American Music

"Do you like American music? We like all kinds of music.
But I like American music best... baby."

—Violent Femmes,^note See under Midwest "American Music"

An index listing all musicians born and/or formed in The United States.

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California

Bay Area

• 3Pac
• 24kGoldn
• Alexander James Adams
• All Shall Perish
• Animosity
• Arkaik
• Autopsy
• Big Brother & the Holding Company
  • 1968 - Cheap Thrills
• Blue Cheer
• Bosse-de-Nage
• The Brian Jonestown Massacre
• Chrome
• Cormorant
• Counting Crows
• Covet
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • 1968 - Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • 1969 - Bayou Country
  • 1969 - Green River
  • 1969 - Willy and the Poor Boys
  • 1970 - Cosmo's Factory
  • 1970 - Pendulum
  • 1972 - Mardi Gras
• Dead Kennedys
  • 1985 - Frankenchrist
  • Jello Biafra
• Deafheaven
• Death Angel
• Deerhoof
• Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
• Deltron 3030
• Digital Underground
• The Doobie Brothers
• Sheila E.
• E40
• En Vogue
• Exhumed
• Exodus (Band)
• Faith No More
• Fallujah
• Fantômas
• Flipper
• Forbidden
• G-Eazy
• Ghoul
• Tyrese Gibson
• The Grateful Dead
  • 1968 - Anthem of the Sun
  • 1970 - American Beauty
• Green Day
  • 1994 - Dookie
  • 1995 - Insomniac
  • 1997 - nimrod.
  • 2000 - Warning:
  • 2004 - American Idiot
  • 2009 - 21st Century Breakdown
  • 2016 - Revolution Radio
• Vince Guaraldi
• Hammers of Misfortune
• Inanimate Existence
• Indian Summer
• I Wrote Haikus About Cannibalism In Your Year Book
• Jefferson Airplane
  • 1966 - Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
  • 1967 - Surrealistic Pillow
  • 1968 - Crown of Creation
• Jefferson Starship
• Jellyfish
• Journey
• Paul Kantner
  • 1970 - Blows Against the Empire
• Kehlani
• Leviathan
• Huey Lewis and the News
• Lil B
• The Lonely Island
• Machine Head
• The Masked Marauders
• Johnny Mathis
• Matmos
• MC Frontalot
• MC Hammer
• MC Lars
• Otis McDonald
• Seanan McGuire
• Bridgit Mendler
• Steve Miller Band
• MXXN
• Negativland
• Neurosis
• Night Ranger
• John Ottman
• Pansy Division
• The Pine Box Boys
  • 2016 - The Feast of Three Arms
• Pomplamoose
• Possessed
• John Powell
• Primus
  • 1990 - Frizzle Fry
  • 1991 - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
  • 1995 - Tales From The Punchbowl
• Rancid
• Red House Painters
  • 1996 - Songs for a Blue Guitar
• The Residents
  • 1976 - The Third Reich 'n Roll
  • 1978 - Duck Stab! / Buster & Glen
  • 1979 - Eskimo
  • 1980 - The Commercial Album
• Santana
  • 1970 - Abraxas
  • 2002 - Shaman
• Carlos Santana
• Severed Savior
• Tupac Shakur
  • 1991 - 2Pacalypse Now
  • 1993 - Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z...
  • 1995 - Me Against the World
  • 1996 - All Eyez on Me
  • 1996 - The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory
• Sleep
• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
• Sly and the Family Stone
  • 1969 - Stand!
  • 1971 - There's a Riot Goin' On
• Brendon Small (also demonstrates his musical abilities as Dethklok)
  • 2012 - Brendon Small's Galaktikon
• Starship
• Sun Kil Moon
• Sweet Trip
• Vienna Teng
• Testament
• Third Eye Blind
• Christopher Tin
  • 2009 - Calling All Dawns
• Tommy Tutone
• Too $hort
• Train
• Vernian Process
• Vio-lence
• Watsky
• Weakling
• Xiu Xiu
• Roy Zimmerman

