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| Top 25 Musical Cities, According To Rateyourmusic.com
According to Rateyourmusic.com, these are the cities from which the music
I listen to comes from, ordered by number of bands/artists. There are a few
issues with the music-mapping system (as you will see), but overall, it's still
pretty interesting. | | 25 |  | Mesa Verde
The Old Road
Glasgow, GB - 6 (also tied with 6: Stockholm, Oakland, Sacremento, Manhattan,
Queens, Amherst (Massachusetts) ) | | 24 |  | Stars of the Lid
And Their Refinement Of The Decline
Austin, Texas - 7 | | 23 |  | The Thermals
The Body, The Blood, The Machine
Portland, Oregon - 7 | | 22 |  | Polica
Give You The Ghost
Minneapolis, Minnesota - 7 | | 21 |  | Hop Along
Get Disowned
Baltimore, Maryland - 7 | | 20 |  | Delta Spirit
History From Below
San Diego, California - 7 | | 19 |  | Parades
Foreign Tapes
Sydney, Australia - 7 | | 18 |  | Jawbox
For Your Own Special Sweetheart
Washington DC - 8 | | 17 |  | Dirty Three
Toward The Low Sun
Melbourne, Australia - 8 | | 16 |  | Shugo Tokumaru
In Focus?
Tokyo, Japan - 9 | | 15 |  | Vales
Clarity
Cornwall, GB - 9, a few things wrong with this one. First of all, Cornwall is an entire
region of England containing places like Newquay, Truro, Penzance, etc. Secondly,
pretty sure the only Cornish band I've ever heard is Vales, and everyone else listed
here is either from Bristol (still Southwest, but not near Cornwall really), or
somewhere else completely. Seems to be an RYM glitch. | | 14 |  | The War on Drugs
Slave Ambient
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 10 | | 13 |  | Danny Brown
XXX
Detroit, Michigan - 10 | | 12 |  | Deerhunter
Halcyon Digest
Atlanta, Georgia - 11 (I would have picked Big Boi or Killer Mike for this one but
acording to RYM, Big Boi is from Savannah (even though Outkast is listed as
Atlanta, makes sense I guess) and Killer Mike is from some suburb). | | 11 |  | Oneohtrix Point Never
Replica
Boston, Massachusetts - 13 | | 10 |  | Loma Prieta
I.V.
San Francisco, California - 13 | | 9 |  | Kishi Bashi
151a
Seattle, Washington - 14 (we make some good hipster music up here in the
Northwest) | | 8 |  | Japandroids
Celebration Rock
Vancouver, BC, Canada - 14 (hometown love, this number will only increase as I
continue to get into local bands) | | 7 |  | Godspeed You! Black Emperor
'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Montreal, Quebec, Canada - 15 (surprisingly low, I figured I listened to enough
Canadian indie music that this would be one of the front-runners, maybe not!) | | 6 |  | El-P
Cancer 4 Cure
Brooklyn, New York - 19 | | 5 |  | Cap'n Jazz
Shmap'n Shmazz
Chicago, Illinois - 19 | | 4 |  | Basia Bulat
Heart of My Own
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 19 (very surprised Montreal lost out to Toronto for top
Canadian city) | | 3 |  | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Mosquito
New York, New York - 38, but this would have been number 1 if RYM organized it
better. There were catogories for all the boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Harlem
etc.) but also a one non-specific one for all of NYC. If this were organized properly,
NYC would be #1. | | 2 |  | Warpaint
The Fool
Los Angeles, California - 46 (not including Compton, Glendale etc.) | | 1 |  | Burial
Kindred
Still the centre of the rock music universe: City of London, GB - 48 (many more in
the Great London area, including Hammersmith, Brixton, Deptford, Wembley, etc.) | |
Aids
04.15.13 | so yeah pretty much just swap out Cornwall for Bristol in the 15 spot (Portishead, Massive Attack, The Pop Group, Bonobo, etc.)
