Every Monday, our human curators in seven cities send you seven new artists — Marathi rap from Dombivli, Tamil indie from a Chennai garage, Bengali folk-fusion from Bolpur. No infinite scroll. No "because you liked." Just a wave you can hold in one hand.
Seven new artists, one from each of our seven curator-cities. Listen in order, or shuffle — but listen all the way through. That's the deal. The whole tape, side A to side B.
Acoustic Tamil indie from a Mylapore garage — fingerpicked guitar, sea-salt vocals, lyrics about his grandmother's house in Rameswaram.
PLAY THE A-SIDEUnderground Punjabi rap that refuses the AP Dhillon polish. 808s built in a Ludhiana cyber café, bars about pawned tractors and the diaspora.
PLAY THE A-SIDEBengali folk-fusion. Baul cadences laid over a downtempo beat. Six minutes long because she doesn't care about your attention span.
PLAY THE A-SIDEMarathi battle rap out of the Dombivli local — 5:48 train cipher. Storytelling bars about chawl life, his Aai's chai, RBI clerk dreams.
Recorded on a MacBook in a Fort Kochi hostel. Whispered Malayalam vocals over lo-fi guitar. Cardamom-soft and slightly sad.
Bihu drum patterns drowned in shoegaze fuzz. Sung in Assamese to a Brahmaputra that's eating his hometown.
PLAY THE A-SIDEGarba meets four-on-the-floor. Made in a CEPT student dorm. The B-side of the wave — the closer. The one you'll dance to.
The big platforms are optimized for English-language pop. Their "regional" sections are graveyards of film soundtracks from 1998. An indie Tamil artist with 4,000 monthly listeners doesn't get suggested — she gets buried. We built Lehar because someone has to actually listen first.
Our curators are working musicians, music journalists, and college-radio kids in Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Ludhiana, Kochi, and Guwahati. They go to gigs. They scroll Bandcamp. They get tagged on Instagram.
Not seventy. Not seven hundred. Seven. A wave you can actually finish. Side A is four artists. Side B is three. Total runtime: ~45 minutes — one long bus ride.
Every artist gets a 60-word liner note from the curator who found them. Not "fans of X also like Y." A reason. A story. A reason to press play.
No payola. No label deals. No promoted slots. The day we accept one rupee from a major label to feature an artist, we'll shut down. In writing.
If a song hits — really hits — you can send the artist a tip straight from the player. No payment processor stack. No PayPal forex. Just UPI. We take zero cut. The artist sees the screenshot.
Every Lehar artist gets a custom artistname@lehar handle. Mahua doesn't need a payment gateway. Her cousin's PhonePe works.
₹49, ₹149, ₹999 — whatever you tip, every paisa lands in the artist's account. We pay the UPI infra cost out of subscription revenue.
Send a handwritten-style note. Artists print the good ones and tape them to their bedroom wall. We've seen it happen.
₹18.4 lakh routed in 2024 alone. Average tip: ₹74. Highest single tip: ₹25,000 to a Naga folk duo from a Delhi listener who'd "never heard music like that."
Save an artist from any wave. When they tour to your city, we tell you — once, well in advance, never spam. Pre-sale links go to Lehar listeners 48 hours before the public drop.
The good shows happen at 80-seat venues that don't have a marketing budget. We hear about them because we know the bookers personally.
Lehar+ and Patron tier get first dibs on tickets before they hit BookMyShow or the artist's own Instagram story.
"Within 50 km of Pune" or "anywhere in India if it's Daljit." Granular. Quiet by default.
After a gig you attended, we'll send you the artist's latest demo + a tip-jar link. Easiest way to close the loop.
Cancel anytime. UPI / cards / Net Banking. All prices include GST. Paid tiers fund the curator network — and the UPI infrastructure that pays artists.
Annual: ₹1,499 (Lehar+) · ₹3,999 (Patron) · saves you two months · GST included · cancel anytime · refund in 7 days, no questions.
We curate in the language artists actually make music in. Song titles, liner notes, tip messages — all in script. Below: the regions we cover today, listener counts on the right.
~ next on the dial: Odia, Manipuri, Khasi, Konkani ~
Some of the notes we've taped to our office wall in Bandra. Real listeners. Real artists.
artistname@lehar UPI handle that routes to their personal bank. We use Razorpay's UPI Intent API. Tips settle in T+1. We take ₹0 cut — every paisa lands with the artist. The infrastructure cost is absorbed by Lehar+ and Patron subscriptions. The artist sees the tipper's name (or "anonymous"), amount, and the note you wrote. They can reply with a thank-you that lands in your Lehar inbox.Hear what nobody else is hearing. The Monday wave drops in 4 days. Free, forever — start there. Pay later if you want more.
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