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What are the Greatest Music Cities in the U.S?

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Kind of a generic question, but I'm curious to know what you would all pick.

For the obvious, New Orleans (Duh), Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, New York City, Seattle, and Los Angeles.

But for underrated? Detroit (especially), St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Athens, and Minneapolis gotta be up there.
 
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As a moderate ignoramous regarding music history, the two cities that immediately sprang to mind were New Orleans and Nashville.
 
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LA (they've been on top of the world this decade)
New York
Miami
Chicago (when it wants to it's great)
Memphis
 
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Underrated is definitely Omaha.

Saddle Creek Records has hosted tons of excellent indie bands, and many outside bands make Omaha a stop on their tours zregardless of how "big" they are. One of our arenas was top 10 in concert ticket sales in the world in 2005, as well. We love live music.
 
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AlteredBeast said:
Underrated is definitely Omaha.

Saddle Creek Records has hosted tons of excellent indie bands, and many outside bands make Omaha a stop on their tours zregardless of how "big" they are. One of our arenas was top 10 in concert ticket sales in the world in 2005, as well. We love live music.
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It has a ton of festivals. It's an awesome city.
 
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It's too bad you said US and not North America. Montreal's insanely underrepresented in discussions of great music cities
 
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I feel like I hear about Branson, Missouri a lot as kind of a little Nashville. Don't actually know much about the place though.
 
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Been thinking about this topic lately.

It just makes me sad that Phoenix is so pathetic in this regard. Why Phoenix, why?
 
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Detroit is easily in the top two or three cities in America for music. Motown, Proto punk, and while is not my thing, House music, all incubated in Detroit.
 
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Chicago (Blues)
Detroit (Motown)
Nashville (unofficial capital of country music)
New York (birth place of hip-hop
 
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hiredhand said:
Didn't we just have this thread?
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No.

TaySan said:
Phoenix is a terrible place for concert going. Everything is so spread out.
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Yeah, we need a few districts or something just for concerts. It would also bring together musicians in one community, I think.

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dont forget Muscle Shoals
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How the hell did that place become such a music city? I don't get it, but I ain't complaining.
 
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Detroit is definitely underrated, at least from a hip-hop standpoint. Em, Royce, Slum Village, J Dilla, Danny Brown.
 
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I can't believe I forgot San Francisco?

Sometimes it gets mentioned as one of the great music cities, but it seems to sometimes get the shaft.
 
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Philly's been very strong in recent years, with Hop Along, Japanese Breakfast, The War on Drugs, Mannequin Pussy, Kurt Vile, etc.
 
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