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Incorporating Indian music elements and mainstream rock, Indian rock music has got its name in India’s popular music genre. Competing with India’s other popular northern and southern classical music; Indian Rock music has produced a number of rock bands and artists. Among the creative industries, music has a key role in both cultural and economic terms. Historically, 1980s had witnessed the rise of Indian Rock bands. Rock bands of India had come up with a paradigm of cultural shift in terms of economic values. Rock Machine, Easy Meat, Holocaust, Morgue, Dorian Platonic, Grassroots Revival, Phoenix and Dark Crusader are some of the earlier Indian Rock bands. 1990s witnessed the influence of Britpop, punk, thrash in the Indian Rock music styles. The Indian sub-genre of fusion also comes with a blend of rock music with ancient Indian music and it is known as the odd Indian style of rock.