Sometimes you chase your career ambitions thousands of miles away from home.

If you want be an actor, you move to L.A. If you want to make it in finance, you live in New York.

Chad Radford is a music editor for the alternative weekly Creative Loafing. He moved to Atlanta in 1999 from Iowa. And over the last 16 years, Radford has seen thousands of bands start, and end, in the Atlanta music scene.

He says that the music scene in Atlanta draws people from all over. 

“I do continually encounter people who move here just specifically for music,” Radford says. “Everybody who is here in the music scene came from somewhere else.”

To hear more about the Atlanta music scene, listen to the full interview using the audio player above.