GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 16, 2026
The daily music geography game: five clues about where music history happened. Try them yourself first, then reveal the answers.
▶ Play this round Play today's roundOn 11 August 1973, DJ Kool Herc played a back-to-school party here, now called the birthplace of hip-hop.
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📍 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the Bronx, New York City, USA · map
The party was for Herc's sister Cindy. New York State recognized the building as the birthplace of hip-hop in 2007.
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Seaside villa where the Rolling Stones recorded much of Exile on Main St. in its basement in 1971.
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📍 Villa Nellcôte, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France · map
Keith Richards rented the villa from April to October 1971. The double album came out in 1972.
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Every year a famous song festival crowd called 'El Monstruo' judges artists in this amphitheater.
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📍 Quinta Vergara Amphitheater, Viña del Mar, Chile · map
The festival began in 1960. Winners receive Gaviota (seagull) trophies, named after the venue's old seagull-shaped roof.
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On this day in 1962, Flea, bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, was born in this city.
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📍 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · map
His real name is Michael Peter Balzary. His family moved to the United States when he was a child.
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Anne Murray was the first Canadian female solo artist to get a US gold record ('Snowbird'). Which coal-mining town was she born in?
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📍 Springhill, Nova Scotia, Canada · map
Her hometown has had the Anne Murray Centre, a museum about her life and career, since 1989.
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On this day in 1992, stars like Neil Young and George Harrison celebrated Bob Dylan's 30 years in music at this arena.
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📍 Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA · map
The house band was made up of surviving members of Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
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