In October 2015, Condé Nast bought Pitchfork. After the purchase, Condé’s chief digital officer at the time, Fred Santarpia, offered a simple explanation why one of the oldest names in print magazine journalism was buying the hottest music blog of the previous two decades: Pitchfork brought “a very passionate audience of millennial males into our roster.” Nine years after that …
It was the year 1995 when singer Alisha Chinai introduced us to a princess who had travelled the world—Japan, Russia, Australia, America—looking for love. The indie pop scene was more than just about gender, finding an equal voice as the West or finding new identity in a new world. In India, the lyrics of indie pop represented the hopes of …