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I thought this was kind of interesting, the top 35 cities known for thier music scene. I have always loved downtown Austin. Everytime I travel south I make it a point to spend the night in Austin.


WHAT... NO IOWA, I guess cows don't pay much.


1 Nashville 4.84
2 Austin 4.84
3 New Orleans 4.82
4 Las Vegas 4.65
5 New York City 4.63
6 Chicago 4.62
7 Providence 4.53
8 Memphis 4.48
9 Portland, OR 4.46
10 San Francisco 4.45
11 Denver 4.44
12 Savannah 4.42
13 Charleston 4.39
14 San Juan, P.R. 4.39
15 Los Angeles 4.39
16 Seattle 4.37
17 Minneapolis/St. Paul 4.35
18 Kansas City 4.28
19 San Diego 4.27
20 Miami 4.25
21 Boston 4.22
22 Honolulu 4.20
23 Philadelphia 4.15
24 Houston 4.14
25 San Antonio 4.14
26 Atlanta 4.13
27 Washington, D.C. 4.05
28 Orlando 4.04
29 Salt Lake City 4.00
30 Phoenix/Scottsdale 3.99
31 Portland, ME 3.98
32 Baltimore 3.91
33 Santa Fe 3.88
34 Dallas/Fort Worth 3.83
35 Anchorage 3.51

What? No Detroit? This list is baloney.

Source please. If it's not a big name like Rolling Stone, Fender or the New York Times I would disregard it.

It doesn't even have Asheville NC on it?!

jimmydanger wrote:Source please. If it's not a big name like Rolling Stone, Fender or the New York Times I would disregard it.

Travel Leisure, it also lists LA as the rudest city in America.

Yessssss!

I wasn't surprised actually, to find our little city on there.

Of course my area is on that list.

Oakland deserves a mention. I thing that city is a little too underground and lawless for some. Oakland is so far from what it used to be. Your Place Too, The Omni R.I.P.

Kansas City no 18? I guess it is for bands who get to play for free...

Speculative data at best. But no less interesting.

Well, bob - it DID say the list was the top 35 for the music SCENE, but not necessarily the top 35 for for the musicians who WORK that scene.

eh, just one mans opinion and obviously not based on research. New Orleans and Frisco's scenes are and have been dead for both musicians and fans for quite some time... as a former resident and a musician I can attest to this.

Yep, Detroit should on there.
They have Anchorage on there so the list is obviously, um... not well done.

HaHa though, for Denver being #11 and Detroit not being on there.
Denver owns.

Yeah, Travel Leisure is where I go when I want to know anything about music. WTF?

jimmydanger wrote:Yeah, Travel Leisure is where I go when I want to know anything about music. WTF?

TRAVEL LEISURE!!!

jimmydanger wrote:Yeah, Travel Leisure is where I go when I want to know anything about music. WTF?

Now who is narrow minded?

The magazine specializes in leisure travel and often features articles written by novelists, poets, artists, designers and non-travel journalists.
Its World's Best Awards, an annual reader survey rating (4.8 million readers)destinations and travel providers, have been announced every August since 1995. Other annual features include the T+L 500, a list of the world's top 500 hotels, and America's Favorite Cities, where readers rank U.S. cities in different categories.

Its not about the music but the people who pay to see the music and where thay go and what THEY think.

Yea WTF Go fugure Jummy BOY!