Indian Bands On Twitter

It took a long time for Indian bands to get web 2.0 and social network friendly. They started out slow – a few bands grappled Soundclick, Reverbnation, obscure music networks. Then MySpace happened and soon everyone from Parikrama to Yaana Gupta was on it.

Twitter’s a slightly different ball game. For one, a majority of Indian bands don’t have blogs, and those that do, blog infrequently. Bands just don’t have enough to say (ooh, low blow?). Apart from their music that is (and save). But a few artists have bravely taken on the challenge and put their thoughts into 140-character tweets. While some of our musicians use the service as a promotional tool, others give us an insight to their lives, and the rest grapple, to our entertainment, with the concept.

Here’s a list of Indian musicians on Twitter. Follow at your own risk

Allegro Fudge
Ameeth Thomas (Junkyard Groove)
Anushka Manchanda
Bandish Projekt
Bhavishyavani Future Soundz
Bhayanak Maut – Vinay Venkatesh (vocals), Sunneith Revankar (vocals), Vinit Bharucha (bass), R Venkataraman (Venky) (guitars)
Blakc
Dark Project
Demonic Resurrection
The Demonstealer
Dischordian
Faridkot
Five Little Indians
Indian Ocean
Jalebee Cartel – Ashvin
Karsh Kale
Medusa
menwhopause
MIDIval PunditZ
Motherjane
Parachute XVI
PINKNOISE
Prayag
P-Man (Pin Drop Violence)
The Raghu Dixit Project – Raghu Dixit (vocals), Gaurav Vaz (bass)
Scribe – Vishwesh (vocals), The Vaas (bass)
Shaa’ir + Func – Monica Dogra (vocals), Randolph Correia (guitars)
Shiva Soundsystem – Nerm, D-Code
Shor Bazaar
Siddharth Coutto (Zero, Tough On Tobacco)
Sifar
Solder
Something Relevant
Sridhar
Sridhar/Thayil
Swarathma – Jishnu Dasgupta (bass)
Tatva Kundalini
Tempo Tantrick
Them Clones – Surojit Dev (drums)
Vishal Dadlani (Pentagram)
Warren Mendonsa (Zero, Blackstratblues)
The Works – Mihir Joshi (vocals)
Zero – Rajeev Talwar (vocals)

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