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The Bowery Presents
The Bowery Presents is the East Coast regional partner of AEG Live. It owns and operates multiple venues in New York City, Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ..., Philadelphia, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maine. The capacities of the venues operated by The Bowery Presents range from 600 people to 20,000 people. History The business evolution of The Bowery Presents: * 1993 – Mercury Lounge, The Mercury Lounge (250 capacity club), focusing on upcoming artists * 1997 – Bowery Ballroom (600 capacity club or small mid-size venue), headliner-oriented * 2003 – Webster Hall (1400 capacity mid-size club), headliner-oriented * 2006 – Live Nation's New York president Jim Glancy jumps over to become partner and contributes to the company's expansion by doing shows in l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beacon Theatre (New York City)
The Beacon Theatre is an entertainment venue at 2124 Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway, adjacent to the Hotel Beacon, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1929, the Beacon Theatre was developed by Samuel Roxy Rothafel, Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel and built as a movie palace, with 2,894 seats across three levels. It was designed by Walter W. Ahlschlager with decorations inspired by the Renaissance architecture, Renaissance, Ancient Roman architecture, Ancient Roman, Ancient Greek architecture, Ancient Greek, and Rococo styles. The theater is designated as a New York City designated landmark, New York City interior landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The facade is relatively plain and is made of brick and stone, with a Marquee (structure), marquee above its entrance on Broadway. The outdoor ticket booth leads to a vestibule and a multi-story Rotunda (architecture), rotunda lobby under the hotel, with a mural by Danish artist Vald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Theatre (Portland, Maine)
The State Theatre is a historic theater located at 609 Congress Street (Portland, Maine), Congress Street, at its intersection with High Street (Portland, Maine), High Street, in downtown Portland, Maine, which features a combination of Moorish architecture, Moorish and Art Deco architecture. It reopened as a 1,870-seat performing arts venue in 2010. History The State Theatre was designed by Portland architect Herbert W. Rhodes, originally containing 2,300 seats. The building it is located in replaced the Charles Libby Mansion. The theatre was designed to be a creative combination of Spanish, Italian, and Art Deco aesthetics with elaborate works of art. The theater's expensive furnishings, which included wrought iron stairs, bronze doors, tapestry rugs hung from vaulted ceilings decorated with intricate moldings and paintings, four Spanish balconies, and a Wurlitzer organ were some of the remarkably lavish highlights of the original building. It was also technologically advanced fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starland Ballroom
The Starland Ballroom is a concert venue located in Sayreville, New Jersey. Beginning in the 1960s, the building was known as the Jernee Mill Inn, a local bar with a banquet hall. It was originally known as the Hunka Bunka Ballroom and then Willy's in the 1980s. It has operated as a dance music club but more often hosted concerts with primarily metal, punk and ska lineups. History The venue opened in August 1962 as a banquet hall and tavern by brothers Chester, Frank and Edward (Rusty) Cholewa. The hall was known as the Jernee Mill Inn, named after the main road near the building. In the late 1970s, Rusty's wife, Phyllis decided to use the space as a concert venue, to fill the gaps in wedding and party reservations. In 1982, the venue was purchased by Bernie Bailey. During this time, the main hall was used as a rehearsal space, during dark days. Around this time, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora met at the venue before forming Bon Jovi. Five years later, Bailey changed the name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rams Head Live!
Nevermore Hall (formerly Rams Head Live!) is an indoor music venue, club, and bar located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Located in the Power Plant Live! district of downtown Baltimore, the venue was surrounded by several other bars and clubs. Rams Head Live! opened on December 15, 2004 and closed in December 2024. It is set to reopen in 2025 under the Nevermore Hall name, managed by the owners of nearby Baltimore Soundstage. The venue features of floor space with five bars and three different viewing levels of the stage. All Time Low became the first band to sell out the venue during their short summer tour in mid-July 2008. In an interview with ''Pitchfork'', Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme named the venue as one of his "favorite new venues," saying that "they treated us really good and it was really cool." In 2016, ''Consequence of Sound'' ranked Rams Head Live! at #91 on its list of "The 100 Greatest American Music Venues." Rams Head Live! closed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highline Ballroom
The Highline Ballroom was a music venue and nightclub located at 431 West 16th Street in the neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Description Primarily featuring musical acts, its capacity was approximately 700 people hosting diverse concert programming from "rock to hip hop" year round. The venue was owned by Steve Bensusan.Database (undated)."Highline Ballroom" ''New York''. Retrieved August 20, 2012. The last show was performed by The Roots The Roots are an American Hip-hop, hip hop band formed in 1987 by singer Black Thought, Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and drummer Questlove, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Roots serve as the house band on NBC's ''T ... on February 4, 2019. The site is currently the rock club Racket NYC. See also * List of jazz clubs References External links * Ballrooms in Manhattan Chelsea, Manhattan Drinking establishments in Manhattan Jazz clubs in New York City Music venues in Manhat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roadrunner (venue)
