It's not so great. My band is doing well, but that's because we're quite a bit different than the normal bar-gig level bands. We're all professional, very good musicians with professional level gigs. Ours is a big production full of actors, fire dancers, knights in full armor doing stage combat, aerials etc. We draw 500 or so each gig. We're trying to get that number up.
Overall though, the bands here suck, which brings down the community as a whole. I guess suck is a bad term to use... they're very typical, with what you expect in composition and production level. They don't understand balance on stage, just everyone as loud as possible... lots of issues. We have a couple of venues that are more or less dedicated to metal and heavy rock, but I generally can't get myself through one full night of 7-10 mediocre bands.