You're kidding, right? LA has WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too many bands!

hmm... i grew up in a college town with 5000 people and another 5000 during the school year. there was a thriving scene for a few years while i was in high school, but not much since then. the jazz june is probably the biggest band to come out of it, but my favorite was grieving eucalyptus, even though they spent more time talking than actually playing at any show.

Thank you, Detroit.

Yeah, but they all move there to fight for a suck off the music industry's teet.

Mich = homegrown baby!

If it's my HOME, home town (Highland Park, IL)....
It has to be:
Caviar (I carpooled to Hebrew school with their drummer - Jason. He was a dick to me, as I was a bit of a geek and he was one of the "cool kids".)
or
The Redwalls
Who are actually from Deerfield, but I grew up right on the border between Highland Park and Deerfield, and actually had a bunh of kids from Deerfield in my classes.

Oh, and Richard Marx is from Highland Park, too. But he's not "good".
My current home boasts the keys player from Umphrey's McGee as a hometown boy, as well as James Young of Styx, of course.

If you wanna be an ass, go ahead. But don't act like Motown, the birthplace of techno, two of the most important punk bands ever and probably the best current rock scene ever are negated by a trio of unfortunate novelty acts.

Oh, and I forgot Sufjan Stevens.
That oughta make all you indie-loving asses shut up.

Nashville has a shit-ton of bands, and I REALLY need to get out and check out some local acts. It's strange that I have all of this music sitting right under my nose but complaing there's nothing to do in this town.

Dude, STFU.

I picked those out of your post to clown on you, not on Detroit as a whole. The thread was about picking favorite bands, not one city versus another.

I'm certainly not gonna hold Atlanta over any other major city in terms of musical contributions.

then - cheap trick

now - cheap trick

(we dont evolve much around here)

My heart beats for you. Man, I want to go back to the Detroit History Museum strictly for the Techno exhibit they have.... oooh it was like being a kid in a candy store!

Um, as for LA bands, I'm with T, WAAAAAAAAAY too many bands. So for now, I'll just mention my current favorites:

Silversun Pickups
Giant Drag
Frausdots
HELEN STELLaR
Autolux

Lucky for me a lot of well known bands and good music has come out of Glasgow; from the very beginning of pop music in the UK (Lonny Donegan was born here and without Lonny Donegan there would have been no Beatles) right up to recently Pitchforked reviewed Sons and Daughters but I'll narrow it down to two.

Teenage Fanclub - They were the band that made me realise there actually was a local music scene.

Orange Juice - It would take way to long to even scratch the surface of my love of Orange Juice.

Not from here originally, but Phoenix-and-area has been home to Megadeth/Dave Mustaine for a long time. So that'd be my favorite, I guess.

Others from or in the Phoenix-area:

Alice Cooper (Alice is constantly on the air shilling for local car dealers in commercials, or out golfing! Talk about not living the image he used to project.)
Sacred Reich
Flotsam & Jetsam
Gin Blossoms
Glen Campbell

That's all I can think of right now.

How about Meat Puppets?!!?! (I think they're actually from Tempe or Mesa... but, close enough!!!)

Also with Phx roots

Meat puppets
Jimmy Eat World
the Refreshments

I grew up in Manchester, NH so I get Boston by default, though Aerosmith does have NH roots as well.

Scruffy the Cat
Buffalo Tom

oh yeah i'm going to add:

she wants revenge
earlimart

Hey Z, isn't Jazz June from Lancaster? Did you live there?

Anyway, here's me:

Muncy, PA (my hometown) - Lips n' Assholes
Baltimore, MD - Landspeedrecord or Lungfish
Pittsburgh, PA - Modey Lemon probably, although lately I've been getting more into Karl Hendricks Trio. I always wrote him off as generic 90's alternative rock, but some of their stuff is really good.
Houston, TX - Yeah, sure, King's X and Geto Boys I guess, all that new Screwed rap the kids are into, whatever. But the theme here is that Houston music sucks. The John Sparrow are a decent local band, if a little too affected and fashion conscious.

Not my favorite just the only band i know that has come from my city.

Tavares with the horrible song "Penny For Your Thoughts"
http://www.soultracks.com/tavares.htm

At least Frank Black grew up in the next town.

Chad Van Gaalen

He's the featured artist on CMJ right now. I love his music, but I'm especially glad to see him have some success because I hope it'll make people realize that there are some quality artists here in Cowtown.

You can get some mp3s here.

seattle:
ever: the sonics
now: tough one... I like The A Frames, The Charming Snakes, Kinski, Fruit Bats, The Lights, The Blood Brothers, Crooked Fingers (although i think he's splitting), damien jurado, and a couple of others that are slipping mymind right now. i guess a frames would have to be my favorite current one after looking at the list I just made.

alexisonfire is the only band that ever came from here, and ron sexsmith

i've always thought of them as a kutztown band since they all went to school there. i have no clue about them before or after their days there.

Nine Inch Nails

More from LA:

X
Social Distortion
Fear
Circle Jerks
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Offspring
Incubus
The GoGos
The Runaways
The Doors
Bad Religion
Descendents
Rage Against the Machine
No Doubt
Van Halen
Beach Boys
Jan & Dean
>>>> An apparent error that was meant to be deleted - Leonard Cohen

Cuff the Duke is indeed an excellent band. RIYL: The Sadies. So, Bill, this most mean you are from 'Shwa Rawk City ... ?

Montreal. Of all time would probably be Leonard Cohen or maybe Mitsou. Since moving here, it would have to be The Arcade Fire, honestly. But currently I'm extremely excited about Dreamcatcher (new CD/LP called "Nimbus" shortly forthcoming, see www.ohnono.com). Goa! is also presently of interest.