The best music cities in the U.S.?

Nashville, Tenn is the clear the winner according to recent data.  It’s the music capital of the U.S., ranking No. 1. Nashville also tops the charts as the best city for working musicians. Career performers can expect to earn an average of $28.81 hourly. Cities following Nashville include Indianapolis, Portland, Austin, Louisville, and Texas.

The worse cities? Miami and Las Vegas

The metrics used for the study were working musicians, affordable shows, and the amount of shows booked. The top 15 cities have an average of 39 professional musicians per capita. The top 15 cities have an average of 3.86 small concert venues per capita versus 2.90 venues per capita in the average city. The top 15 cities consistently come out on top for Google Trends and music searches for all genres and rank 11% higher across every genre than the average city

Look out for the track Hold Me by Lyrah. You’ll like if you’re fan of bedroom indie pop.

“I wrote this when I was living with my parents a year into the pandemic. I was making music out of their garage (so literally my own garage band lol). I made this one night when I was exhausted listening to all my go-to comfort songs” says Lyrah.

Lyrah got her start as a writer for other artists and since pursuing a solo path her songs have landed on Spotify’s Fresh Finds and garnering features Earmilk and Indie Shuffle, and topped the Hype Machine charts. Most recently she had a song featured in HBO’s show “The Sex Lives of College Girls”.

Check out the new track Salt by Estella Dawn. It’s unique, dark, and could find a place in a Netflix scene.

Estella says, “We all have our own ways to cope, whether it’s having a cry sitting on the floor of your shower or screaming along to aggressive rock music in the car, buying too many house plants or finding comfort in somebody else’s company, drinking, smoking, eating, the list goes on. We’re all just doing our best”.

The 24 year old Colorado based artist released a slew of singles and was a semi-finalist on New Zealand’s Got Talent.

Coachella and Stagecoach concert goers won’t need to show proof of vaccination or negative Covid test results and won’t be required to wear masks in the Southern California desert for the music festivals this April.

“As we prepare to spend an incredible weekend in the desert together we are announcing that there will be no vaccination, testing or masking requirements at Stagecoach 2022,” tweeted Goldenvoice, the festival’s organizer.

In a 80’s mood? Try Were We Ever So Young? by ‘Adrian Sieber’. This is the best 80’s inspired tune I heard this year.

Adrian Sieber is one of Switzerlands most successful songwriters. Known as the singer and founder of the band Lovebugs, he’s released 11 albums and performed hundreds of shows throughout Europe, America and Asia. The singer opened up for the Rolling Stones,  and with eight albums, the band reached the top 10, three of which even ended up at number 1.

The track popped up on Spotify’s New Music Friday (Switzerland)