Music Venues

Saitama Super Arena: Japan’s Shape-Shifting Concert Giant

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/ July 2, 2026

Saitama Super Arena opened in the city of Saitama, just north of Tokyo, in 2000 after an international design competition selected American architect Dan Meis, working alongside Ellerbe Becket and Nikken Sekkei, to create it. The building quickly became one of Japan’s most important large-scale

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Xcel Energy Center: Saint Paul’s Premier Concert Arena

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/ June 30, 2026

Xcel Energy Center opened on September 29, 2000, at 199 Kellogg Boulevard West in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, and quickly became one of the Upper Midwest’s premier live entertainment destinations. Built at a cost of approximately $170 million and designed by HOK Sport (now Populous),

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Tokyo Dome Capacity: How Many People Can It Hold?

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/ June 29, 2026

Tokyo Dome, nicknamed “The Big Egg,” is Japan’s largest indoor concert venue and the benchmark by which every arena tour in the country is measured. Its concert capacity is the single most-asked question by fans trying to picture just how massive a sold-out show there

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Exit/In: Nashville’s Legendary Rock Forum Since 1971

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/ June 28, 2026

Exit/In is a live music landmark at 2208 Elliston Place in Nashville, Tennessee, just west of downtown near Centennial Park and Vanderbilt University. Founded in 1971 by Owsley Manier and Brugh Reynolds, the club began as an intimate listening room seating around 200 and expanded

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Riviera Theatre Chicago: Capacity, Seating & History

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/ June 27, 2026

Ask any Chicago concertgoer about “the Riv” and they’ll tell you exactly where it is: 4746 N. Racine Avenue in Uptown, one door down from the neighborhood’s other legendary room, the Aragon Ballroom. The Riviera Theatre has been packing fans onto its sloped floor and

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BB&T Pavilion: Camden’s Delaware Riverfront Amphitheater

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/ June 24, 2026

BB&T Pavilion was a major outdoor amphitheater situated on the Camden Waterfront in Camden, New Jersey, directly across the Delaware River from downtown Philadelphia. Opened in June 1995 under the name Blockbuster-Sony Music Entertainment Centre, the venue carried the BB&T Pavilion name from 2015 to

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Palacio de los Deportes: Mexico City’s Olympic Arena

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/ June 24, 2026

Palacio de los Deportes is an iconic indoor arena located within the Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City complex in Iztacalco, Mexico City. Built by construction company ICA between October 1966 and September 1968, the venue was originally conceived for the basketball and volleyball tournaments of the

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