Seattle Center Belltown 6. Black Dog Forge: 2316 Second Ave. Pearl Jam and 14. The Triple Door: 216 Union St. This elegant and eclectic club was once The Beatles stayed at The Waterfront Soundgarden rehearsed in the basement of this artisan the Embassy, the longest-lived vaudeville the Edgewater Hotel On a site where Native Americans and pioneers once In the shadow of the Space Needle, Belltown evolved during the go-go blacksmithing studio, where many of Pearl Jam’s stage sets and movie house in Seattle. during their 1964 The gateway to KIDS GET POLITICAL were created. The forge’s alleyway was a hangout for gathered, the Seattle Center celebrates diverse music and 1990s from an edgy industrial area where underground arts fl ourished to a 15. Eagles Auditorium: NE Corner 7th Ave. world tour. With the Elliott Bay is a artists and punks. cultural events year-round. This 74-acre park, built for the 1962 mecca for Gen X bohemians and dot-com entrepreneurs. It’s now a highly & Union St. Built in 1923, this hall’s installation of a popular scenic area As in most of America, the energy of Seattle’s World’s Fair, includes indoor walkable hub of boutiques, eateries and nightspots. 7. Teatro Zinzanni: 2301 6th ballroom hosted decades of fabled cyclone fence around with hotels, dining, music scene springs from its youth. What’s theaters, outdoor stages, Ave. Described once as “the shows by acts including Billie Holiday, the property, fanatic shopping, and unusual about this city is the way its younger 4. The Crocodile Café: 2200 2nd Ave. The Seattle rock Moulin Rouge meets Cirque du Little Richard, The Doors, the Grateful an outdoor stadium, and a fans tried swimming stunning views of scene’s home away from home, this is where Pearl Jam, Soleil,” this modern day dinner Dead, and Janis Joplin. citizens have banded together to make their variety of exhibition R.E.M. and other heavies play secret shows and many theater pairs top talents like Ann to the hotel. One of the Olympic Moun- presence offi cially known. One of the only cities to buildings. touring acts regularly land. Death Cab for Cutie got its Wilson of Heart and El Vez, the the most famous tains. Ride the have nightlife laws on the books largely shaped by start here. Featured in the 1996 film Hype! 1. Marion Oliver McCaw Hall Mexican Elvis, with gourmet Beatles photos was trolley or climb the stairs to Pike youth advocates, Seattle is committed to the idea Sub Pop started as a – Seattle Opera, Pacifi c 5. KEXP 90.3 FM & 91.7 FM: 113 Dexter Ave. N. meals prepared by celeb chef Tom Douglas. Benaroya Hall taken here, as the Fab Place Market. that popular music is good schooling as well as tiny cassette-oriented Pop Culture Palaces Northwest Ballet: 321 Begun as tiny 10-watt KCMU in 1972, the station has 8. The Vogue: 2018 1st Ave. 4 fi shed from the 16. The Edgewater Hotel / Pier 67: 2411 good fun. label founded by Downtown In the early 20th century, when movies Mercer St. Built in 1927 as evolved into a nationally significant cultural force – an Nirvana played its first window of room 272. Alaskan Way. This hotel of choice for many ’60s Seattle’s Civic Auditorium McCaw Hall at night early leader in both the “modern rock” format and, more DJ Bruce Pavitt in were new and vaudeville all the rage, Seattle show in this former The heart of the city is a showcase for grand music venues, past and and ’70s rock stars extends over Elliott Bay. The roots of today’s All-Ages Seattle and transformed into the “The opera? In Seattle? recently, in Internet radio. A 2001 Webby award winner the early 1980s. people expected an evening’s entertainment crucible for the Seattle present. Dress up or down and experience world-class performances every Famous rock ‘n rollers who’ve stayed here can be found in a loose network of art Seattle Opera House for This city at the Northwest for Best Radio Website, KEXP has loyal fans tuning in on sound, opening for Blood Pavitt teamed with to be a royal experience. Gorgeous include the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, the their laptops from here to New Zealand, but you can day of the week. galleries and alternative spaces with the 1962 World’s Fair, this corner of the nation, best Circus in April 1988. The Jonathan Poneman Beastie Boys and Bill Clinton. listen over the airwaves while you’re in town. architecture housed the new art forms that names like Rosco Louie, the Metropolis, concert hall reopened in original venue now houses 10. Benaroya Hall: 200 University St. The visually and acoustically stunning known for Boeing 747’s, in 1987 to produce a gave Americans a new way to dream. Seattle was like 17. Ivar’s