Best rock clubs in America list

cannot believe the 930 did not make the top 20…
as someone wrote in the comments the 930 club may be the best club on the planet.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/the-best-clubs-in-america-20130328

List voided.


Fact that it is an RS list hurts its cred bad enough as it is. The only thing left worth reading in RS is anything Matt Taibbi writes.

azaghal1981 wrote:
List voided.


Fact that it is an RS list hurts its cred bad enough as it is. The only thing left worth reading in RS is anything Matt Taibbi writes.

+1

azaghal1981 wrote:
List voided.


Fact that it is an RS list hurts its cred bad enough as it is. The only thing left worth reading in RS is anything Matt Taibbi writes.

well when you look at the list there are some people on there that you'd think would have voted for the 930… like corin tucker

but there are a bunch of pieces of shit too.. michael rapino from live nation??? sharon osbourne? why are these clowns voting? when was the last time sharon osbourne went to a rock club???

i think they should have based it more on bands that play clubs rather than so many industry people..its tough to compile this kind of list though….  phoenix never played the 930…why would mars vote for the place?

i think their voting sample is just too small to be meaningful

Actually Phoenix played the 9:30 club twice in 2005 and 2006.

kosmo wrote:
Actually Phoenix played the 9:30 club twice in 2005 and 2006.

really? wow…had no idea.

not that it is germane to the thread but did they headline or open? thanks.

Headline both times and I got to DJ both shows…

I am more surprised to see Tucker listed there than I am to see Rapino and Osbourne. Those two are major industry figures and Rolling Stone is the closest thing there is to a Music Industry magazine.

kosmo wrote:
Headline both times and I got to DJ both shows…

fascinating….given that in 2009 or thereabouts they played rock and roll hotel…i take it they were a bit down before Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix blew up…

I wish I'd been at those 930 shows….

I definitely remember seeing at least one of those shows announced.
It was at like…the end of April?

I think the Phoenix RRH show ended up there in part because both the 9:30 club and the Blackcat already had artists booked that night.  There is also the build hype via a intimate gig strategy…

though i tend to agree that rolling stone magazine is a very biased slanted point of origin . . . but then again, what really isn?t?  everybody lets personal opinion slip into their writings.  it forms part of the structure of what they want people to gain from said writing.  but rolling stone magazine has had money for article scandals, "friends with the owner gets you everywhere? talk, and just downright questionable reviews of movies and music that did not deserve the praise/bs heaved at us, with their red stars.  i hate those fucking red stars.  but the point of all this is that i look at the nine thirty club and i just see a place that gets that same sort of "forced write up" from everybody around here, because it is home, it is the place we feel "apart of."  i have my place as well that i worship and say is the best but on a grand scale nobody truly recognizes.  i actually feel that the national in richmond (not my favorite) gives nine thirty a run for the prize every time.  but that is my write up.  nine thirty cant be the best or the greatest . . . when you have an entire country of ?greatest places? with stories and people that promote them.  the end.

kosmo wrote:
I think the Phoenix RRH show ended up there in part because both the 9:30 club and the Blackcat already had artists booked that night.  There is also the build hype via a intimate gig strategy…

yeah - when they played DAR later that year they got to say "last time we were in DC we played some shitty hole in the wall called rock and roll hotel!".  it gave the crowd a warm, nostalgic feeling, like they were witnessing the ascent of a band.

they should have blown up with it's never been like that, and it just didn't happen.

anyways, that list is stupid, and nobody should give rolling stone the online traffic.

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I don't get the complaints on this thread.  You haven't even mentioned one club on the list that doesn't belong.  You know the 930 club and you have been there what benefit would it be to you if it were on the list?  I was suprised that just about every club in Chicago is on the list.  But whatever, if you are ever in one of the cities with a club listed you can use the article as a reference if you want or not. 

I have never been to any of these places though Union Transfer does seem to get a lot of cool bands.  I will probably visit it before too long. 

man, can i just say how much i fucking hate websites where you have to click an arrow to see each entry for 'best of' or countdown or whatever lists?  give them to me on all one page you fucking terrible marketing/web designers

see: this site, huffingtonpost, baltimore sun, etc

/rant

Got wrote:
man, can i just say how much i fucking hate websites where you have to click an arrow to see each entry for 'best of' or countdown or whatever lists?  give them to me on all one page you fucking terrible marketing/web designers

see: this site, huffingtonpost, baltimore sun, etc

/rant

I agree.  I didn't look at the links you can see the name of the clubs by hovering over the photos.

atomicfront wrote:
I don't get the complaints on this thread.  You haven't even mentioned one club on the list that doesn't belong.   

Belly Up - Aspen
I'll take any 1 week of the 9:30 summer shows over the entire summer lineup at Belly Up.
And you better have $$ to go during snow season.
Plus no club under 10 years old has really paid it's dues to belong on the list.

When they title it 'Venues that Rock' - Joe's Pub doesn't fit the bill. It's like the Birchmere crossed with Blue's Alley in line up.

No 9:30, 1st Avenue, Cat's Cradle, Stubb's = shit list

slappy wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
I don't get the complaints on this thread.  You haven't even mentioned one club on the list that doesn't belong.   

Belly Up - Aspen
I'll take any 1 week of the 9:30 summer shows over the entire summer lineup at Belly Up.
And you better have $$ to go during snow season.
Plus no club under 10 years old has really paid it's dues to belong on the list.

When they title it 'Venues that Rock' - Joe's Pub doesn't fit the bill. It's like the Birchmere crossed with Blue's Alley in line up.

No 9:30, 1st Avenue, Cat's Cradle, Stubb's = shit list

Why would yo want a list of places you already know about? 

Can we get back to talking about beer and whiskey? Damn, this thread and the one about best music of the first quarter suck.

I wonder if they start threads on football message boards to discuss lists of the best stadiums and best first quarters.