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Since the late 1990s when president and Hard Rock musicians. The growth has been an explosive trend that continues until this day. What separates this movement from its Los Angeles pop counterpart is the young age group and the fact that it is almost entirely homegrown, and mostly underground. These are the children born after Iran's revolution of 1979. {Link without Title} One of the first rock concerts ever to take place was that of an anonymous but highly acclaimed band "Pezhvak". The event was so significant that it even drew a ''Newsweek'' reporter to the concert. [http://web.utk.edu/~persian/P/P1.wma (.wma sample 1) (2) Soon there were bands superimposing the poetry of . Today, there are even [http://www.tehran360.com/ underground competitions and even music critics writing of these bands. And once in a while, the government allows rock concerts to take place in very limited conditions. Bands like [http://www.127band.com/ 127 and The Technicolor Dream have performed live, with English lyrics. These are a clear indication of how Iranian bands are finding their own unique sound as they continue to attract bigger audiences and progress into maturity. Sometimes Jazz , sometimes Frank Zappa , sometimes Dream Theater , the music of the new Iranian rock scene is a mix of their inspirations and creations. {Link without Title} And for a country like Iran that until a couple of years ago banned all forms of modern western music, it is surprising to hear bands now in Iran producing rock music with female vocals thrown in, or even Heavy Metal Music . {Link without Title} In today's Iran, one can see books printed in Persian about Guns N' Roses and Pink Floyd in front of the Tehran University in the ''book bazaar''s. There are also state-sanctioned albums with selected works of The Beatles , Joe Satriani , Santana , The Gypsy Kings , Al Di Meola , Steve Vai , and Era , among many others. Also, British rock band Queen has gained strong popularity in recent years due to Freddie Mercury 's reportedly strong pride in his albeit distant Persian ancestry (he was a Parsi ). RISING FACES AND SOUNDS Examples of homegrown Iranian rock bands in Iran. Some are approved by the government, other continue to operate underground because of the restrictions imposed by The ''Ministry of Islamic Guidance''. The following is a sample list:
Public open live concerts are heavily restricted by the government. Most rock bands however can obtain permission to perform on stage live, provided their music is purely instrumental. A typical example of what is tolerated is the performance of the band ''Kathmayan'' in Kish, Iran . In July 2005, for the first time, a music production company in Canada by the name of Bamahang Productions released an album from another homegrown Iranian Rock band called Kiosk: Adameh Mamooli (Ordinary Man) , and succeeded in adding it to the iTunes Digital Music catalog, making it the first Iranian Underground Rock Music album to be available for digital download from iTunes. In December 2005, the same company managed to finally release the 2nd album from O-Hum entitled Aloodeh RAP MUSIC IN IRAN The first group to initiate the Rap genre in Iran was a Los Angeles based group called "Sandy" in the mid-late 1990s. They particularly became well known for their mixing of ''Bandari'' music with Rap songs. With the stardom of Eminem , rap and hip hop found an explosive following among Iranian teenagers, and soon this age group turned from Rap-enthusiast to Rap-producer, as a means of self expression. Tehran based underground groups like EMZipper make no secret of their anger of Iran's current social status:
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