Los Angeles area

• 2nd Chapter of Acts
  • 1980 - The Roar Of Love
• The 5th Dimension
• Thirty Seconds to Mars
  • 2009 - This Is War
• Paula Abdul
  • 1988 - Forever Your Girl
• Abysmal Dawn
• Agent Steel
• Erik Aho
• Jhené Aiko
• Alcatrazz
• Alien Ant Farm
• ALL
• Gary Allan
• Herb Alpert
• Aly & A.J.
• Alyson
• America (started in London before moving here)
• American Murder Song
• American Spring
  • 1972 - Spring
• Steve Aoki
• The Aquabats!
  • 1997 - The Fury Of The Aquabats
• Audioslave
• Emilie Autumn
• Avenged Sevenfold
  • 2005 - City of Evil
  • 2016 - The Stage
• AWOLNATION
• Bad Religion
• The Bangles
  • 1984 - All Over the Place
• Banks
• The Banzai Predicament
• The Beach Boys (two of their former members are South African)
  • 1962 - Surfin' Safari
  • 1963 - Surfin' USA
  • 1963 - Surfer Girl
  • 1963 - Little Deuce Coupe
  • 1964 - Shut Down Volume 2
  • 1964 - All Summer Long
  • 1964 - The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
  • 1965 - The Beach Boys Today!
  • 1965 - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
  • 1965 - Beach Boys' Party!
  • 1966 - Pet Sounds
  • 1967 - Smiley Smile
  • 1967 - Wild Honey
  • 1968 - Friends
  • 1969 - 20/20
  • 1970 - Sunflower
  • 1971 - Surf's Up
  • 1972 - Carl and the Passions – "So Tough"
  • 1973 - Holland
  • 1976 - 15 Big Ones
  • 1977 - The Beach Boys Love You
  • 1977 - Adult/Child
  • 1977 - Merry Christmas From The Beach Boys
  • 1977 - M.I.U. Album
  • 1979 - L.A. (Light Album)
  • 1980 - Keepin' The Summer Alive
  • 1985 - The Beach Boys
  • 1989 - Still Cruisin'
  • 1992 - Summer in Paradise
  • 1996 - Stars and Stripes Vol. 1
  • 2011 - The SMiLE Sessions
  • 2012 - That's Why God Made the Radio
• Beck
  • 1994 - Mellow Gold
  • 1996 - Odelay
  • 2005 - Guero
• Big Bad Bosses
• Big Daddy
• Big Time Rush
• Rebecca Black
  • 2011 - "Friday"
• The Black Eyed Peas
• Black Flag
  • 1981 - Damaged
• Black Label Society
• Black Light Burns
• Blind Melon
• Body Count
  • 1992 - Body Count
• Brandy
• Bread
• Jackson Browne
• Buckethead
• Jeff Buckley
  • 1994 - Grace
  • 1998 - Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
• Tim Buckley
• Buffalo Springfield
• Butcher Babies
• The Byrds
  • 1965 - Mr. Tambourine Man
• John Cage
• Colbie Caillat
• The Calling
• Camper Van Beethoven
• Capital Cities
• Captain & Tennille
  • 1975 - Love Will Keep Us Together
• Captain Beefheart
  • 1967 - Safe as Milk
  • 1968 - Strictly Personal
  • 1969 - Trout Mask Replica
  • 1970 - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
  • 1974 - Unconditionally Guaranteed
  • 1974 - Bluejeans & Moonbeams
  • 1975 - Bongo Fury ^note With Frank Zappa
  • 1978 - Shiny Beast
  • 1980 - Doc at the Radar Station
  • 1982 - Ice Cream for Crow
• Belinda Carlisle
• Carpenters
• Shaun Cassidy
• Richard Cheese
• Cher
  • 1977 - Two the Hard Way (with Gregg Allman)
• Circuit Freq
• clipping.
• Coal Chamber
• Cold Cave
• Coolio
• Creature Feature
• David Crosby
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (One of its members being Canadian, and another being British)
  • 1970 - Déjà Vu (1970)
• †††
• Cypress Hill
  • 1993 - Black Sunday
• Damn Yankees
• Dorothy Dandridge
• Daniel Amos
  • 1981 - Horrendous Disc
  • 1981 - ¡Alarma!
  • 1983 - Doppelgänger
  • 1984 - Vox Humana
  • 1986 - Fearful Symmetry
• Dark Angel
• John Debney
• Delaney & Bonnie and Friends
  • 1970 - On Tour with Eric Clapton
  • 1971 - Motel Shot
• Adore Delano
• Descendents
• The Dingees
• DJ Quik
• Doctor Steel
• Doja Cat
• Dokken
• Eric Dolphy
  • 1964 - Out to Lunch!
• The Doors
  • 1967 - The Doors (Album)
  • 1967 - Strange Days
  • 1971 - L.A. Woman
• DOROTHY
• Dr. Dre
  • 1992 - The Chronic
• Hilary Duff
• E.S. Posthumus
• Eagles
  • 1976 - Hotel California
• Earl Sweatshirt
  • 2018 - Some Rap Songs
• Eazy-E
• Echosmith
• Eels
  • 1996 - Beautiful Freak
• Billie Eilish
  • 2019 – WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
• Danny Elfman
• Eve 6
• Exmortus
• The Faceless
• Failure
• Fanny
• Fatty Spins
• Fear
• Fear Factory
  • 1995 - Demanufacture
• Corey Feldman
  • 2016 - Angelic 2 The Core
• Fergie
• Sky Ferreira
• Fishbone
• Fleetwood Mac (while the band is mainly British, several of its members have been American, and the band has been based in Los Angeles since the mid-70s)
  • 1975 - Fleetwood Mac
  • 1977 - Rumours
  • 1979 - Tusk
  • 1982 - Mirage
  • 1987 - Tango in the Night
• Shelby Flint
• Flogging Molly
• The Flying Burrito Brothers
• Flying Lotus
• Lita Ford
• Fort Minor
  • 2005 - The Rising Tied
• Foster the People
  • 2014 - "Best Friend"
• John Frusciante
• Gaelic Storm
• The Game
• Garfunkel and Oates
• Leif Garrett
• The Germs
• Crispin Glover
  • 1988 - The Big Problem
• The Go-Go's
• Allie Goertz
• Jerry Goldsmith
• Joel Goldsmith
• Andy Grammer
• Josh Groban
• Grouplove
• Guns N' Roses
  • 1987 - Appetite for Destruction
  • 1988 - G N'R Lies
  • 1991 - Use Your Illusion
  • 2008 - Chinese Democracy
• Haim
• half•alive
• Hardline
• Beth Hart
  • 2014 - Live in Amsterdam (with Joe Bonamassa)
• Havalina Rail Co.
• HEALTH
• Hed PE
• Hey Violet
• Hole
  • 1991 - Pretty on the Inside
  • 1994 - Live Through This
  • 1997 - My Body, The Hand Grenade
  • 1998 - Celebrity Skin
• Hollywood Undead
• Julia Holter
• Hoobastank
• Hopsin
• James Horner
• House of Pain
• Marques Houston
• How to Destroy Angels
• James Newton Howard
• Ashlyne Huff
• Ice Cube
• Ice-T
• iLoveMakonnen
• In This Moment
• Incubus
• Insane Poetry
• Jack's Mannequin
• Jan and Dean
• Jane's Addiction
• Al Jardine
  • 2010 - A Postcard From California
• Joan Jett
• Bruce Johnston
  • 1963 - Surfin' 'Round The World
  • 1977 - Going Public
• Spike Jones
• Joy Electric
• Julien-K
• Victoria Justice
• Kesha
• Kids Praise
• Kids See Ghosts
• Klymaxx
• The Knack
• Kottonmouth Kings
• Hayley Kiyoko
• Zoë Kravitz
• L7
• Kendrick Lamar
  • 2012 - good kid, m.A.A.d city
  • 2015 - To Pimp a Butterfly
• Leiber and Stoller
• Les Friction
• Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain
• Jenny Lewis
• Lifehouse
• The Linda Lindas
• Linkin Park
  • 2000 - Hybrid Theory
  • 2003 - Meteora
  • 2007 - Minutes to Midnight
• Lit
  • 1999 - "Miserable"
• Little Feat
• LMFAO
• Kenny Loggins
• Love
  • 1967 - Forever Changes
• Mike Love
  • 1978 - First Love
  • 1978 - Country Love
  • 1981 - Looking Back With Love
  • 1983 - Rock 'n' Roll City (with Dean Torrance)
  • 1996 - Catch A Wave
  • 1998 - Salute NASCAR (with David Marks and Bruce Johnston)
  • 2001 - Summertime Cruisin'
  • 2004 - Mike Love Not War
  • 2017 - Unleash The Love
  • 2018 - Reason For The Season
  • 2019 - 12 Sides Of Summer
• Love/Hate
• Love Spirals Downwards
• The Mae Shi
• The Mamas & the Papas
• David Marks
• Maroon 5
  • 2002 - "She Will Be Loved"
  • 2014 - "Animals"
  • 2018 - "Girls Like You"
• Mazzy Star
• Bear McCreary
• Megadeth
• The Megas
• Metallica
  • 1984 - Ride the Lightning
  • 1986 - Master of Puppets
  • 1988 - ...And Justice for All (1988)
  • 1991 - Metallica
  • 1996 and 1997 - Load and ReLoad
  • 1998 - Garage Inc.
  • 2003 - St. Anger
• The Midnight
• Miguel
• Millionaires
• Charles Mingus
  • 1959 - Mingus Ah Um
  • 1963 - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
  • 1972 - Let My Children Hear Music
• Minutemen
• Missing Persons
• The Monkees (one of the four members was British)
  • 1967 - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
• Neal Morse
• Mötley Crüe
• the Mountain Goats (relocated to North Carolina)
• Mr. Big
• Meg Myers
• N.W.A
  • 1988 - Straight Outta Compton
• Nails
• Anna Nalick
• NateWantsToBattle
• The Neighbourhood
• Ricky Nelson
• Michael Nesmith
• New Radicals
• Thomas Newman
• Stevie Nicks
  • 1981 - Bella Donna
• Harry Nilsson
  • 1971 - Nilsson Schmilsson
• Nipsey Hussle
• No Doubt
  • 1995 - Tragic Kingdom
• NOFX
• Now United (with members from all around the world)
• Of Mice and Men
• The Offspring
  • 1994 - Smash
• OFWGKTA
• Oingo Boingo
  • 1981 - Only A Lad
  • 1985 - Dead Man's Party
• Otep
• Shuggie Otis
  • 1971 - Freedom Flight
  • 1974 - Inspiration Information
• Parade of Lights
• Van Dyke Parks
  • 1995 - Orange Crate Art (with Brian Wilson)
• The Partridge Family
• Pentakill
• A Perfect Circle
• The Pharcyde
• Basil Poledouris
• Poppy
• Poxy Boggards
• ppcocaine
• Pussycat Dolls
• Quiet Riot
• Radioactive Chicken Heads
• Rage Against the Machine
• Bonnie Raitt
  • 1972 - Give It Up
• Ray J
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • 1991 - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
  • 1999 - Californication
  • 2002 - By the Way
  • 2006 - Stadium Arcadium
• Redbone
• Reel Big Fish
• Debbie Reynolds
• Riki
• Rilo Kiley
• The Rippingtons
• Olivia Rodrigo
• Rufus Rex
  • 2011 - Dead Beat
• The Runaways
• Saint Vitus
• Saviour Machine
• Say Anything...
• Scatman John
• ScHoolboy Q
• Sea Wolf
• Bobby Sherman
• The Sherman Brothers
• Silversun Pickups
• Sixx:A.M.
• Skrillex
• Slayer
  • 1986 - Reign in Blood
• Smile Empty Soul
• Snoop Dogg
• Social Distortion
• Sonny & Cher
• Soulfly
• Sparks (best known and often recorded in Europe)
  • 1974 - Kimono My House
  • 1979 - No. 1 in Heaven
  • 2002 - Lil' Beethoven
• Phil Spector
• Sasha Spielberg
• Spock's Beard
  • 2002 - Snow
• Starbomb
• Starflyer 59
• Static X
• Steel Panther
• Gwen Stefani
• Stryper
• The Stunners
• Sublime
• Sugar Ray
• Suicidal Tendencies
• Suicide Silence
• Moses Sumney
• System of a Down
  • 1998 - System of a Down
  • 2001 - Toxicity
  • 2002 - Steal This Album!
  • 2005 - Mezmerize/Hypnotize
• Tenacious D
• Them Crooked Vultures
• Robin Thicke
• Thrice
• Thundercat
• Tinashe
• Ashley Tisdale
• Tofie
• tool
• Toto
• Touché Amoré
• Tourniquet
• The Traveling Wilburys – a supergroup of three Yanks and two Brits, formed in the States
  • 1988 - Volume 1
• TSOL
• The Turtles
  • 1968 - The Turtles Present the Battle of the Bands
• Twin Temple
• Two Steps from Hell
• Brian Tyler
• Tyler, the Creator
  • 2019 - IGOR
• Unextraordinary Gentlemen
• Unsung
• Ritchie Valens
• Van Halen
  • 1984 - MCMLXXXIV
  • 1986 - 5150
• Volumes
• Tom Waits
  • 1973 - Closing Time
  • 1974 - The Heart of Saturday Night
  • 1975 - Nighthawks at the Diner
  • 1976 - Small Change
  • 1977 - Foreign Affairs
  • 1978 - Blue Valentine
  • 1980 - Heartattack and Vine
  • 1983 - Swordfishtrombones
  • 1985 - Rain Dogs
  • 1987 - Franks Wild Years
  • 1992 - Bone Machine
  • 1993 - The Black Rider
  • 1999 - Mule Variations
  • 2002 - Alice
  • 2002 - Blood Money
  • 2004 - Real Gone
  • 2006 - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
  • 2011 - Bad As Me
• The Walker Brothers
• Wall of Voodoo
• The Wallflowers
• War
• Warbringer
• Warrant
• Kamasi Washington
  • 2015 - The Epic
• WASP
  • 1992 - The Crimson Idol
• Jody Watley
• Weezer
  • 1994 - Weezer (The Blue Album)
  • 1996 - Pinkerton
  • 2001 - Weezer (The Green Album)
  • 2002 - Maladroit
  • 2005 - Make Believe
  • 2008 - Weezer (The Red Album)
  • 2009 - Raditude
  • 2010 - Hurley
  • 2019 - Weezer (The Teal Album)
• Wendy & Lisa
• Barry White
• White Wizzard
• Wild Man Fischer
• John Williams
• Brian Wilson
  • 1988 - Brian Wilson
  • 1991 - Sweet Insanity
  • 1995 - I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
  • 1998 - Imagination
  • 2004 - Gettin' In Over My Head
  • 2004 - Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE
  • 2005 - What I Really Want For Christmas
  • 2008 - That Lucky Old Sun
  • 2010 - Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin
  • 2011 - In The Key Of Disney
  • 2015 - No Pier Pressure
  • 2021 - At My Piano
  • The Paley Sessions
• Carl Wilson
• Dennis Wilson
  • 1977 - Pacific Ocean Blue
• The Winery Dogs
• X
• Allie X
• "Weird Al" Yankovic
  • 1983 - "Weird Al" Yankovic
  • 1984 - "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D
  • 1985 - Dare to Be Stupid
  • 1986 - Polka Party!
  • 1988 - Even Worse
  • 1989 - UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff
  • 1992- Off the Deep End
  • 1993 - Alapalooza
  • 1996 - Bad Hair Day
  • 1999 - Running with Scissors
  • 2003 - Poodle Hat
  • 2006 - Straight Outta Lynwood
  • 2011 - Alpocalypse
  • 2014 - Mandatory Fun
• Tiffany Young
• Young the Giant
• Frank Zappa
  • 1966 - Freak Out!
  • 1967 - Absolutely Free
  • 1968 - Lumpy Gravy
  • 1968 - We're Only in It for the Money
  • 1968 - Cruising with Ruben & the Jets
  • 1969 - Uncle Meat
  • 1969 - Hot Rats
  • 1970 - Burnt Weeny Sandwich
  • 1970 - Weasels Ripped My Flesh
  • 1970 - Chunga's Revenge
  • 1971 - Fillmore East, June 1971
  • 1971 - 200 Motels
  • 1972 - Just Another Band from L.A.
  • 1972 - Waka/Jawaka
  • 1972 - The Grand Wazoo
  • 1973 - Over-Nite Sensation
  • 1974 - Apostrophe (')
  • 1974 - Roxy & Elsewhere
  • 1975 - One Size Fits All
  • 1975 - Bongo Fury ^note With Captain Beefheart
  • 1976 - Zoot Allures
  • 1978 - Zappa in New York
  • 1978 - Studio Tan
  • 1978 - Sleep Dirt
  • 1979 - Sheik Yerbouti
  • 1979 - Orchestral Favorites
  • 1979 - Joe's Garage
  • 1981 - Tinseltown Rebellion
  • 1981 - Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
  • 1981 - You Are What You Is
  • 1982 - Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
  • 1983 - The Man From Utopia
  • 1983/1987 - London Symphony Orchestra
  • 1984 - The Perfect Stranger
  • 1984 - Them or Us
  • 1984 - Thing-Fish
  • 1984 - Francesco Zappa
  • 1985 - Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention
  • 1986 - Does Humor Belong in Music?
  • 1986 - Jazz from Hell
  • 1988 - Guitar
  • 1988 - Broadway the Hard Way
  • 1991 - The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life
  • 1991 - Make a Jazz Noise Here
  • 1993 - The Yellow Shark
  • 1994 - Civilization Phaze III
  • 1996 - Läther
• Zebrahead (Band)
• The Ziggens
• Louie Zong

