What's Your Hometown's ContributionTo Music?

I currently live in Costa Mesa, CA, home of Supernova (yay!) and, erm, Sugar Ray. Trust me, I'd do something about that if I could. However, to make up for it, my cross-the-street neighbors Chris and Scott are better known as Papa Byrd, being both good DJs and musicmakers.

Dom, you seem to have some problem with the fact that the gloriously wonderful Bauhaus comes from Northampton.

there was a band called American TV Cops who got played on the radio a bit in the early 90s, and a much better band called gloy, who didn't.

just down the road tho: tamworth....home to julian cope, wolfsbane and birdland.

that part of the midlands is a cultural wilderness. i'm glad i dont live there any more. whinge.

my hometown is too small to have contributed anything. my birth town contributed, doh, slipknot.

Let's see...hmmm. New York City: Kiss, The Velvet Underground, the Fugs, the New York Dolls, Patti Smith, Television, the Ramones, Blondie, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the Heartbreakers, the Plasmatics, Agnostic Front, Murphy's Law, Cro-Mags, Kraut, DNA, Mars, Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Pussy Galore, Swans, Sonic Youth, Heart Attack, D-Generation, Helmet, Band of Susans, the Toasters, Urban Blight, the Dictators, Prong, Missing Foundation, Rat at Rat R, Live Skull, Cop Shoot Cop, the Undead, the Black Snakes, Firewater, Skeleton Key, the Lounge Lizards, Suicide, Anthrax, the Beastie Boys, Run-Dmc, LL Cool J, Kurtis Blow, Laurie Anderson, the Strokes, Interpol...oh, fuck, and a bunch more.

10 minute drive (the singer)
20 minutes drive (also the singer - we're proud of this)

San Diego itself is another matter entirely. I didn't live THERE, after all. ;-)

Hoboken's done pretty well for a small town, methinks.

not that anyone will hear them, probably.

Indianapolis, Indiana USA

Indiana as a state has also spawned Michael Jackson (actually all of the Jacksons), Axl (as noted above), David Lee Roth & Johnny Cougar which is a pretty odd lot.

And then there's my 'other' home town of Penarth, the other side of Cardiff, where I lived for 18 years, whose twin claims to fame are the Paget Rooms (see Man's "Live at the Paget Rooms, Penarth" live album) and being the birth place of Christian rocker Martyn "Dolphins make me cry" Joseph who used to come to our school and play Cliff Richard songs in our assemblies, and hand out signed LPs to teachers who promptly binned them (I know, I saw them do it).

Now I live in East Devon & it isn't much better, apparently the woman who danced with Hawkwind is from Exeter. Oh, and Eddie and the Hot Rods play the pub down the road from me on Friday (but aren't they from Southend ?)

Oh and how could you forget Teignmouth's finest?

oh, and evan shore from muck & the mires! and mercury caronia, drummer for jon carin's industry, was in a prog band called cathedral whose self-produced lp goes for big bucks.
https://www.discogs.com/release/2901414-Cathedral-Stained-Glass-Stories

the boys from Brave Little Abacus (New Hampshire "midwest" emo band beloved by internet nerds) were a grade or two behind me at my regional high school. band/theater geeks iirc. I didn't really know them, but the lead singer's sister was valedictorian of my class, and the keyboardist and I were members of a myspace group called "The Boys Who Like Jokes" along with like five other members. their legendary live album was recorded at the senior center next to my high school. I wasn't aware of the band at the time so don't have any stories to tell

The Shaggs are probably the most famous band to come out of my home county. I have no idea what to do with this information.

― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:17 PM (eight years ago)

I once dreamed of making a pilgrimage to The Shaggs' former home, but sadly

The Shaggs disbanded and sold most of their equipment. A few years later, Betty and Dot married and moved out, and their mother sold the family house. The new owner became convinced that the house was haunted by Austin's ghost and donated it to the Fremont fire department, who burnt it down in a firefighting exercise.

oops, clipped off a relevant part of that quote: "Shortly after the recording session, Austin died of a heart attack at the age of 47."

Not sure I wish to claim DC proper (Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye).

But I do live a few blocks from Dischord, and recorded at Inner Ear, so I think I can claim about one degree of separation from the Teen Idles/Minor Threat/Fugazi axis, plus the Scream/Grohl/Foo agglomeration. I have played with Skeeter from Scream and with Don Zientara. So.

Will always rep for our DIY scene but nobody ever makes it big here. The only 'famous' acts I can think of are: Tindersticks, Jake Bugg, Ronika, Paper Lace, Sleaford Mods.

Also home to Earache Records, for you metalheads.

Earache My Eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c32JxwQeyJs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qpv-lGNXAQ

I'm from a small village in the hills, outside Edinburgh, which gave the world

Boards Of Canada
The Scars (well, 50% of them)
Christ.
Nina Nesbitt

Real hometown (Toronto), many. Current hometown (St. Marys), Emm Gryner, sort of.

depending on which london suburb counts as my actual hometown it's either iron maiden, stormzy, or a certain fascist "bluesman"

They call Alabama the Crimson Tode. Call me fascist blues.

*Tide, gah.

I don't know of any notable musicians from Silver Spring MD, though Stevie Nicks immortalized the town/city in song in Fleetwood Mac's "Silver Springs", which of course has nothing to do with Silver Spring but was named for it. My current address about a 10 minute drive from Silver Spring is a block away from where John Fahey attended high school (and also Jim Henson and Len Bias).

didn't Half Japanese have some connection to Silver Spring (I knew the Fair brothers grew up in Union Bridge, MD). The town I lived in until last year gave the world Lester Bowie.

David Byrne grew up in Arbutus, Md., which is sorta between Columbia and Baltimore. The Fairs lived in Carroll County, near Frederick. My wife is from Mount Airy. South Carroll.

Not helpful for Silver Spring, but in the ballpark.

This reminds me that I was in a grade-school class with Rebecca Gibb, later drummer for Harlow, and Pat Smear's wife.

i'd tell y'all but then you'd be able to figure out my hometown, which isn't big, and i'm clinically paranoid. i just find it endlessly amusing that my hometown has actually contributed to music and not just to pablo escobar's retirement account

Same. There’s a major pop star from my hometown but I don’t wanna talk about it

XP to Tom D - this is very obscure but Paisley was home to this guy also -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOniGvP4eCE

Specific neighbourhoods are typically hard to pin down within this sprawl but the interweb tells me that Percy Grainger, Daevid Allen, Kylie Minogue, J G Thirlwell, Dame Nellie Melba, Helen Reddy, Flea and various members of Air Supply and the Birthday Party were born somewhere around here, for starters. (This game is less interesting if thinking in terms of largish conurbations, admittedly, but there's also little risk to anonymity lol.)

Mine's where Colin Meloy grew up and got his first Replacements album, and where Charley Pride played baseball and first started performing. A truly formative town.

Both Taylor Hawkins and Jon Davison of Yes would have been surfer kids around Laguna Beach when I was in high school. Ty Segall also comes from Laguna but a generation later.

i'm from east dulwich in london. nitin sawhney and glenn tillbrook are both from here, and king krule spent a lot of time in east dulwich growing up

a good friend i went to primary school with is in a band called curser who seem to be doing well :)

i think another friend played (plays?) bass for Lynks Afrikka