Pinoy Rock
Pinoy rock is rock music from the Philippines, sung in Filipino, other Philippine languages or English.
Filipino bands have played rock since the 1960s, and the name took hold in the 1970s when groups began writing in Tagalog. It covers many sounds, including folk rock, hard rock, punk and the alternative bands that led a 1990s boom. What links them is the language and local themes, not a single musical style.
Artists it is known for: Juan de la Cruz Band, Eraserheads, Rivermaya, Parokya ni Edgar.
- Family
- Rock
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Philippines, 1970s
- Also called
- Filipino rock
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,500 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have pinoy rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Pinoy Rock artists
Up Dharma Down
December Avenue
Silent Sanctuary
Parokya Ni Edgar
The Ridleys
Rico Blanco
Eraserheads
Yeng Constantino
shirebound
Rivermaya
The pinoy rock artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.