Spotify's Musical Map of the World

This thing is kind of fascinating.

Spotify made a map of the world that shows music "distinctive" to particular cities — "songs that are enjoyed there disproportionately a lot relative to in other places."  It is updated each week, and so you can see that a lot of Austin people were excited about the REK show I went to the other night, with his "Corpus Christi Bay" one of the top songs, along with Bob Schneider, Cory Morrow, Randy Rogers Band, Turnpike Troubadours, and other Texas Country type guys.

• San Antonio also has a lot of Randy Rogers band and other country music, as well as something called Massore
• Houston is awesome, the top tracks there are all local southern rap dudes like Z Ro, Big Mo, and Fat Pat.  Never change H Town.
• Dallas, strangely, walks the line between Austin and Houston by having some local rap guys (more Z Ro, plus someone called Mr. Pookie) but also the Texas country guys like Randy Rogers Band and Josh Abbott Band).
• Denver is also weird, with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Nathaniel Rateliff (makes sense) plus Tech N9ne (doesn't make sense unless those are weed growers trying to be tough in their grow rooms) and then a bunch of something called Greensky Bluegrass.
• Memphis is all sketchy rappers, which is wonderful.
• Vegas is stuff I've literally never heard of - Dizzy Wright, T3r Elemento, King Lil G, and the Hotpantz.  Vegas is scary.

You should play around with it too, I always find this kind of data dump stuff fun and interesting.