The word "Zir Zamin" means "Underground" or "Basement" in Persian.

Zirzamin is an Iranian online music magazine and the project concept is to create a forum to connect the new wave of Iranian independent musicians and bands, both inside and outside of Iran, to the Iranian public and the world.

Zirzamin is the juncture where the public can hear and see our new youth popular culture. It is also an intersection where musicians may present their new material for review by other musicians as well as the public.

Zirzamin is basically a stage where links are made; through us, the eyes and the ears of the world are only a link away.

Zirzamin is a stage for all the Iranian musicians with exceptional creative quality.

Zirzamin is a registered Non Profit Corporation. It simply is a work of love.

Cultures do not have the ability to evolve, renew or survive automatically. They should be preserved and kept alive through vitalization of the cultural life. To create this kind of vital atmosphere, it is increasingly necessary that the artists create and express themselves in a free and democratic environment both politically and culturally. It is the freedom of expression that evokes life quality in the society.

At the same time the old traditions must be preserved, it should also get updated and renovated by creating bridges and intersections to exceed all the existing boundaries between humans and their cultures, in order to create a multicultural society that is able to give birth and develop possibilities for the new and contemporary cultures and art forms that in it self creates new and exciting conditions and refreshing coexistence for the next upcoming generations that wants to live in a promising and vital cultural life. It only happens by creating different kinds of cultural platforms for dialogs and discussions. It is exactly what the new generation of musicians in Iran are missing, a stage to perform their abilities and promote their creativity.