Flipsyde on Their India Connect, Forging New Bonds and Making New Music
RollingStone India|January 2023
The American hip-hop/rock act's vocalist-guitarist Steve Knight and rapper The Piper aka Jinho Ferreira spoke about returning to the Orange Festival of Adventure and Music in Dambuk, Arunachal
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Flipsyde on Their India Connect, Forging New Bonds and Making New Music

AT THE END OF 2022, CALIFORNIA'S EARLY 2000s-famous alt-rock/hip-hop band Flipsyde had more than 15 million streams on Spotify and a new collaboration with Indian pop artist Gajendra Verma - "Maar Sutteya" - which has amassed over five million views on YouTube. On December 18th, they were headlining Orange Festival of Adventure and Music in Dambuk, Arunachal Pradesh for a second time.

Considering all this, it would be a total disservice to say Flipsyde are far from their creative prime or popularity. They've just been chipping away at their own pace, branching out to prove their global relevance from time to time. India has been a permanent fixture in all of their plans, in one way or another. Before "Maar Sutteya," a decade-old collaboration with Bengaluru hip-hop artist Brodha V found release, with vocalist-guitarist Steve Knight singing the English hook on "All Divine." Knight says, "When all this happens, you feel like you're part of something bigger."

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