The Local Train

The Local Train began in Chandigarh in 2008 when Ramit, who was working in radio, theatre and performing with several local bands,[10] collaborated with Raman on a song.[11] Soon after, Ramit introduced Raman to Sahil, a well-known independent musician and educator in the circuit,[12] who had known Ramit since their school days and they formed The Local Train. In 2011, Paras joined the band, replacing Abhinav, and dropped out of his civil engineering course.[13] In 2012, Raman quit his job at TCS to pursue music full time and the band relocated to Delhi.[14] Throughout this period, they functioned independently; they handled the management and logistics while simultaneously working on songs and releasing them online. Their single "Choo Lo" was released on MySpace in 2009 and continued to be refined until its music video release in 2011. Other singles released then include "Aaoge Tum Kabhi" and "Kaisey Jiyun" in 2014.[15]

The Local Train had recorded most of their debut album Aalas Ka Pedh when they won Sennheiser's first Top50 band talent hunt in India in 2015, bagging an endorsement from Sennheiser.[16][17] They finished the album, which contained two of their previously released singles, and released it with Flying Carpet Productions in September 2015.[18] The album was mastered by Chris Hesse[14] and was one of the highest selling Indian rock albums of the year,[19] featuring on the “Most Streamed Rock Albums'' list on Apple Music India.[20] In November 2015 they signed on with Spectal Management.[21]

The Local Train worked extensively with The Morpheus Productions for their initial music videos. The first video was for "Aaoge Tum Kabhi", which featured in Pan Nalin's 2015 film Angry Indian Goddesses[22] that premiered at The Toronto International Film Festival.[23] Their second music video for Kaise Jiyun featured a performance by choreographer Ryan Martyr.[24] The Dil Mere video was shot in Solang Valley and Manali, and was produced by Snow Leopard Productions,[25] and Atharva Studios.

The Local Train released Khudi in 2017, a single from their second album. Its music video starred Arjun Mathur, was directed by Vijesh Rajan and produced by Jungle Book Entertainment.[26] It won Platinum Film of The Year at the 2017 India Film Project Awards.[27] The second album Vaaqif was released in January 2018, with mixing and mastering done by Erich Talaba.[28] The band toured extensively in 21 cities before the album launch. In 2018, they released Mizaaj's music video, their first foray into animation that was conceptualized and animated by Ekabhuya Animation.[29] A cyber-punk themed animated video for Gustaakh soon followed, produced by Plexus studios [30] and edited by Shreyas Beltangdy. It was selected for the 18th Miami International Science Fiction Film Festival,[31] and chosen as one of Rolling Stone’s 11 best Indian music videos for 2019.[32]

The band is reported to be currently working on a third album.[33]

In April 2022, it was revealed that vocalist Raman Negi had left the band. However, the band reported they will continue making music.[34] Raman Negi released his debut solo album, "Shaksiyat" later that year.

• Felcon Fest, Dima Hasao, Assam(2021)
• Grubfest (2017)[42]
• Bacardi NH7 Weekender (2017,[43] 2018 [44])
• Bacardi NH7 Weekender Express (Jaipur 2018,[45] Chandigarh 2018 [46])
• Red Bull Bus Tour (2018)[47]
• OnePlus Festival (2019).[48]
• Udaipur World Music Festival (2019) [49]
• He Ha Story (2019) [50]
• Repertwahr festival (2019) [51]
• SULA fest (2020) [52]

• 7 City Summer Tour (2018)
• 7 City Summer Tour (2019) [53]

The band has performed at colleges in more than 90 cities across India including Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi

• Vivacity 2015, 2018 The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur

• HILLFFAIR 2016, 2019 National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur
• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
• Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
• Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
• Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi[54]
• Indian Institute of Technology, (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad[55]
• AARUUSH 2018, SRM Institute of Science and Technology
• Breeze 2018, Shiv Nadar University
• Effervescence 2018, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad[56]
• Waves 2019, BITS Goa
• Kaalrav 2018, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology
• Espektro 2020, Kalyani Government Engineering College
• Ingenium 2018, Ahmedabad University[57]

The band has performed at venues including Hard Rock Cafe,[58] Farzi Cafe,[59] Flea Bazaar Cafe,[60] Fandom Bangalore,[61] and Phoenix Market City.[62]