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maine - Paranoid Social Club - Two Girls
new hampshire - The Queers - New Hampshire
vermont - Phish - Birds of a Feather
massachusetts - Pixies - Tessie
rhode island - Les Savy Fav - Rhode Island Is Famous For You
connecticut - Magik Markers - Kylie From Connecticut
new york - Sonic Youth - Talkin' New York
new jersey - Bruce Springsteen - Jersey Girl
delaware - George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Hello, I'm In Delaware
washington dc - Trans Am - Chocolate City
maryland - Spank Rock - Baltimore
philadelphia - Hall & Oates - Philadelphia Freedom
ohio - Heartless Bastards - Let's Move To Cleveland
west virginia - Karma to Burn - Take Me Home Country Roads
virginia - Dave Matthews Band - American Baby
kentucky - Rachel's - Blue Moon of Kentucky
indiana - Murder by Death - Goin' Back To Indiana
michigan - Funkadelic - Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
illinois - Muddy Waters - My Kind of Town
wisconsin - Violent Femmes - Color Me Once
minnesota - The Replacements - Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis
iowa - Slipknot - Iowa
missouri - Chuck Berry - Missouri Uncompromised
north dakota - June Panic - Fargo, North Dakota
south dakota - Indigenous - Only Black Man In South Dakota
nebraska - The Faint - Omaha
kansas - Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
colorado - DeVotchKa - Rocky Mountain High
utah - The Used - Salt Lake City
wyoming - Teenage Bottlerocket - miss wyoming
montana - Tarkio - Wild Montana Skies
idaho - Built to Spill - Danny Says
nevada - The Killers - Viva Las Vegas
washington - Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
oregon - Pink Martini - Louie Louie
california - The Doors - Under the Bridge
arizona - Meat Puppets - By The Time I Get To Arizona
new mexico - Beirut - New Mexico
texas - Janis Joplin - Dallas
oklahoma - The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??
arkansas - Al Green - Hurt
louisiana - Dr. John - Walking to New Orleans
mississippi - Robert Johnson - Travelling Riverside Blues
tennessee - B.B. King - Walking In Memphis
alabama - Sun Ra - Sweet Home Alabama
north carolina - Doc Watson - Carolina In My Mind
south carolina - The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
georgia - R.E.M. - Georgia On My Mind
florida - Deicide - Dear Miami
hawaii - Jack Johnson - Lei Pikake
alaska - Portugal. The Man - There's No Penguins In Alaska



secondary options for artists (in cases where place connections are rather easy):

NY: Interpol, The Strokes, Dream Theater, A Place to Bury Strangers, Talking Heads, Cat Power, Television, The Velvet Underground
CA: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Audioslave, Dredg, Devics, Ben Harper, Jefferson Airplane, Queen of the Stone Age, System of a Down, RATM, Dead Kennedys
MA: Cul de Sac
WA: Sleater-Kinney, Brandi Carlile, Alice in Chains
TX: The Mars Volta, Explosions In the Sky, Balmorhea
VA: Sparklehorse
OH: The National
IL: Patti Smith