Other

• The 77s (Sacramento)
• Adema (Bakersfield)
• AFI (Ukiah)
• Allstar Weekend (Poway, near San Diego)
• Alterbeast (Sacramento)
• Angels & Airwaves (San Diego)
• As I Lay Dying (San Diego)
• Sara Bareilles (Eureka)
• Travis Barker (Fontana, near San Bernardino)
• blink-182 (Poway, near San Diego)
• Ash Borer (Arcata)
• Broken Iris (Sacramento)
• Brotha Lynch Hung (Sacramento)
• Cake (Sacramento)
• Carnifex (San Diego)
• Cattle Decapitation (San Diego)
• Cimorelli (El Dorado Hills)
• Dance Gavin Dance (Sacramento)
• Death Grips (Sacramento)
• Decrepit Birth (Santa Cruz)
• Deeds of Flesh (Los Osos)
• Deftones (Sacramento)
  • 2000 - White Pony
• Disgorge (San Diego)
• DJ Shadow (Davis)
  • 1996 - Endtroducing.....
• James Durbin (Santa Cruz)
• Eagles of Death Metal (Palm Desert)
• Entheos (Santa Cruz)
• Fell Voices (Arcata)
• Finch (Temecula)
• Fireaxe (San Diego)
  • 2003 - Food for the Gods
• Diamanda Galás (San Diego)
• Grandaddy (Modesto)
• Merle Haggard (Bakersfield)
• Hella (Sacramento)
• The Historian Himself
• Hobo Johnson (Sacramento)
• Iron Butterfly (San Diego)
  • 1968 - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
• Jerry Joseph (San Diego)
• Korn (Bakersfield)
  • 1994 - Korn
  • 1998 - Follow the Leader
• Kyuss (Palm Desert)
• Lagwagon (Goleta, near Santa Barbara)
• Adam Lambert (San Diego)
• Lost Dogs
• Victoria Monét (Sacramento)
• Mr. Bungle (Eureka)
• Nerf Herder (Santa Barbara)
• Joanna Newsom (Nevada City)
• Nickel Creek (Vista, near San Diego)
• Oliver Tree (Santa Cruz)
• Charlie Peacock (Yuba City)
• P.O.D. (San Diego)
• Pathology (San Diego)
• Mike Patton (Eureka)
• Pavement (Stockton)
• Katy Perry (Santa Barbara)
  • 2010 - "California Gurls"
• Pierce the Veil (San Diego)
• Queens of the Stone Age (Palm Desert)
  • 2002 - Songs for the Deaf
• Sara Ramirez (born in Mexico, grew up in San Diego)
• Ratt (San Diego)
• Snot (Santa Barbara)
• John Stewart (San Diego)
• Steam Powered Giraffe (San Diego)
• Stone Temple Pilots (San Diego)
• Switchfoot (San Diego)
• Tesla (Sacramento)
• Toad the Wet Sprocket (Santa Barbara)
• Ugly Kid Joe (Isla Vista, near Santa Barbara)
• Chelsea Wolfe (Sacramento)
• Jonathan Young (San Diego)

New York

Typically around New York City and its surrounding area, unless otherwise indicated.

