Tucson, Arizona. Las Cruces, New Mexico. Odessa, Texas. New Orleans, Louisiana. Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Fort Smith, Arkansas. Tulsa, Oklahoma. Coffeyville, Kansas. Kansas City, Missouri. Ames, Iowa.
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Madison, Wisconsin. Chicago, Illinois. Michigan City, Indiana. Chelsea, Michigan.
Cleveland, Ohio. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Ledgewood, New Jersey. Brooklyn, New York.
Number of band/artist members determined by wikipedia.
Locations of artists determined by their myspace pages and,
when more specificity was required, wikipedia or Pitchfork’s own reviews.
Genre was determined by allmusic.com.
Commercially available formats determined by itunes, amazon.com and record label web pages.
Reality television ties are as recorded by wikipedia.
Number of band/artist members determined by wikipedia.
Band/artist first active determined by wikipedia.
When wikipedia information was unavailable, date of first release
or date of myspace page creation was used.
Artist year of birth determined by wikipedia.
Record labels determined by wikipedia.org.
When a song was released by more than one label the larger label was used.
Label ownership determined by wikipedia.org and discogs.com.
Record labels determined by pitchforkmedia.com.
When a song was released by more than one label the larger label was used.
Label ownership determined by wikipedia.org and discogs.com.
