Discover legendary music venues and live-music halls. ThrillZing covers the acoustics, history, standout shows, and fan tips for the amphitheaters, arenas, and intimate rooms where the best concerts come alive.
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/ September 17, 2026
The Horseshoe Tavern is a concert venue at 370 Queen Street West in downtown Toronto, Ontario, occupying a building that dates back to 1861. Jack Starr opened it as an 87-seat tavern in December 1947, and it built its early reputation as a country and…
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/ September 17, 2026
The Commodore Ballroom is a landmark live music venue at 868 Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. Opened in December 1930 as the Commodore Cabaret during the depths of the Great Depression, the Art Deco room was built by George Conrad Reifel and designed…
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/ September 17, 2026
The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts opened on November 6, 2014, in downtown Orlando, Florida, becoming the city’s premier home for touring Broadway shows, orchestral music, ballet, and opera. Built across two city blocks, the campus was funded through a mix of public…
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/ September 16, 2026
The Count Basie Center for the Arts is a landmarked performing arts venue at 99 Monmouth Street in Red Bank, New Jersey. It opened on November 11, 1926 as the Carlton Theater, one of several ornate Keith-Albee-Orpheum vaudeville houses built along the East Coast, drawing…
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/ September 16, 2026
The Agora Theatre and Ballroom is a concert venue on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, carrying a name and legacy that trace back to 1966, when promoter Hank LoConti opened the first Agora club near Case Western Reserve University. That original club became a launching…
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/ September 15, 2026
The Pageant is a concert venue located at 6161 Delmar Boulevard on the east end of the Delmar Loop in St. Louis, Missouri. Opened on October 19, 2000, and built from the ground up as a nightclub, the venue has grown into one of the…
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/ September 15, 2026
Starlight Theatre is a city-owned outdoor amphitheater in Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri, that has presented Broadway musicals and touring concerts since opening on June 4, 1950. Built after a $500,000 voter-approved bond issue and designed by architect Edward Buehler Delk, the theatre traces…
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/ September 15, 2026
The BOK Center is a multi-purpose arena in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, that opened on August 30, 2008, after a $196 million construction effort funded through a mix of public and private money. Designed by architect César Pelli, best known for the Petronas Towers, the building…
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/ September 14, 2026
Gruene Hall is a wood-frame dance hall in the Gruene Historic District of New Braunfels, Texas, built in 1878 by Henry D. Gruene. It is widely recognized as the oldest continually operating dance hall in the state, having provided a gathering spot for area farm…
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/ September 14, 2026
Billy Bob’s Texas opened on April 1, 1981, inside a sprawling building in the Fort Worth Stockyards that began life in 1910 as an open-air cattle barn for the Fort Worth Stock Show. Over the decades the structure was enclosed as a 1936 Texas Centennial…
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/ September 14, 2026
Coca-Cola Roxy is a two-tier concert theater inside The Battery Atlanta, the mixed-use entertainment district built alongside Truist Park in Cumberland, Georgia. Owned by Braves Entertainment Co. LLC and operated by Live Nation Atlanta, the venue opened its doors on April 8, 2017, with a…
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/ September 13, 2026
Long before it hosted headline tours, The Armory was where Minneapolis went for civic spectacle: military drills, election-night rallies, Golden Gloves cards, and pro basketball. Today that same cavernous drill hall pulls in touring acts like Imagine Dragons and Katy Perry, running on the bones…
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/ September 13, 2026
Mission Ballroom is an indoor concert venue in Denver’s River North Art District (RiNo), built to give the city a mid-sized room for touring artists too big for a theater but not quite ready for arena stages. Operated by AEG Presents Rocky Mountains, it opened…
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/ September 13, 2026
YouTube Theater is a modern concert and event venue located within the Hollywood Park entertainment complex in Inglewood, California, just steps from SoFi Stadium. The 227,000-square-foot facility opened its doors on August 9, 2021, giving Los Angeles a flexible mid-sized venue built to fill the…
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/ September 11, 2026
The Shrine Auditorium has stood near the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles since 1926, its Moorish Revival domes and arches making it one of the city’s most recognizable performance landmarks. Designed by theater architect G. Albert Lansburgh, the building was constructed for…
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/ September 11, 2026
The Viper Room opened at 8852 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood on August 14, 1993, co-owned by actors Johnny Depp and Sal Jenco. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played the opening night show at the intimate 250-capacity club, setting the tone for a venue that…
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/ September 11, 2026
The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium is a historic 8,500-capacity concert hall at 99 Grove Street in San Francisco’s Civic Center neighborhood. Built in 1915 as the San Francisco Exposition Auditorium for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the building has spent over a century adapting to the…
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/ September 9, 2026
A few steps from the fish-throwing crowds of Pike Place Market, an Art Deco ballroom has been hosting live music since 1939. The Showbox has seen Duke Ellington, the Ramones, and the Seattle bands that defined grunge. It has also survived a proposed 44-story tower.
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/ September 9, 2026
Moody Center is a multi-purpose arena on the University of Texas at Austin campus that opened on April 20, 2022, after groundbreaking in December 2019. Built at a cost of about $375 million and designed by architecture firm Gensler, the 2001 Robert Dedman Drive venue…
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/ September 8, 2026
Ascend Amphitheater sits on the west bank of the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville, part of Metro Riverfront Park at 301 1st Avenue South. The city-owned venue opened on July 30, 2015, on the site of a former thermal transfer plant that had been phased…
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