The Score Magazine

In a music landscape often driven by trends, Easy Wanderlings have carved a space that feels timeless. Blending indie folk, ambient textures, and heartfelt storytelling, the Pune-based collective has built a loyal following with music that invites listeners to slow down and connect. Their sound is intimate yet expansive, drawing inspiration from nature, travel, and everyday emotions.

Druv Kent’s music doesn’t just sit in a genre, it travels. With Beyond It All (Sayi), the Singapore based, India rooted artist crafts a cinematic indie folk sound that feels both intimate and expansive. Blending Western songwriting with North Indian influences, the track explores questions of faith, identity, and the quiet search for something greater than what we see.

At just fifteen, Deshna Chettri is already carving out a powerful space in the global bass community. With thunderous slap techniques, fearless experimentation, and a musical maturity far beyond her years, Deshna is redefining what the bass guitar can be. From blending rock and metal energy with Indian classical nuances to earning endorsements from leading global brands like Markbass and Sadowsky, her journey is as inspiring as it is electrifying.

Designed for modern musicians, engineers, creators, and venues, the DigiPad 8 delivers powerful digital mixing capabilities in a surprisingly compact format. As live sound, content creation, recording, and streaming continue to converge, audio professionals are looking for equipment that can adapt to multiple environments without adding complexity. The Proel DigiPad 8 is a product built around exactly that idea.

Veena Sheshanna (1852—1926) Sheshanna was a concert musician at the court of the princely state of Mysore. Back in the days veena artistes played the Saraswati Veena holding it vertically and it was Sheshanna who played it holding it in the horizontal position for the first time. It is believed that, Sheshanna was perhaps the originator of the Mysore style of rendition. He was an exceptional composer and his profound knowledge in north Indian classical music is striking in his Tillanas.

With mentorship from Martin Garrix, Benson Boone, and a continued association with A.R. Rahman, JBL Music Academy returns with a bigger vision for emerging artists. For decades, JBL has been synonymous with sound. Whether on festival stages, in recording studios, at sporting events, or in the hands of everyday listeners, the brand has built its reputation around helping people experience music at its best. Today, however, JBL’s ambitions extend beyond audio products.

More than a trade show or a convention, NAMM is where the future of music takes shape. Every January, thousands of musicians, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, educators, content creators, engineers, and industry leaders arrive at Anaheim, California for one reason: The NAMM Show. For many first-time visitors, NAMM appears to be a giant exhibition filled with guitars, microphones, mixers, speakers, software, and endless product launches.

From the world’s most influential gathering of music, audio, technology and creative professionals, NAMM’s 125-year journey is a story of resilience, innovation and an unwavering belief in the power of music. For most industries, surviving for a decade is an achievement. For a trade show to remain relevant for 125 years is almost unimaginable. Yet that is exactly what the National Association of Music Merchants, better known as NAMM, has accomplished.

This issue is led by a special 125 Years of The NAMM Show cover story.

India’s professional audio, AV, lighting, and entertainment technology industry is entering one of its most exciting growth phases, and PALM AV-ICN Expo 2026 is gearing up to reflect exactly that momentum. Returning for its 24th edition from May 28 to 30, 2026 at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon, Mumbai, the expo is expected to once again bring together the country’s entire professional AV and entertainment technology ecosystem under one roof.