GeoTracks Music
GeoTracks Music · October 5, 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 roundCoachella is held at this polo club in the California desert.
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📍 Empire Polo Club, Indio, California · map
The first Coachella was held 9–10 October 1999, headlined by Beck, Tool and Rage Against the Machine.
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David Bowie recorded "Heroes" at this studio 'by the Wall'.
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📍 Hansa Studios (Meistersaal), Köthener Straße 38, Berlin · map
The studio was about 150 m from the Berlin Wall. From its window, Bowie saw Tony Visconti kiss a backing singer, which inspired the lyrics.
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Buena Vista Social Club's landmark album was recorded in 1996 at this city's EGREM Areíto studios.
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📍 EGREM Areíto Studios, Centro Habana, Havana · map
The album was cut in just six days in March 1996. It won a Grammy, and Guinness named it the best-selling world music album.
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Metal legends Sepultura formed in this Brazilian city in 1984.
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📍 Belo Horizonte, Brazil · map
'Sepultura' is Portuguese for 'grave'. Max Cavalera took it while translating Motörhead's 'Dancing on Your Grave'.
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On this day in 1951, Live Aid organiser Bob Geldof was born in this Irish seaside town.
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📍 Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland · map
Geldof was the singer of The Boomtown Rats. He co-wrote 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' with Midge Ure in 1984.
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On this day in 1947, Brian Johnson, later the singer of AC/DC, was born in this English town.
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📍 Dunston, Gateshead, England · map
Johnson joined AC/DC in 1980 after Bon Scott died. His first album with the band was 'Back in Black'.
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