Where is it happening?

Submitted by lilithvale1 t3_11vytoh in Music

There has been San Francisco during 1967-1968, Laurel Canyon, the jazz of New Orleans, the folk of New York City, and other places where music artists of a particular genre unknowingly or knowingly decided to come together and let their creativity burst through. I’m not well versed in the music history beyond the late 60s and early 70s, but I am aware that for every genre there’s been at one point in time a place where this has occurred. What are the current places where everything seems to be “happening” in regards to music?

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AgentFlatweed t1_jcvmyru wrote

The internet killed the local scenes. There’s still hotbeds of certain styles but a lot of them are holdovers. Jam bands are still big throughout upstate NY, for example.

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MDS1138 t1_jcvwewf wrote

Ugh, upstate NY'er here. You don't have to tell me twice.

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LoudTsu t1_jcvknhm wrote

Australia

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Wikiwack t1_jcwei1y wrote

King gizzard, porn crumpets, and ORB are amazing!

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great_auks t1_jcvjtom wrote

This concept is a relic of an age that has passed

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Payday_Crackpipe t1_jcvj51n wrote

I would argue that with so much access to whatever music you like, that the only right answer is everywhere.

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dandle t1_jcw9mkl wrote

There's a lot of great power pop and punk coming out of Melbourne.

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sea_foam_blues t1_jcw0zme wrote

Stillwater Oklahoma has been the starting point for a lot of great Red Dirt and Americana bands. Muscle Shoals Alabama too, in a slightly different sort of way.

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ggibby t1_jcvxbyu wrote

With respect, New Orleans has always been a place where arts and cultures mixed, and will continue to be.

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Hoopi_goldberger t1_jcvzaan wrote

Austin is having a cool surge in genuinely good, unique country that is separating itself from pop country and the formulaic garbage that’s been coming out of Nashville the last decade or so

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twangobango t1_jcw2lnq wrote

LA, Chicago and London are all hotbeds of experimental jazz right now

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Far-Space2949 t1_jcw9l88 wrote

Nashville is having a resurgence of a whole new stripe, no longer a country town, everyone is there from country to metal from billy gibbons to joe bonamassa to Vince Neil to Vince gill and thats not even counting east Nashville and Franklin.. etc.

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[deleted] t1_jcwaqy4 wrote

South London / UK contemporary jazz is absolutely amazing…

Yussef kamaal, Waldo’s gift, anything Richard spaven does, vels trio etc etc

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ryjanreed t1_jcwjtcd wrote

Atlanta for trap music is the last big one since grunge in seattle in the 90's

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