Probably listening to Fugazi. Via Shutterstock.

Hey, this is cool: The Echo Nest—a major music intelligence platform that works with services like Rdio, Spotify and MTV—recently pulled together all the data they’ve collected from the listening behavior of the millions of people that use their clients’ services to compile this nifty map that shows each state’s favorite bands.

Oh, but they left out D.C.—another blow to our statehood ambitions. Sigh.

Anyway, here’s how they compiled their data:

Rather than being based on where artists are from (also interesting), the below chart is based on the real listening behavior of actual music fans. The Echo Nest knows enough about over 35 million songs by about 2.7 million artists to help music fans on 432 apps and services (and counting) find the perfect music for them at that moment. In the course of providing all of these personalized recommendations, we see detailed listening data for millions of anonymous listeners. We can extract all kinds of interesting things from that data about how musical taste varies in various groups of people, based on the real world.

And you can read more about how they compiled the data here, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Although they left out D.C. in their sprawling map, one could only guess that our favorite band is Fugazi, right? Right.

But who do you think D.C.’s favorite band/artist is, readers? Duke it out in the comments below.