America's 40 Best Music Venues

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From The Fillmore to First Avenue: Paste ranks America’s best

Decatur, GA (May 24, 2007) - Music venues are like people—they come in all shapes and sizes, and each one has different assets or strengths.  Some venues like Morrison, Colorado’s Red Rocks and George, Washington’s Gorge Amphitheater find their beauty in nature.  Other venues, like Athens, Georgia’s 40 Watt Club and Austin, Texas’ Stubb’s revel (and thrive) in grittier surroundings.  But big or small, indoor or outdoor, clean or dirty…there’s certainly no shortage of uniquely wonderful music venues located all across our country.  

To compile this list, Paste magazine readers nominated over 500 different venues at www.pastemagazine.com.  In the end, Paste weighed these nominations according to history, setting, sound, character, comfort, atmosphere, vibrancy, uniqueness and their roles in helping launch careers.

“To a certain degree, the experience of live music has as much to do with ‘where you are’ as it does with ‘who you see’—and to that end, regardless of your particular musical tastes, you could see a show at any of our 40 selected venues, and chances are you’ll come away with a memorable experience,” explained Paste editor-in-chief Josh Jackson.

For the complete list of venues, click here.