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/ September 7, 2026
The Salt Shed is a music venue built inside the former Morton Salt packaging and warehousing facility along the Chicago River in the city’s West Town neighborhood. A group of Chicago hospitality companies, including 16″ on Center, bought the vacant industrial site in 2017 and…
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/ September 7, 2026
This ranking orders the newest major stadiums, arenas, and large-scale venues by the year they opened, starting with the most recent addition and working back to 2016. It spans stadiums built for the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, and MLS, along with a handful of purpose-built…
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/ September 3, 2026
Stadium tours borrow football fields, but these places were built for music. This list ranks the 25 biggest dedicated live-music venues — amphitheaters, concert arenas, and halls — by their maximum concert capacity, using the verified figures in ThrillZing’s venue database. Stadiums that merely host…
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/ September 2, 2026
Utilita Arena Birmingham is the Midlands’ biggest indoor arena, hosting everything from arena tours and Premier League Darts to the 2022 Commonwealth Games — but before you buy tickets, you’ll want to know how the seating actually works, where to park, and how to get…
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/ August 9, 2026
If you’re trying to figure out how many people the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre holds, or you’ve heard fans call it by five other names and want to know why, this guide covers both in full. The venue on the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm…
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/ August 8, 2026
Prudential Center, nicknamed “The Rock” after its naming sponsor’s corporate logo, opened in downtown Newark, New Jersey on October 25, 2007. It was the first major league sports venue built in the New York metropolitan area since 1981, and it has served as the home…
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/ August 7, 2026
Danforth Music Hall is a live music theatre at 147 Danforth Avenue in Toronto’s Greektown neighborhood, just steps from Broadview subway station. The building opened on August 18, 1919 as Allen’s Danforth Theatre, a silent-movie “photoplay palace,” and despite falling dark twice over the decades…
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/ August 6, 2026
The Regency Ballroom is a mid-sized concert hall in San Francisco’s Van Ness/Polk Gulch neighborhood, occupying a Neoclassical/Beaux-Arts building originally constructed in 1909 as a Scottish Rite Masonic temple designed by architect Albert Roller. After decades as a movie theater, the building reopened as the…
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/ August 6, 2026
Brooklyn Steel is a live music venue in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, occupying a converted steel manufacturing plant at 319 Frost Street. Built out between July 2016 and March 2017 by The Bowery Presents, the room gives concertgoers an industrial-chic alternative…
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/ August 3, 2026
Rockefeller Oslo is one of Norway’s best-known mid-sized concert venues, tucked inside a neoclassical building that spent its first six decades as a public bathhouse rather than a stage. Since 1986, it has hosted Norwegian and international touring acts, anchored metal and showcase festivals, and…
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/ August 2, 2026
Melkweg — Dutch for “Milky Way” — is Amsterdam’s best-known multidisciplinary music venue, tucked into a former dairy building just off the Leidseplein nightlife district. If you’re trying to work out how many people fit inside before a show, the honest answer is: it depends…
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/ July 28, 2026
If you’re trying to pin down exactly how many seats the Warner Theatre has before you buy tickets, here’s the short version: 1,847. But if you’ve searched around and seen a different number floating around for private events, you’re not imagining things — the historic…
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/ July 27, 2026
Massey Hall is a concert hall in downtown Toronto, Ontario, that opened on June 14, 1894, as a gift from industrialist Hart Massey in memory of his son Charles. Designed by architect Sidney Badgley, the building blends a neoclassical exterior with a Moorish Revival interior…
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/ July 26, 2026
On Canal Street at the edge of the French Quarter stands one of New Orleans’ grandest surviving movie palaces: the Saenger Theatre, an atmospheric 1927 showplace built to make audiences feel like they were sitting under an open-air Mediterranean sky. Nearly a century, a hurricane…
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/ July 26, 2026
Rising above Flatbush Avenue with a marquee that blazes with light once again, Kings Theatre is Brooklyn’s grandest concert hall — a French Baroque movie palace built in 1929 that spent nearly four decades as a boarded-up ruin before a roughly $95 million restoration brought…
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/ July 23, 2026
FedExForum is a downtown Memphis, Tennessee arena that opened on September 6, 2004, replacing the Memphis Pyramid as the city’s premier basketball venue. Built on Beale Street in the heart of Memphis’s entertainment district, the arena has served as the home of the NBA’s Memphis…
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/ July 23, 2026
Toyota Center is the downtown Houston arena that has served as the home of the NBA’s Houston Rockets since it opened in October 2003. Built 32 feet below street level at the request of then-owner Leslie Alexander, the arena required what was reportedly the largest…
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/ July 20, 2026
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is an outdoor amphitheater and museum complex built directly on the original 37-acre field where the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair took place, in the town of Bethel, New York. Cable television pioneer Alan Gerry purchased the historic…
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/ July 17, 2026
Jones Beach Theater is one of the most recognizable outdoor concert venues in the New York area, prized as much for its waterfront setting as for its lineup of touring acts. Located within Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, New York, it’s officially known as…
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/ July 1, 2026
Smoothie King Center is the 17,805-seat arena in downtown New Orleans that has hosted three NBA All-Star Games, hundreds of concerts, and every New Orleans Pelicans home game for more than two decades. Opened in 1999 as New Orleans Arena, it remains one of the…
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