The Roadrunner is a concert venue in the Brighton, Boston, Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Since its opening on March 15, 2022, the Roadrunner has been the largest general admission concert venue in New England, with a capacity of 3,500. The venue is named after Jonathan Richman's song "Roadrunner (Jonathan Richman song), Roadrunner". History In October 1976, American rock band The Modern Lovers released the song "Roadrunner (Jonathan Richman song), Roadrunner". Written by Jonathan Richman, the song details the freedom he feels while driving alone, specifically in Boston suburbs. Richman has described the song as an ode to Massachusetts Route 128. Elsewhere, it has been described as "one of the most magical songs in existence" and has had a significant influence on the culture of Massachusetts, with it even being proposed as the official rock song of the state. On April 1, 2019, construction began on a new venue at 89 Guest Street. After significant delays cau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocean Casino Resort
Ocean Casino Resort (formerly Revel Casino Hotel) is a resort, hotel and casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States. It is the northernmost casino on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, located on of land, adjacent to the Showboat Hotel. It is notable for its white sphere structure atop its roof away from the Boardwalk, capable of displaying a wide variety of colors and designs thanks to the LEDs inside it. Revel opened on April 2, 2012, and after declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time, closed on September 2, 2014. Revel was the third of four Atlantic City casinos to close in 2014. Later that month, on September 11, 2014, the casino reached a deal to sell itself to Glenn Straub's Polo North Country Club, a developer based in Florida, for $90 million, a fraction of the cost of construction. The sale plan failed, and Revel was planned to be sold at a September 30, 2014 auction to Brookfield Asset Management for $110 million. On November 19, Brookfield Management r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keswick Theatre
The Keswick Theatre is a theater in the Keswick Village section of Glenside, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Horace Trumbauer designed the exterior in the Tudor Revival Style, which has remained essentially unaltered. When opened it had 1,366 seats. The first performance was on Christmas Day in 1928 in a private event held for the Kiwanis Club. The Keswick Theatre opened to the public on December 27 with vaudeville and the film ''Glorious Betsy''. Shot as a silent film with some speaking sequences, the Keswick showed a silent version as the sound equipment was not yet ready. In 1955 the theatre was renovated to show CinemaScope films. The theatre operated until 1980. After closing it was threatened with demolition until a community group formed to re-open it as a live performance venue. During this period the Keswick presented performances by Fred Waring and the Young Pennsylvanians and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The venue also hosted performances by Theodore Bike ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin Music Hall
Franklin Music Hall is a concert venue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is in a converted building once part of the General Electric Switchgear Plant and opened in 1995. It has a capacity between 2,500 and 3,000 people. It is owned and operated by The Bowery Presents. The venue features a variety of musical acts in the rap, electronic, heavy metal, rock, grunge, and pop genres. History In 1968, the "Electric Factory and Flea Market", a concert venue, opened in a converted tire warehouse on the northwest corner of 22nd and Arch Streets. It was owned by Sheldon Kaplan, Herbert Spivak, and his brothers Jerry Spivak and Allen Spivak. They soon hired Larry Magid to book all of the shows. Kaplan sold his stake in the company after the Atlantic City Pop Festival in 1969 and Magid became a partner. The venue hosted concerts, including performances of The Chambers Brothers, Jimi Hendrix, and The Who, until 1970 and was torn down in 1973 to be replaced by condominiums. Coincident with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Side Tennis Club
The West Side Tennis Club is a private tennis club located in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. The club has 38 tennis courts in all four surfaces (clay court, Har-Tru, grass court and hardcourt), a junior Olympic-size swimming pool and other amenities. It is the home of the Forest Hills Stadium (originally Forest Hills Tennis Stadium), a 14,000 seat outdoor tennis stadium and concert venue. The club hosted 60 editions of the U.S. National Championships (renamed the US Open Tennis Championships in 1968), first from 1915 to 1920, and then again from 1924 to 1977. In addition, the finals of the Davis Cup were held at the club ten times, more than any other venue. The US Pro tournament was held at the venue eleven times, and another prominent professional tournament, the Tournament of Champions, was held at the venue three times. The West Side Tennis Club was the venue of the Forest Hills Tennis Classic, a now-defunct WTA Tour Tier IV ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fête Music Hall
In the United Kingdom and some of Crown colony, its former colonies, a fête or fete is a public festival organised to raise money for a charity, typically held outdoors. It generally includes entertainment and the sale of goods and refreshments. Fetes are typically held annually, in the summer months. Village fêtes Village fêtes are common in Britain. These are usually outdoor shows held on village greens or recreation grounds with a variety of activities. They are organised by an ad hoc committee of volunteers from organisations like religious groups or residents' associations. Fêtes can also be seen in former British colonies. In Australia, fêtes are often held yearly by schools and sometimes churches to raise funds. Attractions seen at village fêtes include Tombola (raffle), tombolas, raffles, bowling for a pig, Coconut shy, coconut shies, bat a rat, bat a rat stalls, White elephant sale, white elephant stalls, cakes, and home produce such as jams and pickles. Competiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
