Edinburgh
This well-heeled city's recent emergence as a breeding-ground for great new music is illustrated by Broken Records, whose beguiling string-laden folk rock has quickly led admirers to christen them the UK’s Arcade Fire. To see just how active, impassioned, and occasionally pretty catty the Edinburgh scene can be, go to www.jockrock.org, the one-stop-shop for any would-be scenester.
Alumni: Broken Records, Garbage's Shirley Manson
Pub fact: Local metal and punk venue Studio 24, is the spot where Kurt Cobain first met Eugene Kelly from The Vaselines and persuaded them to reform to support Nirvana.
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