• 3rd Bass
• 50 Cent
• 10,000 Maniacs (Jamestown, in western New York)
  • 1987 - In My Tribe
• Aaliyah
• Aesop Rock
• AJR
• Al B. Sure!
• Anamanaguchi
• Marc Anthony
• Anthrax
  • 1987 - Among the Living
• The Antlers
  • 2009 - Hospice
• Anohni and the Johnsons
• Fiona Apple
• A$AP Rocky
• Fred Astaire
• Attila: the early 1970s psychedelic rock band.
  • 1970 - Attila
• Burt Bacharach
• Joan Baez
• Josephine Baker
• The Band (Four Canadian members, one American; based in Woodstock)
  • 1969 - The Band (Album)
  • 1974 - Planet Waves (with Bob Dylan)
  • 1975 - The Basement Tapes (with Bob Dylan)
• Azealia Banks
• Battles
• Beastie Boys
  • 1986 - Licensed to Ill
  • 1989 - Paul's Boutique
• Harry Belafonte
• Pat Benatar
• Irving Berlin
• Elmer Bernstein
• Big Data
• Big L
• Big Pun
• Biz Markie
  • 1989 - "Just a Friend"
• Mary J. Blige
• Blondie
  • 1978 - Parallel Lines
• Kurtis Blow
• Blue Man Group
• Blue Öyster Cult
  • 1972 - Blue Öyster Cult (1972)
  • 1974 - Tyranny and Mutation
  • 1974 - Secret Treaties
  • 1976 - Agents of Fortune
  • 1977 - Spectres
  • 1979 - Mirrors
  • 1980 - Cultösaurus Erectus
  • 1981 - Fire of Unknown Origin
  • 1983 - Revolution By Night
  • 1986 - Club Ninja
  • 1988 - Imaginos
• Bomb the Music Industry!
• Joe Bonamassa
  • 2014 - Live in Amsterdam (with Beth Hart)
• Albert Bouchard
  • 2021 - Imaginos II: Bombs Over Germany
• Brand New
• Laura Branigan
• Broken Hope
• Busta Rhymes
• Cameo
• Candiria
• Cannibal Corpse (Buffalo)
• Irene Cara
• Cardi B
• Mariah Carey
  • 1995 - Daydream
  • 1997 - Butterfly
  • 2005 - The Emancipation of Mimi
• David Cassidy
• Celldweller
• The Chainsmokers
  • 2022 - So Far So Good
• Harry Chapin
• Chic
• Choking Victim
• Cibo Matto
• Cobra Starship
• Coheed and Cambria
• Aaron Copland
• Imani Coppola
• The Cramps
• Danger Danger
• Bobby Darin
• Das Racist
• Sammy Davis Jr.
• Kimya Dawson
• Day26
• De La Soul
• Lana Del Rey
  • 2012 - Born to Die
  • 2019 - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
• Demolition Hammer
• Neil Diamond
  • 1969 - Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
• Ani DiFranco (Buffalo)
• Digable Planets
• Ronnie James Dio (Cortland)
  • 2000 - Magica
• DMX
• Dope
• El-P
  • Run the Jewels (with Atlanta-based Killer Mike)
• Ansel Elgort
• Emigrate
• EPMD
• Eric B. & Rakim
  • 1987 - Paid in Full
• Escort
• James Ferraro (Rochester)
• Brad Fiedel
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Foreigner (founded by a mix of American and British musicians)
• The Foxy Bard
• The Free Design (from Delevan in western New York)
• Freelance Whales
• The Fugs
  • 1965 - The Fugs First Album
  • 1966 - The Fugs Second Album
  • 1968 - It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest
• fun.
• Fun Lovin' Criminals
• Genghis Tron
• George Gershwin
  • 1934-1935 - Porgy and Bess
• Debbie Gibson
• Glassjaw
• Gogol Bordello
• Goo Goo Dolls (Buffalo)
• Lesley Gore
• Leslie Grace
• Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
  • 1982 - The Message
• Gravediggaz
• Green Jellÿ (Buffalo)
• The Gregory Brothers
• Grizzly Bear
• Arlo Guthrie
  • 1967 - Alice's Restaurant
• Guy
• Gym Class Heroes
• Marvin Hamlisch
• Hanzel Und Gretyl
• Helmet
• Bernard Herrmann
• The Hold Steady
• Billie Holiday
  • 1958 - Lady in Satin
• Immolation
• Immortal Technique (born in Peru)
• The Ink Spots
• Interpol
• Millie Jackson
  • 1974 - Caught Up
• JakProgresso
• Rick James (Buffalo)
• Jawbreaker
• Jay-Z
• Jhariah
• Billy Joel
  • 1977 - The Stranger (Album)
  • 1978 - 52nd Street
  • 1980 - Glass Houses
  • 1983 - An Innocent Man
  • 1989 - Storm Front
• Joywave (Rochester)
• Michael Kamen
• Alicia Keys
• Khanate
• Kid Creole and the Coconuts
• Kid 'N Play
• Carole King
  • 1971 - Tapestry
• King Missile
• Kilo Kish
• KISS
  • 1974 - KISS
  • 1974 - Hotter Than Hell
  • 1975 - Dressed to Kill
  • 1976 - Destroyer
  • 1976 - Rock And Roll Over
  • 1977 - Love Gun
  • 1977 - Alive II
  • 1978 - KISS Solo Albums
  • 1979 - Dynasty
  • 1980 - Unmasked
  • 1981 - Music from "The Elder"
  • 1982 - Creatures of the Night
  • 1983 - Lick It Up
  • 1984 - Animalize
  • 1985 - Asylum
  • 1987 - Crazy Nights
  • 1989 - Hot in the Shade
  • 1992 - Revenge
  • 1997 - Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions
  • 1998 - Psycho Circus
  • 2009 - Sonic Boom
  • 2012 - Monster
• Eartha Kitt
• Komar and Melamid
  • 1997 - The People's Choice: Music
• Kool Keith
• Kool Moe Dee
• Krallice
• KRS-One
• Lady Gaga
  • 2009 - "Bad Romance"
  • 2010 - "Telephone"
• Cyndi Lauper
• LCD Soundsystem
• Leftöver Crack
• Tom Lehrer
  • 1953 - Songs by Tom Lehrer
  • 1959 - An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
  • 1965 - That Was the Year That Was
• Lil' Kim
• Lil Peep
• Liquid Tension Experiment
• Liturgy
• Living Colour
• LL Cool J
• Jennifer Lopez
• Robert Lopez
• The Lovin' Spoonful
• Luscious Jackson
• Machine Girl
• Craig Mack
• Madonna
  • 1983 - Madonna
  • 1984 - Like a Virgin
  • 1986 - True Blue
  • 1989 - Like a Prayer
  • 1990 - I'm Breathless
  • 1990 - The Immaculate Collection
  • 1992 - Erotica
  • 1994 - Bedtime Stories
  • 1998 - Ray of Light
  • 2000 - Music
  • 2003 - American Life
  • 2005 - Confessions on a Dance Floor
  • 2019 - Madame X
• Malignancy
• Barry Manilow
• Manowar (Auburn)
• Melanie Martinez
  • 2015 - Cry-Baby
  • 2019 - K12
• Jesse Mc Cartney
• Bobby McFerrin
• Nellie McKay (born in Britain, American raised)
• Don McLean
  • 1971 - American Pie
• Alan Menken
• Mercury Rev (Buffalo)
• MF Doom
  • 2004 - Madvillainy [As Madvillain, with Madlib]
• Ingrid Michaelson
• Nicki Minaj (originally from Trinidad and Tobago)
• Mindless Self Indulgence
• Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Mitski
• Moby
  • 1999 - Play
• Thelonious Monk
  • 1957 - Brilliant Corners
• Mos Def
• Mother Feather
• Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire
• MS MR
• My Brightest Diamond
• Nada Surf
• Napoleon XIV
• Nas
  • 1994 - Illmatic
• The National
• Necro
• New Kingdom
• New York Dolls
• Ninja Sex Party
• The Notorious B.I.G.
  • 1994 - Ready to Die
  • 1997 - Life After Death
• Nuclear Assault
• Julia Nunes (Fairport)
• Laura Nyro
• Phil Ochs
• The Ones
• Yoko Ono (born in Japan)
• A Pale Horse Named Death
• Roger Payne
  • 1970 - Songs of the Humpback Whale
• Peter, Paul and Mary
  • 1963 - "Puff the Magic Dragon"
• A Place to Bury Strangers
• The Plasmatics
• The Plastic E-Gulls
• Poe
• Caroline Polachek
• Postmodern Jukebox
• Public Enemy
  • 1988 - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
  • 1990 - Fear of a Black Planet
• Tito Puente
  • 1958 - Dance Mania Vol 1
• Pyrrhon
• Joey Ramone
  • 2002 - Don't Worry About Me
• Ramones
  • 1976 - Ramones
  • 1977 - Leave Home
  • 1977 - Rocket to Russia
  • 1978 - Road to Ruin
  • 1980 - End of the Century
• Rasputina
• Red Vox
• Lou Reed
  • 1972 - Transformer
  • 1973 - Berlin
  • 1975 - Metal Machine Music
  • 1989 - New York (1989)
• Malinda Kathleen Reese
• The Reign of Kindo (Buffalo)
• Bebe Rexha
• Rodgers and Hammerstein
  • 1943 - "To Keep My Love Alive"
• Jeff Rosenstock
• David Rovics
• Rick Rubin
• Jordan Rudess
• Run–D.M.C.
  • 1984 - Run–D.M.C. (Album)
  • 1985 - King of Rock
  • 1986 - Raising Hell
• Salt-N-Pepa
• Joe Satriani
• Lalo Schifrin (born and raised in Argentina)
• Scissor Sisters
• Gil Scott-Heron
  • 1974 - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
  • 1974 - Winter In America
• Stephen Schwartz
• Neil Sedaka
• Sha Na Na
• Sonny Sharrock
  • 1986 - Guitar
  • 1991 - Ask the Ages
• Silver Jews
• Alan Silvestri
• Diggy Simmons
• Carly Simon
• Paul Simon
  • 1986 - Graceland
    • "You Can Call Me Al"
• Simon & Garfunkel
  • 1970 - Bridge Over Troubled Water
• Skinless (Glens Falls)
• Sleigh Bells
• Slick Rick (born in London)
  • 1988 - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
• Sonic Youth
  • 1987 - Sister
  • 1988 - Daydream Nation
• Stephen Sondheim
• Soul Coughing
• Ronnie Spector
• Regina Spektor (born in Russia, grew up in the USA)
  • 2004 - Soviet Kitsch
• Spin Doctors
• The Spin Room
• Steely Dan
  • 1973 - Countdown to Ecstasy
  • 1977 - Aja
• Jim Steinman
• Stormtroopers of Death
• Stray Cats
• Barbra Streisand
• The Strokes
  • 2001 - Is This It
• Suicide
• Swans
  • 1996 - Soundtracks for the Blind
  • 2012 - The Seer
  • 2014 - To Be Kind
• Taking Back Sunday
• Talking Heads
  • 1977 - Talking Heads: 77
  • 1978 - More Songs About Buildings and Food
  • 1979 - Fear of Music
  • 1980 - Remain in Light
    • 1981 - "Once in a Lifetime"
  • 1983 - Speaking in Tongues
  • 1984 - Stop Making Sense
  • 1985 - Little Creatures
  • 1986 - True Stories
  • 1988 - Naked
• Television
  • 1977 - Marquee Moon
• They Might Be Giants (both principal members first met as classmates in Massachusetts)
  • 1986 - They Might Be Giants (Album)
  • 1988 - Lincoln
  • 1990 - Flood
  • 1992 - Apollo 18
  • 1994 - John Henry
  • 1996 - Factory Showroom
  • 1999 - Long Tall Weekend
  • 2001 - Mink Car
  • 2004 - The Spine
  • 2007 - The Else
  • 2011 - Join Us
  • 2013 - Nanobots
  • 2018 - I Like Fun
• Tiny Tim
• Tom Tom Club
• Torae
• Transatlantic^* Multinational group; Keyboardist Neal Morse and drummer Mike Portnoy are American.
• A Tribe Called Quest
  • 1991 - The Low End Theory
  • 1996 - Beats, Rhymes and Life
• TV on the Radio
  • 2006 - Return to Cookie Mountain
• Type O Negative
• Unlocking the Truth
• Steve Vai
• Vampire Weekend
• Luther Vandross
• Suzanne Vega
• The Velvet Underground (One member being Welsh)
  • 1967 - The Velvet Underground & Nico ^note With Nico
  • 1968 - White Light/White Heat
  • 1969 - The Velvet Underground
  • 1970 - Loaded
  • 1973 - Squeeze
• Maïa Vidal (Ithica)
• Village People
• The Walkmen
• Fats Waller
• We Are The In Crowd
• Weather Report
• Wheatus
• Vanessa Williams
• Winger
• The World/Inferno Friendship Society
• Wu-Tang Clan
• bill wurtz
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Yeasayer
• Zeal & Ardor (started there before moving to Switzerland)
• John Zorn
  • 1987 - Spillane
  • 1993 - Radio
  • 1998 - Music for Children

Other Regions

Midwest

Illinois

• The Academy Is...
• Steve Albini
• Alkaline Trio
• American Football
• Anastacia
• Laurie Anderson
• Avenue Beat
• Barlow Girl
• Big Black
  • 1987 - Songs About Fucking
• Andrew Bird
• Bongripper
• Cap'n Jazz
• Chance the Rapper
• The Chasm (formed in Mexico City but currently in Chicago)
• Cheap Trick
• Chevelle
• Chicago
• Chief Keef
• Nat King Cole
• Common
• Sam Cooke
• Cupcak Ke
• Miles Davis
  • 1959 - Kind of Blue
  • 1960 - Sketches of Spain
  • 1969 - In a Silent Way
  • 1970 - Bitches Brew
  • 1992 - Doo-Bop
  • 1999 - Panthalassa
• Bo Diddley
• Disturbed
  • 2000 - The Sickness
  • 2002 - Believe
  • 2005 - Ten Thousand Fists
  • 2008 - Indestructible
  • 2010 - Asylum
  • 2015 - Immortalized
• DJ Earworm
• Driftless Pony Club
• Earth, Wind & Fire
• Brett Eldredge
• Fall Out Boy
• The Flashbulb
• Fox Szn
• Herbie Hancock
  • 1973 - Head Hunters
  • 1983 - Future Shock
• The Handsome Family
• Jennifer Hudson
• I Fight Dragons
• Icon for Hire
• The Jesus Lizard
• Juice WRLD
• K. Flay
• R. Kelly
  • 2005 - "Trapped in the Closet"
• Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Krewella
• The Lawrence Arms
• Lil Durk
• Lupe Fiasco
• Macabre
• Richard Marx
• Curtis Mayfield
  • 1972 - Super Fly
• Mechina
• Ministry
• Mudvayne
  • 2000 - LD 50
  • 2002 - The End Of All Things To Come
  • 2008 - The New Game
• Novembers Doom
• Oceano
• Ok Go
  • 2006 - "Here It Goes Again"
• Liz Phair
  • 1993 - Exile in Guyville
• Ratboys
• Minnie Riperton
• Rise Against
• Runforyerlife
• Screeching Weasel
• Shellac
• Sincere Engineer
• Sleeping at Last
• The Smashing Pumpkins
  • 1993 - Siamese Dream
  • 1995 - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    • "Tonight, Tonight"
  • 1998 - Adore
• Smoking Popes
• Son Volt
• Styx
  • 1983 - Kilroy Was Here
• Superchic[k]
• Survivor
• Tub Ring
• Uncle Tupelo
• Veruca Salt
• Kanye West
  • 2004 - The College Dropout
  • 2010 - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
  • 2013 - Yeezus
  • 2016 - The Life of Pablo
• Wilco
  • 2002 - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• Michelle Williams
• Wesley Willis
• Brian Zaharias
• Warren Zevon

Indiana

• Sally Anthony
• Babyface
• Tricia Brock
• Irene Dunne
• The Four Freshmen
• Lil Aaron
• Lisa Germano
• Janet Jackson
  • 1986 - Control
  • 1989 - Rhythm Nation 1814
  • 1993 - janet.
  • 1997 - The Velvet Rope
  • 2001 - All For You
• Michael Jackson
  • 1972 - Got to Be There
  • 1979 - Off the Wall
  • 1982 - Thriller
  • 1987 - Bad
  • 1991 - Dangerous
  • 1995 - HIStory: Past, Present, and Future -- Book I
  • 2001 - Invincible
  • 2010 - Michael
  • 2014 - Xscape
• The Jackson 5
• John Mellencamp
• Murder by Death
• Petra
• Pleaserock
• Plumb
• Cole Porter
• The Ready Set
• David Lee Roth
• Umphrey's McGee

