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/ June 16, 2026
The Village Vanguard is a jazz club at 178 Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City, opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. Tucked into a wedge-shaped basement with a low ceiling lined with jazz posters and vintage instruments, the club holds
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/ June 16, 2026
Bowery Ballroom opened in 1998 at 6 Delancey Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, quickly cementing its reputation as one of New York City’s finest independent music venues. Founded by Michael Swier, Michael Winsch, and Brian Swier — the same team behind the Mercury Lounge
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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 1957, when founder Doug Weston transformed a modest coffee house into one of America’s most storied live music rooms. Inspired by the folk scene at London’s Troubadour Café, Weston built an intimate
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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 500-capacity nightclub quickly became the beating heart of the Los Angeles rock scene, drawing both emerging
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/ June 16, 2026
CBGB opened on December 10, 1973, at 315 Bowery in Manhattan’s East Village, founded by Hilly Kristal with the unlikely intention of showcasing country, bluegrass, and blues acts. The name stood for ‘Country, Bluegrass, Blues, and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers,’ yet the cramped, 350-capacity
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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. 2nd Street in the Block 21 mixed-use development of Downtown Austin’s Second Street
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/ June 16, 2026
L’Olympia, located at 28 Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, is the oldest music hall in the French capital still in operation. Inaugurated on April 12, 1893, by impresario Joseph Oller—co-founder of the Moulin Rouge—the venue rose on the site of an
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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 15, 2026
The Hollywood Palladium — at 6215 Sunset Boulevard in the heart of Los Angeles — is one of the most storied concert venues on the West Coast. With a capacity of up to 4,000 standing concertgoers on its sweeping 11,200-square-foot dance floor, it occupies a
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/ June 15, 2026
The Fox Theatre — known affectionately as the Fabulous Fox — is a 4,665-seat performing arts venue at 660 Peachtree Street NE in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia. Originally conceived as a Shrine Temple headquarters and later leased to movie mogul William Fox, it opened on Christmas
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/ June 15, 2026
The Wiener Musikverein, opened on January 6, 1870, stands as one of the world’s most revered concert halls, nestled in Vienna’s Innere Stadt district at Musikvereinsplatz 1. Designed by Danish-born architect Theophil Hansen in the Neoclassical style, the building was constructed on land granted by
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/ June 15, 2026
The Elbphilharmonie, affectionately nicknamed ‘Elphi,’ is a striking concert hall complex rising 108 metres above the HafenCity waterfront in Hamburg, Germany. Designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog and de Meuron and officially inaugurated on 11 January 2017, the building sits atop the original 1963
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/ June 15, 2026
Symphony Hall, located at 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the most celebrated concert halls on earth. Designed by the prestigious architectural firm McKim, Mead and White, it opened on October 15, 1900, at a construction cost of $771,000, built to serve
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/ June 15, 2026
Walt Disney Concert Hall opened on October 23, 2003, on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, instantly becoming one of the world’s most recognized concert halls. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, the building’s sweeping exterior is wrapped in more than 6,000 stainless steel
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/ June 15, 2026
The Arena di Verona is a monumental Roman amphitheater situated in Piazza Bra at the heart of Verona, Italy, completed around AD 30. Built from pink and white limestone, the elliptical structure originally held around 30,000 spectators for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles, making it
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