Nightlife
| Rank | City | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Orleans | 4.86 |
| 2 | Austin | 4.73 |
| 3 | New York | 4.72 |
| 4 | Las Vegas | 4.71 |
| 5 | Chicago | 4.67 |
| 6 | Miami | 4.66 |
| 7 | Nashville | 4.64 |
| 8 | San Francisco | 4.54 |
| 9 | Providence | 4.53 |
| 10 | Houston | 4.53 |
| 11 | Los Angeles | 4.50 |
| 12 | Boston | 4.50 |
| 13 | Philadelphia | 4.48 |
| 14 | Minneapolis/St. Paul | 4.45 |
| 15 | Denver | 4.44 |
| 16 | Kansas City | 4.43 |
| 17 | Charleston | 4.43 |
| 18 | San Diego | 4.42 |
| 19 | San Antonio | 4.41 |
| 20 | Atlanta | 4.40 |
| 21 | Cleveland | 4.40 |
| 22 | Seattle | 4.38 |
| 23 | Portland, Oregon | 4.38 |
| 24 | Washington, D.C. | 4.38 |
| 25 | Honolulu | 4.36 |
| 26 | Orlando | 4.31 |
| 27 | St. Louis | 4.27 |
| 28 | Phoenix/Scottsdale | 4.27 |
| 29 | Dallas/Fort Worth | 4.22 |
| 30 | Santa Fe | 4.08 |
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Comments (3)
Open / CloseDetroit
Detroit has a great live music scene, from clasical to jazz, blues, rock, and country. If you include Ann Arbor, we have one of the best live music scenes in the country. It is one of the few good things I can say about my home town.
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Not having Memphis on this list - one of the world's great live music cities - makes the whole survey suspect.
Nightlife
Austin is number 2? I find that hard to believe in comparison to the other cities mentioned. Austin is great for live music, but, there's no depth or breadth to what they have to offer, especially with regard to diversity. Very one dimensional selection of entertainment. If live music is the main criteria, then if Austin is number 2 then Nashville should definitely be number 3.
It's actually a shame Austin isn't number one since it is the live music capital of the world. In fact, the majority of Austin's annual income is from live music with some of the biggest music festivals of the year ACL and SXSW.
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