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Check out Time Out's 10 breakout Indian bands
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Here’s what you shouldn’t expect to associate with Time Out’s list of 10 breakout Indian bands: glossy marketing campaigns, mega-buck endorsement deals and hackneyed music videos directed by the latest film-brat. Here’s what you should look for: tightly-constructed musical structure, intelligent songwriting and shovelfuls of spunk. These are the musicians to have on your playlist. On constant replay.

Burst things first

The Lightyears Explode are two years old and too loud to ignore

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Bike to the future

Experimental, fearless, progressive and psychedelic are all terms you could safely apply to music that The Bicycle Days produce

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Deity thoughts

Time Out lists five things you need to know about Goddess Gagged.

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Flight club

Hindi rock band Airport knows how to make angst sound happy

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Balani sandwich

Two siblings from Delhi point to the future of jazz in India, finds Time Out

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Peter patter

Time Out puts down nine things you need to know about Delhi’s Peter Cat Recording Co.

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Mellow dramatic

Time Out finds that quibbles are part of the creative process for trip-hop act Sulk Station

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Hell and hearty

Undying Inc's straight up music proves that heavy metal is not all about cock rock cliches or medieval fantasies

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Lone shark

It’s tough being a solo singer and songwriter, but Gowri tells Time Out she wouldn’t have it any other way

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Rap it up

Contagious beats and buckets of attitude best define the four-piece hip hop band Bombay Bassment

By Time Out on August 19 2011 6.07am

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