Cities in America with the best dnb, idm, techno scenes...

What cities are the best for these types of music?

Chicago could be worse. It could be better though. San fran is nice.

salisbury and Stonnington, CT

Phoenix AZ isn't too bad either. Lots of DnB heads there at any rate.

And I forgot to add acid/breakcore/glitch.

Fuck it I'll just move to London : P

apparently rochester, ny (where i go to school) used to have a bangin dnb scene. i still hear about shows from time to time (and have had a few opportunities to see some big names) but it's certainly a dying city... i imagine the major eastern cities (nyc, philly, d.c.) all have pretty decent scenes (i live in d.c. and what i've seen is more focused on the experimental edge but they get a little of everything).

Probably Texas and the East Coast.

NYC, Chicago, San Francisco.

There are a lot of people here that make a good living strictly as dj's.

yeah I'd say Bay Area, LA, NY are your best chances. Really though UK is best for straight up cheese ball DnB/IDM etc.

America wants more dancey synthpop type stuff etc. I dunno from my observations so far any how.

montpelier, vermont

NOT

Not Boston!

I agree with Phoenix Az.

I'd like to find the scene out here in Boston but i'm not sure it exists.

I've heard the massart students have a small noise scene in boston

lol mass art kids.

Boston in general has a huge noise scene, but I wouldn't call that an "IDM/DNB scene" some tiems there are some breakcorish people.

I just went to a show were hrvatski played as hrvatski for the first time in many years but that's almost it.

NY i guess

Columbus has a larger noise scene than Boston. It doesn't really have much at all, which is strange considering how many conservatories and art schools are in the area.

No one is there long enough to keep a scene going. People go to school there for four years and then peace.

edit: Actually, Boston has a good hardcore punk scene. That's mostly out in Allston and in the 'burbs, though.

Maybe I should more-so say Massachusetts, has a very big noise scene. If you include the other nearby states (New England) since they're all so small, it's one of the biggest.

Definitely not around my parts (Baton Rouge, LA). I'm sure they have some shit in New Orleans but I wouldn't be too optimistic about it. The people around my neck of the woods aren't particularly interested in music without guitars and other bullshit so...

I have no doubt that there's probably some kicking shit in Austin, TX if you manage to break away from the super-indie crowds that run that town...

  On 9/30/2009 at 11:44 PM, Glass Plate said:

Maybe I should more-so say Massachusetts, has a very big noise scene. If you include the other nearby states (New England) since they're all so small, it's one of the biggest.

that's not true, not here at least

What about Washington? I might go there in December and Fugazi is the only band I know from there. Is there electronic stuff?

  On 9/29/2009 at 2:18 AM, mrx said:

salisbury and Stonnington, CT

yo man i was in new haven for my robotics team, the hatmaster and i went to forage for donuts, you wouldn't believe how many homeless guys we had to fend off