor trance music. Asher is responsible for writing, producing and mixing all the tracks. He also plays and records all the instruments in Skazi’s music. Skazi have been touring non-stop from 2000 until now. They have played in countries like Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Australia, Japan, etc. and have collaborated with artists like Matt Sorum (Drummer for Guns ‘n Roses) and Arno Carsten (South African Mega Star).

November 27, 2013

November 27, 2013September 22, 2022 8octaves Music

Your Sunburn #S7 experience just got better with Nicky Romero

~ World’s No. 7 DJ drops the beat on Sunburners with a high power music experience ~

Mumbai, 24^th November 2013: The Sunburn Arena experience gets bigger as Nicky Romero, world’s no. 7 DJ, has dance music fans grooving to his beats. A gateway to a complete EDM experience, Sunburn Arena 2013 raised the bar of the Sunburn journey.

The Arena witnessed energies soaring as Sunburners pounded to the opening sets of popular DJs such as WA! (DJ Whosane + Dj Anastasia) and Lost Stories x Anish Sood. The build-up to Nicky Romero’s entrance did justice to the DJ even as fans awaited their favourite DJ with bated breath and thumping hands. Nicky Romero’s arrival was greeted with much hubbub and his signature Guy Fawkes masks. Sunburners continued to sport the masks as Nicky spun his famous ‘Toulouse’, a mainstay on the Beatport Top Ten for a considerable stint. Nicky Romero played magic with his music, leaving the audience spellbound.

Commenting on the growing popularity of Sunburn Arena, Shailendra Singh, Joint Managing Director, Percept Ltd said, “We recognize that India has an increasing taste for the EDM culture and with Sunburn Arena, we always look to satisfy their taste buds. By successfully celebrating Asia’s largest EDM festival with Nicky Romero, we have taken the notch up higher on brand Sunburn. We thank all our followers for being the immense pillar of support that they are!”

About Sunburn

Sunburn is Asia’s largest electronic dance music brand, ranked as the 4^th Best festival in the world (inthemix.au). Inaugurated in 2007, as a 3 day music festival, Sunburn is an eclectic mix of music, entertainment, experiences, celebration and lifestyle that has seeded music tourism in India starting with Goa. In the past six years of its existence, Sunburn has brought together renowned Indian and International artists to entertain hundreds of thousands of dance music lovers through its various formats that reach out to fans across the India & Asia. . Sunburn caters to a wide Indian and International audience and it showcases India as a Dance Festival destination to the world.

Sunburn has extended and diversified beyond the festival in Goa in cities like Mumbai, Delhi & Bangalore. Other formats under the Sunburn umbrella include Arena gigs, Club gigs, Campus gigs and the newest edition called ‘Sunburn Reload’ which are specially designed and customized to cater to as many dance music fans, giving them a piece of Sunburn in their very

own town. Reaching out to all the yearning fans across the nation, Sunburn is all set to give its fans the best experience of their lifetime over and again.

November 14, 2013

November 14, 2013September 20, 2022 Piyush Krishna

Cold Night For Alligators to headline Dhanak ’13

With every year passing by, we are witnessing more and more colleges going through with evolving their college cultural fests. Earlier with performances by local artists, they turned to nationally acclaimed artists for gracing their fests, only for them to grow and have international artists rocking the pro shows. The trend started with IITs and has now being adapted by colleges across the country.

Dhanak, the annual cultural festival of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) has been gaining more and more public attention, as it continues to grow every year. Entering its fifth edition, the festival is set to attract large participation from colleges all across India.

The ‘Pronite’ at the festival, has been a huge success in the previous editions with rock bands Faridkot (2010), Kaash (2011) and Indian metal heavy-weight Demonic Resurrection (2012) performing in the previous editions. This year the event is set to be even bigger with Danish metal quartet Cold Night For Alligators set to rock Trivandrum.

