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 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
Few 250-capacity rooms on the planet carry as much myth as the Viper Room. Tucked into a nondescript storefront on the Sunset Strip, it has hosted surprise sets from some of the biggest names in music while also becoming forever linked to one of Hollywood’s…
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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 the arena that gave Austin a true big-show stage: a 16,000-plus-seat venue on the University of Texas campus that doubles as Texas Longhorns basketball’s home court and one of the city’s largest concert rooms. If you’re headed to a game or a…
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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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/ September 7, 2026
The Masonic Temple in Detroit is a 16-story Venetian Gothic landmark at 500 Temple Street in Midtown. It has hosted concerts since it opened on February 22, 1926. Its main auditorium, the Masonic Temple Theatre, is one of the largest theaters in the Detroit area…
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/ September 7, 2026
The Salt Shed is one of Chicago’s most talked-about concert venues, but first-time visitors tend to land on the same three questions: how old do you have to be to get in, where exactly in the city it sits, and what to expect once you’ve…
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/ September 7, 2026
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts sits on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., serving as both a national cultural hub and a living memorial to President John F. Kennedy. Opened on September 8, 1971, and designed by…
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/ September 5, 2026
The Black Cat is the Shaw/U Street venue that turned a scrappy 1993 punk-rock startup into one of Washington, DC’s most storied independent music clubs, and its name still gets searched almost as often for one practical question as for its history: just how many…
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/ September 4, 2026
Union Transfer is a 1,200-capacity concert hall inside a restored 1889 building at 1026 Spring Garden Street in Philadelphia’s Callowhill neighborhood, run jointly by The Bowery Presents (part of AEG Presents) and local promoter R5 Productions since it opened on September 21, 2011. Beyond the…
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/ September 4, 2026
The Met Philadelphia is one of the most dramatic concert rooms in the country: a gilded, century-old opera house on North Broad Street that spent decades as a movie palace, boxing arena, and working church before Live Nation reopened it as a modern concert venue…
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