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What Cities Produced “The Best Music” In 2011 [INFOGRAPHIC]

image from www.google.comDoes where music is made matter? A study by Patrick Adler, a doctoral student in urban planning at UCLA, appears to prove that it does. Adler used allmusic.com’s database and press coverage to "assign a locational base of operations" for every act on Pitchfork critic's top 100 of 2011, then counted the number of hits or hit producing acts per city. If an artist had 2 hits, they were counted twice. If there was a collaboration involving artists from more than one city, it divided between those cities. The results:

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  1. This would be more interesting if they verified that the critics at Pitchfork do not disproportionately live in any of these cities, and if they divided these entries by population. Even with that said, determining that the numbers are normalized if you divide by city population, an under-representation of somewhere like Mexico City doesn’t mean they don’t make good music, just that the nice folks at Pitchfork probably pay much less attention to it.

  2. Pitchfork is based out of Chicago, though they have a new office in Brooklyn now too.
    Pitchfork is not a local or regional music event blog, like brooklyn vegan or it’s affiliates. It mostly reviews records, does news and interview, opinion, print and video features and covers larger festivals.
    How do you get their attention? That really depends, but it’s that exclusivity that’s always what makes them sought after curators and tastemakers…then again it’s also the people who decide what they say is worth it’s salt..

  3. Apparently, more “good music” is coming out of Madison, Wisconsin than out of Nashville. :-))))

  4. I love that EC (WI) made the list, we are such a small market but the music that we make reaches such a big audience.

  5. Eau Claire before Montreal??? Yea right. Im having a real hard time taking this list seriously. One thing is for sure; its anglocentric if not US centered. Still, interesting…

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