Rock/Dance Clubs and Venues

Toy Tiger was a famous night spot in Louisville that hosted rock concerts as well as wet T-shirt contests, banana eating competitions, and other such spectacles. READ MORE and checkout our sticker.

The Phoenix Hill Tavern opened in 1976 and quickly became one of the most popular and successful nightclubs in the city, along with sibling property Jim Porter's Good Time Emporium. The Tavern hosted a variety of nationally touring musical acts from Meat Loaf to...

Stages Nightclub opened in the 1970s in Granite City, IL, across the river from St. Louis, MO. It became a top venue for local, regional, and national acts. A young John Mellencamp played there on August 3, 1979. A trio calling themselves The Police...

The Pterodactyl Club was the preeminent rock & roll venue and dance club in Charlotte in the '80s and '90s, hosting all of the top musical acts of the day.

The Toy Tiger was a rock & roll and general entertainment club that operated from 1973 to 1999. It's iconic sign was somewhat of an area landmark particularly at night when its neon shown bright at the corner of Bardstown Road and Goldsmith Lane....

Did you ever rock at Peabody's?

The building that housed the Off Ramp Cafe was built in 1908 and was home to a variety of shops until the 1950s when a successive string of muisc clubs occupied the space. In 1986 it began booking alternative rock acts as the Off...

Originally known as the Pizza Pub, new owners??Dom DiSilvio and his then-wife Jan Chepes, renamed this iconic Oakland spot The Decade and made it 1950s-themed restaurant. As 50's nostalgia waned, DiSilvio started booking contemporary rock music acts. The New York Dolls, Ramones, and an...

Metropol was a dance club in Pittsburgh's Strip District that opened in 1988. In addition to dancing, the club also hosted concerts?? by acts such as Flock of Seagulls, Ministry, Book of Love, Cause & Effect, and more. It closed in 2005.

Ii all started in 1971 when nightclub owner Sherwood Cryer asked country music legend Mickey Gilley to be his business partner. Gilley's Club became on the most iconic nightclubs of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as a Texas institution. It was featured in...

Max's Kansas City, located at 213 Park Avenue in Lower Manhattan, was one of the most famous rock clubs in America. It was established in 1965 Mickey Ruskin, a Cornell Law School graduate who went on to become a successful restauranteur. As for Max's,...

The Latin Casino was a Philadelphia-area nightclub that opened in 1948 at 1309 Walnut Street. Many top entertainers of the day performed there. In 1960, the club moved to Cherry Hill, NJ.

The Starwood Ampitheater was an outdoor music venue in Nashville. For a generation it was greater Nashville's outdoor concert hot spot. It opened June 20, 1986 with concert called??One for the Sun, featuring, among others, rock & roll legend Carl Perkins.??Blue Oyster Cult performed...

In the '80s and '90s, the Animal House was the place in St. Louis for young people to dance and see live music. It was originally located on Chambers Road, later moving to Lewis and Clark Boulevard, and finally to North Hanley.

Threadgill's opened in Austin in 1933 as a gas station and beer bar by Kenneth Threadgill. A live music space was added in the 1970s. A South Austin location was added in 1996. Both closed in 2020.

Dedicated in 1916, The Syria Mosque was originally a gathering place for the Shriners. It is best known to Pittsburghers as a concert venue having hosted acts such as Charlie Parker, Sam Cooke, Buddy Holly, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, The Who, R.E.M., and many,...

Fagan's was one of the most popular destinations in the Flats.

The Upstage was a dance club and music venue located on the second floor of 3609 Forbes Avenue in Oakland, right in the shadow of Pitt's ABC towers. A generation danced the night away and enjoyed live music there until it closed in 1995.

The Upstage was a dance club and music venue located on the second floor of 3609 Forbes Avenue in Oakland, right in the shadow of Pitt's ABC towers. A generation danced the night away and enjoyed live music there until it closed in 1995.

Club Laga was a popular venue for punk hardcore, punk, and hip-hop acts from 1996 until 2004. One floor below was the Upstage Lounge a popular dance club in the '80s and 90s.