For the last few years Cold Night For Alligators have been making a name for themselves and catching the attention of fans with their energetic and positive live show. The band has played all over Denmark as well as in the UK, Belgium and Norway, always trying to give the audience the greatest experience possible. Although not looking like the stereotypical long haired, leather wearing metal band, make no mistake Cold Night for Alligators is all about heavy. Their music is aggressive, highly technical, melodic and has plenty of groove.

Although being associated with techcore/djent and certainly rivaling the best of what that scene has to offer, these terms alone do not do the band justice. With their combination of progressive death metal, atmospheric ambient and brutal technical hardcore they bring something completely unique to the scene. This eclectic approach is enjoyable to those who appreciate taking the time to delve into technical detail with music of a very high, as well as those who enjoy to simply bang their heads at metal shows. Either way, Cold Night For Alligators deliver the goods with the down tuned assault of an 8-string guitar and brutal vocals ranging from guttural growls to high pitch screams.

The ‘Pronite’ will take place on 22^nd September 2013, at IIST campus. For further details log on to www.dhanak.co.in

November 8, 2013

November 8, 2013September 22, 2022 8octaves Music

True School of Music hosts its first Band Boot Camp to provide coaching to young bands

November 2013: The True School of Music (TSM), Mumbai, will host its first Band Boot Camp, aimed at providing coaching and support to young and upcoming bands, on the 15^th of November 2013. TSM, launched in September this year, in association with The Manhattan School of Music, New York, is India’s first comprehensive institute of contemporary music. The selected bands will get the opportunity to showcase their music for, and interact with an expert panel of judges that has been responsible for shaping many artists’ careers in the country in recent times including Lalitha Suhasini, Editor, Rolling Stone India; Naveen Deshpande, Director, Mixtape; and Arjun S Ravi, Co-founder/Editor, Nh7.in. Through the Band Boot Camp, the bands take away the first resources and exposure that will help them along their career – invaluable feedback and advice through a coaching session from the panel, as well as a multi-track recording of their performance on state-of-the-art facilities provided by TSM.

The process

To register for the Band Boot Camp, bands are required to upload audio or video samples to YouTube or Soundcloud, and send links to these to [email protected]. The final date for submission of entries is the 10^th of November, after which, four chosen bands will be intimated by phone or email on the 12^th of November. Then, on the 15^th of November, the chosen bands will showcase their music before the expert panel and the TSM faculty.

For each of the four bands, this is an opportunity to get invaluable feedback from the expert panel of judges. Following their performance, each band will be given feedback and a 30-minute coaching session with the panel. They will also be given the multi-track recordings of their performance on state-of-the-art facilities provided by TSM, giving them a great recording of their music to help start them on their careers. One winning band from amongst the four will also be given a live video recording of its performance, with which they can cut an official music video, as well as a 50% scholarship for the much sought-after 3-month band coaching module at TSM.

Expert panel for Band Boot Camp

Lalitha Suhasini is one of the best-known names in the music industry in India today. Having been a music journalist for many years, she is currently the editor of Rolling Stone magazine in India, has previously been the Deputy Editor of Time Out Mumbai and contributed to publications such as Mint and Forbes India. Naveen Deshpande is the director of Mixtape, an artist and event management company in Mumbai that manages some of the most popular bands in the country, including Shaa’ir + Func, Scribe, ViceVersa, Junkyard Groove and Indus Creed. Arjun S Ravi, as co-founder and editor of NH7.in, is very closely involved with the growth of the Indian independent music circuit, as he has been critiquing and promoting bands though NH7.in, Indiecision.com and as a young journalist at multiple publications since 2002.

About The True School of Music

The True School of Music (TSM), launched in association with The Manhattan School of Music, NYC, is India’s first comprehensive institute of contemporary music. It’s at the vanguard of providing music education of the highest calibre: helping students take the initial steps or continue their journey to higher levels in the music industry. TSM incorporates the best practices from international music and sound pedagogy, but at the same time, relates it to the Indian scenario. Its rigorous training programs open up lucrative careers in music for professionals and budding musicians. Spread over 15,000 square feet, TSM hosts the state-of-the-art infrastructure, recording studios, a comprehensive music library, rehearsal rooms, auditorium for live gigs and consoles for DJs, in addition to resident faculty from Manhattan School of Music, New York, professional instrument courses authored by leading music educators in the USA and sound engineering and music production courses authored by The Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM), UK. TSM has two primary departments – the Pro School, and the Foundation School. The Pro School predominantly teaches five western instruments, sound design and music production. The Foundation School teaches five western instruments as well as five Indian Classical instruments.

