The 2010s

New York New York: Psychedelic rock Gigan Invisible Circle Sungazer Sunwatchers New York: Power-pop Cults Lemon Twigs Oso Oso (emo) Violens New York: Slocore Cigarettes after Sex New York: Dance ASTR J Balvin (reggaeton) Chainsmokers (future bass) Honey Dijon (house) Eaves Galcher Lustwerk (deep house) Machine Girl Gavilan/Gavin Russom Sepalcure Levon Vincent Water From Your Eyes White Ring (witch house) New York: Punk-rock Dog Breath (hardcore) Drug Church (hardcore) Bomb the Music Industry (ska-punk) Show me the Body Surfbort (punk-rock) New York: Prog-rock 75 Dollar Bill Zoh Amba Beings Cant The Cellar and the Point New York: Roots-rock Big Thief Florist Geese Lake Street Dive Lone Bellow New York: Post-rock Bing & Ruth Buke and Gase Guardian Alien YHWH Nailgun New York: Singer songwriters Adult Mom Acloudyskye Arooj Aftab Bird Of Youth Julie Byrne Julie Christmas Diane Cluck Frankie Cosmos Carletta Sue Kay Lana Del Rey Eartheater Wendy Eisenberg Laurel Halo Grace Ives Cassandra Jenkins Joji KeiyaA King Princess L'Rain Adrianne Lenker Lil Peep Lust$ickPuppy Tate McRae Mel4ever Mitski Mutual Benefit Palehound Caroline Polachek Porches Raveena Jeff Rosenstock Daniel Rossen Sadaf Emily Sprague Twin Shadow Underscores (hyperpop) Vagabon Sharon Van Etten Riley Walker Zammuto New York: Electronica Fatima Al Qadiri Mario Diaz de Leon Huerco S (ambient) Rachika Nayar (ambient) Pharmakon Skeleton (vaporwave) New York: hardcore Parquet Courts Perfect Pussy New York: noise-rock Model Actriz Ora Iso White Suns New York: hard-rock/grunge Highly Suspect New York: synth-pop Hooray for Earth Nice Face Small Black (chillwave) New York: avantgarde Brian Chase Julia Kent Oneirogen (post-ambient) New York: Rap and soul Armand Hammer A$AP Rocky Autre Ne Veut Azealia Banks Benny the Butcher Yaya Bey Shawny Binladen Cardi B Childish Gambino DJ Preservation Elucid Fivio Foreign Donald Glover Ariana Grande (dance-pop) Junglepussy Ka Kid Cudi Leikeli Mach-Hommy Roc Marciano Amber Mark (neosoul) Mike Princess Nokia Kassa Overall (jazz-rap) Xenia Rubinos Run the Jewels Saigon Serpentwithfeet Sleepy Hallow Tekashi 6ix9ine Wiki Billy Woods Yaeji Young M.A. Your Old Droog New York: garage-rock Palberta Pop 1280 New York: World music Olivia Wyatt New York: Drum'n'bass New York: Heavy metal Afterbirth (death) Behold the Arctopus Flourishing (death) Imperial Triumphant (death) Luminous Vault (black metal) Pyrrhon (death) Scarcity (black) Undeath (death) Uniform (industrial-metal) New York: dub