Iowa

• C. W. McCall
• Glenn Miller
• Sharon Needles
• Schaffer The Darklord
• Slipknot
  • 1999 - Slipknot
  • 2001 - Iowa
  • 2004 - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
  • 2014 - .5: The Gray Chapter
• Jeremy Soule
• Stone Sour
  • 2012/13 - House of Gold & Bones

Kansas

• Kansas
• Manilla Road
• Janelle Monáe
• Origin
• Chely Wright

Michigan

• The Adventures of Duane & BrandO
• Big Hoodoo
• Big Sean
• The Black Dahlia Murder
• Lola Blanc
• Blaze Ya Dead Homie
• Danny Brown
• Tyler Cassidy
• Rob Cantor
  • 2014 - ""Shia LaBeouf" Live"
• Chief Keef
• Chiodos
• The Clark Sisters
• Alice Coltrane
  • 1970 - Ptah, the El Daoud
  • 1971 - Journey in Satchidananda
  • 1972 - World Galaxy
  • 1982 - Turiya Sings
• Conquer Divide (also includes British and Canadian members)
• Steve Cook
  • 1987 - "The Legend of the Dogman"
• Da Yoopers
• Dark Lotus
• De Barge
• La Dispute
• Electric Six
• Eminem – born in Missouri, but raised in the Detroit area and still based there
  • 1999 - The Slim Shady LP
  • 2000 - The Marshall Mathers LP
  • 2002 - The Eminem Show
  • 2004 - ''Encore
• Esham
• Four Tops
• Aretha Franklin
• Froggy Fresh
• gmcfosho
• Grand Funk Railroad
• Greta Van Fleet
• His Name Is Alive
• Hot Dad
• Insane Clown Posse
  • 1992 - Carnival of Carnage
  • 1997 - The Great Milenko
• J Dilla
  • 2001 - Welcome 2 Detroit
  • 2006 - Donuts
• Jumpsteady
• Kid Rock
  • 1993 - The Polyfuze Method
  • 1996 - Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp
  • 1998 - Devil Without A Cause
  • 2001 - Cocky
  • 2003 - Kid Rock (2003)
• Bettye LaVette
  • 2010 - Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook
• Lord Huron
• Stephen Lynch
• Mars Argo
• MC5
  • 1969 - Kick Out the Jams
• The Meatmen
• Natas
• Jason Newsted
• NF
• Ted Nugent
• Opposition
• Iggy Pop
  • 1977 - The Idiot
  • 1977 - Lust for Life
• Suzi Quatro
• Rodriguez
• Diana Ross
• Rucka Rucka Ali
• Bob Seger
• Tom Smith
• Sufjan Stevens
  • 2005 - Illinois
  • 2010 - The Age of Adz
  • 2015 - Carrie & Lowell
• The Stooges
  • 1969 - The Stooges
  • 1970 - Fun House
  • 1973 - Raw Power
• The Supremes
• Tally Hall
  • Miracle Musical
• The Temptations
• Twiztid
• Uncle Kracker
• Vulfpeck
• Andrew W.K.
• Was (Not Was)
• Diamond White
• Jack White
• The White Stripes
  • 2001 - White Blood Cells
  • 2003 - Elephant
• Stevie Wonder
  • 1972 - Talking Book
  • 1973 - Innervisions
  • 1976 - Songs in the Key of Life
• Zug Izland
• The Crane Wives

Minnesota

• The Andrews Sisters
• Apollonia 6
• Atmosphere
• Babes in Toyland
• Eddie Cochran
• Dessa
• Bob Dylan
  • 1962 - Bob Dylan
  • 1963 - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
  • 1964 - The Times They Are A-Changin'
  • 1964 - Another Side of Bob Dylan
  • 1965 - Bringing It All Back Home
  • 1965 - Highway 61 Revisited
  • 1966 - Blonde on Blonde
  • 1967 - John Wesley Harding
  • 1969 - Nashville Skyline
  • 1970 - Self Portrait
  • 1970 - New Morning
  • 1974 - Planet Waves (with The Band)
  • 1975 - Blood on the Tracks
  • 1975 - The Basement Tapes (with The Band)
  • 1976 - Desire
  • 1978 - Street Legal
  • 1979 - Slow Train Coming
  • 1989 - Oh Mercy
  • 1992 - Good as I Been to You
  • 1997 - Time Out of Mind
  • 2009 - Christmas in the Heart
  • 2020 - Rough and Rowdy Ways
• Hüsker Dü
• Information Society
• Lifter Puller
• Lizzo
• Low
• Marcy Playground
• Jeremy Messersmith
• MOD SUN
• Motion City Soundtrack
• Prince
  • 1979 - Prince
  • 1980 - Dirty Mind
  • 1982 - 1999
  • 1984 - Purple Rain
  • 1985 - Around the World in a Day
  • 1986 - Parade
  • 1987 - Sign o' the Times
  • 1989 - Batman
• Prince's Associates
• Prof
• The Replacements
• Remo Drive
• Soul Asylum
• The Time
• Tay Zonday

Missouri

• 100 gecs
  • 2016 - 100 gecs
  • 2019 - 1000 gecs
• Angelcorpse
• Chuck Berry
• Sheryl Crow
• The Dillards
• Samantha Fish
• The Get Up Kids
• Ghost Lights
• Greek Fire
• Jute Gyte
• King's X
• Kelsi Luck
• Ludo
• Pat Metheny
• Nelly
• Never Shout Never
• Charlie Parker
• Puddle of Mudd
• Slayyyter
• TechN9ne

Nebraska

• 311
• Farrah Abraham
  • 2012 - My Teenage Dream Ended
• Bright Eyes
• Mannheim Steamroller
• Conor Oberst

North Dakota

• P.D.Q. Bach
• Lawrence Welk

Ohio

• The Afghan Whigs
• Amniote
• Beartooth
• Andy Black
• The Black Keys
  • 2010 - Brothers
    • "Howlin' for You"
• Black Veil Brides
• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
  • 1995 - E. 1999 Eternal
• The Breeders
• Eric Carmen
• Tracy Chapman
• Chimaira
• Gilby Clarke
  • 1994 - Pawnshop Guitars
• cLOUDDEAD
• David Allan Coe
• Bootsy Collins
• Doris Day
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Devo
  • 1978 - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
  • 1980 - Freedom of Choice
• Filter
• Foxy Shazam
• Guided by Voices
• Screamin' Jay Hawkins
• Hawthorne Heights
• Hungry Lucy
• The Isley Brothers
• Kid Cudi
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk
• John Legend
• Machine Gun Kelly
  • 2020 - Tickets To My Downfall
• John Mackey
• Dave Malloy
  • 2014 - Ghost Quartet
• Dean Martin
• Midnight
• Midnight Syndicate
• Mark Mothersbaugh
• Mushroomhead
• Nine Inch Nails
  • 1989 - Pretty Hate Machine
  • 1994 - The Downward Spiral
  • 1999 - The Fragile
  • 2005 - With Teeth
  • 2007 - Year Zero
  • 2008 - Ghosts I-IV
  • 2008 - The Slip
  • 2013 - Hesitation Marks
• Nox Arcana
• Pere Ubu
• Pretty Balanced
• Rascal Flatts
• Relient K
• Sanguisugabogg
• Zach Sherwin
• Skeletonwitch
• Starset
• Art Tatum
• Trippie Redd
• Twenty One Pilots
• The Waitresses
• Walk the Moon
• Scott Walker
• David Wilcox
• Wussy
• Dwight Yoakam
• Zapp & Roger

Wisconsin

• Big Red Machine
• Blixty Slycat
• Garbage
• Hexode
• Bon Iver
• Madeline Harper Guest
• Jungle Rot
• Liberace
• Jeff Loomis
• Trixie Mattel
• The Great Luke Ski
• Violent Femmes

Northeast

Connecticut

• Michael Bolton
• Jonathan Coulton
• Emmure
• ericdoa
• Hatebreed
• Have A Nice Life
• Charles Ives
• Keith Le Blanc
• MGMT
  • 2008 - Oracular Spectacular
• Alfred Newman
• Bob Rivers
• Rose With Teeth
• Shadow Of Intent
• Chris Webby
• The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die

Delaware

• Peppermint

District of Columbia

• Amerie
• Animals as Leaders
• Bad Brains
• Basehead
• Duke Ellington
• Fugazi
  • 1990 - Repeater
• Marvin Gaye
  • 1971 - What's Going On?
• Jawbox
• Kelela
• Minor Threat
• Nothingface
• Origami Angel
  • 2019 - Somewhere City
  • 2021 - GAMI GANG
• Periphery
• Rites of Spring
• Henry Rollins
• John Philip Sousa
• Vertical Horizon

Maine

• Lady Lamb
• Spose

Maryland

• All Time Low
• Tori Amos
  • 1992 - Little Earthquakes
• Animal Collective
  • 2009 - Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Beach House
• Toni Braxton
• Brothers Osborne
• BT
• Cab Calloway
• JC Chasez
• Clutch
• Divine
• Dog Fashion Disco
• Dying Fetus
• Ego Likeness
• Father John Misty
• Philip Glass
• Good Charlotte
• David Hasselhoff
  • 2017 - "Guardians Inferno"
• JPEGMAFIA
• K.A.A.N
• Logic
• Lower Dens
• Misery Index
• Mýa
• Rico Nasty
• Panda Bear
• Barry Louis Polisar
• Serpentwithfeet
  • 2018 - soil

Massachusetts

• Abnormality
• The Acacia Strain
• Aerosmith
  • 1989 - Pump
  • 1993 - Get a Grip
• All That Remains
• Anal Cunt
• Anarchy Club
• Astronoid
• Bell Biv DeVoe
• Leonard Bernstein
• Boston
• Boys Like Girls
• Bobby Brown
• The Cars
• The Click Five
• Paula Cole
• Converge
• Dick Dale
  • 1962 - Surfers Choice
• Dinosaur Jr.
• Dream Theater
  • 1992 - Images and Words
  • 1999 - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
  • 2016 - The Astonishing
• Dropkick Murphys
• Extreme
• Toby Fox
  • 2022 - "Skies Forever Blue" (with Itoki Hana)
• Galaxie 500
• Gang Starr
• Godsmack
• Grief
• Juliana Hatfield
• Johnny Hodges
• Ice Nine Kills
• Isis
• The J. Geils Band
• Jim's Big Ego
• Jo Jo
• Karmin
• Kayo Dot
• Killswitch Engage
• Lemon Demon
  • 2005 - "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny"
  • Mouth Albums
• LFO
• Lich King
• The Magnetic Fields
• maudlin of the Well
• Jo Dee Messina
• The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
• Mission of Burma
• The Modern Lovers
• Morphine
• New Edition
• New Kids on the Block
• Nicco
• Oneohtrix Point Never
• Amanda Palmer
• Passion Pit
• Alexander Perls
• Pinn Panelle
• Alexander Perls
• Pixies
  • 1988 - Surfer Rosa
  • 1989 - Doolittle
• Rachel Platten
• Powerman 5000
• Pretty And Nice
• PVRIS
• The Red Chord
• Regal Pinion
• Revocation
• Jonathan Richman
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • 1969 - Illuminations
• Sexcrement
• Shadows Fall
• Billy Squier
• Staind
• Donna Summer
  • 1977 - I Remember Yesterday
  • 1979 - Bad Girls
• That Handsome Devil
• Tommy Tallarico
• James Taylor
• Meghan Trainor
• Unearth
• The Weepies
• Tony Williams
  • 1969 - Emergency!

