Given our deserved or undeserved status as Live Music Capital of the World, you’d hope that a list of the top ten American rock clubs would include at least one local venue. Sure enough, Playboy included Emo’s in the top ten.
Emo’s has grown into quite the juggernaut over the past 10 years. I remember its humble beginnings in 1993 when you could see many, if not all, of the shows there for under $5. I was still lamenting the loss of the Cannibal Club when it opened and there wasn’t really another venue to take its place at the time. The demise of Liberty Lunch in the late 90’s and the subsequent stalling and, I assume, permanent death of its relocation left another void which Emo’s has filled along with Stubb’s, the only other possible contender with both an outdoor and indoor stage.
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