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100 Club
The 100 Club is an independent live music venue in the basement of 100 Oxford Street, London, which has hosted performances since opening in 1942 as Feldman's Swing Club.
9:30 Club
The 9:30 Club (Nightclub 9:30) is a 1,200-capacity nightclub and concert venue in Washington, D.C., opened in 1980 at 930 F Street NW and moved to 815 V Street NW in 1996; owned by I.M.P., a repeated Pollstar Nightclub of the Year.
Academy of Music (New York City)
Academy of Music, also called the New-York Academy of Music: Manhattan opera house at 14th Street and Irving Place, opened 1854, New York's grand-opera home until the Metropolitan Opera opened 1883; later vaudeville and film, demolished 1926, site now NYU's Palladium Hall.
Accor Arena
Accor Arena, formerly Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy (POPB) or Bercy Arena, is a 20,300-capacity indoor sports and concert arena at Bercy in Paris's 12th arrondissement, opened in 1984, renovated in 2015, host of the Paris Masters, NBA and UFC events and Paris 2024 gymnastics and basketball finals.
Acrisure Arena
Acrisure Arena is a 300,000 sq ft indoor arena in Palm Desert, California, opened December 14, 2022. Home of the AHL Coachella Valley Firebirds and, from 2026-27, the NBA G League CV Lakers, with about 11,000 concert capacity.
Amargosa Opera House and Hotel
Amargosa Opera House and Hotel: 1923–1925 Pacific Coast Borax company complex in Death Valley Junction, California, where dancer Marta Becket painted a mural audience and performed from 1968 to 2012; now a nonprofit-run venue, hotel, and National Register site.
Avicii Arena
Avicii Arena, colloquially Globen, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in southern Stockholm, opened in 1989 as the Stockholm Globe Arena and renamed for Avicii in 2021.
Barbican Centre
Barbican Centre: London multi-arts venue in the City of London, opened 3 March 1982 by Queen Elizabeth II. Designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon within the Brutalist Barbican Estate; home of the London Symphony Orchestra; now undergoing a £191m renewal.
Barclays Center
Barclays Center, Brooklyn's multi-purpose arena at 620 Atlantic Avenue opened September 28, 2012, home of the NBA Brooklyn Nets and WNBA New York Liberty, 17,553 basketball seats, SHoP Architects weathered-steel design, LEED Silver, undergoing a $150 million renovation.
Bataclan (theatre)
The Bataclan (Le Bataclan) is a historic Paris concert hall at 50 boulevard Voltaire, opened 1864-65 as the Grand Café Chinois and named after Offenbach's operetta Ba-ta-clan; now a 1,500-capacity rock venue, Monument Historique since 1991, and site of the 13 November 2015 massacre that killed 90 concertgoers.
Battery Studios
Battery Studios is a recording studio complex in Willesden, London, formerly Morgan Studios, renamed by Zomba Group in 1980; Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, The Kinks, and Adele recorded there, and it now faces a demolition planning application.
Bayreuth Festspielhaus
Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus): opera house on Bayreuth's Gruener Huegel, built 1872-1876 by Otto Brueckwald to Richard Wagner's specifications, opened 13 August 1876 with Rheingold; home of the annual Wagner-only Bayreuth Festival.
Berghain
Berghain is a Berlin techno club opened December 2004 in a former Friedrichshain power plant by Snax founders Thormann and Teufele, successor to Ostgut, famous for its selective door, photo ban, and 20th-anniversary status in Berlin's intangible cultural heritage techno scene.
Berlin State Opera
Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin State Opera), Berlin's oldest opera house, opened 7 December 1742 under Frederick II with Graun's Cleopatra e Cesare; home of the Staatskapelle Berlin, led since 2024/25 by intendant Elisabeth Sobotka and conductor Christian Thielemann.
Berliner Philharmonie
The Berliner Philharmonie, also known as the Philharmonie Berlin, is the concert hall at Berlin's Kulturforum, home of the Berliner Philharmoniker since it opened in 1963.