New Hampshire

• GG Allin
• Connie Converse
• Alvin Lucier
  • 1969 - I Am Sitting In A Room
• Judy Pancoast
• The Shaggs
• Trap Them

New Jersey

• 3LW
• 11 Acorn Lane
• Akon
• Nicole Atkins
• Blues Traveler
• Bon Jovi
  • 1986 - Slippery When Wet
• Erin Bowman
• Ali Brustofski
• Cage
• Cash Cash
• George Clinton
  • 1971 - Maggot Brain (with Funkadelic)
  • 1975 - Mothership Connection (with Parliament)
  • 1978 - One Nation Under a Groove (with Funkadelic)
• Cognitive
• Dälek
• Danielson
• The Dillinger Escape Plan
• Discordance Axis
• Randy Edelman
• Todd Edwards
• Bill Evans
• Faith Evans
• Donald Fagen
  • 1982 - The Nightfly
• Leslie Fish
  • 1977 - "Banned from Argo"
• Fit For An Autopsy
• Fountains of Wayne
• The Front Bottoms
• The Fugees
  • 1996 - The Score
• The Gaslight Anthem
• Michael Giacchino
• Christina Grimmie
• Halsey
• The Happy Fits
• Lauryn Hill
  • 1998 - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
• Whitney Houston
• Ill Nino
• The Jonas Brothers
  • Joe Jonas
  • Nick Jonas
• Kool & the Gang
• Tendon Levey
• Lorna Shore
• The Misfits
• Monster Magnet
• My Chemical Romance
  • 2004 - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
  • 2006 - The Black Parade
  • 2010 - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys
• Audrey Nuna (American rapper-singer of Korean descent)
• Overkill
• PM Dawn
• Charlie Puth
• Queen Latifah
• Saves the Day
• Screaming Females
• Senses Fail
• Frank Sinatra
  • 1954 - Songs for Young Lovers
  • 1955 - In the Wee Small Hours
  • 1956 - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
  • 1969 - My Way
• Nancy Sinatra
• Skid Row
• Patti Smith
  • 1975 - Horses
  • 1976 - Radio Ethiopia
  • 1978 - Easter
  • 1979 - Wave
• Bruce Springsteen
  • 1973 - Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
  • 1975 - Born to Run
  • 1980 - The River
  • 1984 - Born in the U.S.A.
  • 2002 - The Rising
• Streetlight Manifesto
• The Sugarhill Gang
• Symphony X
• SZA
• Thank You Scientist
• Thursday
• Titus Andronicus
  • 2010 - The Monitor
• Trophy Scars
• Twisted Sister
• Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
• Sharon Van Etten
• Sarah Vaughan
  • 1954 - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown
  • 1961 - After Hours
  • 1973 - Live in Japan
• Michelle Visage
• Voltaire
• Waking the Cadaver
• Dionne Warwick
• Yo La Tengo

Pennsylvania

• Christina Aguilera
  • 2002 - Stripped
• Anti-Flag
• ApologetiX
• Black Crown Initiate
• Bloodhound Gang
• Boyz II Men
  • 1991 - Cooleyhighharmony
  • 1994 - II
• Glenn Branca
  • 1981 - The Ascension
• Breaking Benjamin
• Victory Brinker
• Vanessa Carlton
• CKY
• Code Orange
• Jim Croce
• Daya
• Dave Days
• The Dead Milkmen
• DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince^note  See also, Will Smith
• Jackie Evancho
• Eve (Rapper)
• Fabian
• Eddie Fisher
• From Ashes to New
• Girl Talk
• Halestorm
• Bill Haley & His Comets
• Daryl Hall & John Oates
• Phyllis Hyman
• Jedi Mind Tricks
• Gene Kelly
• Wiz Khalifa
• Ed Kowalczyk
• Labelle
  • 1974 - Nightbirds
• Patti LaBelle
• The Last Ten Seconds Of Life
• Lil Dicky
• Lil Skies
• Lil Uzi Vert
• Lingua Ignota
• Live
• Man Man
• Henry Mancini
• Marshmello
• Meek Mill
• Mega Ran
• The Menzingers
• mewithoutYou
• Michael Trapson: A Michael Jackson impersonator who does Trap Music-styled parodies of Jackson's work, along with original material.
• Mac Miller
• Mischief Brew
• Motionless in White
• Christina Perri
• P!nk
• Poison
• Emily Pukis and the Vagrants
• Res
  • 2001 - How I Do
• Rivers of Nihil
• The Roots
  • 1993 - Organix
  • 2006 - Game Theory
  • 2011 - Undun
• Todd Rundgren
  • 1972 - Something/Anything?
• Santigold
• Schoolly D
  • 1985 - Schoolly D (Album)
  • 1986 - Saturday Night! – The Album
• Jill Scott
• Bree Sharp
• Signs Of The Swarm
• Slough Feg
• Jimmy Smith
  • 1959 - Home Cookin'
• Jack Stauber
• Jazmine Sullivan
• Alaska Thunderfuck
• Title Fight
• ZZ Ward
• The War On Drugs
• Waring's Pennsylvanians
  • 1923 - "Stagger Lee"
• Adam WarRock
• Ween
  • 1990 - GodWeenSatan: The Oneness
  • 1991 - The Pod
  • 1992 - Pure Guava
  • 1997 - The Mollusk
  • 2001 - White Pepper
  • 2003 - Quebec
• Weyes Blood
• Willam
• The Wonder Years

Rhode Island

• Belly
• The Body
• Wendy Carlos
  • 1968 - Switched-On Bach
• Bill Conti
• The Cowsills
• Daughters
  • 2018 - You Won't Get What You Want
• The Dear Hunter
• Emergency Broadcast Network
• Lightning Bolt
• Marissa Nadler
• Les Savy Fav
• Throwing Muses

Vermont

• Aviators
• Anaïs Mitchell
  • 2010 - Hadestown
• Pat the Bunny
• Phish

South

Alabama

• Alabama
• Chino Amobi
• Jimmy Buffett
• Commodores
• Erra
• Walker Hayes
• Jason Isbell
• Little Big Town
• Man or Astro-man?
• Flo Milli
• Lionel Richie
• Shenandoah
• Sun Ra
  • 1961 - The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
  • 1993 - Space Is the Place
• Hank Williams
  • 2005 - Turn Back the Years: The Essential Hank Williams Collection

Arkansas

• Evanescence
  • 2003 - Fallen
• Scott Joplin
• Justin Moore
• Collin Raye
• Pharoah Sanders
  • 1967 - Tauhid
  • 1969 - Karma
• Conway Twitty

Florida

• 2 Live Crew
• Abiotic
• The Absence
• Against Me!
• Alter Bridge
• Anberlin
• Atheist
• B5
• Backstreet Boys
• Black Kids
• Black Tide
• Blackbear
• Blood on the Dance Floor
• Boyce Avenue
• Camila Cabello (born in Cuba and based in Miami)
  • 2017 - "Havana"
• Eric Calderone
• Captain Dan & the Scurvy Crew
• Sofia Carson
• Aaron Carter
• Ray Charles
  • 1962 - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music
• City Girls
• CNCO
• The Cog Is Dead
• Cold
• Communion (born Alvaro Vega; formerly known as The Cacaman)
• Crimson Glory
• Cynic
• Dashboard Confessional
• A Day to Remember
• Death
• Deicide
• Demons & Wizards
• Jason Derulo
• Gloria Estefan (born in Havana, Cuba, but raised in Miami)
• Exotype
• Fifth Harmony
• Flo Rida
• Gigan
• Ariana Grande
  • 2018 - Sweetener
  • 2019 - thank u, next
• Hate Eternal
• I Hate Myself
• Iced Earth
• Jack Off Jill
• Kamelot
  • 2003-5 - Epica Album Series
  • 2012 - Silverthorn
• Chris Kirkpatrick
• Lascaille's Shroud
• Less Than Jake
• Lil Pump
• Limp Bizkit
  • 1997 - Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$
  • 1999 - Significant Other
  • 2000 - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
  • 2003 - Results May Vary
  • 2005 - The Unquestionable Truth
  • 2011 - Gold Cobra
• Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Major Lazer
  • 2013 - "Bubble Butt"
  • 2015 - Peace Is The Mission
• Marilyn Manson
  • 1994 - Portrait of an American Family
  • 1995 - Smells Like Children
  • 1996 - Antichrist Superstar
  • 1998 - Mechanical Animals
  • 2000 - Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
• Matchbox Twenty
• Mayday Parade
• Morbid Angel
• New Found Glory
• *NSYNC
• Obituary
• Colby O'Donis
• Jake Owen
• Tom Petty
  • 1993 - "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
• Pitbull
• Kitty Pryde
• Radical Face
• The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
• Rick Ross
• Savatage
  • 1991 - Streets: A Rock Opera
  • 1994 - Handful of Rain
  • 1995 - Dead Winter Dead
  • 1998 - The Wake of Magellan
  • 2001 - Poets and Madmen
• Self-Insert
• Seven Kingdoms
• Shinedown
• Juliet Simms
• Six Feet Under
• Daniel Skye
• Sleeping With Sirens
• T-Pain
• Trans-Siberian Orchestra
  • 2000 - Beethoven's Last Night
• Trivium
• Underoath
• XXXTentacion
• Yellowcard

