Rock Street Journal
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| Rock Street Journal | |
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 Rock Street Journal, February 2007 |
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| Editor | Amit Saigal |
| Categories | Rock |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 42,000[1] |
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Publisher |
Amit Saigal |
| First Issue | January 1993 |
| Company | RSJ Entertainment Media Services |
| Country | India |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.rsjonline.com |
| ISSN | unknown |
Rock Street Journal or RSJ is a monthly magazine covering the rock scene in India and South Asia. It was started in January 1993 in Allahabad by Amit Saigal and Sam Eric Lal after they realized the lack of support system for Indian rock musicians. The magazine has grown in popularity ever since and is now published from Delhi. It organizes the yearly Great Indian Rock Festival (GIR) to promote original music of new and upcoming rock bands in India.
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[edit] History
Amit Saigal and Sam Eric Lal used to perform in a band called Impact in the 1980s. They realized that there was no support system in place for new and upcoming rock musicians and bands in India. They only had college fests as platforms. According to Sam, "The community was large and strong but very fragmented at the same time. When we thought about this, we decided to come up with RSJ which would provide news about rock music anywhere in the country."[2] And thus RSJ was born to bring a sense of community among these struggling musicians, the first issue published from Allahabad in January 1993. It was initially planned as subscription-only magazine. Amit promoted the magazine in college festivals but only sold a handful of subscriptions at that time.[3] The magazine has grown substantially since then, and claims a circulation of 42,000 copies per issue.[1]
[edit] Features
RSJ regularly covers professional and college festival concerts throughout India. It also publishes reviews of new music albums and singles by Indian rock musicians. Its website has an extensive database of over a thousand rock bands and musicians hailing from the Indian subcontinent, including desi rock bands from elsewhere in the world. The website also contains the official forums frquented by thousands of Indian rock fans. [4]
[edit] Concerts and music festivals
RSJ organizes the Great Indian Rock Festival each year showcasing the best among upcoming talent in rock and roll in the Indian subcontinent. The first GIR was in 1997 in Kolkata. It is usually held in Delhi now. In addition, RSJ has organized several other concerts including the Concert for Tibet in 2003 in Dharamsala, and the Brotherhood of Rock in Shillong.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b Niche is in by Pallavi Srivastava, Business Today June 4, 2006.
- ^ Rocking to a new beat by Arundhati Basu, The Telegraph, November 20, 2004.
- ^ Interview: Face-to-face with Amit Saigal by Sandipta Sengupta, merinews.com, July 20, 2006.
- ^ http://www.rsjonline.com/Bandlands/Band.asp
