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ATX dissed! RS names Nashville nation’s best music scene
First UT slips to the middle of the pack in both the nation’s party school rankings and now comes this bit of vinegar in the eye; in its April 28 “Best of Rock” issue the old grey lady glossy acid burnout of rock writing appoints Nashville, Tenn. as the city with the nation’s best music scene.
Deep-book online content at RS is subscription only these days, but the fine bunch over at the Nashville Tennessean’s Nashville Cream blog copped a scan of their home city’s spread with a pretty decent rundown of how the honor was decided.
What do we learn from this? Mainly that having Jack White claiming a city as his home ups its cultural cache by orders of magnitude - sorry ‘bout that Detroit. The guy just hosted a Jerry Lee Lewis concert outside his Third Man Records HQ as part of Record Store Day, for God’s sake.
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By Mark
April 19, 2011 8:59 PM | Link to this
When was the last time Rolling Stone was relevant? Please get your news from a thousand other sources before you look at a magazine that stopped mattering 25 years ago.
By John
April 20, 2011 1:40 PM | Link to this
Haters gonna hate.
By George
April 20, 2011 1:48 PM | Link to this
RS just took down a general in the US Military not even a year ago so I’d call them still relevant.
Nashville has an awesome music scene, and honestly, reminds me a lot of Austin back in the 90’s.
By sleeping nights awake
April 20, 2011 5:31 PM | Link to this
As far as music is concerned, RS is completely irrelevant.
By David
April 21, 2011 8:04 AM | Link to this
There’s certainly nothing wrong with Nashville’s scene, but there’s no way I’d move there over Austin.
By Steve H.
April 21, 2011 12:01 PM | Link to this
Just a clarification: Nashville Cream is the blog of the Nashville Scene — no relation to the Tennessean.
I like Austin.
By TitoP
April 22, 2011 4:26 PM | Link to this
Considering there is an actual music INDUSTRY in Nashville, it’s got a lot on Austin. The players here are small potatoes and get little to no attention outside of the region. N’ville’s got publishers, managers, agents and labels with international connections galore. That’s what makes all the difference.