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Just a personal observation from someone who travels a lot. If I get a day off, I do a search for "music venues" and check out what the city offers.

From my experience, these are the one who "seem" to be most rocking cities (not in any particular order) by virtue of having more live music venues with lots of National and LOCAL rock bands performing regularly. I confess that I'm probably missing a few but go ahead and chime in


Almost any large city in Texas, New York, California, Tennessee & Ohio
Louisville KY
Wilmington NC
Seattle-Tacoma WA
Toronto Ontario (they wouldn't like being called American LOL)
Philadelphia PA


I admit a bias in choosing guitar based rock bands as my standard for "ROCK"



Never been to Detroit but I have my suspicions that they should be at the top of this list.

Again, I haven't checked out every city but these ones stick out to me. Comments? If you have a city you want to add, please do.

For a while Boston suffered with the 'DJ syndrome', but there's a ton of venues now and Boston cranks out lots of national artists on a regular basis.

I should thought about that...love the scene down at Finuel Hall with all the outdoor street artists.

Tulsa, OK, rocks.

NOT Kansas City...

Bob you should learn the story of what happened
to original KC rocking music in 1979. I'm not going
to, but his initials are RW, and he was bringing us
and the whole KC music scene to the top, when it
happened. We were all guilty, but the star falls the
farthest.

Bob you should learn the story of what happened
to original KC rocking music in 1979. I'm not going
to, but his initials are RW, and he was bringing us
and the whole KC music scene to the top, when it
happened. We were all guilty, but the star falls the
farthest.

Does R W's name rhyme with Dick Best by chance?

Kilgore Texas May 12th
Texarkana Texas June 3rd
Lindale Texas June 8th & 10th

Kinda Bob, rhymes more with Dick's brother's
name Don.

It was unbelievalbe what was being attached to the
music industry back then.

Columbia SC, Charlotte NC, and Charelston SC Have come a long way in the past few months...

Danville!!

Columbia SC, Charlotte NC, and Charelston SC Have come a long way in the past few months...

I saw a lot of live venues listed as I drove past Raleigh-Durham-Cary but wasn't able to check it. Will be in Charlotte tonight...where do you recommend I find great live music (can't be later than midnight) ?

DANVILLE???? VA?

Really, or you just voting for the hometown?


I wanted to add Virginia Beach to the list. They had live musicians on Atlantic Boulevard EVERY day of the week even though the beach was dead in late April. Mostly locals were filling up the clubs around 21st street. Saw a cool reggae band on Sunday, and a mostly-originals 4 piece rock band on Tuesday.

They tell me that Richmond has a great live scene but I didn't have a chance to check it out either.




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ASHEVILLE North Carolina rocks!


The Tuesday night funk jam at OnePlace is one of the best jams I've ever seen. Great musicians, great crowd, street musicians on the corners downtown, and lots of talented songwriters.

DANVILLE???? VA?

Really, or you just voting for the hometown?

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Not really, no...

I Say Phoenix & Chicago and yes Detroit is up there!

Just a personal observation from someone who travels a lot. If I get a day off, I do a search for "music venues" and check out what the city offers.

From my experience, these are the one who "seem" to be most rocking cities (not in any particular order) by virtue of having more live music venues with lots of National and LOCAL rock bands performing regularly. I confess that I'm probably missing a few but go ahead and chime in


Almost any large city in Texas, New York, California, Tennessee & Ohio
Louisville KY
Wilmington NC
Seattle-Tacoma WA
Toronto Ontario (they wouldn't like being called American LOL)
Philadelphia PA


I admit a bias in choosing guitar based rock bands as my standard for "ROCK"



Never been to Detroit but I have my suspicions that they should be at the top of this list.

Again, I haven't checked out every city but these ones stick out to me. Comments? If you have a city you want to add, please do.