section_path: Culture/Music and nightlife
section_name: Music and nightlife
paragraph_text: Music and nightlife
  
  Bucharest is home to Romania's largest recording labels, and is often the residence of Romanian musicians. Romanian rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Iris and Holograf, continue to be popular, particularly with the middle-aged, while since the beginning of the 1990s, the hip hop / rap scene has developed. Hip-hop bands and artists from Bucharest such as B.U.G. Mafia, Paraziții, and La Familia enjoy national and international recognition.
  
  The pop-rock band Taxi have been gaining international respect, as has Spitalul de Urgență 's raucous updating of traditional Romanian music. While many neighbourhood discos play manele, an Oriental- and Roma-influenced genre of music that is particularly popular in Bucharest's working-class districts, the city has a rich jazz and blues scene, and to an even larger extent, house music / trance and heavy metal / punk scenes. Bucharest's jazz profile has especially risen since 2002, with the presence of two venues, Green Hours and Art Jazz, as well as an American presence alongside established Romanians.
  
  With no central nightlife strip, entertainment venues are dispersed throughout the city, with clusters in Lipscani and Regie.