Anyway, kind of stupid list but I found it pretty interesting. | SeaAnemone
04.15.13 | This is such a cool concept for a list Aids, good on you for the idea. Interesting. | Calc
04.15.13 | I live close to 9 whoo!! | illmitch
04.15.13 | no houston? smh | liledman
04.15.13 | Melbourne represent. | eternium
04.15.13 | Atlanta does rule. | IHeardThat
04.15.13 | Surprised as well that Toronto beat out Montreal. But there are a ton of artists from both cities that
I love. I've also been to shows in both of these cities and I have to say that I prefer Toronto venues
(that's just me though). | Aids
04.15.13 | "why"
cause I thought I listened to more bands from Montreal than Toronto.
I got 3 from Houston:
"Houston, TX, US
Beyoncé
William Basinski
Yppah"
hahaha. what's good outta Houston mitch? | illmitch
04.15.13 | UGK, Scarface, Geto Boys | illmitch
04.15.13 | i just went full autism and figured my list out based on my top last.fm artists
1) new york, NY (27)
2) los angeles, CA (15)
3) atlanta, GA (13)
4) san francisco, CA (9)
5) houston, TX (7)
6) memphis, TN (6)
7) new orleans, LA (6)
8) washington, DC (5)
9) manchester, england (4)
10) berkeley/oakland, CA (4) | tempest--
04.15.13 | What other artists were from Melbourne? | illmitch
04.15.13 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj51_yXmL8I
heres a pretty decent intro to houston rap | Aids
04.15.13 | Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Crowded House
The Avalanches
Dirty Three
Jet
This Is Your Captain Speaking
Ned Collette
Ne Obliviscaris
Closure in Moscow
I think I gave a Jet album a 1.5 so yeah, they're included in the list wooo | illmitch
04.15.13 | how many artists did you use to figure this out? i just went through my top 200 on last.fm and wikied where they were from | Aids
04.15.13 | I have over 2000 ratings on rateyourmusic.com and it does it automatically for you. There are loads of inaccuracies, but it's still pretty neat. | Storm In A Teacup
04.15.13 | Z-Ro is Houston too right? | intotheshit
04.15.13 | The 305 gets no respect | illmitch
04.15.13 | yeah Rother Vandross is from Houston too | Tyrael
04.15.13 | german metal > | Trebor.
04.15.13 | gonna try this, I will get so much midwestern shit | Masochist
04.15.13 | Houston: Z-Ro, Trae, Chamillionaire. | Puzzles
04.15.13 | Has anybody been to any of these cities? I've been planning on moving to a country in Europe next year or backpacking.
My motivation is that Brisbane, Australia is a cultural abyss and I don't particularly identify with anybody I've met in this
middle/upper class conservative environment. I yearn to live in a place rich with culture and pursuers of music, art,
literature... rather than wasting away in America's cultural backwash, always two steps behind the rest of the world. | liledman
04.15.13 | Melbourne is much better. At the same time though, it's only good by Australian standards. I would be tempted to move to US/Canada if my band all agreed upon it. | zakalwe
04.15.13 | Australia one of the greatest countries I have had the pleasure to visit. Laid back, unpretentious as fuck, weather like the Trinity Test, Melbourne was the exact opposite though. | intotheshit
04.15.13 | I mean, we did give the world Pitbull! | anarchistfish
04.15.13 | Hopefully I'll be moving to Bristol later this year.
It's nowhere near Cornwall, what the fuck | Pestiferous
04.15.13 | too much u.s. not enough sweden, norway, and finland | DirtyDan
04.16.13 | No Gothenburg? list is invalid | Aids
04.16.13 | @ Puzzles - Move to Berlin or Dublin. If that's no good, hit me up cause I've backpacked Europe 3 times and lived in Ireland and England.
@ everyone else, yeah sorry I don't listen to much metal. Better get all retarded about it. | DominionMM1
04.16.13 | needz moar nola | Keyblade
04.16.13 | stars of the lid mmh | lyzakthellama
04.16.13 | No nashville? | Aids
04.22.13 | hahaha
no, no Nashville | YoYoMancuso
04.22.13 | grew up in Chicago, definitely some great music around there.
i don't know about NOLA, they don't have much besides some brilliant metal and early R&B. A lot of the cities on the list have some really eclectic music scenes.
| illmitch
04.22.13 | bruh nola is the home of cash money records |
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