Their weather could help your band

I have really enjoyed reading "OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE: SCENES FROM THE AMERICAN INDIE UNDERGROUND 1981-1991" by MICHAEL AZERRAD.
Azerrad writes detailed profiles of bands that helped define underground rock in America, before the commercial breakthrough by Nirvana.
I just completed the HÜSKER DÜ profile. Later today, I will begin reading the profile of THE REPLACEMENTS.
Both bands emerged from the Twin Cities, and Azerrad describes the prominence of MINNEAPOLIS at the time:
"By 1984, Minneapolis was pop music’s ‘it’ city, thanks to the Midas touch of R&B production team Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and a diminutive virtuoso named Prince, who was going supernova with his album and movie, ‘Purple Rain.’ And the city also boasted several critically lauded underground bands, including Soul Asylum, the Magnolias and the Replacements. Minneapolis happily embraced the attention -- it was novel for this white-bread, snowbound town to be considered hip, and for a city that had long strived to be cosmopolitan, something of a vindication." I would argue that the snowbound nature of the place helped foster its prominent place in musical annals. On a snowy, cold night, there probably wasn't much else to do but rehearse or put on shows. All of that weather-enforced practice had to have helped.