When you are having a low day, or when you are just feeling the blues, there’s nothing better than heading out to indie music parlours. Did I just say Parlours? Yeah well, the logic here is that most places in the city have their own patronage of music bands when it comes to creating a soothing indie ambience at their places. Fine wine and thoughtful stirring music, and believe me, you will come out with a peaceful smile plastered on your face. And add your music enthusiast buddies to the mix, and the evening wouldn’t get better. Come on, we know you deserve this. Great food and some wonderful music, basing out of the following music bands.

These music bands have become the beating heart of the city’s social culture, defining our tastes and customs going forward with time and talent. So, without further ado, let’s dive in to check out some of the best Indie music bands dotting the cultural space and which enjoy a horde of fans all through. Presenting in no particular order,

Marcus Find A Gun

Band Members: Rohit Samuel – Guitar, Ashok Varghese – Vocals & Harmonica, Jonathan Edward – Guitar & Vocals, Alex Varghese – Cajon & Vocals, Joel Eliphaz – Vocals & Guitar
Regular Venues: MoonShine Project, Amnesia, The Other Side, Playboy Beer Garden.
The Story Behind The String: Most music bands derive their name from historical relevance in their music or some kind of rebellious epiphany. Interestingly, Marcus Finds A Gun derives its name from the hit pop single ‘Lean On’.  “One day Rohit played the song and Eddy heard the lyrics and thought they read, “Marcus, find a gun. All we need is somebody to lean on”. He didn’t believe it so he made him play it a second time. Around about the same time, we were about to do our first show in Vizag (Visakhapatnam) and were still looking for a name. We decided to go with Marcus Find A Gun and the name stuck from there on” the band explains the story.
The band like most top music bands across the nation is a cross-genre collective with their offerings in Pop, Rock, Classic, Reggae, Funk, and Blues. Be sure to check out their band music. Oh before we forget, Marcus Finds A Gun recently came out with a video in association with MonkStar Live. The single called Voyager comes out as a thrilling piece of music, of self-awakening. Go watch it yo..!!

SpeakEasy Brownie

Band Members: Sanju Moses – Bass, David Hanoch – Keys, Alex Varghese – Drums, Jonathan Edward – Guitars, Adarsh Varghese – Guitar and Vox.
Regular Venues: Hoppipola, Heart Cup Coffee, The Other Side.
The Story Behind The String: The next in our list of cross-genre Music bands that we have tonight is SpeakEasy Brownie. One look at their page and we know that these guys enjoy their music like a Caribbean cappala. Now, they define their music and intent in a fun way. “SpeakEasy Brownie is made up of 4 motor mouths who speak lightning-quick and 1 dreamer-pretender who pretends to understand what they’re saying. SpeakEasy Brownie draws heavily from a wide range of musical influences ranging from Western & Indian Classical, Gospel, Funk, Pop, Blues and Jazz to EDM, Classic Rock, Progressive Metal and Djent.

The band’s mantra is simple: make music that is inclusive, and fun to play and listen to! As you get to listen to new music by the band, you will realise that they enjoy experimenting and trying their best to serve the music — there’s a tune for every mood!”

Threeory

Band Members: Syntyche Mongro – Vocals, Mark Talur – keys, Senti along – Guitars, Parsa Dattasai – Violin, Kiran Eknath – Indian vocals
and Tarun Vishal – Drums
Regular Venues: Free Flow, HeartCup Coffee, AIR Cube, Amnesia
The Story Behind The String: Threeory is an experimental fusion band which blends Indian classical with different kinds of world music. That’s putting it simply about this one of the most soothing music bands in the city. Although we haven’t directly attended their gigs, we can vouch from our friends that this is a highly promising band, which creates ambient music with original reprises, and of course some really stunning covers and mashups. Check out their covers and reprises to get the best out of the world around you. Click on this video right now:

The Tapes

Band Members: Abhay Krishna – Bass, Saurav Tyagi – Guitars, Chaitu Maddikayala – Guitars, Sri Hari C – Drums, Pranav Kumar – Vocals
Regular Venues: HardRock Cafe, HeartCup Coffee
The Story Behind The String: The Tapes is one of the prime music bands to prevail in Hyderabad since 2013. Slowly but surely the Post-Grunge/Indie band has built its niche and regulars. One of the show makers at the NH7 Weekender held not so long ago, The Tapes surely have their chords right. With a good multi-platform presence, The Tapes is surely growing from strength t strength. For the love of Indie music, here are it’s perfect patrons. Adding to their repertoire of performances are shows like Great Indian Rock XV Engage, Moto Spotlight Stage, Vans New Wave Fest 2015, Mad Parrot. Keep them on a loop on Soundcloud channel and YouTube.