Boston Boston: metal Elder (stoner) Boston: experimental metal Boston: Power-pop Minks Speedy Ortiz Boston: Progressive rock Guerilla Toss Boston: Pop-folk Gem Club Boston: Singer songwriters Anijmile Clairo Boston: Hardcore A Wilhelm Scream (punkpop) Defeater (punkpop) Exit Order Hotelier (emo) Boston: Post-rock Bent Knee Pile People Like You Really From Boston: Dance music Val Jeanty (glitch-hop) Saint Pepsi (vaporwav) Boston: metal Dream Unending (doom) Sumac Boston: Rap EvilDewer Washington Washington: Hardcore Messthetics Washington: Disco-punk Washington: Rap Washington: Alternative rock Washington: singer songwriters Kelela Mynabirds Bartees Strange Washington: glitch electronica Washington: roots-rock These United States Washington: garage-rock Ex Hex Washington: metal Encenathrakh Krallice Maryland: Jonathan Badger (prog-rock) Dope Body (noise-rock) Full of Hell (post-hardcore) Horse Lords (post-rock) Jana Hunter (songwriter) Insect Factory JpegMafia (rap) Lower Dens (synth-pop) Maggie Rogers (songwriter) Nourished by Time (songwriter) Snail Mail (songwriter) Sybyr (rap) Syringe (rap) Turnstile (funk-punk) Jason Urick (ambient) Delaware: Pennsylvania Pennsylvania: Metal Br0wn Angel Cleric Vektor (metal) Pennsylvania: Experimental rock Empath M Ax Noi Mach Palm Pennsylvania: Classic rock Sheer Mag Pennsylvania: songwriter Alex G Ethel Cain (gothic) Lunacy (gothic) Mac Miller Mhysa Moor Mother Graham Repulski Santigold (dance-pop) Pennsylvania: electronica Balam Acab Death's Dynamic Shroud.wmv (vaporwave) Kyle Press Metasplice Pennsylvania: Dance Marshmello (future bass) Pennsylvania: Power-pop Caracara Radiator Hospital Pennsylvania: psych-rock Spirit of the Beehive They Are Gutting a Body of Water Pennsylvania: Roots rock Pennsylvania: hardcore HIRS Collective (grindcore) Soul Glo (screamo) Pennsylvania: Rap Starkey (wonky) Lil Uzi Vert Tierra Whack

Chicago Chicago: Roots-rock Chicago: Singer songwriters Circuit des Yeux Kara Jackson Angel Olsen Jamila Woods Chicago: psych-rock The Great Society Mind Destroyers Chicago: Instrumental Chicago: Power-pop Beach Bunny Smith Westerns Chicago: Alt-rock Horsegirl Maps & Atlases Chicago: Industrial music Civic Center Chicago: Electronica Bitchin Bajas Fire-toolz Good Willsmith Chicago: Rap and soul Chance the Rapper Chief Keef (trap) Cupcakke (trap) Jeremih Felton Noname (rap) Ravyn Lenae soul) Lil Durk (trap) Polo G (trap) Saba (rap) Smino (rap) Chicago: Post-rock Black Monument Ensemble Disappears FACS Charles Rumback Mako Sica Chicago: Dance Louis the Child (future bass) Ariel Zetina Chicago: Metal Bongripper (doom metal) Murmur (black metal) Ohio Ohio: Power-pop Cloud Nothings Remember Sports Twenty One Pilots Ohio: Noise-rock Drose Eunoia Stella Research Committee Ohio: songwriter Raw Milk Ohio: electronica Telepath (vaporwave) Ohio: Garage-rock Guinea Worms

Texas Texas: Experimental Impossible Nothing Pablo Collective Texas: Roots-rock Kacey Musgrave (country) Texas: Psychedelic rock Water Damage Texas: metal Eternal Champion Sumerlands Texas: Singer-songwriters Leon Bridges Post Malone Maren Morris (country) Texas: electronic Internet Club (vaporwave) Texas: Rap Blackie Brockhampton Megan Thee Stallion Travis Scott Viper the Rapper Texas: dark rock Troller Arizona Hello Kitty Suicide Club Injury Reserve (rap)

