What's Your Hometown's ContributionTo Music?

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