The Songsmiths

Band Members: Avinash Ekka – Guitars, Karthik Kalyan – Drums, Saikat Basu (JOY) – Bass & Vocals, Amol Gurwara – Guitars, Sutirtha Chatterjee(Chhoton) – Drums and Deepak Ananth – Keyboards.
Regular Venues: Fubar, Lamakaan, The Gallery Cafe, Hopipolla
The Story Behind The String: The Songsmiths. Well first off it’s such a good name (I was actually thinking that this is such a self-explanatory name that you don’t even need a story). Anyway, that’s the thing with most music bands. They have these quirky names which make you sit up and take notice. A look at their page we get to know their story. ” Three different individuals, three different entities, three different styles in an almost meticulous unification has given birth to a diligent desire to make music and fill the passionate perforation.

A juxtaposition of three tastes blended into an organic whole.The very urge to create a sound to which people would love to dance, think, feel and dance again”. What can we ask more? Any music worth dancing is always magical. And The Songsmiths love doing that. Check out the following presentation.

The Ragamuffins

Band Members: Pranati – Vocals & Rhythm Guitar, Pradyun – Lead Guitar, Ricky – Lead Guitar, Rex – Bass, Siddharth – Drums
Regular Venues: The Moonshine Project, Over The Moon, The HeartCup Coffee
The Story Behind The String: Started in 2015, The RagaMuffins is a true and blue Indie band, which has had enormous appreciation across various gigs across the city. The band is primarily concerned with creating something from the scratch than just reprise versions of other popular works. With soulful vocals from one of our good friends, Pranati Khanna, listening to the band is the perfect way of spending your weekend. With deep beat acoustics and fresh guitar strings, The Ragamuffins becomes an important addition to the thriving collection of music bands in the city. You don’t have to take our word for it. Listen to this upbeat music from the band, and you will just fall in love with the genre right away

Capricio

Band Members: Vocals- Eknath Kiran and  Ganesh Krovvidi, Percussions – Sai Teja and Keys – Shravan Pakalapati
Regular Venues: The Moonlight Project, Air Cube, Out Of The Box
The Story Behind The String: Of all the music bands, we’ve listed out till now, Capricio does something very unique and rare. It taps into the nostalgic pulse by reprising and sometimes recreating old classics. They come across as a breath of fresh air, in their recreation. And the best part, since chances are ripe that you might be aware of these songs, and its lyrics, the audience participation is the highest. Relatability is this band’s biggest asset.

They bring old classics of Telugu or Hindi into a new modern retelling, and they do so with a melodious and mellifluous arrangement.  “We are a classical fusion band where we blend different genres to bring a different aroma to our music” describes Capricio about the music it brings out week after week. Although we couldn’t get our hands on their live gigs, we took the liberty to show you their individual musical prowess via this video.

Godless

Band Members: Guitars – Rohit Nair, Guitars – Ravi Nidamarthy, Vocals – Kaushal LS, Bass – Abbas Razvi and Drums – Aniketh Yadav
Regular Venues: The Other Side
The Story Behind The String: “Godless is a new death metal force that’s both powerful and stimulating. Featuring members of Skrypt, Shock Therapy, and Eccentric Pendulum, this is a new sound, a new sonic vision. None other than Joe Haley of Psycroptic (Australia) fame has mixed and mastered the album, in addition to doing a guest solo on this debut album which holds great promise. With unceasing momentum, a staccato delivery, and bucket-loads of power, ‘Centuries of Decadence’ is touted to be one of most notable albums to ever come out from the region” says the description for the hard metal music band, Godless which is going all ruthless on stage culture in this city.

If you are a metal head and want to satiate your karmic chords, Godless is the band you got to dig for. Also, Godless is one of the very few music bands to have been featured by The Rolling Stone as one of the best Indian EPs for 2016. Now that rock and rolla..! Check the thumping single below:

SiblingsTV

Band Members: Acoustic Guitar/ Vocals – Antriksh Kandhari, Vocals – Anukriti Kandhari, Lead – Ricky Raymond, Bass – Joel Sastry and Drums – Joel Joseph
Regular Venues: Hard Rock Cafe, Heart Cup Coffee, Sly Tech
The Story Behind The Strings: Now this is a story. A sibling duo which was super passionate about music went about establishing SiblingsTV to bring fresh compositions to the fore. Anukriti Kandhari, the older sibling found interest in music at the age of 15, and her younger brother followed her up, slowly developing an interest in music and he started with playing the drums followed by acoustic guitar and vocals. One of the few music bands from the city, to have been selected to perform live for MonkStar Live, SiblingsTV is fast gaining popularity for their original compositions and succulent beats. True rock and roll feels there..! Check out the below video and you’ll know what we are talking about,

So that completes our initial compilation of music bands in the city of Hyderabad, which every music enthusiast needs to follow right now. Most of the information that we’ve compiled here is sourced from different avenues. The venues are subject to change. You can, however, avoid any confusion by following the respective pages. And plan your weekend to be awesome than ever..!!

PS: If there are some bands we’ve missed, please feel free to let us know and we promise to feature them soon..!