Concerts & Events

Do the Needful are a Chicago ensemble - Hindi vocalists, Indian flute, guitar/fuzz organ, bass, drums - that takes Indian pop music from the 60s and 70s and filters it through garage pop, surf, rockabilly, ghostly jazz, and raw blues. The bands lean into retro-psychedelia hard while creating a powerful mix that is forward-thinking, unique AND a distinct product of Chicago's musical melting pot.

In partnership with the South Asian Institute.

https://dotheneedful.bandcamp.com/

Lapgan

Chicago based Producer and DJ Lapgan is an archivist and an artist, Lapgan uses his album "History" to document otherwise forgotten Indian music, allowing every chant and strum of the sarod to flow through him. Lapgan unearths rare and forgotten Indian and Pakistani music, revitalizing and recontextualizing the sounds of his ancestral home and musical predecessors with knocking and layered beats that traverse the Indian subcontinent. His music is an imagined history and a musical thesis - a refutation of British colonialism through a tapestry of beats stitching together samples of Bollywood and Lollywood soundtracks, Tamil Film music, Marathi chants, flute-heavy Bengali religious music, while still representing Chicago. These are beats for fans of deep crate digging, meticulous arrangement, and drums that could inspire scholars.

https://www.lapgan.com/