Kentucky Tyler Childers (country) SG Goodman (songwriter) Listener (alt-rock) Nmesh (vaporwave) Carly Pearce (songwriter) Secluded Alchemist (gothic ambient) Indiana: Omar Apollo (songwriter) Freddie Gibbs (rap) Hail Architeuthis (noise) Jlin (dance) Stabscotch (alt-rock) Nevada: Five Finger Death Punch (pop-metal) Qu'qu'matz (prog-metal) New Mexico: The South Kansas: Dreamcrusher (industrial) Golden Living Room (vaporwave) Missouri: 100 Gecs (hyperpop) Frontierer (metalcore) Jerusalem and the Starbaskets (garage-rock) Mississippi: Rae Sremmurd (rap/ trap) Louisiana: Kevin Gates (rap) Dawn Richard (songwriter) Hurray for the Riff Raff (songwriter) Special Interest (punk) Thou (doom metal) Tennessee: Bully (punk-pop) Eric Church (country) Cities Aviv (rap) Pistol Annies (country) Boygenius (roots rock) Ashley Monroe (country) Julien Baker (songwriter) Carter Faith (country) Valerie June (songwriter) Ella Langley (country) Ashley McBryde (country) Megan Moroney (country) Pujol (punk) Isaiah Rashad (rap) Soccer Mommy Chris Stapleton (songwriter) Aaron Lee Tasjan (songwriter) Morgan Wallen (country) Arkansas: Pallbearer (doom) Alabama: Alabama Shakes (roots-rock) Brittany Howard (songwriter) Flo Milli (rap) Waxahatchee (songwriter) Georgia/ Atlanta: Georgia: hip-hop 21 Savage (hip hop) Earthgang (trap) Jay Electronica (hip hop) Future (hip hop/ trap) Gunna (hip hop) Latto (trap) Lil Nas X (hip hop) Kenny Mason (hip hop) Lil Yachty (hip hop) Migos (hip hop/ trap) Playboy Carti (hip hop/ trap) Lex Luger (hip hop) Drumma Boy (hip hop) Metro Boomin (hip hop) Waka Flocka Flame (hip hop) Shawty Redd (hip hop) Tha God Fahim (hip hop) YFN Lucci (hip hop) Young Thug (hip hop) Georgia: alt-rock Algiers (alt-rock) Circle Takes the Square (screamo) Gold Bears (punk-pop) Kucoshka (alt-rock) Georgia: metal O'Brother (metal) Georgia: electronica Janis Lago (noise) Washed Out (chillwave) Georgia: songwriter Faye Webster (songwriter) Georgia: roots-rock Larkin Poe South Carolina: Electric Bird Noise (ambient) Cepheus (post-rock) Florida: Blood on the Dance Floor (synth-pop) Camila Cabello (pop) City Girls (rap) Denzel Curry (trap) Fifth Harmony (pop) Nick Leon (reggaeton) Dan Mason (vaporwave) Home is Where (emo-pop) Kitty (rap) Sailorr (neosoul) Worm (doom-metal) XXXTentacion (emo-rap) North Carolina: J Cole (rap) DaBaby (rap) Rhiannon Giddens (songwriter) Indigo DeSouza (songwriter) Jake Xerxes Fussell (songwriter) Hiss Golden Messenger (alt-country) Horseback (ambient) MJ Lenderman (songwriter) The Love Language (pop) Mount Moriah (alt-country) Slicnaton (post-rock) Sylvan Esso (synth-pop) Wednesday (alt-country) Virginia: Virginia: Songwriter Dorthia Cottrell Lucy Dacus Morgan Wade Virginia: Rap 38KEA Lil Ugly Mane Pusha T Virginia: Electronic Chino Amobi Virginia: metal Windhand (doom) Virginia: pop Car Seat Headrest Happy Birthday Virginia: noise-rock Among The Rocks and Roots RAIC Shame Others

Colorado: Dream-pop Candy Claws Experimental Bull of Heaven Lobsterfight (post-emo) Metal Black Curse (death metal) Blood Incantation (death metal) Cobalt (black metal) Nightbringer (black metal) Primitive Man (doom) Songwriter The Midwest Wisconsin: Sd Laika (noise) DJ Speedsick (noise) Stacian (singer-songwriters, synth-pop) Utah: Upcharm (post-rock) Idaho: Nebraska: Montana: North Dakota: Oklahoma: Zach Bryan (country) Chat Pile (noise-rock) Iowa Rene Hell (electronic) Savage Young Taterbug (collage-based folk) Secret Abuse Michigan Michigan: singer songwriters Michigan: hardcore The Armed (metalcore) La Dispute Michigan: Garage-rock Protomartyr Michigan: Heavy metal Michigan: Experimental New Monuments Minnesota Minnesota: Power-pop Minnesota: Experimental rock Minnesota: Singer/songwriters Joe Rainey Minnesota: Roots-rock Minnesota: solo guitar Minnesota: Electronica Dirty Knobs (ambient) Minnesota: Punk-rock Uranium Club Minnesota: Rap Lizzo East Coast New Jersey: 070 Shake (rap) Big Troubles (pop) Clams Casino (hip hop) Ducktails (chillwave/ vaporwave) Halsey (songwriter) Topaz Jones (hip hop) Julian Lynch (songwriter) Planning for Burial (post-rock) Delicate Steve (songwriter) SZA (soul) Vermont: Connecticut: Anxious (emo) Rhode Island: AraabMuzik (hip hop) Bellows (prog) Lingua Ignota (songwriter) Loon (metal) Pilgrim (doom) Hawaii: ?: