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Music from where you live

I want to hear music from your suburb, town, city or country. Tell us about thriving scenes that we ought to know about. This could be great!

 

I could talk about Melbourne music forever but here's a classic from 2014. Basically a modern Melbourne rock anthem.

https://open.spotify.com/track/0RL2fKBrkzwgO83iqhwRKa

 

Show me what you've got! It can be anything: recent, underground, old or famous.

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Even though here in Portugal we have our own music, "Fado", what I'd love to share is something else. Dead Combo combine several genres of music incluiding rock, blues and even fado, all into an amazing fusion that leaves you wanting more. So here's my pick 🙂

 

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I'm from Estonia. Frankly some of the local stuff I care about is not on Spotify, but since the biggest ISP brings Spotify here (and the other competes with Deezer), hopefully things change soon.
Links lead you to their Spotify artist pages.

 

Anyway, Estonia is... a small country. There are pretty special sounds that nod to our cultural background and folk music, our own punk scene etc, and there are very famous singers who write songs more reminiscent of western pop.

The most famous classical music composer is Arvo Pärt. I got in touch with a fellow Amon Tobin listener from UK, and he said that he loves Arvo's music, so I thought it's nice to mention him.

An example of folk would be Curly Strings. Some songs have really cool lyrics.

Good examples of Estonian punk rock sound are J.M.K.E and Vennaskond. Many of their songs are pretty much legends and every Estonian with enough culture in their blood should know their songs. ; )

 

Now to the famous singers in this local pond:

Ott Lepland - rose from 'Estonian Superstar' show, really loved by many.

Both he and Koit Toome have been to Eurovision (won't talk about the results...) Koit also discovered he has an impressive high-end / falsetto department and now his Christmas sessions are spent in various churches and soulful Christmas concerts, singing completely different repertoire of content than what you can hear on his Spotify page... :')

 

Vanilla Ninja is from Estonia, a girl band from Tallinn, the capital of Est. They had quite a fame in Europe and were loved by many. The band has been discontinued for about 9 years now, though.

 

There is likely a lot more to cover up, but I don't want to make it too long. 🙂

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I'm from a small town in MA, called Lynn. And the sound of music here is very hip hop driven. Stream my latest track "Got A Bag" here.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7F1CYrJU8T5YvmqosFhvqP

https://open.spotify.com/track/2vdFyv4eMHOKNEiU6fKvJ1

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I´m from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Our traditional music is Tango, but I'm more into our rock music that's we call "Rock Nacional".

Some of each genre:

 

Tango: Astor Piazzolla

 

Por una cabeza

 

Rock/Pop: One song per decade

The foundational song of our rock in 1967:

70s

 80s

 90s

 00s

 10s

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I am from Jakarta, Indonesia. Our traditional music is called Keroncong. I bet you won't find this music in any other parts of the world 🙂

 

@Jpgchief would love to share as well.

 

https://open.spotify.com/track/7KMT2ZmthqYSnBzeJKZMtQ?si=005_vgwDQBSAqFRV_0dZOw

This is a really cool thread!

Here's some music from around here 🎉

 

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We have a really stong acoustic/folk scene 🙂

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This is a topic very long and difficult to enter, but I'll only take three examples of groups of the 80's (Caifanes), 90s (Maldita Vecindad) and Café Tacvba which, to date, still making music for over 25 years.

 

These two songs are not part of the successes of the group, but if you use some very typical of our country style including the letters

 

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This band is a similar case as the fusion of Mexican styles and elsewhere had much success and had international recognition

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Finally the Cafe Tacvba, this band is one of the most important in our history and its change and evolution have been very marked, leave only some samples where to touch a little bit of everything what represents us

 

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Won't put more than their profiles of some of the most important of the music in my country as it would be the case of Vicente FernandezJuan GabrielPedro InfantePedro VargasJosé Alfredo JimenezLos Tigres del Norte, etc, etc, etc.

 

 

 

 

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I live in Trieste, Italy.

This is some music from around here:

DISTUNER

https://open.spotify.com/album/7Aw7HSZOph7nfspZTh77Wd

 

RICH MACHINES

https://open.spotify.com/album/4Uq7o0MG9zcAsp5GoROzJw

 

YARI CIANI

https://open.spotify.com/album/0lkLdhnkGb6llKsn5ioTu9

 

If you like it I have more!

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Great thread! Here's a playlist of music from the Isle of Wight, a small island at the bottom of UK which is home to a lot of excellent and varied musicians plus the famous folk/rock/pop festival. You can listen below:

 

https://open.spotify.com/user/robertafidora/playlist/4aGSPbox0eWpRpNDGztZta

I am from Newcastle, Australia, a town pretty much known amongst most Aussies for being a tough working class regional city so really it's not a surprise that Newcastle is very much a rock music town, I don't really know a great deal about the local music scene (I need to get out more) but the most successful act from Newcastle is Silverchair

 

Silverchair formed in the Newcastle beachside suburb of Merewether when the members of the band were just teenagers, the single "Tomorrow" went number 1 on the ARIA chart in Australia for six weeks in 1994. They would continue to have success in Australia with songs like "Freak", "Abuse Me", "Anthem for the Year 2000". The band would go on hiatus in 2003 before returning in 2007 with "Straight Lines" which instantly went straight to number 1 and spent 4 weeks at the top. 

 

Silverchair have had 5 number one albums in Australia including their last studio album called "Young Modern" from 2007.

 

https://open.spotify.com/album/7yDs4Q4jhZEOTivpHbllda

 

 

 

 

I live in Portland ME...there are a ton of eclectic and strange bands up here in the Northern US.  My band plays music we call "anti-genre"

here is an example...

 

https://open.spotify.com/track/0pt1bHvtodOyc8ZQKXYRUU

I'm LOVING all of these! Thank you so much to everyone who has posted. It's great to see how proud and knowledgeable you all are. Keep em coming 😉

 

Here's a classic 1977 Sydney punk band if anyone's interested.

https://open.spotify.com/track/2QGCeYmbherfGblF6l5GT9

Mindseye is a downtempo electronic music producer from Hamilton, New Zealand. Probably not the main music genre to come from our land of the long white cloud, but still...
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cleopatrick is a sick rock duo from Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. They just released a new single called hometown where they blend rock with new age hip hop vibes and its unreal

 

https://open.spotify.com/track/2kFKIFc5RSTlhuGed6ZNZ7

Well, It's too many songs from Norway I'd like to show but I'll pick a few.

 

First of will be songs of the the Russ I guess.

When you're done with your graduation in Norway, you can become Russ from 1st to 17th May, people usually group up and buy van's or buses, not all but some purchase songs from known artists featuring their van/bus.

 

Here's a few examples:

https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/1yssDujlWlQyplSJwTekRE

https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/0hrDW4TTILXdE2ovNvaxFS

https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/1EBkbkjFr32YRhWKJJkydf

 

 

Here's a few of my Norwegian favorites:

https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3tsna9IXmTB9Mfy1oWNV8G

https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/5ZDLNjqrOxITllh4rdRmah

https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/7yMfgZltYjEqy87H4Ltfng

 

 

My hometown of Colorado Springs, CO, is not very diverse in its music scene, as the venue sizes go from DIY house shows to an arena with very little in between. Bigger names do frequent the World Arena, however, I think the real music scene lies within the DIY shows and hardcore scene. We actually made a few headlines during the large crackdown on DIY spaces last December after the fire at Ghost Ship in Oakland, CA. One of the largest DIY space in the city, The Flux Capacitor, was shut down becasue of fire codes.

 

I am not a huge fan of hardcore music, and I don't usually attend the shows, but here is one of my favorite local bands, Fortunes Fool! 

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Heres a playlist from some music from Nottingham

https://open.spotify.com/user/jamjam1987/playlist/0L0JojYt88S9vUpDwNdghW

I want to share some traditional music from Bulgaria. We have awesome vocals and cool asymetric beats. Check it out, it's pretty epic:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2lAuHK6uV8ifWJoCGeVQLI

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