October 19, 2013

October 19, 2013September 20, 2022 Varun Khatri

MetamorphiK Productions Signs Deathember

MetamorphiK Productions signed the groove metal band, Deathember, for their upcoming ventures in 2014. After 2011’s critically acclaimed EP ‘A Thousand Flatlines’, the Stockholm-based Swedish groove metal band released their debut full length album, ‘Going Postal’, earlier this year. The album consists of eleven power packed tracks, including several featured guest performances by the likes of Daniel Ädel (Vildhjarta, ex-Uneven Structure) and Ralph Santolla (ex-Deicide, ex-Death, ex-Iced Earth, ex-Sebastian Bach, ex-Obituary). Deathember will likely be touring India in 2014, so the organizers who want to book them for shows can contact Sumeet Suvarna of MetamorphiK Productions:

Email: [email protected]

MetamorphiK Productions is an artist management and event organizing company, founded by Sujay and Sumeet Suvarna in August 2010. Since then, the firm has been instrumental in managing, organizing and promoting numerous shows and venues in different cities across India featuring artists from India and across the globe. In February 2011, MetamorphiK Productions entered the Hyderabad market by booking Swedish Metal band, Degradead for Pearl 2011 (BITS Pilani annual cultural fest). In June 2011, MetamorphiK Productions organized their first pub gig in Hyderabad at Xtreme Sports Bar. And since then has been instrumental in reviving the live music scene in Hyderabad.

October 19, 2013

October 19, 2013September 22, 2022 Varun Khatri

Theorized Working on a New Album

After a rather long halt, the Thrash metal outfit, Theorized, from Bangalore are back to metal up our holy arses with a new line-up and a few killer gigs. After having a quite exciting season last year, Theorized had to bid farewell to its guitarist, Sandeep, who left the band due to some personal differences, which forced the band to take a break for a short while. But now, the band is back and they have a full-length release in the corner for their fans, which is expected to be released later this year or early 2014. The following statement has been issued by the band:

“2012, we did some crazy gigs like SummerStorm Festival with Opeth and Bangalore Open Air with Kreator. We took some time off later to sort out shit, but we’re back now stronger than ever. We just had a line-up change, as our guitarist Sandeep quit the band due to personal reasons. As we had already started tracking the album and time was too short to audition, after loads of practice and a few rehearsals, Madhav took up both vocal & guitar duties.”

The current line-up is:

Madhav – Vocals / Guitar

Ankit – Guitar

Sankalp – Bass

Yash – Drums

As stated earlier, the band is currently half way through wrapping up their debut full length album! This will be their next release ever since the monster, ‘False Hope Of Tyranny’ EP which was out in 2009.

The band just played at VEHEMENT ERA along with their fellow bands, Gutslit, Nihilus, Chaos, Solar Deity, Dark Desolation and Festered Wound. They are also lined-up to do a couple of shows this month and another show in November:

October 18, 2013 – Kingfisher October Fest – Bangalore

October 26, 2013 – Septic Progression II, 10 Sports Bar – Hyderabad November 3, 2013 – Metal Factory, CounterCulture – Bangalore

October 17, 2013

October 17, 2013September 22, 2022 Amar Singh

Kingfisher Octoberfest 2013

The Kingfisher Octoberfest is all set to go live starting tomorrow at our very own Jayamahal Palace, Bangalore! The fest will be on for the next three days (18th – 20th October 2013). Here’s a quick glimpse of the line up –

18th October 2013

Kingfisher Premium Kingsland Stage: Arijit Singh, Point of View, Core 304, All The Fat Children

