The Paramount sits right where downtown Seattle tips over into Capitol Hill, and that geography works in your favor on a show night. You’ve got polished cocktail spots and hotel bars within a few blocks to the west, and the entire Pike-Pine corridor opening up to the east. Two very different moods, both walkable from…
The Paramount sits at 9th and Pine, right where downtown Seattle tips into Capitol Hill. It’s one of those venues that earns your loyalty fast; the sight lines are good from almost everywhere, the sound is clean, and walking out onto Pine Street after a show, with the neon still buzzing and the hill lit…
Putting this list together took longer than expected. There are a lot of music podcasts out there and most of them fall into two categories: celebrity interview shows where the conversation stays surface level, or deep-cut genre podcasts that assume you already know everything. Neither of those is particularly useful if you are sitting in…
Most of the useful concert travel information that exists online is written. Trip reports, venue guides, parking threads on Reddit. All of it is text. Instagram is the other side of that coin. It is where the visual side of music travel lives, the photos that make you want to go somewhere, the shots that…
Written guides can only take you so far. You can read every parking tip and packing list available and still have no real sense of what walking into a festival for the first time actually feels like, what the campsite looks like at midnight on day two, or whether the shuttle situation at the end…
Reddit gets dismissed a lot by people who have not spent much time in the right corners of it. The front page is chaotic and the general music communities can be exhausting. But buried inside the platform are some of the most useful, specific, and genuinely experienced communities for anyone planning a trip around a…
Getting to The Gorge Amphitheatre requires more planning than your typical concert trip. This iconic venue sits in the middle of Washington’s high desert, far from any major city. But that isolation creates part of its magic. The journey becomes part of the adventure when you’re traveling for music events to one of the most…
⚡ Quick Answer Best websites for planning a concert trip Songkick & Bandsintown — find and track shows, get on-sale alerts for artists you follow Setlist.fm — look up set lengths and song order from the current tour before you go SeatGeek — compare primary and resale ticket prices in one place, with venue seat…
The Hollywood Bowl sits in one of Los Angeles’s most interesting areas. Most shows don’t start until 7-8 PM, which leaves your entire day open. Even if you’re traveling for music events specifically for a concert, you’ll want to fill those daytime hours with something memorable. The Hollywood Hills, Griffith Park, and surrounding neighborhoods offer…
The Hollywood Bowl doesn’t sell alcohol inside the venue, which surprises many first-time visitors. You can bring beer and wine into the amphitheater, but if you want cocktails or a proper bar experience, you need to go before or after the show. The surrounding neighborhoods offer plenty of drinking options within 10-15 minutes of the…