North Carolina, US

I haven't written about any US states in a while, so I thought I'd take my first plunge into a state with strong country and Americana roots. North Carolina has brought the world quite a lot of excellent singer-songwriters, country bands, folk groups and indie rockers, but also funk bands, Afrobeat, and rockabilly artists. I don't really know that much about the life in North Carolina, but the music coming from that state suggests a great divide between the old and conservative country-cowboys and young hipsters doing their own thing. This definitely is good for the music scene and not many other posts in this blog portray as scattered areas. There is one weird thing about the bands I found. There's very little of electronic sounds in these bands. Most of the instruments are either acoustic instruments or more traditional rock n' roll instruments. Anyway, this is a great almost three hour playlist of music from North Carolina. Enjoy! Here's the playlist: North Carolina, US

Chile

World's music scenes are full of surprises. I had no idea that Chile had such a great psychedelic music scene and I'm happy to conquer a whole new continent. This is my first post of South America. Excellent cosmic rock, grunge, psychedelia and also more basic indie rock and pop. During my search I found a lot of more traditional latino rhythms and traditional latin American folk music, but I wasn't too pleased with it so this list sounds a bit more in tune with European and North American music. Still, Spanish language in many songs gives its own spice to these songs. Chile also seems to have its own, very unique sound full of great sounds and surprising melodies. I'm sure there would have been many more amazing bands I could not find, but I'm still quite happy with this list. So enjoy this almost two hour playlist of Chile's excellent music scene. The playlist is here: Chile