Common Colors World Stage: Exist Immortal, Inner Sanctum

Nocturnal Cell – DJ Clement, DJ Rohan Kapoor

19th October 2013

Kingsland Stage: Hoobastank, Indus Creed, One Nite Stand, Skrat, Slapdash Tavern

World Stage: Avial, Shankar Tucker, Aabha Hanjura, Beat Gurus

Nocturnal Cell: DJ NDS and Blue, DJ Ajit Pai, DJ Inferno

20th October 2013

Kingsland Stage: Mika Singh, Raghu Dixit, Laetitia Zonzambe, Lagori, Machas With Attitude

World Stage: Baiju Dharmajan, Girish and The Chronicles, Slain + Choral Riff, Clown With A Frown

Nocturnal Cell: DJ Joshen Miller, Ash Roy, DJ Jasmeet, Twokid Wickid

Seeing names of your favourite bands? Not too late! Book your tickets right away! Well this year being the 9^th edition of the amazing music festival, Common Colours (the organizers) promise that it is going to be fantabulous this year! We strongly think you should be a part of it – An awesome weekend with music for the ears and beer for the throat! 😉

October 10, 2013

October 10, 2013September 22, 2022 Varun Khatri

No Scar Symmetry at TGIOF

The year is being somewhat plagued by cancelled concerts/performances. First the massive Fly Music Festival (featuring Anthrax, Limp Bizkit, Mastadon etc.), which was cancelled two weeks prior to the actual date and then Sodom backed out of the Bangalore Open Air on the eve of the concert, due to some payment issues, and now we find out that the news of Scar Symmetry playing at The Great Indian Oktober Fest is as fake as a three dollar bill! Yes, this hasn’t been officially declared as of yet but there have been multiple instances of the band denying of having any shows for the rest of the year.

A few days back, a journalist from New Delhi inboxed band’s guitarist Per Nilsson on Facebook, asking him whether Scar Symmetry would be playing in India. Per denied having any shows lined-up for 2013 as the band is busy in the studio recording their sixth studio album. And now today, a fan posted a similar query on Scar Symmetry’s Facebook page and a reply from the band clarified that there was mix-up on the management side of the organizers and they aren’t line-up to perform r the show. The statement from the band is:

“We just got word from the promoter that there was a mix-up, they sent our agency an offer for the show but we had to turn it down because we are not doing any more shows this year. Somehow, someone didn’t get the memo and accidently put our name on the bill… They are correcting it now” “We wish to come to India in 2014! Hang on there!” Per added.

October 10, 2013

October 10, 2013September 21, 2022 Shubangi Sundar

THE M.A.D FESTIVAL

With a lot of different genres of music on the rise, the goMAD Festival is one of a kind; a Festival to celebrate Music, Arts, Dance & Destination (Nilgris!!!) ! The GoMAD festival, a pure celebration of all arts will happen at Fernhills Palace Ooty on the 24th and 25th of October!The lineup this year includes big names like Agam, Jeremiah Ferrari, Parikrama, Emergence, Parvaaz, Inner Sanctum and what not! Name the fine musicians and they are all there! For all the dance lovers, Shobana’s dance company is also a part of the fest this year guaranteeing some visual treat!

You could also be a part of the Mad festival – by performing at the festival or also by volunteering along with the other music heads! There are also many workshops planned for all the various art form lovers – Guitar, Dance, Photography are on the schedule but we thought the ‘Belly dance’ workshop is one thing that is definitely a ‘NO MISS’ 😉

While you are at the festival there are loads of other things you could do – There is an exclusive bazaar happening there, so dear shopaholics this fest is for you as well 😀 The festival has a ‘Bar in the woods’ – sounds very tempting for all of us. Well, if you haven’t signed up either as a volunteer or a performer, worry not – there is ‘Jam Base’ as well. Time to meet like-minded music souls J 16 days to goMAD. Will you be there? We suggest you take a ride to the hills and witness one of the happening fests!