For the past year, percussionist Sameer Gupta’s nonprofit, RootStock Arts, has presented bite-sized programs of classical Indian music at Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery. By turning the ...

First installment of eight-album series arrives March 20; live performance set for Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival.

In the Indian classical musical tradition, ragas are associated with different times of the day, or with seasons. Indian classical music is always set in a raga. The various time zones for ragas are - ...

Composer Reena Esmail breaks down the difference between raga and tala in Indian classical music, and how their function compares to scales and rhythms in Western classical music. Host Scott Yoo then ...

For hundreds of centuries, raga has formed the backbone of Indian classical music, offering a guideline for musicians to improvise when performed live. Ragas—which roughly translates to “coloring”—are ...

Enthusiasts of classical music gathered for an evening dedicated to musicians of the famed Sham Chaurasi Gharana at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts on Tuesday. Through their renditions, they ...

Frontman and lead guitarist Sameer Khan explains how hotly tipped London psych-rockers Karma Sheen are sticking to their guns, honoring their heritage, and building a bridge between ancient ...

Utsav Lal started playing the piano when he was 7. You could say that he was always besotted by the instrument. Perhaps it was the sheer size of the piano and the accompanying range of sounds that the ...

Singer, songwriter, and composer, Runki Goswami, who performs in 17 Indian languages, began her adventures in melody at the age of six when she started taking part in interschool competitions. The ...

Let me, right at the very outset, clarify that an essay on AR Rahman’s use of Indian classical music is not a commentary on Ilaiyaraaja’s use of classical music. In fact, my writing about Rahman does ...

In the Indian classical musical tradition, ragas are associated with different times of the day, or with seasons. Indian classical music is always set in a raga. The various time zones for ragas are - ...