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Headed into 2019, what cities in the US overall, rank highest for best music scene?
Criteria includes:
--Overall live music options
--Diversity of music scene types
--Number of venues for hearing music
--Multiple Bars to hear bands and music acts
--Potential for music scene growth
One thing I will say about Philadelphia is it has an extremely strong music scene that has only gotten stronger in recent years. A lot of new venues have opened. There's plenty of bars and small clubs to see local acts or smaller traveling ones nightly. A number of festivals. Philadelphia is also in a good spot to drive or take the train somewhere for the night and come back the next day. You make it to DC or Baltimore or NYC pretty easy and be back early the next day.
Vivid Seats did an analysis on a bunch of different factors like variety of concerts, number of venues, etc, and Philadelphia came out on top: Top 20 Cities For Live Music
I assume Miami is rated so low since its well past its '80s/early '90s peak (Freestyle, the EDM of the era), and a lot of people don't/didn't like the sound because its deemed as too "LGBT". In other words, the "disco sucks" crowd predominates on this forum. It still had a strong Latino scene for a quite a bit longer after that, and is a popular spot for tours in the colder months for the snowbirds and vacationers coming from up north. Its basically as active this time of year as Chicago is in the summer, which is another underrated city with regards to its music scene. Its ironic as I think of the Miami sound as the opposite of the Nashville sound (even if today's Nashville sound is watered down soft rock), and I read a report that country music is the least popular per capital in Miami compared to others, likely due to the notion that Latinos just don't like country music too much. Also, what Nashville has that isn't country you can easily find (and often more) in Atlanta, being that both cities aren't too far from each other. But given that the big 3 have an office in Miami like they do with NYC, LA, and Nashville, you can't discount it out.
Then you have cities like Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas City, DC, and Boston getting a poor showing on here, but keep in mind those are still great cities for fine arts: classical music, opera, musical theater, and in the interest of KC, jazz/blues. But it seems like that's reserved for the over 60 crowd unfortunately.
I assume Miami is rated so low since its well past its '80s/early '90s peak (Freestyle, the EDM of the era), and a lot of people don't/didn't like the sound because its deemed as too "LGBT". In other words, the "disco sucks" crowd predominates on this forum. It still had a strong Latino scene for a quite a bit longer after that, and is a popular spot for tours in the colder months for the snowbirds and vacationers coming from up north. Its basically as active this time of year as Chicago is in the summer, which is another underrated city with regards to its music scene. Its ironic as I think of the Miami sound as the opposite of the Nashville sound (even if today's Nashville sound is watered down soft rock), and I read a report that country music is the least popular per capital in Miami compared to others, likely due to the notion that Latinos just don't like country music too much. Also, what Nashville has that isn't country you can easily find (and often more) in Atlanta, being that both cities aren't too far from each other. But given that the big 3 have an office in Miami like they do with NYC, LA, and Nashville, you can't discount it out.
Then you have cities like Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas City, DC, and Boston getting a poor showing on here, but keep in mind those are still great cities for fine arts: classical music, opera, musical theater, and in the interest of KC, jazz/blues. But it seems like that's reserved for the over 60 crowd unfortunately.
The South Florida hip-hop scene is taking off. Kodak Black is spearheading it.
The South Florida hip-hop scene is taking off. Kodak Black is spearheading it.
Ariana Grande is huge from South Florida as well.
I see Atlanta, and Miami as being huge today artists from these cities are huge even over here in SoCal.
LA is still the capital of the music industry though as soon as artists get big they move to LA even tons of NY artists live in LA because it's the epicenter of the music industry.
I see Atlanta, and Miami as being huge today artists from these cities are huge even over here in SoCal.
LA is still the capital of the music industry though as soon as artists get big they move to LA even tons of NY artists live in LA because it's the epicenter of the music industry.
I see Atlanta, and Miami as being huge today artists from these cities are huge even over here in SoCal.
LA is still the capital of the music industry though as soon as artists get big they move to LA even tons of NY artists live in LA because it's the epicenter of the music industry.
I see Atlanta, and Miami as being huge today artists from these cities are huge even over here in SoCal.
LA is still the capital of the music industry though as soon as artists get big they move to LA even tons of NY artists live in LA because it's the epicenter of the music industry.
A lot artists have multiple homes and condos in several cities. Especially in the cities mention LA, NY, Miami, Atlanta, Nashville there's a reason why these cities have so many reality shows cause they all have a celeb culture.
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