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/ June 16, 2026
The Blue Note Jazz Club opened on September 30, 1981, when founder Danny Bensusan launched the Greenwich Village venue with a debut performance by the Nat Adderley Quintet. Bensusan’s vision was straightforward but bold: bring world-class jazz acts into a comfortable, intimate room with great
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/ June 16, 2026
Since February 22, 1935, jazz has never stopped for a single night at the Village Vanguard — the wedge-shaped basement club at 178 Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village that most serious fans still consider the room where the music sounds best. It’s not the
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/ June 16, 2026
Ask any regular where to catch the best show in New York, and Bowery Ballroom’s name comes up almost immediately — but before buying a ticket, most fans want the same basic fact first: just how many people actually fit inside? This guide answers that
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/ June 16, 2026
First Avenue is a landmark live music venue located at 701 First Avenue North in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Art Deco building was originally constructed in 1937 as the Minneapolis depot of the Greyhound Lines bus system. In 1970, Allan Fingerhut purchased the property and
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/ June 16, 2026
The 9:30 Club is one of Washington DC’s most celebrated live music institutions, having opened on May 31, 1980, at 930 F Street NW before relocating to its current home at 815 V Street NW in the U Street Corridor on January 5, 1996. The
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/ June 16, 2026
The Troubadour has stood at 9081 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood since 1961, when founder Doug Weston moved his fledgling coffee house into a full-fledged nightclub — and turned it into one of the most important rooms in American music history. It’s a small
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/ June 16, 2026
Whisky a Go Go opened on January 16, 1964, at 8901 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, planting its flag at the center of the Sunset Strip. The intimate club quickly became the beating heart of the Los Angeles rock scene, drawing both emerging acts
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/ June 16, 2026
CBGB is the small, sticky-floored club at 315 Bowery in Manhattan’s East Village that gave American punk rock its stage. Between 1973 and 2006, a roughly 350-person room with a broken awning and a legendarily bad sound system hosted the first shows by the Ramones,
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/ June 16, 2026
Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater — widely known as ACL Live — opened on February 10, 2011, as a purpose-built concert hall and television production studio at 310 W. Willie Nelson Blvd. (the block of 2nd Street renamed just before the venue
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/ June 16, 2026
L’Olympia, at 28 Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement, is the oldest music hall in Paris still in operation and one of the most storied concert rooms in the world. Inaugurated on April 12, 1893, by impresario Joseph Oller — co-founder of the Moulin
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/ June 16, 2026
The Roundhouse is a Grade II*-listed performing arts venue on Chalk Farm Road in Camden, London, housed inside a striking circular Victorian railway engine shed built in 1846–1847 for the London and North Western Railway. After decades of dormancy the building was repurposed as a
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/ June 16, 2026
O2 Academy Brixton stands at 211 Stockwell Road in the Lambeth district of South London, occupying a grand Art Deco building originally opened on 19 August 1929 as the Astoria Variety Cinema. After stints as a discotheque and a short-lived rock club called Fair Deal,
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/ June 16, 2026
The Eventim Apollo — widely known to generations of music fans as the Hammersmith Apollo — is one of London’s most iconic live music venues. Located in Hammersmith, West London, it holds up to 5,039 people for standing concerts and 3,632 for fully reserved seated
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/ June 16, 2026
The Wiltern is a celebrated concert venue and Art Deco landmark at 3790 Wilshire Boulevard in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Built in 1931 as the Warner Bros. Western Theatre, the 12-story Pellissier Building was designed by architect Stiles O. Clements of Morgan,
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/ June 16, 2026
White Hart Lane was the cherished home of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club for 118 years, from its opening on 4 September 1899 until its final match on 14 May 2017. Located in Tottenham, North London, the ground grew from a modest venue on a former
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/ June 16, 2026
Highbury — officially Arsenal Stadium — was the home of Arsenal Football Club for 93 years, from its opening on 6 September 1913 until the club’s final match there on 7 May 2006. Designed originally by Archibald Leitch and set in the North London district
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/ June 16, 2026
The original Wembley Stadium — officially named the Empire Stadium — opened on 28 April 1923 after just 300 days of construction and stood as England’s most iconic sporting arena for 77 years. Built by Sir Robert McAlpine at a cost of £750,000, and designed
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/ June 16, 2026
For 66 years, the Colisée de Québec was the loudest room in Quebec hockey — a barrel-vaulted arena on Boulevard Wilfrid-Hamel that shook with noise every time the Nordiques took the ice. It opened in 1949, said goodbye to the NHL in 1995, and closed
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/ June 16, 2026
Cincinnati Gardens was an indoor arena located at 2250 Seymour Avenue in the Bond Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Built for approximately $3 million, it opened on February 22, 1949, and its original seating capacity of more than 11,000 ranked it the seventh-largest indoor arena
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/ June 16, 2026
War Memorial Stadium, nestled inside Little Rock’s scenic War Memorial Park, opened on September 18, 1948, as a $1.2 million tribute to Arkansans who gave their lives in the two World Wars. Designed by architect Bruce R. Anderson in an Art Deco style and formally
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