What’s the music scene in Chicago like? What cities have the best music scenes in your opinion?

>tfw I still don't own a CD copy of The Crystal World
personal favorite Kevin Drumm is also from there originally, IIRC.

Oakland had something but it's dead as well now

this is the average breakthrough chicago artist:
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Sucks for non liberals. I wish I was joking

is footwork still a thing? I wish that shit blew up, always loved the concept of footwork and the dances that go with it

Elaborate

Mexico City, Miami, Berlin

Buenos Aires (with some supressive fire from Montevideo) could have something big the next decade. It's like you can feel people trying to come up with something new. There are lots of artists clashing with each other all the time, and all kinds of music in the streets and everywhere

there's no music from buenos aires that could break out of Latin America and Spain

Pretty good actually. I might even say it has the best scene amongst the other major cities in the US (NYC, SF, LA etc.)

>SF
>SF has any sort of creative life left in it

There are people who aren't white and they expect to be treated like human beings.

pfft haha

lmfaooooo go take an opioid cracker

How's Portland's? I've been thinking of moving there

bad weather most of the time, very white, overpriced, hipster in both a good but mostly bad way

user, everyone already moved there 15 years ago. Now it's insanely expensive, can't handle its population, and all the cool creative people who everyone moved there to hang out with left.

Does anyone know about the Quad Cities' scene? I moved here recently and I'm trying to get involved

>Quad Cities
>music scene

likely to find better music in Dar Es Salaam

Don't make up places

Portland is cool. If I was going to live somewhere in the US just for the scene it would be there, Detroit, or Asheville.

The trap boom changed everything for them. They are writing lyrics in English and the most regular dudes speak it in their everyday lives, which, from what I know, it was frowned upon until recently. Same with pop language (public personas et all) getting on with the times.

There are many specifics to Buenos Aires that make it an excellent city for music, but too tired to go into detail.

Needless to say, when I think of the "best" music scene I dream of something new, alive, for anyone and scalable up to a point, not a comfy circle jerk of the city's same hundred of fragile snobs.

If anything, it makes no sense to expect that from an American or European city, their culture is just too exhausted right now.

clearly american

user.....Portland is a goddamn fucking shithole. You're 20 years late to the party. Elliott Smith is dead and so is Portland. Homeless drug addicts and brainwashed white liberal arts grads abound, if that's your thing. It's truly a leftist dystopia that everyone pretends is a utopia in fear of facing the cognitive dissonance of reality. Not to mention how cost of living has fucking skyrocketed in a matter of a few years. We are around the same size of Seattle yet we don't have the same size industries or job opportunities. There's no reason it will change for the better, as the California exodus flows into Oregon every day. Leaving Portland was the best decision I made this entire year.

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>implying those all arent symptoms of neoliberalism
join my agrarian communist uprising bro, the revolution will have truck nuts and confederate flags

i'm already very anti-neoliberal, friendo

Chicago has footwork which is god based enough to have even made a pretty decent scene in Tokyo. That shit is so cool.

Adding onto my comment to say Dallas has a pretty solid scene. Austin is kind of a letdown.

ya im sure it would suck being a huge fucking loser lol

it's really great! I live there and see great shows across a lot of different scenes all the time

really good scenes for experimental music (some amazing labels around here for that), but also got the typical diy band circuit that has spawned some great bands

also we got drill and footwork

came here to say this lol, portland is very neolib. antifa larpers, just go full left

>Austin is kind of a letdown
that was my experience. I feel like Denton is what Austin used to be.

didn't Chicago literally start all this neoliberal garbage in Chile?

None of that sounds too bad. But t.bh I've been surrounded by tryhard academics my whole life so I'm used to it.
Where did you end up moving?

Fucking sweet, a post I can actually contribute too!! I’ve lived in eastern Iowa my whole life (Dubuque is home). Rock Island has Rock Island Brewing Co. which brings in a pretty decent array of big names for the region. Easy Moline has the semi new Rust Belt, it’s a converted auto manufacturing plant with a brewery and soon to be Tequila bar/Taco joint, they’re trying to make into a sorta compound I guess. I saw Dr. Dog there a few week back (great energy, alright band) with Shakes Graves (all around meh)

The people who own and operate Rust Belt are also responsible for Codfish Hollow Barnstormers. This is a little closer to home for myself. On the outskirts of a little shithole country town called Maquoketa (Methquoketa for locals), stands their converted barn venue in a comfy outside setting. Complete with bar, food stand, shitters and camping available after shows in a cow pasture, it is one of my favorite places around. Get shit faced seeing Sleep, Dinosaur Jr., or Kurt Vile then proceed uphill to get even more obliterated in the pasture around a fire. Truly great energy there on show nights. Doesn’t get more Iowa.

I will warn you it is fucking awful waking up in the middle of a farm field at 8 AM with too much whisky banging around in your head and the Sun stabbing your eyes, bring sunglasses.

Biggest point I want to make though is that most people living around here have to travel to Madison, Chicago,or Minneapolis for the REAL good shit, you have to want it. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the advice, I'll check those places out. A lot of times it seems like there isn't jack shit to do around here

Who's to say he's wrong then?

Lol where are you from? Delaware?

Don’t let that frame of mind get to you too bad, I notice it’s what really ends up fucking people over who move around here from more active regions of the nation. Learn to enjoy nature, country drives, and alcoholism.

If you’re not a drinker, then gear up because the mid and upper Midwest’s drinking culture is totally fucked.

Plus most people in these small river towns are raised by sheltered Christians and farm folk so we’re hard wired almost against our wills to be decent and polite.

If you ever make it around my wrinky-dink rivertown of Dubuque, I highly recommend Monk’s Kaffee Pub, the Lift Irish pub or the Blu Room (had my first ever live show there this year!!) for music spots/tolerable places to chill.

big true, montreal extremely affordable, extremely good music scene here
it makes sense, time not wasted on worrying about rent is time spent on making music

It doesn't seem that bad until you live it day-to-day.

>Where did you end up moving?
back to Omaha, where I grew up. less is going on but it's a lot nicer place to live. Portland people are miserable to listen to/talk to.

Lol this. There’s like 10 black people in Portland and the whites there never shut the fuck up about racism against minorities. My white bald friend got attacked because some losers thought he was a naziw

im from the QC and this poster sums up the area pretty well. i dont live there anymore and it really is a fairly comfy place to live. im more into techno/house so id drive to chicago for warehouse parties usually, but theres plenty of bands in the QC doing their thing. again, not much to offer for bleeps and bloops.

>this post
kek. based midwestbro

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What type of shit they got there? Are you just talking about rap? I read in another post a while back that in SA Jazz is still a big part of the music like in Japan. Is that true?