Maed in India

It’s time to raise those pinkies and take a sip of that delightful hot brew as Mae takes you down a rabbit hole to a musical wonderland. Travelling through Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Baroda, Bangalore and Bombay, we have songs that take you through forestfires, mothers, friends, ups and downs, highs that get even higher and at the end of the day, it all comes down to greats moves and the rig...

Singer-songwriter Vasuda Sharma is back on Maed in India with her band in tow aka The Besharams. On this episode, we talk about how a “certain member” of metal band Bhayanak Maut ended up reviewing pop sensation Aasma, how you can still be local and play a banjo, understanding what it’s like to live with 30 cats and how to sample your feline friend in your album recording. Oh and of course, how co...

Your indie gal Mae is the quintessential enthu cutlet. She gets excited about things like tea, swimming, new notebooks, a stiff drink, and of course new music. In her abundant enthuness, she brings you more and more tunes for your unending listening pleasure. This mixtape has songs about lethargy, lovers, Sunday, butter, chaos, and Amma.    Song List: Smalltalk - Tired (01:46 - 06:32) Kalmi - Amma...

Taking over this episode of Maed in India is Indian femcee (get it… emcee… femcee), we got Manmeet Kaur in de house. Out with her latest album, Neophilia, we take a deep dive into her life and times talking about her family, her relationships, her childhood, her struggles, her triumphs, her opinions, and her beef with everything she feels is wrong with the world.    Set List: Likwit Love (00:28 -...

On this week’s episode of Maed in india, we have hindi folk rock act Aankh Micholi performing from their latest album, Aao Khele. We chat to them about arranged marriages, Hansel & Gretel, being called Osho, vedic rock and they even throw in a couple of unreleased goodies.    Set List: Sacchai (00:29 - 05:57) Sun Kabira (15:24 - 20:20) Ram Bharose (28:51 - 34:29) Bablu Ki Shaadi (45:56 - 52:17)  ...

Pop rock act, Out of Autumn are the next headliners on Maed in India who “translate sounds into feelings and feelings into sounds”... whatever that means. We talk about really lame nicknames, when your dad has his own band too, having disagreements with an imaginary girlfriend, and a performance of a whole bunch of unreleased music from an upcoming concept album they working on. Set List: Burn the...

Keeping Mae’s relationship with her roots strong, we have another band from her motherland on the show - happy campers electro-pop band, The Derelicts! We talk about how being in a metal band in college was a right of passage, whether being a chartered accountant or a musician makes you more marriageable, the Kerala indie music scene and what it takes to be a happy sad band.   Set List: Happy Sad...

Ever the early riser, always the late arriver. That’s Mae. Punctuality isn’t particularly her forte but making awesome mixtapes is! This month, we have music from all over the country - Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Mumbai and Nagaland. Today’s songs may cause the following: drowning, dreaming, falling, lifting or trading.   Song List: Three Oscillators ft. Karshni Nair - Drowning (01:40 - 05:03) The...

4 years of Maed in India 4 producers of Maed in India This episode brings you stories behind this humble indie music podcast that has over 170 episodes and 600 songs out so far. Mae chats to Amit, Mali, Josh and Shaun who’ve all in some way or the other worked to create the show as well as poked/whipped Mae to get the job done.   Set List: Live Again - Mali (01:15 - 04:36) Maria - Josh (19:39 - 26...

A band whose members originate from South India but found each other in a college in Haryana, jazz/blues/soul/funk act Shorthand talk about the band’s ups & downs, their music, sugar with idlis, and whatsapp groups. Listen to them performing some older tunes and newbies too on this episode of Maed in India.   Set List: Impressions (00:35 - 06:30) Window Noise (17:23 - 22:30) No Surprise (41:11 - 4...

On Maed in India this week, we have multilingual hip-hop crew Swadesi that brings you rap in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali. We chat about why MC Mawali’s name was inspired by his mother, rapping about the socio-political context rather than girls, drugs & hoes and their latest release, The Warli Revolt, about the tribals in the Arrey Milk Colony area of Bombay who are in the throes of getti...

This month’s Maed Mixtape brings you a bunch of songs that talk about love, siblings, butterflies, and Nagraj. And with every playlist we curate, our dear host Mae always wants to squeeze in JUST ONE MORE song because she cannot wait for you to hear what she loves. If she could, her mixtapes would have a 100 songs. But no.   Song List: Azamaan Hoyvoy - Everybody Looking for Love (01:05 - 03:20) Ko...

