Rock bands in India are growing by the number.Daily,atleast 50 new bands are formed.These include kids from school,college students and grown ups.But where do we stand on the global map? Is the average Indian music buff going to go to the store and pick up local rock albums? I’ll try my best in answering these questions.
Between the 70s and early 90s,the Indian rock scene was dominated by Mohiner Ghoraguli and Indus Creed. Mohiner are considered to be the pioneers of Bengali Rock music-which has a significant fan following not only in West Bengal but other parts of the country and also Bangladesh,Nepal,Etc. Indus creed broke the tradition of Indian bands covering international artistes.A very brave step forward,but did it all work out? Take into consideration the time of release of their album ‘Indus Creed’.It released in 1993,precisely the time when cable television came to India.And we got to see MTV,Star plus(one hell of a channel then!).Most of us were kids then,and we were hooked onto the television.MTV took up the cause of promoting IC’s album and thanks to all the air time they got through music videos on MTV,their album was a huge success.This moment is what I’d like to call the ‘Citi moment of success(:P)’ period for Indian rock music.
The huge success of IC’s album not only in India but abroad,encouraged other musicians to shed the covers only tag off them.And this revolution gave us the likes of Moksha,Alms for shanti and Skinny Alley who are now considered to be the grand daddys of Indian rock music.
Into the late 90s,the rock scene here had a definite mould to it.Acts like Orange street,parikrama and pentagram coming in and establishing themselves.
If we break down to analyse how much such talent is encouraged in India,we see the following cities(in no particular order) to be running in contention for the power house of rock music in India.
1.KOLKATA-The home of skinny alley,someplace else-the mecca of rock music in India.It is every rock musician’s ambition to play there atleast once in his lifetime,and I am not exaggerating here! Apart from alley,Kolkata virtually dominates the bangla rock scene.Cactus,fossils,bhoomi are house hold names for avid bangla rock fans(For those who don’t know too much of Bangla rock-its a fusion of psychedelic,rock and Bengali lyrics in one).Watch out for the supersonics!
Popular genres enjoyed by the public here:CLASSIC ROCK,blues and jazz.A big NO to heavy metal-all Kolkatans will agree with me on that I am sure 
2.CHENNAI-Vineyard center,Moksha,Molotov Cocktail,the list can go on forever.My personal favourites are Panatella-for the unique sound they’ve established-mostly a fusion of rock and funk.The BEATLES rule here!
Popular genres in Chennai:rock,METAL,funk.
3.COCHIN-The hometown of motherjane! And 13AD.Loads of popular musicians come from here,and man can they play!
Popular genres in Cochin:Progressive metal.
4.Mumbai-My favourite of all cities.Because there’s variety.And good quality music too.We have zero(alternative),something relevant(jam band,yeah!),menwhopause(metal),etc.There’s good music everywhere you go here
All genres rule in Bbay!
5.Delhi-Home to the themclones,bhayanak mauth and like Bbay has a crowd for almost all genres.Special mention must be made for Advaita(watch:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNq5PRYPjS0&feature=related). Love the fusion.
6.Shillong-Presktorika! Thats the first thing that comes to my head when I think of Shillong.More to it of course.
Mostly metal rules here,but there’s a strong following for blues,rock n roll here.
I hope I’ve covered most of the indian rock music scene.All views expressed are purely mine and please feel free to disagree to what I have to say
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