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100 Club
🇬🇧London, United Kingdom
The oldest independent music venue worldwide. Located at 100 Oxford Street, its history stretches back to 1942 when it operated as the Feldman Swing Club. During World War II, the basement venue served a dual purpose: a jazz club and an informal air-raid shelter. Anecdotes describe patrons "jitterbugging" while German bombs fell on London, fostering a spirit of resilience that would define the club's future identity.
3rd & Lindsley
🇺🇸Nashville, United States
Highly regarded mid-sized venue for blues, Americana, and rock performances. Attracts national touring acts.
Aeroanta
🇧🇷São Paulo, Brazil
Al's Bar
🇺🇸Los Angeles, United States
A fabled punk dive bar located in the Arts District of downtown L.A. in the American Hotel. Opened in the late 1970s, Al's Bar became the longest-running punk venue on the West Coast, known for its gritty atmosphere and nurturing of the underground art-punk scene.
Albatross
🇯🇵Tokyo, Japan
A bridge between the rock scene and the art world, Albatross occupies a narrow three-story structure in Golden Gai rumored to have been a brothel in a past life. The owners lean into this with a decadent "Taisho Roman" aesthetic featuring crystal chandeliers, stag heads, disco balls, and red velvet linings. One of the few Golden Gai bars with a rooftop terrace offering views of the Shinjuku skyline.
Antone's Nightclub
🇺🇸Austin, United States
Historically significant as a blues club, Antone's has hosted blues legends like Muddy Waters and B.B. King. It also played a crucial role in launching the careers of rock-influenced artists such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Gary Clark Jr. While not exclusively a rock venue, its blues roots influence the broader rock scene. - **Website**: [https://antonesnightclub.com/](https://antonesnightclub.com/) - **Music Genres/Subgenres**: Blues, Rock, Blues-Rock
Antone's Nightclub
🇺🇸Austin, United States
Historically significant as a blues club. Launched careers of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Gary Clark Jr.
Apollo Theater
🇯🇵Nagoya, Japan
Arlene's Grocery
🇺🇸New York, United States
Retaining the façade of the Puerto Rican bodega/butcher shop it replaced, Arlene's Grocery helped transform the Lower East Side into a rock destination in the mid-90s.
Armadillo World Headquarters
🇺🇸Austin, United States
Cosmic-cowboy bar where Willie Nelson met ZZ Top and punk met outlaw country.
Avalon Ballroom
🇺🇸San Francisco, United States
Avalon Ballroom
🇺🇸San Francisco, United States
Central to the SF psychedelic rock scene in the 1960s. Hosted The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.
B.Y.G
🇯🇵Tokyo, Japan
Arguably the most historically significant rock venue in Tokyo. Opened in 1969 at the violent height of Tokyo's student movement and counter-culture explosion, it served as a liberated zone for the "New Music" generation. The building itself is a time capsule: a multi-story fortress with a spiral staircase, sepia-toned lighting, and walls covered in decades of graffiti and signatures from musicians.
Ballbreaker
🇪🇸Barcelona, Spain
Gràcia craft-beer pub playing heavy-metal, hard-rock and thrash playlists.
Banana Hall
🇯🇵Osaka, Japan
Bancroft Bar
🇺🇸San Diego, United States
Bastion for rock and punk music in East County. Hosts multiple bands in stacked shows.
Bannermans Bar
🇬🇧Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Rock & whisky bar with 200-cap gig room, distinctive red façade and vault setting; live rock six nights a week.
BAR PSY
🇯🇵Tokyo, Japan
Cozy café-bar spinning western rock, punk, rockabilly and metal; DJ requests encouraged.