It started out as a solo project in medical college. Soon a band formed with a name synonymous with pondering at a cafe in Thane, Mumbai. On this episode, electro-prog-rock outfit Corner Cafe Chronicles  talk about being woke, cosmetic dentistry, the ever looming self-destruction of mankind, girls and “the preliminary construct of the decaying consciousness”. Also, they perform some unreleased mat...

Keeping the flame of Malayali lovin alive on the show, this week we have two lads who hail from Kerala - one is the beard and the other is the harmony - who make up acoustic prog rock duo, Beard of Harmony . They’ve released their debut EP in Jan this year and we chat about cheesy album artwork, emo lyrics, girl talk, and their latest tour that’s taken them to Nepal, Sri Lanka and even a yacht in...

Back on the show for Round 2, The Koniac Net come back on the show (after featuring on Ep.2) with a new album coming soon and with their whole band in tow. This episode is filled with way to many PJs along with a couple of drinking games, contemplations on why polls are rigged, and the ultimate question - who the hell are the Koniac Konnoisseurs?   Set List: Crawling (00:23 - 04:20) And We Became...

We’re going to make this a regular thing. Mae’s Mixtapes will bring you the tunes that have landed up in her inbox before they end up lying around and gathering digital dust. She's also going to share other songs she’s discovered on her social media timelines and other nooks and crannies of the interwebs. Oh and... YOU GOT MAIL!   Song List: Trance Effect - Stop Pretending (01:32 - 04:41) No Honey...

This band are back with a brand new record out. I’m talking about ska/reggae/dub outfit The Fanculos and their out with The Fanculos Album. We’ll be chatting about recording at a farmhouse in Alibag, playing saxophone in the shower, and why demerara sugar has a historical connection to lead singer Ramon Ibrahim. All that and some skanking on this episode of Maed in India.   Set List: What You See...

When any person lands up in the midst of host, Mae on Maed in India, they will be subjected to lots of love but equal amounts of torture and will be squeezed for information. She will bring you moments from your past that even you personally have buried in the recess of your memories. The scrutiny and depth of research she digs up on her guests is equivalent to FBI/CIA/RAW/Private detective level...

Mae: “So I called my friend Aditi and I asked her, ‘Hey I know that the mission of your crew, Ladies Compartment, is to work with and bring together female musicians and I was wondering if you’d like to do that on Maed in india” Aditi: “Sure. Let’s do it!” And thus was born The Ladies Special. We talk about why ladies toilets need more cubicles, not taking things lying down, releasing new music, a...

Headlining the show this week is acapella/beatboxing crew Voctronica . This band have gone through various changes and breakups and now after much coaxing…. They at last landed up on Maed in India . Besides playing you their brand new tunes, talking about band breakups, how to keep your voice in tip top shape and you’ll get to hear yours truly (yes that’s Mae ) be a part of an impromptu acapella j...

He’s sold out stadiums across the world after his big break with AR Rahman. His origins are Carnatic classical but he’s a pop/soul/R&B singer songwriter too. I’m talking about Sid Sriram . Out with his new album, Entropy, he comes to the studio and performs stripped down renditions of his songs with a bunch of musicians in Bombay. Also, we talk about many things, why he’s such a shy guy, he lovely...

It’s all about that new music on Maed in India . I’m Mae and today my headliner is rapper/emcee/hip hop artist Enkore and out with his 2nd album Bombay Soul. So different from the last time when he came with his debut album Libra Scale in Ep.31. We chat about how he wanted to be a poet and not a rapper, being misunderstood, hologram pokemons, and the middle class mirage.   Set List: Soul - (00:32...

The last time indie soul R&B singer-songwriter Kamakshi Khanna landed up on the show (Ep.85), it was just herself and a ukulele. Now she’s brought her whole band to the studio and performing brand new unreleased material just for you. Also, we chat about her days in a youth choir, a band with her school friends called Obliviate, other really awkward band names, and more.   Set List: Foolish One (0...

Another band that returns to the Maed in India fold is Hindi rockers Daira (Ep.86). Out with a new album called Itni Jurrat? The last time we spoke to the band, the episode became a counselling session for their troubles. This time around we talk about Vipreet Buddhi (an improv album they recorded, mix it, master it while on a trip to Manali), Mazedaar Clinic, why musicians have no provident fund,...

Welcome to Maed in India 2019! My first band this year is electro-jazz/funk/trip hop/soul crew Ape Echoes ! Started by producer/multi-instrumentalist duo Nirmit Shah & Sid Shirodkar , it’s grown into a full-fledged band that are hoping to release their second record this year. On the show we talk about momos, anger management issues, being a geek, and a turtle named Charlie.   Set List: Come Alive...