Billy Bob's Texas
Billy Bob's Texas, the "World's Largest Honky Tonk" in Fort Worth's Stockyards, opened April 1, 1981, founded by Billy Bob Barnett and Spencer Taylor in a 1910 former cattle barn, with bull riding, 100,000 square feet, and a 6,000 capacity.
Blossom Music Center
Blossom Music Center, opened July 19, 1968 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, is the summer home of The Cleveland Orchestra, owned by the Musical Arts Association, with a covered pavilion, large lawn, and a dual classical and popular concert history.
Bolshoi Theatre (Большой театр)
The Bolshoi Theatre (Большой театр, GABT) is Russia's national opera and ballet theatre on Theatre Square, Moscow, founded 28 March 1776 under Catherine II; its landmark building by Bove burned in 1853 and was rebuilt by Cavos, reopening 1856 with Klodt's bronze Apollo quadriga.
Brixton Academy
Brixton Academy (O2 Academy Brixton), a Grade II listed 4,921-capacity former 1929 Astoria cinema at 211 Stockwell Road, south London; bought for £1 by Simon Parkes in 1983, closed after the fatal December 2022 Asake crowd crush, reopened in 2024 under 77 licensing conditions.
Cabo Wabo
Cabo Wabo is Sammy Hagar's cantina and nightclub brand, founded in 1990 in Cabo San Lucas with Van Halen bandmates, plus a tequila brand sold to Campari Group ($80 million for 80 percent in 2007, remainder by 2010). Venues include Las Vegas and Huntington Beach.
Cairo Opera House (دار الأوبرا المصرية)
Cairo Opera House (دار الأوبرا المصرية), Egypt's National Cultural Centre on Gezira Island, Zamalek; opened 10 October 1988 with a ~$33 million Japanese grant, replacing the 1869 Khedivial Opera House that burned in 1971; Main Hall seats 1,200.
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a Manhattan concert venue at 881 Seventh Avenue, opened May 5, 1891 as Andrew Carnegie's Music Hall, with three stages (Stern Auditorium 2,804 seats), city ownership since 1960, and Weill Music Institute education programs.
CBGB
CBGB, or CBGB & OMFUG, was a New York music club at 315 Bowery opened by Hilly Kristal in December 1973, birthplace of the US punk and new wave scene with the Ramones, Television, Blondie, and Patti Smith, closed October 2006.
Cedarville Opera House
The Cedarville Opera House is an 1888 brick theater in Cedarville, Ohio, that served as the village's public center for six decades and is undergoing a state-funded renovation.
Cedarville, Ohio
Cedarville, Ohio: village in Greene County, founded 1816, renamed 1834; home of Cedarville University (5,000+ students) and the 1888 Cedarville Opera House on the National Register; birthplace of Labor Day's James H. Kyle.
Central City Opera House
The Central City Opera House is an 1878 masonry theater in Central City, Colorado, and since 1932 the home of the Central City Opera summer festival.
Chitlin' Circuit
The Chitlin' Circuit, also called the Black Circuit or Urban Theater Circuit, was a network of Black-friendly theaters, clubs, and juke joints across the South, East, and upper Midwest where African American performers toured during Jim Crow segregation, roughly the 1930s to 1960s, anchored by the Apollo, Howard, and Regal theaters.
Closure of small music venues
Small music venues close when rent, licensing costs, and falling bar sales exceed door takings; UK grassroots venues fell from 960 to 835 in 2023.
Concert hall acoustics
Concert hall acoustics: architectural acoustics for unamplified music, founded by Sabine's 1900 reverberation formula and Boston Symphony Hall; key measures are reverberation time (1.8–2.6 s ideal), early lateral reflections, and shoebox versus vineyard hall shapes.
Concert halls in Australia
Australia's major concert halls include the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, Perth Concert Hall, and Elisabeth Murdoch Hall in Melbourne, with Sydney and Perth each undergoing A$150 million renewals.