Acres of Clams / Pier 54: In 1938, folk Graven Image, and Gorilla Gardens, where ambitious 2003 as a new state-of-the-art 2,890- the rock and roll hair salon Benaroya Hall, occupying a full city block at Seattle’s geographic core, became the sourdough, and sockeye maverick, globally most cities, alive with ornate theaters whose musician and pal to Woody Guthrie, Ivar Haglund, opened seat marvel that serves as home to Vain; the club survives, now new home of the Seattle Symphony in 1998. This multi-use venue houses two kids and their supporters hosted and performed exciting salmon, has casually Greater Downtown Area infl uential post-punk his shop and sang outside to attract customers. By 1940 both the Seattle Opera and Pacifi c featuring gothic music and performance spaces, a 4,490-pipe Watjen Concert Organ, and Soundbridge, a marquees illuminated the streets. Elsewhere, shows in the 1980s and 1990s. One crucial space was he was also hosting a popular show on KJR radio and Northwest Ballet. Stravinsky once mounted one of the most Queen burlesque, at 1516 11th phenomenon. Sub music discovery center for children. most of those shrines to dreaming have been the Velvet Elvis Arts Lounge, where the Lake had won the hearts of all of Seattle. conducted here! ambitious operatic Anne Hill Ave. on Capitol Hill. Kurt Cobain Pop’s ironic take on demolished, but three survive here. The Moore Foo Fighters performed their fi rst 99 Union 11. Myers Music: 1214 1st Ave. 2. Seattle Center International Fountain: projects ever taken in “corporate offi ces” is the oldest, an intimate venue with a lush Valley St 9. Trianon Ballroom: 218 Wall St. Built in 1927, On this site once stood the music store show, and bands like Modest the United States.” 305 Harrison St. This placid site this dance hall featured top jazz era orchestras in Seattle’s Terminal where Jimi Hendrix bought his first electric interior built in 1907; it now showcases eclectic Pioneer Square Mouse got their start. Welcome to Seattle, one brought distraught fans together to Mercer St Mercer St including those led by Seattle’s Vic Meyer and Sales Building, at guitar around 1958. touring acts from avant-garde theater to jam mark the passing of Nirvana singer — New York Times, July 1 of today’s most dynamic Gay Jones – the latter cut the town’s fi rst ever 1932 First Avenue, bands. The 5th Avenue Theatre, built in 1926, features This historic neighborhood stays hopping straight This fertile scene blossomed despite Westlake Ave Westlake Dexter Ave Dexter Fairview Ave Fairview 12. Pike Place Market: 1st Ave. & Pike St. Kurt Cobain (April 10, 1994) and later 1975, upon the occasion 1st jazz record. music cities, where a rich 5th became the launch- a breathtaking interior evoking China’s Forbidden City and remains the pressures of the Teen Dance Alice in Chains’ Layne Staley (April 20, of Seattle Opera’s fi rst 2 Some of the world’s most famous “buskers” through last call. Sports bars serve the overflow from the history feeds a lifestyle that is all about 2002). At his memorial, Cobain’s wife Seattle Center ing pad for early have played in this Seattle’s premier musical theater venue. Perhaps most stunning is nearby stadiums, while hard rock-oriented taverns, romantic eateries, and Ordinance, a 1985 law passed by Ring cycle 3 Broad St innovation, inspiration, and rocking the Courtney Love read – and cursed her releases by Nirvana, street-music- The Paramount, a resplendent structure built in 1928 and restored to many antique and art galleries attract both tourists and locals. the City to regulate potentially dangerous house every day and night. Seattle’s music way through – Cobain’s suicide note. Soundgarden, friendly space, its Tinseltown glory in 1995. Its fully convertible seating system mingling of adults and minors at new wave 18. New Orleans: 114 1st Ave. S. Located in the venerable Lombardy building, community is fi ercely independent and intensely Mudhoney, and many including Woody Guthrie, Jim Page, and Artis – the accommodates everything from silent fi lms to discos. By the new millennium, the music community decided to 3. Experience Music Project: 5 this venue was the first structure completed after Seattle’s historic fire of 1889. dedicated, recognized as cutting edge while still Denny Denny other eventual ’90s “Spoonman” of Soundgarden’s 1994 hit. ballet to Bob Dylan, and its marquee still glistens organize. An unprecedented civic effort resulted in an active 325 5th Ave. N. Housed in a 5th 9th John Coltrane recorded “Live in Seattle” across the street at the Penthouse, at 1st 6th Boren Ave keeping the roots of Northwest music alive.