Pakistan's Music Still Rocking

Pakistan music industry is also suffering a heavy loss as the other industries in Pakistan because of intense security issues and economic fall back of the country. Pakistans music has been around for longer than that of tibalans and mujhadins. in 1960s Pakistans cities rocked because of huge availability of vanues and mostly the bands came forward at that time were from Christian Community.
In Lahore music battered in 1080s with the help of audio/video cassettes of rock albums and videos footages of concerts. Newly formed bands used to gether at AlHemra Hall Non 1 for the most of the concerts and regularly staged "Battle Of Bands". Vital Signs (1987-1995) managed to seep through the cracks and were signed by Papsi for the first time to bring rock/pop music into mainstream. They were fallowed by a string of boyish pop acts, which set the stage for Junoon's mass success.
In 1990s scene became populated by independent acts performing some original compositions of english bands such as Black Sabbath and others. This independent music scene attracted a lot of media attention. All of a sudden media changed the outlook of Pakistani Music in 2000. From Pepsi Battle Of Bands and talent hunt show a band named Entity Paradigm came forward. They further changed the outlook of rock music. They introduced english rap for4 the first time in Pakistani music.
Corporate interests aside, the live music scene since 2001 has come under threat of terrorist attacks on large gatherings. Bands have been complaining for years that they are unable to put up shows because lack of funding, and that revenue from ticket sales is inadequate due to security concerns.It is true that rock has served as an emotional outlet for youth in Pakistan over the decades. And while kids these days seem up to the challenge of using their instruments to express themselves, a lack of venues and limited public access is shutting them out of the cultural space.
With only a couple of record labels, and prohibitively expensive recording studios, rock music doesn't enjoy much support. A band's only real hope of hitting it big is corporate endorsement, and we all know marketing money usually goes on safe bets, rather than unruly, politically charged and opinionated youngsters. The double whammy of the recession and security concerns has further stifled the growth of such creative movements.

Underground History

The term underground applies to different artistic moments such as psychedelic music moments of mid 1960s.This term is now more related to artists/bands who avoids becoming mainstream. In modern popular music the term underground refers to bands and artists that are signed with independent record labels, and they typically perform in small venues and promote their music through word-of-mouth and internet sites. In some cases the content of music is illegal and controversial.Shalom Sheer’s "philosophy for artists" argues that there are three common misconceptions about the "underground": that it refers exclusively to the rave/electronic scene; that it can be described with a vague, broad definition of "anything which is not mainstream"; and the myth that underground music is kept secret;he points out that no band or performer "exclude virtually anyone or anything" using "secret passwords and hidden map points".Even some musical styles that eventually became mainstream, commercialized pop styles started out as underground music. Late 1970s disco is often considered to be a much commercialized type of pop music. However, before discos mainstream adoption in 1977 and 1978, disco records were underground music created by nightclub DJs for the gay dance club scene. Similarly, hip hop began "on the streets"; in the early 1980s, rappers did beat boxing and made up rhymes for tiny underground labels. Genres such as new wave, alternative rock, grunge, various forms of heavy metal, grind core, electronic, outsider music, and experimental music, also trace their roots to underground scenes.