Georgia

• 2 Chainz
• 21 Savage: Was born in the UK and technically not a US citizen, but has lived in the US since the age of seven and been based there for his entire music career.
• The Allman Brothers Band (formed in Florida, but relocated to Macon and based there for most of their career)
• Bill Anderson
• The Angelic Process
• India.Arie
• Attila
• The B-52s
• Bo B
• The Black Crowes
• Boondox
• Blanco Brown
• James Brown
  • 1963 - Live at the Apollo
  • 1991 - Star Time
• Zac Brown Band
• Luke Bryan
• Kandi Burruss
• Brian Burton
• Cat Power
  • 1998 - Moon Pix
• Cody Chesnutt
  • 2002 - The Headphone Masterpiece
• Childish Gambino
  • 2018 - "This Is America"
• Chloe x Halle
• Ciara
• Circle Takes the Square
• Collective Soul
• TD Cruze
• Billy Currington
• Deerhunter
• Fozzy
• Future
• Terri Gibbs
• Brantley Gilbert
• Indigo Girls
• Amy Grant
• Cee Lo Green
• Grottomatic
• Gucci Mane
• Issues
• Alan Jackson
• Jessie James
• Cledus T. Judd
• Sammy Kershaw
• Gladys Knight
• Lil Jon
• Lil Nas X
  • 2021 - MONTERO
    • "MONTERO (Call Me by Your Name)"
• Lil Yachty
• Little Richard
  • 1957 - Here's Little Richard
• Ludacris
• Mastodon
• Migos
• Monica
• Normani
• Of Montreal
• OutKast
  • 2003 - "Roses"
• Playboi Carti
  • 2018 - Die Lit
• Otis Redding
  • 1965 - Otis Blue
• R.E.M.
  • 1983 - Murmur
  • 1984 - Reckoning
  • 1985 - Fables of the Reconstruction
  • 1986 - Lifes Rich Pageant
  • 1987 - Document
  • 1988 - Green
  • 1991 - Out of Time
  • 1992 - Automatic for the People
  • 1994 - Monster
  • 1996 - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
  • 1998 - Up
  • 2001 - Reveal
  • 2004 - Around the Sun
  • 2008 - Accelerate
  • 2011 - Collapse into Now
• RuPaul
• Sevendust
• Showbread
• Soulja Boy
• Ray Stevens
• Doug Stone
• Sugarland
• Matthew Sweet
• Cole Swindell
• T.I.
• Taylor Girlz
• Theocracy
• TLC
  • 1994 - CrazySexyCool
    • "Waterfalls"
• Travis Tritt
• Usher
  • 2004 - Confessions
• Waka Flocka Flame
• Mark Wills
• Xscape (Group)
• Trisha Yearwood
• Young Jeezy

Kentucky

• Cage the Elephant
• Billy Ray Cyrus
• Tom T. Hall
• Jack Harlow
• Wynonna Judd
• The Judds
• The Kentucky Headhunters
• Patty Loveless
• John Michael Montgomery
• Montgomery Gentry
• Ian Noe
• Panopticon
• Nicole Scherzinger
• Slint
  • 1991 - Spiderland
• Chris Stapleton
• Bill Sutton
• Steve Wariner
• Keith Whitley

Louisiana

• Acid Bath
• Trace Adkins
• Louis Armstrong
  • 1925-1928 - The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
• Better Than Ezra
• Cane Hill
• Harry Connick Jr.
• Crowbar
• DJ Khaled
• Fats Domino
• Down
• Eyehategod
• Hunter Hayes
• Luke James
• Lead Belly
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Lil Wayne
• Master P
• Tim McGraw
• Neutral Milk Hotel
  • 1996 - On Avery Island
  • 1998 - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
• Randy Newman
• Frank Ocean
• The Olivia Tremor Control
• The Radiators
• Addison Rae
• $UICIDEBOY$
• Irma Thomas
• Allen Toussaint
  • 1975 - Southern Nights
• Trombone Shorty
  • 2010 - Backatown
• The Wild Tchoupitoulas
• Lucinda Williams

Mississippi

• 3 Doors Down
• Afroman
• Ty Herndon
• Faith Hill
• John Lee Hooker
• Howlin' Wolf
  • 1959 - Moanin' in the Moonlight
  • 1969 - The Howlin' Wolf Album
• Robert Johnson
  • 1990 - Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings
• Junior Kimbrough
  • 1994 - Sad Days, Lonely Nights
• B.B. King
• Charley Pride
• Ruelle
• Britney Spears
• Muddy Waters
  • 1968 - Electric Mud
  • 2001 - The Anthology (1947–1972)

North Carolina

• Ryan Adams
• Alesana
  • 2010 - The Emptiness
• Ashnikko
• Between the Buried and Me
• Buzzoven
• J. Cole (born in Frankfurt, Germany, raised in the USA)
• John Coltrane
  • 1957 - Blue Train
  • 1960 - Giant Steps
  • 1961 - My Favorite Things
  • 1965 - A Love Supreme
• Luke Combs
• Daughtry
• Rick Dees
• Delta Rae
• Ben Folds
• glaive
• Unknown Hinson
• Jodeci
• JT Music
• Mega Colossus
• Ronnie Milsap
• Britt Nicole
• Oliver!
• Porter Robinson
• Nina Simone
• [SiTH] Clan
• Superchunk
• Randy Travis

Oklahoma

• The All-American Rejects
• Gene Autry (also notable as an actor and Major League Baseball team owner)
• Garth Brooks
  • 1989 - Garth Brooks
  • 1990 - No Fences
  • 1999 - In the Life of Chris Gaines
• Ester Dean
• Flaming Lips
  • 1999 - The Soft Bulletin
  • 2002 - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
• Vince Gill
• Woody Guthrie
  • 1940 - Dust Bowl Ballads
• Hanson
• Toby Keith
• Kings of Leon
• Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards
• Reba McEntire
• Blake Shelton
• Smooth McGroove
• Turnpike Troubadours
• Carrie Underwood

South Carolina

• Lee Brice
• Dizzy Gillespie
• Hootie & the Blowfish
• Iron and Wine
• Megan Jean and the KFB
• Needtobreathe
• Nile
• Darius Rucker
• Through The Eyes Of The Dead

Tennessee

• Jason Aldean
• Jimmie Allen
• Kelsea Ballerini
• The Band Perry
• Dierks Bentley
• Big & Rich
• Big Star
• Brooks & Dunn
• Kane Brown
• Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown
• Canon Blue
• Madds Buckley
• Johnny Cash – born and raised in Arkansas, but started his music career in Memphis and lived in the Nashville area for most of the rest of his life
• Cheer Up, Charlie Daniels
• Kenny Chesney
• Eric Church
• The Civil Wars
• Miley Cyrus
• Noah Cyrus
• Dan + Shay
• The Dead Weather
• Diamond Rio
• Disciple
• Dillon Dixon Band
• Justin Townes Earle
• Enfold Darkness
• Sara Evans
• The Everly Brothers
• Florida Georgia Line
• Tennessee Ernie Ford
• GaMetal
• GloRilla
• Grace & Tony
• Al Green
  • 1972 - Let's Stay Together
  • 1973 - Call Me
• Guitar Fight From Fooly Cooly
  • 2020 - Soak
• Isaac Hayes
• Sam Hunt
• Inferi
• Jars of Clay
• Lady A
• Shawn Lane
• Tracy Lawrence
• Lonestar
• Lovers & Liars
• Nick Lutsko
• Maddie & Tae
• Makeup and Vanity Set
• Mammoth City Messengers
• Martina McBride
• Lorrie Morgan
• The Oak Ridge Boys
• Paramore
• Dolly Parton
  • 1971 - Coat of Many Colors
• Ann Peebles
  • 1972 - Straight From The Heart
  • 1974 - I Can't Stand the Rain
• Peepeepo
• Elvis Presley
  • 1956 - Elvis Presley (The Album)
  • 1968 - Elvis (NBC TV Special)
  • 1969 - From Elvis in Memphis
  • 1974 - Having Fun with Elvis on Stage
  • 1976 - The Sun Sessions
• The Protomen
• Red
• Restless Heart
• Thomas Rhett
• Riders In The Sky
• Jimmie Rodgers
• Saliva
• Dinah Shore
• Skillet
• Soccer Mommy
  • 2016 - for young hearts
  • 2017 - Collection
  • 2018 - Clean
  • 2020 - Color Theory
  • 2022 - Sometimes Forever
• Taylor Swift
  • 2006 - Taylor Swift
  • 2008 - Fearless
    • "You Belong with Me"
  • 2010 - Speak Now
    • "Mean"
  • 2012 - Red
    • "All Too Well"
  • 2014 - 1989
  • 2017 - reputation
  • 2019 - Lover
  • 2020 - folklore
  • 2020 - evermore
  • 2022 - Midnights
• Three 6 Mafia
• Pam Tillis
• Justin Timberlake
  • 2013 - "Mirrors"
• Aaron Tippin
• Tomahawk
• Tina Turner
  • 1984 - Private Dancer
• Keith Urban – though born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, he's made his career in American country music
• Morgan Wallen
• Whitechapel
• Hank Williams Jr.
• Hank Williams III
• Chris Young

Texas

• The 13th Floor Elevators
• Analog Rebellion
• At the Drive-In
  • 2000 - Relationship of Command
• The Austin Lounge Lizards
• Erykah Badu
  • 2000 - Mama's Gun
• Beyoncé
  • 2003 - Dangerously in Love
  • 2008 - "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
  • 2013 - Beyoncé
  • 2016 - Lemonade
  • 2022 - Renaissance
• The Big Bopper
• The Black Angels
• Tevin Campbell
• Kelly Clarkson
• Clint Black
• Blue October
• Bowling for Soup
• Michael Guy Bowman
• brentalfloss
• BROCKHAMPTON
• Butthole Surfers
• Tracy Byrd
• Chamillionaire
• Mark Chesnutt
• The Chicks
• Ornette Coleman
  • 1959 - The Shape of Jazz to Come
• Cowboy Troy
• David Crowder Band
• Days N' Daze
• Destiny's Child
  • 1999 - The Writing's on the Wall
  • 2001 - Survivor
• Device
• Devourment
• Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
• Drowning Pool
• Steve Earle
• Dorian Electra
• Explosions In The Sky
• Fair to Midland
• Flyleaf
• Forever The Sickest Kids
• Jamie Foxx
• Joe Scruggs
• Kirk Franklin
• Kinky Friedman
• Hannah Fury
• Geto Boys
• Selena Gomez
• Mckenna Grace
• Mickey Guyton
• Todrick Hall
  • 2016 - Straight Outta Oz
• Helstar
• Buddy Holly
• Johnny Horton
• Jandek
• Waylon Jennings
• Daniel Johnston
  • 1983 - Hi, How Are You
  • 1983 - Yip/Jump Music
• George Jones
• Janis Joplin
• JubyPhonic
• Khalid
• Khruangbin
• Miranda Lambert
• Lecrae
• Maggie Lindemann
• Lisa Loeb
• Demi Lovato
• Lyle Lovett
• The Mars Volta
• Neal McCoy
• MDC
• Meat Loaf
  • 1977 - Bat Out of Hell
• Megan Thee Stallion
• Mineral
• Maren Morris
• Kacey Musgraves
• Mystery Skulls
• Willie Nelson
• Neon Indian
• The Oh Hellos
• Okkervil River
• Old 97's
• Roy Orbison
• Pantera
• The Paper Chase
• Pentatonix
• The Polyphonic Spree
• Post Malone
• Polyphia
• The Reverend Horton Heat
• LeAnn Rimes
• Kenny Rogers
• Kelly Rowland
• Scarface
• Travis Scott
• Dan Seals
• Selena
• Shut Up Sidney
• Ashlee Simpson
• Jessica Simpson
• Sixpence None the Richer
• Skelteria
• Solange
  • 2016 - A Seat At The Table
• Spoon
• St. Vincent
  • 2012 - Love This Giant (with David Byrne)
• George Strait
• Tila Tequila
• Trout Fishing In America
• Townes Van Zandt
• Tanya Tucker
• UGK
• Vanilla Ice
• Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Clay Walker
• Watchtower
• Waterparks
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson
• Don Williams
• Lee Ann Womack
• ZZ Top
  • 1983 - Eliminator

Virginia

• Arsis
• Carsie Blanton
• Chris Brown
• D'Angelo
  • 1995 - Brown Sugar
  • 2000 - Voodoo
  • 2014 - Black Messiah
• DC Talk
• Missy Elliott
• Dave Grohl
• GWAR
• Hurt
• Lamb of God
• Lil Ugly Mane
• Dave Matthews Band
• James McMurtry
• Jason Mraz
• Municipal Waste
• Mojo Nixon
• Old Crow Medicine Show
• Old Dominion
• Paul and Storm
• Pentagram
• Pig Destroyer
• Prince Poppycock
• Jacob Sartorius
• Sonohara
• Sparklehorse
• The Statler Brothers
• Timbaland
• Tonedeff
• Trey Songz
• Wedlock
• Pharrell Williams

West Virginia

• DJ Rozwell
• Kathy Mattea
• Brad Paisley
• Zao

West

Alaska

• 36 Crazyfists
• Jewel – born in Utah, but raised from infancy in Anchorage and later Homer
• Portugal. The Man

Arizona

• AJJ
• Black Gryph0n
• Blue Stahli
• Michelle Branch
• Calexico
• CG5
• Alice Cooper
  • 1971 - Love It to Death
  • 1978 - From the Inside
• Doll Skin
• Gin Blossoms
• Jimmy Eat World
• Job for a Cowboy
• Judicator
• Kawai Sprite
  • 2020 - Chuckie Finster
• Meat Puppets
• Buck Owens
• Psychostick
• Marty Robbins
  • 1959 - Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs
• Linda Ronstadt
• Paul Shapera
• Lindsey Stirling
• Vektor
• The Word Alive

Colorado

• 3OH!3
• 16 Horsepower
• Allegaeon
• Axe Murder Boyz
• Brave Saint Saturn
• Bull of Heaven
• Cephalic Carnage
• Chairlift
• Christie Front Drive
• Cobalt
• DeVotchKa
• Five Iron Frenzy
• Flobots
• The Fray
• John Grant
• Havok
• Jag Panzer
• OneRepublic
• Jill Sobule
• The String Cheese Incident
• Steve Taylor
• Tennis
• Vale of Pnath
• Woven Hand

Hawaii

• Jack Johnson
• Bruno Mars

Idaho

• Mildred Bailey
• Built To Spill
• Paul Revere and the Raiders

Nevada

• The Cab
• Escape the Fate
• Falling in Reverse
• Five Finger Death Punch
• Imagine Dragons
• The Killers
  • 2004 - Hot Fuss
  • 2020 - Imploding the Mirage
• Ne-Yo
• Panic! at the Disco
  • 2017 - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

New Mexico

• brokeNCYDE
• John Denver – born in Roswell, but moved around the US as an Air Force brat; more identified with his later home of Colorado
• A Hawk and a Hacksaw
• The Shins

Oregon

• L'Acéphale
• Agalloch
• The Dandy Warhols
• The Decemberists
• The Doubleclicks
• Everclear
• The Exploding Hearts
  • 2003 - Guitar Romantic
• Falling Up
• Peter Hollens
• Japanese Breakfast
  • 2016 - Psychopomp
  • 2017 - Soft Sounds From Another Planet
  • 2021 - Jubilee
• King Black Acid
• Pink Martini
• Elliott Smith
• Toxic Holocaust
• Vektroid
• Tessa Violet
• Vylet Pony

Utah

• David Archuleta
• The Brobecks
• Chelsea Grin
• Cult Leader
• I Don't Know How But They Found Me
• Meg and Dia
• Neon Trees
• The Piano Guys
• SubRosa
• The Used
• Visigoth

Washington

• Abney Park
• Alice in Chains
  • 1992 - Dirt
• Beat Happening
• Bell Witch
• Bikini Kill
• Botch
• Boy Meets Girl
• Jerry Cantrell
• Car Seat Headrest
• Neko Case
• Childbirth
• Chris Cornell
• Bing Crosby (born in Tacoma, raised in Spokane)
  • 1942 - Merry Christmas
• Death Cab for Cutie
• Demon Hunter
• Jonah Dempcy
• Earth
• Enterprise Earth
• Evelyn Evelyn
• Excuse 17
• The Fall of Troy
• Fastbacks
• Fleet Foxes
• Foo Fighters
  • 1995 - Foo Fighters
  • 1997 - The Colour and the Shape
• Forgive Durden
  • 2008 - Razia's Shadow
• Harvey Danger
• Hazel
• Heart
  • 1985 - Heart
• Heavens To Betsy
• Jimi Hendrix (Two members of The Jimi Hendrix Experience being British)
  • 1967 - Are You Experienced (as the Jimi Hendrix Experience)
  • 1967 - Axis: Bold As Love (as the Jimi Hendrix Experience)
  • 1968 - Electric Ladyland (as the Jimi Hendrix Experience)
  • 1970 - Band of Gypsys (as Band of Gypsys)
• Kirby Krackle
  • 2010 - "Up, Up, Down, Down"
• Left At London
• Mary Lambert
• Macklemore
• Madame Macabre
• Melvins
• The Mentors
• Metal Church
• The Microphones
  • 2001 - The Glow Pt. 2
• Devin Millar
• Modest Mouse
  • 2007 - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
• Mudhoney
• Nevermore
• Nirvana
  • 1989 - Bleach
  • 1991 - Nevermind
  • 1992 - Incesticide
  • 1993 - In Utero
  • 1994 - MTV Unplugged in New York
  • Kurt Cobain
• ODESZA
• Parenthetical Girls
• Pearl Jam
  • 1991 - Ten
• Perfume Genius
• The Posies
• The Postal Service
• The Presidents of the United States of America
• Queensrÿche
  • 1988 - Operation: Mindcrime
• Rabbit Junk
• The Revolutionary Hydra
• Josh Roehl
• Schoolyard Heroes
• Shining Wizado
• Sir Mix-A-Lot
• Sleater-Kinney (named after a major road in their hometown of Olympia)
• Soundgarden
• Sunn O)))
• Sunny Day Real Estate
  • 1994 - Diary
• Ugly Casanova
• Uncle Bonsai
• Unwound
• Kyle Ward
  • Oscillator X
• Jason Webley
• Wolves in the Throne Room

Wyoming

• Jalan Crossland
• Teenage Bottlerocket

Other/Unspecified

• Barbie
  • 1961 - Barbie Sings!
• The Beverly Quartet
  • 2020 - The Shape Of Mashups To Come
• Lydia Grace Blezard
• Dove Cameron
• Clamavi de Profundis
  • 2020 - Chieftain
• CocoRosie
• Eddie DeGarmo and Bob Farrell
  • 2003 - Hero
• Derek and the Dominos (includes English members)
  • 1970 - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
• Dos Gringos
• Mort Garson: While he was born in Canada, he spent almost all of his life living in the United States.
• Hemorrhoy Rogers
• Joe Hill
• Kidz Bop
• LO Hess
• Homestar Runner
  • 2003 - Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits
• Juno Songs
• Dan Kehler
• L33tStr33t Boys
• Life In Yellow
• Lifeseeker
• Little Shannon Dudley
• The Muppets
  • 1970 - The Sesame Street Book And Record
  • 1993 - Muppet Beach Party
  • 1994 - Kermit Unpigged
  • 1995 - Sesame Street Platinum All Time Favorites
• New Yesterday
• Numberock
• The Nutty Squirrels
• The Police (drummer Stewart Copeland, who founded the band, is American)
  • 1978 - Outlandos d'Amour
  • 1979 - Reggatta de Blanc
  • 1980 - Zenyattà Mondatta
  • 1981 - Ghost in the Machine
  • 1983 - Synchronicity
• The Powerpuff Girls
  • 2000 - Heroes & Villains
• Pretenders (formed in London, with most of its members being British, but lead vocalist Chrissie Hynde was born and raised in Ohio)
  • 1979 - Pretenders
• The Quintet
  • 1953 - Jazz at Massey Hall
• RecD
• Sheoru
• The Simpsons
  • 1990 - The Simpsons Sing the Blues
  • 1998 - The Yellow Album
• Songdrops
• Various artists
  • 2019 - His Story: The Musical

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